[HN Gopher] Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a "Stack Overflow" for AWS
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Amazon Introduces Re:Post, a "Stack Overflow" for AWS
Author : marinesebastian
Score : 27 points
Date : 2021-12-25 18:59 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| 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.
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| 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:
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| https://www.repost.aws/questions/QUTPxjIgdcSWm6tTCacifdDg/is...
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| 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.
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| 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!
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