Amazon CEO Andy Jassy posted on his Collab page yesterday that will Amazon's generative AI Development Assistant“Amazon Q"Integrated into the on-premises system, and utilizing the new code-switching capabilities, Amazon Q upgraded the average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 fromDeveloper's 50 days or so reduced to a few hoursThe estimated savings areAbout 4500 developers in a year.
- One of the most tedious (yet critical) tasks for software development teams is updating the underlying software. It's not the work of new features, and it doesn't feel like you're driving the experience forward.Amazon Q, our GenAI software development assistant, is trying to bring some light to these burdensome tasks.
Last November 29, Amazon unveiled a new chatbot called Amazon Q at the company's annual AWS Reinvent conference, which is designed to help businesses and employees better utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Amazon Q is a new generative AI-assisted service that helps employees quickly leverage the company's data and expertise to get answers to questions, solve problems, generate content, and more, which can be customized to fit an enterprise customer's business.
Among other things, Amazon Q code conversion canAnalyze existing code, recommend changes, and implement changes. It updates package dependencies, modifies obsolete and inefficient code, and integrates security practices.