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Amazon-Unveils-Q

by darrellsilver on 11/29/23, 11:54 AM with 29 comments

  • by l-p on 11/30/23, 12:49 PM

    I started maintaining uBlock filters to avoid being spammed by intrusive ads a for a service I neither need nor want.

    https://gist.github.com/L-P/cfee57bd0835c88262e29ff3a1f09b60

    I'm slightly irritated by AWS making the same errors Azure did on their portal. Keep your ads out of my tools.

  • by skywhopper on 11/30/23, 12:54 PM

    Would be nice if TechCrunch applied some skepticism or talked to experts or potential users about this idea rather than just summarizing Amazon’s presentation. Some of the claims being made about what this could do are pretty ridiculous, and clearly overstatements of the actual functionality. It can summarize existing AWS docs—one of the only actual concrete examples in the article says that it could list EC2 instance types and their properties in response to a question about where to host an app. And it will certainly encourage its users to use more AWS services to solve their problems. But it’s not going to be “transformative”. It’s a way out of doing the real work to improve their own documentation.

  • by Hamuko on 11/30/23, 1:09 PM

    >Amazon Q is an expert on patterns in the AWS Well-Architected Framework, best practices, documentation, and solution implementations, making it easier and faster for you to explore new services and capabilities, learn unfamiliar technologies, and architect solutions.

    Can I trust that Q's proposed AWS architecture solutions will be cost-effective, and more importantly, secure? Does it come with a warranty?

  • by zer0c00ler on 11/30/23, 1:06 PM

    I have trouble understanding what Q is. It can't be that new Chatbot named Amazon Q in AWS, because it has very few capabilities. It's kind of embarrassing.

    What am I missing? Is there something else shipping in future?

    doubt any of the media outlets actually used it, they are just repeating Amazon's statements

  • by xg15 on 11/30/23, 1:07 PM

    So everyone wants to name their thing either X or Q. Can't we give the other letters some love for a change? I've never heard about, let's say, the G conspiracy, for example.

  • by gumballindie on 11/30/23, 12:40 PM

    How many times are we going to have to read promos for this product?

  • by flappyeagle on 11/30/23, 12:48 PM

    This is dead on arrival

  • by I_Am_Nous on 11/30/23, 12:55 PM

    My initial impression is wondering why they picked Q while the internet still remembers Qanon.