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.
>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?
> Can I trust that Q's proposed AWS architecture solutions will be cost-effective?
No. Even in the Solutions Architect an Data Analyst Certification exams there are biases tested to essentially reinforce customers build in ways that ensure they spend more money. This model is no different. Amazon makes it incredibly difficult to opt out of any data collection across its AWS services, making user privacy a serious concern here. And, Amazon continues to fail to disclose to customers when their services/data has been compromised.
The "Q" model is incredibly underwhelming. ChatGPT continues to do a better job of describing and proposing viable solutions using AWS framework, and it's free.
As a customer, the guarantee you'll have with this model is KTLO. No thanks.
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
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.
Alfa
Bravo
Charlie
And so on … Q is easier to redefine in part because it has fewer acrophonic opportunities to create a simple repetitive word. Q has a history of being mysterious and is a wildcard of sorts from a linguistic perspective.
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.