[HN Gopher] Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a "Stack Overflow" for AWS ___________________________________________________________________ Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a "Stack Overflow" for AWS Author : marinesebastian Score : 27 points Date : 2021-12-25 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (aws.amazon.com) (TXT) w3m dump (aws.amazon.com) | joebiden2024 wrote: | How interesting. Amazon has an internal stackoverflow (Sage), | wouldn't be surprised if they just forked and externalized it. | CottonMcKnight wrote: | So, AWS is hoping to exploit developers' willingness to do free | work in exchange for nebulous "reputation" points ("Klout", | anyone?) that they have been convinced is worth something on | their resumes. | | Instead of actually providing a real technical support team. | | Well, they've successfully convinced thousands of developers that | AWS certifications are worth thousands of dollars, so I expect it | might actually work. | sofixa wrote: | They do provide a real technical support team, you just have to | pay for it. | | And they state it will be driven by customers, partners and | employees of AWS, so at least on paper they aren't fully | relying on customers. | CactusOnFire wrote: | I got one of the AWS certifications. | | I know it's a scam. HR teams don't. If ponying up $400 every 3 | years gets me a more senior position with slightly better | compensation, it's worth the ROI. | NateEag wrote: | I asked a question about whether a recent outage was impacting | SWF, as the status page showed that it wasn't. | | I got a confirmation from AWS staff in just a few minutes: | | https://www.repost.aws/questions/QUTPxjIgdcSWm6tTCacifdDg/is... | | So, one thing it has going for it is official AWS staff answering | questions. | savant_penguin wrote: | Being hosted by AWS how do we know it's going to stay online | reliably? | orf wrote: | Why wouldn't they just use a stack overflow subdomain for this? | strictfp wrote: | Not Invented Here | duckmysick wrote: | I know this argument doesn't work well in this example since | it's Amazon. But in principle, centralizing data on the | internet around a few big services is not a good thing. | | These days forums and IRC channels are replaced with Facebook | and Discord. An untold amount of code is hosted on GitHub. And | now Stack Exchange is the go-to platform for Q&As. | | I understand it's convenient and those services have a network | effect behind them. But something is lost. Something that made | the internet great, where everyone hosted and shared their own | content. | SilasX wrote: | Or make their docs, tutorials, and UI better? | halayli wrote: | I find AWS documentation to be one of the best out there. | Consistent across all their products, very detailed and easy | to navigate. I am curious what you found to be lacking in | their docs. | syspec wrote: | That's not how you get promoted | deanCommie wrote: | You're thinking of Google, not Amazon. | jknoepfler wrote: | Control of content moderation, usage policies, and integration | with their own internal support APIs I would guess. | | Personally, I don't understand why they don't have an open- | source documentation repository, given that a lot of their docs | are garbage or hard to find... It's pretty well known that the | boto3 / terraform etc. docs are a better place to find API | documentation than AWS | peakaboo wrote: | Because this will require an amazon login and be a walled | garden they control 100%. | morpheuskafka wrote: | It's a little bit weird to call it part of the free tier in the | post--I'd certainly hope a crowdsource, no SLA forum for their | own product support is free! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-25 23:00 UTC)