http://kendra.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSKendraFrontendService.CreateIndex<p>Creates an Amazon Kendra index. Index creation is an asynchronous API. To determine if index creation has completed, check the <code>Status</code> field returned from a call to <code>DescribeIndex</code>. The <code>Status</code> field is set to <code>ACTIVE</code> when the index is ready to use.</p> <p>Once the index is active you can index your documents using the <code>BatchPutDocument</code> API or using one of the supported data sources.</p> <p>For an example of creating an index and data source using the Python SDK, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/gs-python.html">Getting started with Python SDK</a>. For an example of creating an index and data source using the Java SDK, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/gs-java.html">Getting started with Java SDK</a>.</p>
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'http://kendra.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSKendraFrontendService.CreateIndex' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}http://kendra.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSKendraFrontendService.CreateIndex<p>Creates an Amazon Kendra index. Index creation is an asynchronous API. To determine if index creation has completed, check the <code>Status</code> field returned from a call to <code>DescribeIndex</code>. The <code>Status</code> field is set to <code>ACTIVE</code> when the index is ready to use.</p> <p>Once the index is active you can index your documents using the <code>BatchPutDocument</code> API or using one of the supported data sources.</p> <p>For an example of creating an index and data source using the Python SDK, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/gs-python.html">Getting started with Python SDK</a>. For an example of creating an index and data source using the Java SDK, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/kendra/latest/dg/gs-java.html">Getting started with Java SDK</a>.</p>
{
"success": true,
"data": {
"id": "abc123",
"created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"
}
}{
"success": false,
"error": {
"code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
"message": "Invalid request parameters"
}
}1curl --request POST \2 --url 'http://kendra.{region}.amazonaws.com/#X-Amz-Target=AWSKendraFrontendService.CreateIndex' \3 --header 'accept: application/json' \4 --header 'content-type: application/json'1{2 "success": true,3 "data": {4 "id": "abc123",5 "created_at": "2025-01-01T00:00:00Z"6 }7}