Every year in late November, Amazon Web Services (AWS) hosts its re:Invent conference. This conference introduces many new services and features. This year has been no exception. This year is heavily focused on Generative AI (GenAI). Yesterday, they announced a new service called Amazon Q, a generative AI assistant. After this announcement, when you log into the web console of your AWS account, you are greeted with a screen similar to the following:
That's not bad. It would be cool if it gave me my list of buckets or a link to that part of the console. It also could have suggested running the provided command in CloudShell. But still, not bad.
Next, let's try "Create a website." intentionally keeping this generic to see where it goes.
I'm happy with that answer.
Let's see if it will write CloudFormation for us, "Please write me CloudFormation to create a CloudFront distribution."
That answer makes sense to me.
I like this new service introduction. I see a lot of potential for it, and it's in preview, so it is understood that it will not be perfect. I look forward to Amazon continued development of this service. Some hopes I have to see in the future:
- Help users find what they're looking for, for example links to specific places in the AWS web console.
- Educate users and encourage best practices
- Generate IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code)
- Provide answers related to the current AWS account. For example, "Please list my S3 buckets." or "Please list all of my running EC2 instances."
- Identify cost optimization opportunties across your AWS account.
- Define settings for the type of solutions you create based on regulations, corporate policies, and/or preferences. For example, "We are an EKS shop." or "All external traffic must be routed through our corporate data center via our direct connect." Amazon Q should then make recommendations that adhere to those preferences.
What are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments below.
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