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# Quotas for Amazon Kendra
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## Supported regions
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For a list of AWS regions where Amazon Kendra is available, see [Amazon Kendra regions and endpoints ](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/kendra.html) in the *Amazon Web Services General Reference*.

**Important**  
Amazon Kendra GenAI Enterprise Edition indices are only available in the US East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Sydney), regions.

## Quotas
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Service quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum number of service resources for your AWS account. For more information, see [Amazon Kendra service quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/kendra.html) in the *AWS General Reference*.

**Note**  
Quotas for Amazon Kendra GenAI Enterprise Edition indices aren't currently available in the Service Quotas console.

### Index quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of indices per account | 10 | GenAI Enterprise, Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Amount of text extracted for an index in a single unit (Developer). You can't add extra units for extracting text for the Developer Edition. | 3 GB | Developer | No | 
| Amount of text extracted for an index in a single unit (Enterprise). You can add up to 100 extra units for extracting text for the Enterprise Edition, or simply contact [Support](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/). | 30 GB | GenAI Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of storage capacity units per GenAI Enterprise Edition index | 50 | Enterprise | Yes | 

### Data source connector quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of data source connectors per index (Developer) | 5 | Developer | No | 
| Maximum number of data source connectors per index (Enterprise) | 50 | Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of data source connectors per index (GenAI Enterprise) | 50 | GenAI Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum hours of connector sync usage per GenAI Enterprise Index per month | 500 | GenAI Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum size of a single document or raw file that can be ingested when using a data source connector | 50 MB | GenAI Enterprise, Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of S3 prefixes in the access control list configuration file included in the Amazon S3 data source connector | 100 | Developer, Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum size of the access control list configuration file included in the Amazon S3 data source connector | 50 MB | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 

### FAQ quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of FAQs per index | 30 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum size of 1 FAQ | 5 MB | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of results returned for FAQ | 4 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of characters allowed for a FAQ question | 300 | Developer, Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum number of characters in an FAQ answer | 2000 | Developer, Enterprise | No | 

### Thesaurus quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of thesauri per index | 1 | Developer, Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum size of a thesaurus file | 5 MB | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of synonym rules per thesaurus | 10,000 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of synonyms per term in all thesauri in an index | 10 | Developer, Enterprise | No | 

### Amazon Kendra experience quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of Amazon Kendra experiences per index | 50 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 

### Query and search results quotas
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**Note**  
Query per second is shared across retrieve and query API.


| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Amount of queries per second for an index in a single unit (Developer). You can't add extra units for queries for the Developer Edition. | 0.05 | Developer | No | 
| Amount of queries per second for an index in a single unit (Enterprise). You can add up to 100 extra units for queries for the Enterprise Edition, or simply contact [Support](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/). | 0.1 | Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of query capacity units per GenAI Enterprise Edition index | 100 | GenAI Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of characters per query text | 1000 | GenAI Enterprise, Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of search results per query. Default is 100. To allow more than 100 results, simply contact [Support](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/). | 100 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of search results per page | 100 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of token words per query text before truncation. Default is 30. To allow more than 30 words, simply contact [Support](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/). | 30 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum user-group list size per query attribute | 1000 | GenAI Enterprise, Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum string list size per query attribute | 10 | GenAI Enterprise, Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 

### Query suggestions quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of query suggestions returned per [GetQuerySuggestions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/API_GetQuerySuggestions.html) call | 10 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of fields/attributes for query suggestions per [GetQuerySuggestions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/API_GetQuerySuggestions.html) call | 10 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of additional fields/attributes for query suggestions per [GetQuerySuggestions](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/APIReference/API_GetQuerySuggestions.html) call | 5 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of block lists per index | 1 | Developer, Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum size of a block list text file | 2 MB | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of items (words or phrases) in a block list | 20,000 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of spell-corrected query suggestions to return in a Query API call. | 1 | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 

### Document quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Amount of text extracted for an index in a single unit (Developer). You can't add extra units for extracting text for the Developer Edition. | 3 GB | Developer | No | 
| Amount of text extracted for an index in a single unit (Enterprise). You can add up to 100 extra units for extracting text for the Enterprise Edition, or simply contact [Support](https://aws.amazon.com/contact-us/). | 30 GB | Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum size of a single document or raw file when using a data source connector | 50 MB | Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum size of a single document or raw file when using the BatchPutDocument API | 5 MB | GenAI Enterprise, Developer, Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum amount of text extracted from a single document | 5 MB | Developer, Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum number of custom fields/attributes per index | 500 | Developer, Enterprise | No | 

### Featured search results quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of featured documents per featured results set | 4 | Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of query texts per featured results set | 49 | Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum number of characters per query text in a featured results set | 1000 | Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of featured results sets per index | 50 | Enterprise | Yes | 

### Rescore/rerank search results quotas
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| Description | Default | Edition | Adjustable | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | 
| Maximum number of Rescore requests per second for a rescore execution plan or a single unit of capacity. You can add up to 1000 extra units. | 0.01 | Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum number of rescore execution plans per account. | 50 | Enterprise | Yes | 
| Maximum number of tokens in Title for a document in a Rescore request. | 100 | Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum number of tokens in Body for a document in a Rescore request. | 200 | Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum number of documents in a Rescore request. | 25 | Enterprise | No | 
| Maximum number of documents per group in a Rescore request. | 3 | Enterprise | No | 

For more information about Amazon Kendra service quotas and to request a quota increase, see [Service Quotas](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/kendra.html).