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Leverage Amazon Q Developer and AWS Chatbot within Slack
The release of Amazon Q Developer and its ability to be integrated into AWS Chatbot allows users who use Microsoft Teams or Slack to stay within their communication platform and interact with a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) AWS expert. Amazon Q Developer is a conversational generative AI chatbot that provides AWS assistance in the form of […]
Introducing the next-level of AI-powered workflows with Amazon Q Developer inline chat
Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced support for inline chat. Inline chat combines the benefits of in-IDE chat with the ability to directly update code, allowing developers to describe issues or ideas directly in the code editor, and receive AI-generated responses that are seamlessly integrated into their codebase. In this post, I will introduce the […]
Introducing the new Amazon Q Developer experience in AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda recently announced a new code editor based on Code-OSS. Like the previous version, the new editor includes Amazon Q Developer. Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for software development that can help you build and debug Lambda functions more quickly. In this post, I provide an overview of Amazon Q Developer’s […]
Enhance release control with AWS CodePipeline stage-level conditions
It’s an established practice for development teams to build deployment pipelines, with services such as AWS CodePipeline, to increase the quality of application and infrastructure releases through reliable, repeatable and consistent automation. Automating the deployment process helps build quality into our products by introducing continuous integration to build and test code, however enterprises may sometimes […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How to use Amazon Q Developer to deploy a Serverless web application with AWS CDK
Did you know that Amazon Q Developer, a new type of Generative AI-powered (GenAI) assistant, can help developers and DevOps engineers accelerate Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)? IaC is a practice where infrastructure components such as servers, networks, and cloud resources are defined and managed using code. Instead […]
Amazon Q Developer just reached a $260 million dollar milestone
To help them be more productive, developers all over the world are turning to generative AI-powered assistants like Amazon Q Developer, the most capable assistant for accelerating software development. While Amazon Q Developer is great at providing code suggestions, writing new code is one of many things developers have to do on a day-to-day basis. […]








