Diagnosing common errors in the console with Amazon Q Developer - Amazon Q Developer
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Diagnosing common errors in the console with Amazon Q Developer

In the AWS Management Console, Amazon Q Developer can diagnose common errors you receive while working with AWS services, such as insufficient permissions, incorrect configuration, and exceeding service limits. This feature is available for errors that arise while using the following services in the AWS Management Console:

  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)

  • Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  • AWS Lambda

  • AWS CloudFormation

You can diagnose most common console errors with Amazon Q, except for simple validation errors. Amazon Q doesn't maintain a history of previous error diagnosing sessions.

If you're unable to diagnose your error with Amazon Q, you can use Amazon Q to create a support case with AWS Support. For more information, see Using Amazon Q Developer to chat with AWS Support. If you have an issue specific to the Amazon Q error diagnosing feature, you can use the thumbs-down icon to report an issue.

Note

Diagnosing console errors with Amazon Q is currently available in the US West (Oregon) and US East (N. Virginia) AWS Regions.

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For an IAM policy that grants permissions needed for diagnosing console errors, see Allow users to diagnose console errors with Amazon Q.

Diagnose common errors in the console

To use Amazon Q to diagnose an error in the AWS Management Console, use the following procedure.

  1. If you receive an error that Amazon Q can help you with, a Diagnose with Amazon Q button appears in the error message. If you want to use Amazon Q to diagnose the error, choose Diagnose with Amazon Q to proceed.

  2. A window appears where Amazon Q provides information about the error and an overview of how to resolve it. To see detailed steps for how to resolve the error, choose Help me resolve.

  3. It can take several seconds for Amazon Q to generate instructions. After they appear, follow the instructions to resolve the error.

  4. To provide feedback, you can use the thumbs-up and thumbs-down icons. To provide detailed feedback, choose the Tell me more button that appears after you select an icon.