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Amazon Q Business alternative: cited, permission-aware enterprise search you can still buy

AWS has confirmed it in its own documentation: "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." If you are evaluating Amazon Q Business right now, that is the whole decision. The window shuts this month, and buying into a product on its last day of general availability is a hard case to make to a CFO.

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InSearch searches across Drive, Slack, Notion, Confluence, Gmail, Jira and Salesforce in one query and returns a written answer with citations, only ever from sources you're allowed to see.

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Every answer cited to its source documents · permission-aware · never trains on your data

For existing customers the news is calmer. AWS says Q Business "remains fully supported" with continued bug fixes and security updates, but adds the sentence that matters for a multi-year plan: "new feature requests will no longer be considered." The recommended path forward is Amazon Quick, and that migration is a real project rather than a rename, with index quotas, rebuilt Q Apps and a genuine gap in per-user access control to work through.

InSearch is the alternative for teams who wanted what Q Business promised and would rather not start on a closing product. One query searches Drive, Slack, Notion, Confluence, Gmail, Jira and Salesforce, and you get back a written answer with inline citations to the exact source documents. Item-level permissions are inherited from each source and enforced at query time, per person, so a company-wide rollout does not quietly widen who can read what. There is no AWS account to wire up, no index units to provision by the hour, and no per-account infrastructure fee.

Amazon Q Business closes to new customers on July 31, 2026, and AWS now points buyers to Amazon Quick. InSearch is a cross-app enterprise search that is open, priced per seat with no infrastructure fee, and enforces item-level permissions at query time.

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Amazon Q Business vs InSearch, honestly

A fair look at what each does well. Both are capable tools. Here is where they differ.

What matters InSearch Amazon Q Business
Open to new customers Yes, available today on transparent per-seat pricing No. AWS: no longer open to new customers starting July 31, 2026
Ongoing feature development Actively developed, cited answers are the core roadmap Supported with bug fixes and security updates; AWS states new feature requests will no longer be considered
Permissions Item-level permissions inherited from each source and enforced at query time, per person Index-level ACLs and a User Store; on migration to Quick without IAM Identity Center, per-user and per-group distinctions are lost by default
Setup Connect your apps with OAuth, no cloud account or index provisioning AWS account, IAM Identity Center, application environment plus a provisioned index
Cost model One transparent per-seat price, no hourly index units, no account fee Lite $3 and Pro $20 per user per month, plus index capacity billed hourly (starter $0.140/hr, enterprise $0.264/hr per unit)
Cited answers Written answer with inline citations to the exact source docs Answers with source attribution, response length capped by tier
Best suited for Teams that want cross-app cited search they can start on now Existing AWS-native customers already deployed before the cutoff

Comparison reflects general, publicly understood positioning. Capabilities change, so check each product for the latest.

Why teams pick InSearch

One cited, permission-aware search across every app

You can actually buy it

AWS closes Q Business to new customers on July 31, 2026. InSearch is open, priced per seat, and you can connect your first app today without a procurement cycle.

Permissions that survive a rollout

Every answer is scoped to what the person asking can already open, enforced at query time from each source's own item-level controls. Nothing widens by accident.

No infrastructure to size

No index units billed by the hour, no per-account monthly fee, no capacity planning in documents and megabytes. One per-seat price covers the search.

Good questions

Amazon Q Business vs InSearch, answered

Not discontinued, but closed to new business. AWS states Q Business will no longer be open to new customers starting on July 31, 2026, and advises signing up before July 30 if you want it. Existing customers keep a fully supported service with bug fixes and security updates, though AWS says new feature requests will no longer be considered.
It depends on whether you want to stay inside AWS. AWS itself points existing customers to Amazon Quick. If you would rather not run the migration or provision index capacity, InSearch gives you the same core job, one search across Drive, Slack, Notion, Confluence, Gmail, Jira and Salesforce returning a cited, permission-aware answer, on a single per-seat price.
AWS publishes two subscription tiers: Amazon Q Business Lite at $3 per user per month and Amazon Q Business Pro at $20 per user per month. On top of the seats you pay for index capacity by the hour, $0.140 per unit for a starter index and $0.264 per unit for an enterprise index, so the true bill is seats plus infrastructure rather than seats alone.
Only until the cutoff. AWS asks customers who want the service to sign up prior to July 30, 2026, after which it stops accepting new customers. If you are reading this after that date, your AWS-native option is Amazon Quick, and the practical question becomes whether you want to build on a migration path or start fresh on a product that is open.
InSearch does not. Q Business is an AWS service, so it requires an AWS account, IAM Identity Center or IAM federation, and a provisioned index. InSearch connects to your apps over OAuth, which means a team can be searching the same day without cloud infrastructure, index sizing or a Terraform change.

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 vs Sinequa

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 vs Glean

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 vs Hebbia

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 vs Onyx

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 vs Bloomfire

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 vs Amazon Quick Suite

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 vs Amazon Q Business

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 vs Gemini Enterprise

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 vs Gemini Enterprise

Gemini Enterprise pricing

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 vs Google Agentspace

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One search across all your company apps, a clear cited answer, scoped to exactly what each person can see, and never trained on your data.

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One search across every app · cited answers · permission-aware · never trains on your data