Amazon Quick Flows lets anyone build automations to handle repetitive or routine tasks in seconds using simple natural language prompts and their own data, and then share these workflows with individuals and teams across their organization.
If you’re managing Amazon Q Apps today, you may be wondering how you can quickly migrate your existing Q Apps to Quick Flows to take advantage of Quick Flow features, including Amazon Quick’s integrations with your favorite third party business applications.
In this post, we walk you through 10 steps to replicate your Q App as a Quick Flow in Amazon Quick. This guide leverages Amazon Quick’s in depth knowledge of how Q Apps work to quickly generate prompts describing your existing Q Apps. While tailored to non-technical owners of Q Apps, technical users can also use this guide to complement your bulk migration strategies.
Prerequisites
For this walkthrough, we recommend you get access to Amazon Quick from your administrator and download the Amazon Quick browser extension
Steps
- Navigate to your Q Business web application in your browser. If you have the browser extension, you can do this by clicking on the hamburger menu at the top right, and selecting the option “Go to Web App”
- Select “Apps” in the left hand menu to view your Q Apps, then select the app you want to migrate from the list. If you have multiple tabs open, be sure to return to this browser tab for the following steps
- Open your Amazon Quick browser extension, and click the “+” icon (“Chat with this tab”) next to “Amazon Q”. This will allow Amazon Quick to analyze your Amazon Q App
- Put in the following prompt into Amazon Quick, then press “Submit”:
I am migrating this Amazon Q App (Q App name) into Quick as a Quick Flow. Create a prompt that I can paste into Quick that would recreate this Q App as a Quick Flow.
Using your best effort:
Identity the data sources (Company knowledge or General knowledge) and map to Quick Flows step types (e.g. Quick data, General knowledge, or Web search).
Identity any action steps that are utilized and map them to the available action connector within Quick.
Determine the sequence of steps in which the Flow is executed and how each card in Q Apps will be represented in Quick Flows
Ensure the prompts used within the Q App are copied verbatim
Output this prompt as markdown and only output the prompt.
Here is an example prompt template:
Create a Flow that does (purpose). It uses the following (describe the input – text, file type, or data source). Step 1 does (x) and is a (describe the type of step – Quick step, integration action, or other type of step) with the following prompt: (prompt). Step 2 does …”
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Copy the prompt that Amazon Quick provides
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Open your Amazon Quick Web Application. You can do this from the browser extension by clicking on the hamburger icon on the top right and selecting “Go to web app”
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In the Amazon Quick Web Application, click “Flows” in the left hand menu, then click “Create Flow”
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Paste the prompt that Amazon Quick generated into the text box, then click “Generate”
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Optimize your new Quick Flow by using the “Run Mode” to test your new Quick Flow, then tune your Quick Flow by modifying the individual steps:
- Modify the prompt to provide better instructions to Quick
- Select your “Output Preference”. “Versatility and Performance” is the default and works well in most situations
- Tune the “Creativity level”. Low creativity level is better for steps that should be consistent in their output
Run and tune until you are satisfied with your Quick Flow’s behavior
10. Click “Share and Publish” so users of your Q App can use your Quick Flow to automate their work. Let them know you are using now using Quick Flow further enhance your automations.
You’re done! 
Repeat these steps to migrate more Q Apps to Amazon Quick.
Conclusion
This post described how you can replicate your Q Apps into Quick Flows. After migrating to Quick Flows, use the capabilities of Quick Flows to accelerate your business processes through executable actions, and integrations with third party business applications, web sources, and Amazon Quick Sight.
Note that Quick will make its best effort to generate a prompt that replicates the capabilities of your Q App, but it may make mistakes. Some features in Q App like forms are not yet available in Quick, and Amazon Quick will not be able to replicate these features in Quick Flow.
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Authors
Michael Wang is a Senior GenAI Strategist on AWS’s GenAI Innovation Center Quick Innovation team. He specializes in turning AI potential into measured business impact, and brings extensive experience architecting GenAI solutions with Amazon Bedrock and leading AI/ML programs that delivered quantifiable pipeline growth for high-regulated large enterprise. His bridges the gap between AI Strategy and practical implementation by combining strategic customer engagement with over a decade of hands-on technical expertise.
Deborah Devadason is Senior Advisory Consultant on AWS’s GenAI Innovation Center Quick Innovation team. With over 25 years of global consulting experience, she helps businesses solve complex challenges and drive transformation across industries. Deborah excels at identifying high-value use cases and guiding customers worldwide to successfully deploy Amazon Quick services in production. Her passion lies in turning innovative ideas into real-world results that make a difference.
Munesh Siddappa is a Senior Builder at AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, focusing on Amazon Quick implementations for enterprise clients across industries. He brings over a decade of experience in enterprise database solutions and currently specializes in generative AI products, working with customers and partners to deploy Amazon Quick, QuickSight, and Q Business solutions on AWS Cloud. His combined database and generative AI experience spans large enterprise customers across retail, banking, financial services, insurance, healthcare, media and entertainment, and professional services.