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Take control of your code with Amazon Q Developer’s new context features
In this blog post, I dive into the powerful new features of Amazon Q Developer that empower developers to take full control of their development workflow. These features, currently available in Visual Studio Code, allow you to leverage workspace context, explicit context, prompt libraries, and project rules to streamline your software projects, maintain coding standards, […]
A lightning fast, new agentic coding experience within the Amazon Q Developer CLI
Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced an enhanced CLI agent within the Amazon Q command line interface (CLI). With this announcement, Q Developer brings the latest agentic experience to the CLI that provide a more dynamic, interactive coding experience that works with you, and iteratively makes changes based on your feedback. Amazon Q Developer can […]
Best practices for rapidly deploying Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS
Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) enables customers to deploy a flexible, configuration-driven solution to establish a landing zone while also leveraging AWS Control Tower. At AWS Professional Services, we’ve helped customers deploy and configure LZA hundreds of times. A common request we encounter is integrating LZA configuration into customers’ existing GitOps workflows. GitOps has […]
Announcing CDK Garbage Collection
The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open source framework that enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using a familiar programming language. Additionally, CDK provides higher level abstractions (Constructs), which reduce the complexity required to define and integrate AWS services together when building on AWS. CDK also provides core functionality like CDK Assets, which […]
AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review
AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directly in JSON or YAML, or using programming languages like Python, Java, and TypeScript with the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK), CloudFormation and CDK provide the flexibility you need. […]
Streamline Development with New Amazon Q Developer Agents
As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace, developers are constantly seeking tools that can streamline their workflow, improve code quality, and boost productivity. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has answered this call with the introduction of powerful new AI agents for Amazon Q Developer. AI-powered agents transform the way developers approach documentation, unit […]
Learning AWS best practices from Amazon Q in the Console
Operators, administrators, developers, and many other personas leveraging AWS come across multiple use cases and common issues such as lack of permissions, bugs in code in AWS Lambda, and more when leveraging the AWS console. To help alleviate this burden when using the console, AWS released Amazon Q to assist with users accessing the console […]
Enhancing Code Generation with Real-Time Execution in Amazon Q Developer
The Amazon Q Developer agent has evolved from a code generation tool to a comprehensive development assistant that can now build and test code in real-time within a secure sandbox environment.
The most visited DevOps and Developer Productivity blog posts in 2024
Read our top ten 2024 posts: effortlessly migrate to AWS CDK; import applications into CloudFormation; Terraform deployments; streamline AWS DevOps; gain insights on CloudFormation optimizations, GitHub Action runners at scale, and AI-powered coding workflows.
How SmugMug Increased Data Modeling Productivity with Amazon Q Developer
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 […]









