Intro to AWS Quick (An AI assistant for work, on the web, desktop, and mobile) | AWS Quick: Zero to Hero 01

Level 100. A handout for anyone starting with AWS Quick, the AI assistant for work on the web, desktop, and mobile. What Quick is: one assistant that answers, creates, acts, and takes on tasks; its four parts (chat, agents, spaces, and integrations); and six features (AWS Quick Sight, Quick Flows, Quick Automate, Quick Research, Apps in Quick, and the desktop app). Where to use it and how to start: the web, desktop, mobile, and extensions; starting at aws.com/quick for people and teams or in the AWS console for companies; and the first screens. Your first request, with a running example of organizing a monthly internal learning session: say what you want, the materials to use, and the format; check the sources cited in the answer; what to do when Quick gets it wrong; and Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDF deliverables. What you can ask for: giving Quick materials (attachments, spaces, knowledge bases, local folders), acting in business apps through connectors, and handing work off to Quick Research, Quick Flows, routines, and Quick Automate. The map of Quick, how your data is handled (no plan uses your data to train models; the Tokyo Region as an example), and usage in agent hours. Screens of the web app and the desktop app show the home screens, a request, the sources, and a Word deliverable. The appendix has what each interface supports, the plans, a glossary, and sources. Based on public documentation as of November 2026. Deck 01 (Get started) of the series AWS Quick: Zero to Hero.

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1. AWS Quick: Zero to Hero Get started Intro to AWS Quick An AI assistant for work, on the web, desktop, and mobile 01 Level 100 / As of November 2026 November 2026 Riku Inada Amazon Web Services Japan © 2026, Amazon Web © 2026, Services, Amazon Inc. or Web its Services, affiliates.Inc. All or rights its affiliates. reserved.All rights reserved. 1
2. Introduction About me Riku Inada Amazon Web Services Japan G.K. Solutions Architect Works mainly with manufacturing customers Recent work Promoting the AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC) Writing and speaking about Kiro and AWS Amplify © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. X @inada_riku Speaker Deck speakerdeck.com/inariku Zenn zenn.dev/inariku GitHub github.com/inariku 2
3. Introduction Where this deck fits Now: 01 Intro to AWS Quick. Next: 02 Quick on the web, 03 Quick on desktop Get started 01–03 Go deeper 01 Intro to AWS Quick Read next 02 Quick on the web Read next 03 Quick on desktop 04–08 Let it run 09–12 Roll it out 13–15 Updates From chat to 09 Quick Research 13 your company 05 knowledge Spaces and 10 Quick Flows 14 desktop app 06 Agents and skills 11 Always-on agents QuickSight 15 From to Quick 07 Connectors and extensions 12 Quick Automate 04 deliverables Quick for Deploy the 2026.11 New each month Sight 08 Quick and apps © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 3
4. Introduction What you'll learn Ask one assistant for help with your work, wherever you open it 1 Quick is an AI assistant for work: it answers, creates, acts, and takes on tasks. 2 Use the same assistant on the web, desktop, mobile, or in an extension. 3 Say what you want, which files to use, and the format, then check the sources. The running example: organizing a monthly internal learning session (invitations, attendance, materials, and recaps). Decks 01–12 use it. Read first: none (this is the first deck in the series). Terms are in the glossary (Appendix A3) © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4
5. 1 What Quick is © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5
6. 1 What Quick is An AI assistant for work It turns questions into answers, answers into actions, and actions into outcomes Open action items? Asks before sending Answers from the notes, with sources © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Sent after your OK 6
7. 1 What Quick is How one request flows You ask in chat, and an agent uses spaces and integrations to answer or act Ask © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Uses spaces and integrations Answers or acts 7
8. 1 What Quick is The parts of Quick Quick has four parts: chat, agents, spaces, and integrations Chat © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Agent Space Integrations 8
9. 1 What Quick is Features The parts combine into six features AWS Quick Sight Quick Flows Quick Automate Dashboards and analysis Automates the same Automates business Uses: datasets work each time work with human review Uses: connectors, spaces Uses: connectors, agents, Deck 08 Deck 10 Deck 12 human review Quick Research Apps in Quick Desktop app Reports with sources Apps you build by AI connected to Uses: spaces, knowledge describing them your computer bases, the web Uses: data, connectors Uses: local files, email, Deck 09 © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Deck 08 Deck 03 calendar 9
10. 2 Where to use it and how to start © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10
11. 2 Where to use it and how to start Where you use Quick Use the same agents on the web, desktop, mobile, and in extensions Install from the App Store or Google Play Chat and approve actions Chrome, Firefox, Edge Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint Slack, Microsoft Teams Web Desktop Mobile Extensions Open in a browser macOS and Windows iOS and Android Use Quick inside other apps What you can use depends on your plan (Appendix A2) © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 11
