Category: Amazon Q

We are excited to announce the general availability of the cost analysis capability in Amazon Q Developer. This powerful feature integrates Q Developer’s natural language processing capabilities with AWS Cost Explorer, revolutionizing how you analyze and understand your AWS costs. Initially launched in preview on April 30, 2024, the Amazon Q cost analysis capability now offers enhanced […]

This post is co-written with Dr. Geoff Ryder, Manager, at SmugMug. Introduction SmugMug operates two very large online photo platforms: SmugMug and Flickr. These platforms enable more than 100 million customers to safely store, search, share, and sell tens of billions of photos every day. However, the data science and engineering team at SmugMug and […]

Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation is an AI-powered tool which modernizes code bases from Java 8 and Java 11 to Java 17. Integrated into VS Code and IntelliJ, Amazon Q simplifies the migration process and reduce the time and effort compared to manual process. It proposes and verifies code changes, using AI to […]

It’s that time of the year again. The annual AWS re:Invent conference is just around the corner. Still need to save your spot? You can register here. This year’s DevOps and Developer Productivity (DOP) track features an impressive lineup, including 11 breakout sessions, 14 chalk talks, 2 code talks, 8 workshops, 3 builder sessions, and […]

Recently, Amazon Q Developer announced expanded support for account resource awareness with Amazon Q in the AWS Management Console  and the AWS Mobile Application. This is coupled with the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in AWS Chatbot, enabling you to ask questions from Microsoft Teams or Slack. Additionally, Amazon Q will now provide context-aware assistance for […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the launch and general availability of Amazon Q Developer plugins for Datadog and Wiz in the AWS Management Console. When chatting with Amazon Q in the console, customers can access a subset of information from Datadog and Wiz services using natural language. Ask questions like @datadog do I have […]

Introduction Software development is complex and time consuming. Developers frequently need to stop building to get answers to hard, technical questions. What is the error in my code? How do I debug the logic? Where do I go to find this information? In 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey 53% of respondents agreed that waiting on […]

The release of Amazon Q Developer and its ability to be integrated into AWS Chatbot allows users who use Microsoft Teams or Slack to stay within their communication platform and interact with a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) AWS expert. Amazon Q Developer is a conversational generative AI chatbot that provides AWS assistance in the form of […]

Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for inline chat. Inline chat combines the benefits of in-IDE chat with the ability to directly update code, allowing developers to describe issues or ideas directly in the code editor, and receive AI-generated responses that are seamlessly integrated into their codebase. In this post, I will introduce the […]

AWS Lambda recently announced a new code editor based on Code-OSS. Like the previous version, the new editor includes Amazon Q Developer. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for software development that can help you build and debug Lambda functions more quickly. In this post, I provide an overview of Amazon Q Developer’s […]