name: Amazon Kendra deliveryModel: model: saas open_source: false commercial: true callable_host: true label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint confidence: high source: - openapi - pricing generated: '2026-08-28' method: derived specificationVersion: '0.23' 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 accessModel: pricing: freemium onboarding: self-serve trial: false try_now: true public: false label: Freemium · Self-serve signup confidence: medium source: - plans - authentication - security generated: '2026-09-03' method: derived image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png tags: - Artificial Intelligence - AWS - Enterprise Search - Knowledge Management - Machine Learning - Natural-Language - Search tags_raw: - AI - AWS - Enterprise Search - Knowledge Management - Machine Learning - Natural Language - Knowledge-Management - Machine-Learning - Search created: '2024-01-15' modified: '2026-09-16' apis: - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-data-sources-api name: Amazon Kendra Data Sources API description: Operations for managing data source connectors humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Data Sources properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-data-sources-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-documents-api name: Amazon Kendra Documents API description: Operations for managing documents in the index humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Documents properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-documents-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-experience-api name: Amazon Kendra Experience API description: Operations for managing search experiences humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Experience properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-experience-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-indexes-api name: Amazon Kendra Indexes API description: Operations for creating and managing search indexes humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Index tags_raw: - Indexes properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-indexes-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-queries-api name: Amazon Kendra Queries API description: Operations for querying the search index humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Query tags_raw: - Queries properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-queries-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-query-suggestions-api name: Amazon Kendra Query Suggestions API description: Operations for query autocompletion humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Query Suggestions properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-query-suggestions-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-thesaurus-api name: Amazon Kendra Thesaurus API description: Operations for managing custom synonyms humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Thesaurus tags_raw: - Thesaurus properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-thesaurus-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-faqs-api name: Amazon Kendra FA Qs API description: Operations for managing FAQ entries humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - FAQs properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-faqs-api-openapi.yml - type: Documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/what-is-kendra.html - 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: APIReference url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html - 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 - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-access-control-configuration-api name: Amazon Kendra Kendra Access Control Configuration API description: >- The Kendra Access Control Configuration API from Amazon Kendra — 5 operation(s) for kendra access control configuration. humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Kendra Access Control Configuration properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-access-control-configuration-api-openapi.yml - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-data-source-sync-job-api name: Amazon Kendra Kendra Data Source Sync Job API description: >- The Kendra Data Source Sync Job API from Amazon Kendra — 3 operation(s) for kendra data source sync job. humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Kendra Data Source Sync Job properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-data-source-sync-job-api-openapi.yml - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-featured-results-set-api name: Amazon Kendra Kendra Featured Results Set API description: >- The Kendra Featured Results Set API from Amazon Kendra — 5 operation(s) for kendra featured results set. humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Kendra Featured Results Set properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-featured-results-set-api-openapi.yml - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-operations-api name: Amazon Kendra Kendra Operations API description: The Kendra Operations API from Amazon Kendra — 18 operation(s) for kendra operations. humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Kendra Operations properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-operations-api-openapi.yml - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-principal-mapping-api name: Amazon Kendra Kendra Principal Mapping API description: >- The Kendra Principal Mapping API from Amazon Kendra — 3 operation(s) for kendra principal mapping. humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Kendra Principal Mapping properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-principal-mapping-api-openapi.yml - aid: amazon-kendra:amazon-kendra-query-suggestions-block-list-api name: Amazon Kendra Kendra Query Suggestions Block List API description: >- The Kendra Query Suggestions Block List API from Amazon Kendra — 5 operation(s) for kendra query suggestions block list. humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ baseURL: https://kendra.amazonaws.com tags: - Kendra Query Suggestions Block List properties: - type: OpenAPI url: openapi/amazon-kendra-query-suggestions-block-list-api-openapi.yml common: - type: CapabilityMap url: capabilities/amazon-kendra-capability-edges.yml name: Amazon Kendra Business Capability Map - type: RateLimits url: rate-limits/amazon-kendra-rate-limits.yml - type: FinOps url: finops/amazon-kendra-finops.yml - type: Plans url: plans/amazon-kendra-plans-pricing.yml - type: Website url: https://aws.amazon.com/kendra/ - type: AgenticAccess url: agentic-access/amazon-kendra-agentic-access.yml - type: TrustCenter url: security/amazon-kendra-trust-center.yml - type: VulnerabilityDisclosure url: security/amazon-kendra-vulnerability-disclosure.yml - type: DomainSecurity url: security/amazon-kendra-domain-security.yml - type: Authentication url: authentication/amazon-kendra-authentication.yml - type: PostmanWorkspace url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/amazon-kendra/overview - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-create-faq-and-query-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Create FAQ and Query - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-create-search-experience-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Create Search Experience - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-create-thesaurus-and-query-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Create Thesaurus and Query - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-ingest-documents-and-query-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Ingest Documents and Query - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-provision-index-and-sync-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Provision Index and Start First Sync - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-query-suggestions-then-search-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Query Suggestions then Search - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-refresh-documents-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Refresh Documents - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-reschedule-and-resync-data-source-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Reschedule and Resync Data Source - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-resolve-index-and-query-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Resolve Index by Name and Query - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-retrieve-passages-for-rag-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Retrieve Passages for RAG - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-sync-data-source-and-query-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Sync Data Source and Query - type: Arazzo url: arazzo/amazon-kendra-teardown-data-source-and-index-workflow.yml name: Amazon Kendra Teardown Data Source and Index - 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: SDKs 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: [] x-parent: amazon-web-services x-relationship: product