AWS re:Post Private features
Service description
AWS re:Post Private makes it easier for you to build an organization-specific knowledge resource for your cloud community. With re:Post Private, you can centralize AWS technical content and create private discussion forums to improve how your teams collaborate internally—and with AWS—to solve technical questions, accelerate innovation, and help your teams scale more efficiently in the cloud.
Page topics
General
Open allAccess and authorization
Creating private knowledge on AWS technologies
Search
As you type text in the search box, re:Post Private displays matching content including questions and answers, articles, and selections. If any of the search results have an accepted answer, re:Post Private shows a label as “accepted answer” within the search result. You can also set your preferences to search public AWS re:Post content. To view public re:Post content, you will have to navigate out of re:Post Private. You can start a private discussion regarding publicly available re:Post content from re:Post Private, which is visible only to the users within re:Post Private.
If a question has multiple answers, re:Post Private shows the accepted answer at the top. You can sort answers based on most votes, newest, or most comments. You can see how many upvotes an answer has, who has provided the response, and which of the re:Post Private Experts have reviewed it. All re:Post Private Experts have a label that shows against their profile to indicate they are experts. Similarly, re:Post Private displays if a user is an AWS employee.
Collaboration
Roles and labels
AWS re:Post Private defines the following user roles:
- re:Post Private Console Administrator: A user who has administrative permissions in re:Post Private to create and delete re:Post Private. The Console Administrator can also add and remove re:Post Private Administrators and users or promote a user to a re:Post Private Administrator.
- re:Post Private Administrator: A user who has administrative permissions for a specific instance within re:Post Private. The re:Post Private Administrators can customize instance settings and user permissions within re:Post Private. And re:Post Private Administrators can also add or delete custom tags within their instance. The re:Post Private Administrator can configure keyboards or phrases that are not allowed on re:Post Private. The content will be blocked and not published if a user includes any of the configured blocked keywords or phrases.
- User: A user who can view all the content and collaborate with others in re:Post Private.
- Experts: Users who are subject matter experts and marked as experts by a re:Post Private Administrator. The Experts role is also unlocked when a user reaches 1,000 reputation points on re:Post Private. Users with the Experts role have permissions to publish articles and create selections.
- Support Requester: Users who can convert discussion threads into an AWS Support case.
- Moderators: Moderators review content that is flagged by other users and have the ability to edit or remove content.
Any user who is part of re:Post Private can answer a question, but the question asker accepts the correct answers to their question or marks the questions as “needs review” for other users in re:Post Private to provide a correct answer. Expert-reviewed answers are marked “Expert reviewed” and answers provided by AWS employees are marked “AWS employee.”