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Introducing an Interactive Code Review Experience with Amazon Q Developer in GitHub

Code reviews are one of the most valuable rituals in software development. They help ensure quality, maintain consistency, and foster growth as engineers. But they’re also one of the most time consuming steps in the software development lifecycle. A common pattern I’ve seen is a developer opening a pull request (PR), receiving automated or peer […]

Measuring Developer Productivity with Amazon Q Developer and Jellyfish

Modern software development teams face increasing pressure to deliver high-quality code faster, while managing growing system complexity. Developers often spend significant time on necessary, but undifferentiated work, or “toil”. Toil is often manual, repetitive, and of limited enduring value, making it a strong candidate for automation or delegation to generative AI tools. The re:Invent 2024 […]

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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 […]

Announcing the new AWS CDK EKS v2 L2 Constructs

Announcing the new AWS CDK EKS v2 L2 Constructs

Introduction Today, we’re announcing the release of aws-eks-v2 construct, a new alpha version of AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) L2 construct for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). This construct represents a significant change in how developers can define and manage their EKS environments using infrastructure as code. While maintaining the powerful capabilities of its predecessor […]

Use Model Context Protocol with Amazon Q Developer for context-aware IDE workflows

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 […]

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Access Claude Sonnet 4 in Amazon Q Developer CLI

Amazon Q Developer now supports Claude Sonnet 4 within the CLI, bringing advanced coding and reasoning capabilities to your development workflows at no additional cost. This latest model excels in coding with a state-of-the-art 72.7% for agentic coding on the SWE-bench (see Claude 4 announcement for more information). With enhanced coding and reasoning capabilities, it […]