Amazon Q Business will no longer be open to new customers starting on July 31, 2026. If you would like to use the service, please sign up prior to July 30. For capabilities similar to Q Business, explore Amazon Quick. [Learn more](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qbusiness-ug/qbusiness-availability-change.html).

# Enhancing an Amazon Q Business application environment
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After you finish configuring your application environment, you can optionally choose to enhance it.

You can choose from the following available enhancements:
+ **Data sources** – Connect data sources to your application environment.
+ **Admin controls and guardrails** – Customize blocked topics and choose the knowledge sources your web experience uses for responses.
+ **Response customization** – Configure how Amazon Q Business generates and formats responses to user queries, including style, tone, and length.
+ **Amazon Q Apps** – Create lightweight, purpose-built apps within your broader Amazon Q Business application environment. Using enterprise data, users can create a generative AI-powered app that streamlines their tasks.
+ **Plugins** – Enable your end users to perform specific tasks related to third-party services from within their web experience chat—like creating Jira tickets.
+ **Document enrichment** – Control document attribute ingestion and build customized data solutions.
+ **Metadata boosting** – Use document attributes to boost response generation from specific content within your application environment.
+ **Metadata controls** – Enable document attributes for end user search.

**Topics**
+ [Connecting Amazon Q Business data sources](data-sources.md)
+ [Admin controls and guardrails in Amazon Q Business](guardrails.md)
+ [Customizing responses in Amazon Q Business](response-customization.md)
+ [Share your enterprise data with data accessors using Amazon Q index](data-accessors.md)
+ [Amazon Q embedded](embed-amazon-q-business.md)
+ [Integrations](integrations.md)
+ [Creating purpose-built *Amazon Q Apps*](purpose-built-qapps.md)
+ [Document enrichment in Amazon Q Business](custom-document-enrichment.md)
+ [Extracting semantic meaning from embedded visual content with Amazon Q Business](extracting-meaning-from-images.md)
+ [Tuning the query results based on document attribute relevancy](relevancy-tuning.md)
+ [Boosting chat responses using metadata boosting](metadata-boosting.md)
+ [Configuring metadata controls in Amazon Q Business](mapping-doc-attributes.md)