aws-kendra

Create a new Kendra index

$ aws kendra create-index --name [my-index] --role-arn [arn:aws:iam::account:role/kendra-role]

$ aws kendra list-indices

$ aws kendra query --index-id [index-id] --query-text "[search terms]"

$ aws kendra batch-put-document --index-id [index-id] --documents file://[documents.json]

$ aws kendra create-data-source --index-id [index-id] --name [s3-source] --type S3 --configuration file://[s3-config.json] --role-arn [arn:aws:iam::account:role/kendra-role]

$ aws kendra start-data-source-sync-job --index-id [index-id] --id [data-source-id]

$ aws kendra create-faq --index-id [index-id] --name [my-faq] --s3-path Bucket=[bucket],Key=[faq.csv] --role-arn [arn:aws:iam::account:role/kendra-role]

aws kendra command [options]

aws kendra is the AWS CLI interface for Amazon Kendra, an intelligent enterprise search service powered by machine learning. Kendra provides natural language search capabilities across documents, FAQs, and other content sources.
Kendra indexes documents from various data sources including S3, SharePoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and databases. It understands natural language queries and returns relevant passages with highlighted answers, supporting semantic search beyond keyword matching.

create-index

Create a new search index

Delete an index

List all indexes

Submit a search query

Add documents to an index

Remove documents from an index

Create a connector to external content

Trigger document synchronization

Add FAQ content for direct answers

Get autocomplete suggestions

Index creation takes 15-30 minutes. Document ingestion costs apply per document scanned. Query capacity units (QCUs) determine concurrent query limits. Large document processing can be slow; use data sources for bulk content. Enterprise edition required for advanced features.

Amazon Kendra launched in December 2019 as an ML-powered enterprise search service. Query suggestions were added in 2021, and featured results for promoted content in 2022. The service has expanded data source connectors to support over 14 content repositories.

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