12. 2 Where to use it and how to start Web and desktop The desktop app reaches your computer. Chats and memory stay with your account Same chats and memory Web © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Desktop Files, email, calendar 12
13. 2 Where to use it and how to start Two ways to start People and teams start at aws.com/quick. Companies start in the AWS console People and teams aws.com/quick © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Companies AWS console 13
14. 2 Where to use it and how to start Your first screens After you sign up, choose the app or the web, then pick a work focus 1 At aws.com/quick, choose Sign up for free 2 Enter your email address and your name 3 Enter the 6-digit code from the email, then set a password Work focus (9 topics) Grow my sales pipeline, Hire and develop my team, and more 4 Your account is ready in about a minute 5 Choose Download for macOS, or Continue on web for now 6 Pick a work focus, or skip this step Example requests for your focus appear. Google and other sign-in options follow a similar process © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14
15. 3 Your first request © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 15
16. 3 Your first request Your first request Say what you want, the materials to use, and the format you need What: the next session's invitation / Materials: the previous invitation file / Format: a Word document To ask: type your request in the box on the home screen, drag the file into the box, and send the request For example: "Write the next session's invitation in Word, based on this file" (screen below) No materials? Start with "Write next month's learning session invitation in about 100 words" © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 16
17. 3 Your first request Checking an answer Open each source from its citation in the answer, and see them all in Sources Quick cites its sources at the end of a sentence (on the right, the invitation you attached), and lists them in Sources at the end of the answer. Choose a citation to see its title, URL, and excerpt. Choose Sources to see them all. To keep outside information out, turn off web search (the globe icon on the web). Web search works only if an administrator turned it on. Explanation is in deck 04 © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 17
18. 3 Your first request When Quick gets it wrong Answers can be wrong, so narrow the materials, check sources, and approve key actions Narrow the materials © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Check the sources You approve key actions 18
19. 3 Your first request Deliverables Create docs, spreadsheets, decks, and PDFs in chat, then preview and download them Formats: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, and images (PNG) When a file is ready, preview it in the side panel and download it. To change it, comment on the part to fix in the preview and have Quick redo it, or ask in chat. For PowerPoint, give Quick your own template and it uses that look. Always check numbers against the original files (slide 18, deck 04) © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 19
20. 4 What you can ask for © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 20
21. 4 What you can ask for Giving Quick materials Attach files for one chat, spaces for the team, and knowledge bases for the company Attach © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Space Knowledge base Local folder 21
22. 4 What you can ask for Acting in business apps Connectors read and write business apps. Write tools ask you each time by default Business apps Reads without asking © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Asks before writing 22
23. 4 What you can ask for Handing off work Hand research, fixed steps, routines, and business processes to the right feature Quick Research Get a report on keeping sessions going Quick Flows Sum up key points and action items each time Organizer © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Routines Every Monday, list who hasn't replied yet Web, desktop Deck 09 Web Deck 10 Desktop app Can run with your Deck 11 computer off (limits) Quick Automate Enterprise plan Sign-ups to sending, with human review (check the pricing page) Deck 12 23
24. 5 The map and things to know © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 24
25. 5 The map and things to know The Quick map A trigger starts the work. An agent does it with capabilities, knowledge, and learning ① Trigger ② Agent ③ Capabilities ④ Knowledge, learning When, and what Who Tools, skills, workflows Based on what Chat requests 01 From the web Set up on Routines 11 desktop Enterprise plan only Built-in agent 02 Connectors 07 Spaces 05 Custom agents 06 Extensions 07 Knowledge bases 05 Quick Flows 10 Memory, knowledge graph 06 Local MCP and tools 03 Local folders Skills 06 Quick Automate 12 03 Agents are the workers; skills are procedures they open. The rings are deck numbers © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 25
26. 5 The map and things to know How your data is handled No plan uses your data to train models. Company accounts choose their Region Tokyo Tokyo Osaka Model Training Region Inference Web search On every plan, AWS Company accounts made In the Tokyo Region, Web search used in doesn't use your data in the AWS console inference (writing the the Tokyo Region is to train models choose a Region. Tokyo answer) stays in Tokyo processed in Tokyo has the agentic and Osaka. Data is features stored only in Tokyo The Region, inference, and web search cards are about company accounts (deck 13). Tokyo is an example © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 26
