I’m building interactive web applications using Apps in Amazon Quick (the conversational app builder, not dashboards or flows). I want to share these apps with collaborators and end users who don’t have Amazon Quick accounts.
Based on the AWS documentation on Apps in Quick limitations, it states:
“Users must have an Amazon Quick account to view an app, unless the app is published publicly. Public access is available on Free and Plus accounts only. Public apps cannot use action connectors, embedded visuals, embedded chat, or spaces.”
Given this, I have a few questions:
For apps published publicly (on Free/Plus accounts) — is there a URL that can be shared directly with anyone on the internet, or does it still require some form of authentication?
On Pro/Enterprise accounts, is there any workaround to expose an app to non-Quick users (e.g., embedding, API gateway in front, anonymous IAM role)?
With the restriction that public apps cannot use action connectors, embedded visuals, embedded chat, or spaces — does this mean a public app is essentially limited to static content and AI inference only?
Is there a roadmap or planned capability to support anonymous/external access for Enterprise-tier apps?
Yes, Free and Plus accounts can set an app’s access level to “Public,” which generates a public URL that anyone on the internet can access without signing in. Anonymous viewers have no user identity, can only access shared storage (not private storage), and AI inference usage is rate-limited and counts against the app owner’s subscription quota (Security and sandbox in apps in Quick). The docs describe three access levels: Limited (only users you explicitly share with), Account (everyone in your Quick account), and Public (anyone, no sign-in). The Public option is only available on Free and Plus accounts (Getting started with apps in Quick).
Pro and Enterprise accounts can’t publish apps publicly. The Public access level simply isn’t available to them. Every viewer of a Pro/Enterprise app must have an Amazon Quick account and hold an Author, Professional, Author Pro, Enterprise, or Admin Pro subscription (Limitations of apps in Quick). There’s no supported workaround to expose an app to non-Quick users on these tiers. Worth noting that Quick Sight dashboards on Enterprise edition do support anonymous access for external users via the embedding SDK (GenerateEmbedUrlForAnonymousUser API), but that’s an entirely separate capability and doesn’t apply to Apps (Embedding dashboards for anonymous users). Apps cannot be embedded into external websites.
Your read on the public app restrictions is correct. With no action connectors, no embedded visuals, no embedded chat, and no spaces access, a public app is limited to its own UI code, shared storage, and AI inference (Limitations of apps in Quick). You can build interactive experiences with those (calculators, AI-powered tools, forms that write to shared storage), but you can’t pull live data from external systems or display Quick Sight visuals.
As for a roadmap, nothing is publicly documented. What I can do if you would like is attach the ‘feature-request’ tag to this post and that can help increase visibility to the Quick Team. If it’s a critical need, I’d suggest registering the request through an AWS Support case or your account team (Case management - AWS Support).