Amazon Kendra
Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service from Amazon Web Services powered by machine learning.
AI Practitioner focus
- Kendra provides enterprise search/retrieval over connected content. Its Query/Retrieve APIs and current GenAI Enterprise indexes support permissions-aware retrieval, hybrid keyword/vector search, semantic embeddings, and reranking for RAG.
- Kendra retrieves relevant enterprise passages; Amazon Bedrock or another FM generates a grounded response. Amazon Quick is a managed end-user AI workspace over connected business data.
Key points
- Provides ML-powered intelligent search, letting users find answers using keyword search as well as natural-language queries.
- Powered by machine learning rather than a simple keyword index.
- Listed among AWS’s Machine Learning services in the AWS Management Console alongside Amazon Comprehend, Amazon Personalize, Amazon Polly, and Amazon Rekognition.