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Overcome development disarray with Amazon Q Developer CLI custom agents
As a developer who has embraced the power of the Model Context Protocol (MCP)to enhance my workflows, I’m thrilled to see the addition of custom agents in the Amazon Q Developer CLI. This new feature takes the capabilities I’ve come to rely on to a whole new level, allowing me to seamlessly manage different development […]
AI-Driven Development Life Cycle: Reimagining Software Engineering
Business and technology leaders are constantly striving to improve productivity, increase velocity, foster experimentation, reduce time-to-market (TTM), and enhance the developer experience. These North Star goals drive innovation in software development practices. This innovation is increasingly being powered by artificial intelligence. Particularly, generative AI powered tools such as Amazon Q Developer and Kiro have already […]
Troubleshooting Elastic Beanstalk Environments with Amazon Q Developer CLI
Introduction Developers working with AWS find AWS Elastic Beanstalk to be an invaluable service which makes it straightforward to deploy and run web applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. You simply upload your application code, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles the details of capacity provisioning, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring, which allows you to […]
Streamline DevOps troubleshooting: Integrate CloudWatch investigations with Slack
Infrastructure alerts pose a challenge for DevOps teams, particularly when they occur outside of regular business hours. The complexity isn’t merely in receiving notifications, it lies in rapidly assessing their severity and determining the root cause. This challenge is compounded when upstream service disruptions cascade into multiple downstream alerts, creating a confusion of notifications that […]
GitOps continuous delivery with ArgoCD and EKS using natural language
Introduction ArgoCD is a leading GitOps tool that empowers teams to manage Kubernetes deployments declaratively, using Git as the single source of truth. Its robust feature set, including automated sync, rollback support, drift detection, advanced deployment strategies, RBAC integration, and multi-cluster support, makes it a go-to solution for Kubernetes application delivery. However, as organizations scale, […]
Managing Amazon Q Developer Profiles and Customizations in Large Organizations
As organizations scale their development efforts, AI coding assistants that understand organization-specific patterns and standards lead to more efficient development processes and higher quality software delivery. Amazon Q Developer Pro helps address this challenge by allowing organizations to customize the AI assistant with their proprietary code and development practices. Through Amazon Q Developer profiles, teams […]
Streamline Operational Troubleshooting with Amazon Q Developer CLI
Amazon Q Developer is the most capable generative AI–powered assistant for software development, helping developers perform complex workflows. Amazon Q Developer command-line interface (CLI) combines conversational AI with direct access to AWS services, helping you understand, build, and operate applications more effectively. The Amazon Q Developer CLI executes commands, analyzes outputs, and provides contextual recommendations […]
Accelerate development with secure access to Amazon Q Developer using PingIdentity
Overview Customers adopting Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI-powered coding companion, often need authentication through existing identity providers like PingIdentity. By leveraging AWS IAM Identity Center, organizations can enable their developers to access Amazon Q Developer with their existing PingIdentity credentials, streamlining authentication and removing the need for separate login procedures. Amazon Q Developer can […]
Use Model Context Protocol with Amazon Q Developer for context-aware IDE workflows
Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in their Integrated Development Environment (IDE) plugins for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains. This allows developers to connect external tools or MCP servers to Q Developer, enabling more context-aware responses and complex workflows. MCP support has already been available in Amazon Q Developer for […]
Amazon Q Developer Java Upgrades: A Deep Dive into the New Selective Transformation Feature
In the ever-evolving landscape of Java development, keeping applications up-to-date while minimizing risk has become increasingly challenging. Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities now support customization of Java upgrades in Java upgrade transformation CLI (command line interface) with a new selective transformation feature. Selective transformation empowers development teams with greater control over their modernization journey. Instead […]