Overview of Amazon Q network reachability analysis

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.

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 may 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?

• The AWS Management Console provides the only means to interact with Amazon Q network reachability analysis.

• Amazon Q network reachability analysis doesn't support cross-account analysis.

• 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.

• Amazon EC2 instance

• Amazon RDS DB instance

• Auto Scaling group

• Elastic network interface

• Internet gateway

• NAT gateway

• Transit gateway

• Virtual private gateway

• VPC

• VPC endpoint

• VPC peering connection

• VPC subnet

Limits

• There is a limit of 20 questions per day, per account.

• The reachability analysis generated for Amazon Q is only available in the chat window in the AWS Management Console.

• After the chat is cleared or after 24 hours, the conversation, including the reachability analysis, is deleted.