Summary

Amazon Q is a generative AI assistant by AWS designed to transform how work gets done across organizations. It offers specialized capabilities for software developers, business intelligence analysts, and customer service, enabling users to get insights from their data, accelerate tasks, and generate content. Amazon Q integrates with various business tools and emphasizes data security and privacy for enterprise use.

Features
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Must Have

3 of 5

API & Database Integrations

Code Customization

Access Control & Security

Drag-and-Drop UI Builder

Flexible Deployments

Other

2 of 9

Debugging & Monitoring

AI-Generated App Assistant

Version Control Integration

Audit Logs & Analytics

Workflow Automation

Mobile-Responsive Support

Prebuilt React Components

Custom Theming & Branding

Partner & Customer Portals

Pricing
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Amazon Q Business Lite

$3.00 per user
  • Access to basic functionality
  • Asking questions
  • Receiving permission-aware responses

Amazon Q Business Pro

$20.00 per user
  • Access to the full suite of Amazon Q Business capabilities
  • Access to Amazon Q Apps
  • Access to Amazon Q in QuickSight (Reader Pro)

Amazon Q Developer Free Tier

$0.00 monthly
  • Code suggestions in the IDE and CLI
  • Review code licenses with reference tracking
  • Free public CLI completions
  • Limited access to advanced features
  • Limited access to advanced features

Amazon Q Developer Pro Tier

$19.00 per user
  • All features of Free Tier
  • Ability to manage users and policies with enterprise access controls
  • Customize Amazon Q to your code base to get even better suggestions
  • High limits of advanced features

Amazon Q in QuickSight Author

$24.00 per user
  • Connect to data
  • Create dashboards and reports
  • Share content with other users
  • Use Q&A capabilities of Amazon Q in QuickSight for natural language queries on your data

Amazon Q in QuickSight Author Pro

$50.00 per user
  • All features of Author
  • Generative BI capabilities
  • Building dashboards with natural language
  • Creating Amazon Q Topics

Amazon Q in QuickSight Reader

$3.00 per user
  • Explore interactive dashboards
  • Receive pixel-perfect reports
  • Download data
  • Create personalized data alerts

Amazon Q in QuickSight Reader Pro

$20.00 per user
  • All features of Reader
  • Generative BI capabilities

Amazon Q in Connect

$0.00 per use
  • Suggested solutions or search across connected knowledge sources for contact center agents
  • End-customers can converse with Amazon Q in Connect to self-serve quickly

Amazon Q in Connect

$0.01 per use
  • Suggested solutions or search across connected knowledge sources for contact center agents
  • End-customers can converse with Amazon Q in Connect to self-serve quickly
Rationale

Amazon Q is a generative AI assistant that helps developers and business users with various tasks, including coding, troubleshooting, and data analysis. While it doesn't offer a drag-and-drop UI builder or flexible deployment options in the same way Retool does, it provides strong capabilities in API/database integrations (connecting to 50+ business tools), code customization (generating code, unit tests, security fixes), access control and security (respecting IAM roles and permissions), debugging tools (troubleshooting, optimizing resources), and clearly leverages AI as its core functionality.