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Category: Amazon Q
How to identify inactive users of Amazon Q Developer
Generative AI is leading to many new features and capabilities. As a result, your employees may not know about all the new tools you are deploying. I was recently working with a customer that had deployed Amazon Q Developer for all their software developers. However, many developers didn’t know they had access to the productivity […]
Accelerate application upgrades with Amazon Q Developer agent for code transformation
In this blog, we will explore how Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation accelerates Java application upgrades. We will examine the benefits of this Generative AI-powered agent and outline strategies to achieve maximal acceleration, drawing from real-world success stories and best practices. Benefits of using Amazon Q Developer to upgrade your applications Amazon Q […]
Exploring Telemetry Events in Amazon Q Developer
As organizations increasingly adopt Amazon Q Developer, understanding how developers use it is essential. Diving into specific telemetry events and user-level data clarifies how users interact with Amazon Q Developer, offering insights into feature usage and developer behaviors. This granular view, accessible through logs, is vital for identifying trends, optimizing performance, and enhancing the overall […]
Accenture Expedites Infrastructure Deployment with Amazon Q Developer
By Priya Mallya, Managing Director – Accenture, Sandeep Singh Bhatia, Sr Manager – Accenture Vikas Purohit – Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS Being able to internally setup and manage flexible, efficient infrastructure can be painful. Manually authoring your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates is error prone and time consuming. However, adoption of generative […]
Reinventing the Amazon Q Developer agent for software development
Amazon Q Developer is the most capable AI-powered assistant for software development that reimagines the experience across the entire software development lifecycle, making it easier and faster to build, secure, manage, and optimize applications on AWS. Using your natural language input and your project context, Amazon Q Developer’s agent for software development autonomously implements multi-file […]
Amazon Q Developer Code Challenge
Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. You can ask questions about AWS architecture, your AWS resources, best practices, documentation, support, and more. With Amazon Q Developer in your IDE, you can write a comment in natural language that […]
Best Practices for working with Pull Requests in Amazon CodeCatalyst
According to the Well-Architected DevOps Guidance, “A peer review process for code changes is a strategy for ensuring code quality and shared responsibility. To support separation of duties in a DevOps environment, every change should be reviewed and approved by at least one other person before merging.” Development teams often implement the peer review process […]
Accessing Amazon Q Developer using Microsoft Entra ID and VS Code to accelerate development
Overview In this blog post, I’ll explain how to use a Microsoft Entra ID and Visual Studio Code editor to access Amazon Q developer service and speed up your development. Additionally, I’ll explain how to minimize the time spent on repetitive tasks and quickly integrate users from external identity sources so they can immediately use […]
How A/B Testing and Multi-Model Hosting Accelerate Generative AI Feature Development in Amazon Q
Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of Generative AI, the ability to deploy and iterate on features quickly and reliably is paramount. We, the Amazon Q Developer service team, relied on several offline and online testing methods, such as evaluating models on datasets, to gauge improvements. Once positive results are observed, features were rolled out […]
Code Clarity: Enhancing Code Understanding and Efficiency with Amazon Q Developer
“All code will become legacy”. This saying, widely recognized amongst software developers, highlights the reality of their day-to-day activities. While writing new code is an integral part of a developer’s role, a significant portion of their time is dedicated to refactoring and maintaining existing codebases. Developers typically encounter numerous challenges when attempting to understand and […]