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Open-Sourcing Adaptive Workflows for AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC)
AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AI-DLC) holds the promise of unlocking the full potential of AI in software development. By emphasizing AI-led workflows and human-centric decision-making, AI-DLC can deliver velocity and quality. However, realizing these gains hinges on how organizations effectively integrate AI into their engineering workflows. Through our work with engineering teams across industries, we […]
Introducing AWS CloudFormation Stack Refactoring Console Experience: Reorganize Your Infrastructure Without Disruption
AWS CloudFormation models and provisions cloud infrastructure as code, letting you manage entire lifecycle operations through declarative templates. Stack Refactoring console experience, announced today, extends the AWS CLI experience launched earlier. Now, you move resources between stacks, rename logical IDs, and decompose monolithic templates into focused components without touching the underlying infrastructure using the CloudFormation […]
Take fine-grained control of your AWS CloudFormation StackSets Deployment with StackSet Dependencies
Introduction AWS CloudFormation StackSets enable you to deploy CloudFormation stacks across multiple AWS accounts and regions with a single operation, providing centralized management of infrastructure at scale through AWS Organizations integration. In enterprise environments, multiple StackSet often need to deploy in a specific order. For example, networking infrastructure must be ready before applications can deploy […]
How to Simplify Multi-Account Deployments Monitoring: Centralized Logs for AWS CloudFormation StackSets
Introduction As organizations adopt multi-account strategies for improved security features and governance, AWS CloudFormation StackSets enables organizations to deploy infrastructure across multiple accounts and regions. However, monitoring and tracking these distributed deployments across multiple accounts presents operational challenges. When a critical security baseline deployed across 50 accounts suddenly starts failing, teams face the daunting task of logging […]
Multi-Cloud Code Deployments using Amazon Q Developer with Echo3D
Overview Founded in 2018, echo3D built a revolutionary 3D digital asset management (DAM) platform to address the surging demand for immersive content across industries. The company’s platform enables enterprises to seamlessly store, secure, optimize, and share 3D content, serving over 200,000 professionals across energy, healthcare, gaming, retail, and beyond. echo3D’s platform has become the go-to […]
Mastering Amazon Q Developer with Rules
When I first started working with Amazon Q Developer, I was impressed by its capabilities, but I quickly found myself in a familiar pattern. Development teams using AI assistants face a common challenge: repeatedly explaining coding standards, workflow preferences, and established patterns in every conversation. This repetitive setup reduces productivity and creates inconsistent AI guidance […]
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 that 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 […]
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 […]
Mastering Amazon Q Developer Part 1: Crafting Effective Prompts
As organizations increasingly adopt AI-powered tools to enhance developer productivity, your ability to effectively communicate with these assistants becomes a valuable skill. This guide explores how you can craft prompts that deliver accurate, useful results when working with Amazon Q Developer. Your success with Amazon Q Developer depends directly on how well you communicate with […]









