Overview of Amazon Q network reachability analysis
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Amazon Q network reachability analysis is in preview release and is subject to change. This feature is only available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region.
Amazon Q network reachability analysis is a feature of Amazon Q that works with Amazon VPC Reachability Analyzer. With Amazon Q network reachability analysis, you can query reachability between resources in your AWS account by asking questions in plain English.
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How Amazon Q network reachability analysis works
To use Amazon Q network reachability analysis, you must first sign in to the console and then open Amazon Q. You can ask Amazon Q for help with network connectivity issues.
Amazon Q network reachability analysis uses generative AI and large language models (LLMs) to interpret your question and then requests a relevant reachability analysis from Reachability Analyzer. Reachability Analyzer then passes its reachability analysis back to Amazon Q network reachability analysis, which surfaces those insights on screen.
For example, if you ask it a question such as "Why can't I reach
my server?
", Amazon Q network reachability analysis might return a response similar to the one
shown in the following screen illustration:
If the response isn't immediately useful, you can ask follow-up questions to expand on the initial response. Amazon Q network reachability analysis looks at your entire conversation history to create follow-up responses.
To start a new conversation about a different network connectivity issue, choose Start new analysis to disregard the conversation so far.
If you ask Amazon Q network reachability analysis a question that's outside of its area of expertise, it might not
be able to offer a satisfactory response. In such cases, it might respond with
"Sorry, I can't answer that question. Please ask me questions
related to network connectivity issues in your AWS account. For help with general
AWS related questions, close this chat and use the Amazon Q chat from the right-side
panel.”
Pricing details
For information about pricing, see Amazon Q Developer pricing
How is Amazon Q network reachability analysis different from Reachability Analyzer?
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The AWS Management Console provides the only means to interact with Amazon Q network reachability analysis.
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Amazon Q network reachability analysis doesn't support cross-account analysis.
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Amazon Q network reachability analysis supports a subset of the resources that Reachability Analyzer supports.
Supported resource types
Amazon Q network reachability analysis can analyze the path between the following resources.
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Amazon EC2 instance
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Amazon RDS DB instance
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Auto Scaling group
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Elastic network interface
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Internet gateway
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NAT gateway
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Transit gateway
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Virtual private gateway
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VPC
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VPC endpoint
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VPC peering connection
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VPC subnet
Limits
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There is a limit of 20 questions per day, per account.
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The reachability analysis generated for Amazon Q is only available in the chat window in the AWS Management Console.
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After the chat is cleared or after 24 hours, the conversation, including the reachability analysis, is deleted.