name: Amazon Kendra segments: - Search - Machine Learning description: Amazon Kendra is an intelligent enterprise search service powered by machine learning that enables organizations to index and search across multiple data sources, delivering highly accurate and relevant answers to natural language queries. url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ type: Index image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png tags: - AI - AWS - Enterprise Search - Knowledge Management - Machine Learning - Natural Language created: '2024-01-15' modified: '2026-05-19' apis: - name: Amazon Kendra API description: The Amazon Kendra API provides programmatic access to create and manage intelligent search indexes, configure data source connectors, submit queries, and manage relevance tuning for ML-powered enterprise search. image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Enterprise Search - ML Search - Natural Language Processing properties: - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - type: OpenAPI url: https://api.apis.guru/v2/specs/amazonaws.com/kendra/2019-02-03/openapi.yaml - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/getting-started/ - type: FAQ url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/faqs/ - type: Features url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/features/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - type: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-openapi.yml - type: JSONLD url: json-ld/amazon-kendra-context.jsonld - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-kendra-index-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-kendra-data-source-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-kendra-query-result-schema.json - type: JSONSchema url: json-schema/amazon-kendra-faq-schema.json - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-data-sources.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-documents.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-experience.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-faqs.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-indexes.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-queries.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-query-suggestions.yaml - type: NaftikoCapability url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-thesaurus.yaml common: - type: Blog url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/category/artificial-intelligence/amazon-kendra/ - type: Support url: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ - type: Console url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/kendra/home - type: CLI url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/kendra/ - type: SDK url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/ - type: StatusPage url: https://status.aws.amazon.com/ - type: Compliance url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/ - type: TermsOfService url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/ - type: Portal url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/ - type: Pricing url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/pricing/ - type: GettingStarted url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/getting-started/ - type: FAQ url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/faqs/ - type: PrivacyPolicy url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/ - type: SignUp url: https://portal.aws.amazon.com/billing/signup - type: GitHubOrganization url: https://github.com/aws - type: Features data: - name: Intelligent Search description: ML-powered semantic search that understands natural language queries and context to return highly accurate answers from enterprise content. - name: GenAI RAG Support description: Kendra Retriever API enables retrieval-augmented generation workflows with optimized passage chunking and ACL-based filtering for LLM integration. - name: Data Source Connectors description: Native connectors for Amazon S3, SharePoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Google Drive, Confluence, and many more data repositories. - name: Relevance Tuning description: Fine-tune search results based on document freshness, authoritative sources, and custom synonyms without ML expertise. - name: Experience Builder description: No-code visual interface to build, customize, and launch search applications with drag-and-drop components. - name: Search Analytics Dashboard description: Visibility into quality and usability metrics and user interaction patterns to identify content gaps. - name: Custom Document Enrichment description: Preprocessing capabilities for metadata enrichment, document classification, entity extraction, and AWS AI service integration. - name: Incremental Learning description: Learns from user interactions and feedback to promote preferred documents to the top of search results over time. - type: UseCases data: - name: Employee Productivity description: Help employees find accurate answers and data-driven insights across internal knowledge bases and document repositories. - name: Customer Service description: Power self-service chatbots and agent-assist solutions for contact centers with intelligent search. - name: SaaS Application Integration description: Integrate intelligent search and conversational AI into customer-facing applications via the Kendra API. - name: Generative AI Applications description: Use Kendra GenAI indices in Amazon Q Business and Amazon Bedrock knowledge bases to build RAG applications. - name: Enterprise Knowledge Management description: Index and search across multiple heterogeneous data sources to create a unified knowledge search experience. - type: Integrations data: - name: Amazon Bedrock description: Use Kendra GenAI indices as knowledge bases in Amazon Bedrock for building generative AI applications. - name: Amazon Q Business description: Integrate Kendra indices with Amazon Q Business for AI-powered enterprise assistant experiences. - name: Amazon Lex description: Power Lex chatbots with Kendra search for FAQ-based conversational experiences. - name: Amazon S3 description: Native data source connector for indexing documents stored in Amazon S3 buckets. - name: Microsoft SharePoint description: Native connector to index and search SharePoint Online and SharePoint Server content. - name: Salesforce description: Index Salesforce objects and knowledge articles for enterprise search. - name: ServiceNow description: Connect to ServiceNow to index knowledge base articles and service catalog items. - name: Amazon Comprehend description: Use Comprehend for entity extraction and metadata enrichment during custom document enrichment. - type: SpectralRules url: rules/amazon-kendra-spectral-rules.yml - type: Vocabulary url: vocabulary/amazon-kendra-vocabulary.yaml - type: Integrations url: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace integrations: - name: Sign in - name: Agent Mode - name: Why AWS Marketplace? - name: Get started in AWS Marketplace - name: Industry - name: Resources - name: Become a Channel Partner - name: Sell in AWS Marketplace - name: Manage Your Account maintainers: - FN: Kin Lane email: kin@apievangelist.com url: https://apievangelist.com include: []