27. 5 The map and things to know Usage AI features are counted in agent hours. See your own in Mission Control Chat Where to look Quick Research Quick Flows Quick Automate In Mission Control of the desktop app, Agent hours choose Runs this week The time Quick is working, counted by the second Creating deliverables Custom agents and apps Same count on every interface The mode changes the rate Opening old chats doesn't count The Agent hours card (here, 23m used) © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 27
28. Summary © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 28
29. Summary Summary Ask one assistant to answer, create, act, and take on tasks, then check the sources 1 Quick is an AI assistant for work: it answers, creates, acts, and takes on tasks. 2 Use the same assistant on the web, desktop, mobile, or in an extension. 3 Say what you want, which files to use, and the format, then check the sources. © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 29
30. Summary Read next On the web, read 02. On desktop, read 03. To bring Quick to your company, read 13 02 03 13 Quick on the web Quick on desktop Quick for your company Use chat, spaces, and agents in Connect your files, email, and Accounts, sign-in, Regions, your browser calendar permissions, and usage If you use a browser If you use the desktop app If your company is adopting it © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 30
31. Appendix © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 31
32. Appendix A1 What each interface supports (as of November 2026) Feature Web Desktop Mobile Chat, sources, web search, deliverables ✓ ✓ ✓ Response modes (Fast, Balanced, Smart) Not documented ✓ ✓ Spaces ✓ ✓ Can't add to a chat Custom agents ✓ ✓ Choose and use Connectors ✓ ✓ Connect only Skills Not documented ✓ Use only Local folders — ✓ Not documented Routines and the feed Not documented ✓ View the feed Apps in Quick ✓ ✓ — — means not available. Not documented means that interface's docs don't mention it (checked on November 8, 2026) © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 32
33. Appendix A2 Plans (as of November 10, 2026) Plan Start at For Main differences Free aws.com/quick One person trying it Chat, Research, Apps, the desktop app Plus aws.com/quick Teams of up to 300 Shared spaces, extensions, user management Max aws.com/quick Frequent users More usage and index storage than Plus Essentials AWS console Getting everyone started No seat cap, SSO, viewing dashboards Professional AWS console More governance More usage and storage than Essentials Enterprise AWS console Teams that build dashboards Creating dashboards, Quick Automate, certified assets From the pricing page on November 10, 2026. The FAQ differs: it lists four plans, and puts the desktop app in Plus and above and Quick Automate in Professional and Enterprise. Check the pricing page © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 33
34. Appendix A3 Glossary Term Meaning Term Meaning Agent AI with instructions and tools Built-in agent The agent you start with Space The team's shelf of materials Knowledge base Company documents brought in Connector Links Quick to a business app Extension Uses Quick inside another app MCP A standard way to add tools Skill A procedure used when needed Quick Flows Runs work in fixed steps Quick Automate Automates with human review Quick Research Writes reports with sources Apps in Quick Apps built from a description Quick Sight Builds dashboards and charts Integrations Links to other systems Routine Work that runs on a schedule Mission Control Where you see runs and usage Agent hours The unit for AI usage Response modes Speed versus depth © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 34
35. Appendix A4 Sources AWS Quick User Guide (read on November 8 and 10, 2026) (slides 4, 7–9, 11–14, 16–19, 21–23, 25–27, 32, 34) https://docs.aws.amazon.com/quick/latest/userguide/ What is Amazon Quick?, How Amazon Quick works, Signing up at aws.com/quick, What is Amazon Quick on desktop?, Getting started with the Amazon Quick desktop application, Feature availability at a glance, Ask questions, explore data, and get insights with chat, Working with chat, Understanding the desktop interface, Mission Control, Document and visual creation, Tool permissions, Connectors, Amazon Quick browser extension, AWS Regions, websites, IP address ranges, and endpoints, Data protection (slides 4, 7–9, 11–14, 16–19, 21–23, 25–27, 32, 34) AWS Quick pricing page (read on November 10, 2026) (slides 11, 13, 23, 25, 27, 33, 34) https://aws.amazon.com/quick/pricing/ AWS Quick FAQs (read on November 10, 2026) (slides 4, 6, 11, 13, 23, 26, 27, 33, 34) https://aws.amazon.com/quick/faqs/ What's New (April 28, 2026: Free and Plus; September 9, 2026: the desktop app is generally available) (slides 6, 11, 32) https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/ AWS Artificial Intelligence Blog: "Taxonomy of agentic primitives in AWS Quick" (the Quick map's columns) (slide 25) https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/taxonomy-of-agentic-primitives-in-amazon-quick/ Screenshots: taken in a test account in the Asia Pacific (Tokyo) Region in November 2026. The learning session materials are fictional © 2026, Amazon Web Services, Inc. or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 35