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Supercharge your software

development with Amazon Q
Developer
Joe Cudby
Principal Specialist,
NGDE Amazon Web
Services

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Agenda

Existing friction points in the software development

lifecycle

Amazon Q Developer: The most capable generative AI–

powered assistant for software development

Demo: Day in the life of a developer using Amazon Q

Developer

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 < One hour of coding
time The median developer spends less than one hour a day
writing code1

73 % of time is
spent on
of time is spent
on innovation

27 % running and
maintaining
applications
1
and
transformation

Software.com, “Global Code Time Report,” January

2022
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Where are developers spending time in
the SDLC ?
Plan
• Find accurate and specific technical
guidance
from relevant docs, code examples,
resources Plan
• Design changes based on
business and technical
requirements
Create
• Generate code
• Manage infrastructure Maintain Create
modernize
and
Test and secure
• Apply proper test cases for
code changes
• Scan for security
vulnerabilities in code
Operate
• Identify and mitigate code
issues Operate Test
• Monitor performance
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and
efficiency
Organizations want to enable
employees with generative AI
A C C O R D I N G T O G A R
T N E R , I N C .

Generative AI– PRO DUCTIVITY

supported work tends IM PRO VES
RE THAN
M O

to be more efficient
and of higher quality
than work produced by O N AVERA
unsupported human GE

workers
Gartner, Four GenAI Use Cases for the Digital Workplace, October 10,
2023

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 Lack of
context

Challenges Security
with using
existing
generative AI Data
assistants at
work privacy

Complianc
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AWS offers a full generative AI stack of tools
and services
APPLICATIONS THAT USE LLMs AND OTHER FMs
Amazon Amazon Q Amazon Q Amazon
Qusines
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in
s QuickSight Connect

TOOLS TO BUILD WITH LLMs AND OTHER FMs

Amazon Bedrock

Guardrails Agents Customization capabilities

INFRASTRUCTURE FOR FM TRAINING AND INFERENCE

GPUs AWS AWS Amazon Trainium

Inferentia SageMaker

Amazon EC2 Elastic Fabric Amazon EC2 AWS

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Neuron
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assistant from AWS
M O S TC A P A B L E
S S E V E R A L
G E N E R A T I V E A I
A R E A S O F
A S S I S T A N C E A C R O S
W O RK

Provide
Get the most Build better and Enhance visibility
improved
value from more secure across your
customer
your data software supply chain
service in
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Amazon Q: A generative AI–powered
assistant from AWS
A M A Z O N
N E F I T S
Q B E

Unites your data

Delivers
sources, Available where you
industry-leading
repositories, and work
assistance
enterprise systems
Amazon Q Developer uses a model that
Available in the AWS Management
scores highest on SWE-benchmarks and
Console, IDE, and AWS documentation;
Can be connected to your systems to has security scanning capabilities that
through Slack, Microsoft Teams for
have tailored conversations, solve outperform all publicly benchmarkable
developers, and web interface and Slack
problems, and take relevant actions tools; Amazon Q Business also
for employees; and in Amazon
outperforms other assistants on
QuickSight, Amazon Connect, and AWS
correctness, truthfulness, and helpfulness
Supply Chain
for general Q&A
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Build better and more secure software
A M A Z O N Q D E V
E L O P E R

Amazon Q Developer assists

developers and IT professionals with
coding, testing, and upgrading
applications; diagnosing errors;
performing security scanning and fixes;
and optimizing AWS resources. Amazon
Q has advanced, multistep planning
and reasoning capabilities that can
transform and implement new features
generated from developer requests and
help build reliable, secure applications
faster
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 Amazon Q use cases across the
organization F O R D E V E L O P E R S A N D
P R O F E S S I O N A L S
I T

Guidance on Debug, Accelerate Transform

AWS test, feature your
capabilities optimize development applications
Ask Amazon Q Askcode
Amazon Q Ask Amazon Q Amazon Q Developer
Developer about new Developer for help in Developer to can analyze the entire
capabilities and the IDE – implement a new source code of an
services, and get with troubleshooting, feature; it will look application, generate
guidance and creating unit tests, through the project code in the target
descriptions along with suggesting code code and generate a language and version,
relevant links to optimizations, and step-by- step and execute tests
materials more implementation plan
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Amazon Q is available where you do
your work

AWS IDE AWS

consoles s documentation

AWS Console Slack and Teams Amazon

Mobile (through AWS CodeCatal
Application Chatbot) yst

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Explore and plan

Ask questions
and get
guidance from
17 years of
AWS
knowledge, best
practices, well-
architected
advice

Create a
business- expert
application
using your data,
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Creat
e
Generate code

Explain code

Help

understand
your code
base

Customizabl
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e to your
Customize code recommendations

Generate code based

on your private
repositories

Use Amazon Q
Developer chat in the
IDE to ask questions
about your internal
code base

Help understand
your internal code
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base
Advanced capability: Amazon Q
Developer Agent for software
development
Amazon Q Developer
Agent for software
development can help
you write and
implement entire
application features in
minutes right from a
simple natural
language prompt in
your IDE, with
interactive
step-by-step
instructions, code,
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reserved.
best practices
Test and secure

Generate unit
tests

Scan entire
project for
security
vulnerabilities

Generate
remediations
to improve
security and
code quality
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Opera
te
Diagnose
and
troubleshoo
t errors in
the console

Analyze
network
connectivit
y and VPC
reachabilit
y

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Amazon Q Developer knows your AWS account resources
and billing

List, describe,
and get
guidance based
on resources in
your AWS
account

Retrieve and
analyze cost
data from AWS
Cost Explorer
(preview)

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Maintain and modernize: Amazon Q
Developer agent for code
transformation
M O D E R N I Z E L A N G U A G E V E R S I O N SI N A F R A C T I O N O F T H E T I M
E
Buil Appl Buil
Sourc Gen
Upgrad
and
d knowledg
y and
d
e test e test AI ed
code (Java base (Java fixes code
8) 17) errors

databa
se
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 Amazon Q
Developer
agent for
code
transformatio
Automates the
n
complete process of
upgrading and
transforming code

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 Amazon Q
Developer
Agent for code
transformation

Java Day Minutes

applications s each, on
average

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Summary of core use cases
Retire tech debt at scale
Modernize projects and upgrade language version and
dependencies with Amazon Q Developer Agent for code
transformation

Drive developer productivity

Get inline coding recommendations, summarize and document
code,
scan for security issues, diagnose and troubleshoot bugs, and write
unit tests

Improve security and code quality

Ship more secure code with less effort with code
scanning and automated code remediation
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Amazon Q also accelerates time to
insights Amazon Q generative Amazon Q data
SQL in Amazon integration in
Redshift AWS Glue
> Increase user productivity: Empowers you
to integrate and query data using natural
language without deep knowledge in coding,
AWS data services, or your organization’s
database metadata

> Generative AI in every place: Assists

you everywhere you work with AWS: in the
console, studio, notebooks, and SQL
Editor

> Reduce time to insights: Answers your

questions on data and AWS services,
troubleshoots issues, and proposes
solutions

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Demo: Partner extensions

• Extend Amazon Q Developer to more places

developers work
• Bringing your preferred tools to Amazon Q Developer
• Reduce context switching and stay in flow
• Wiz, Datadog, GitLab

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How does Datadog
work with Amazon Q
Developer?

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Demo: Modernize a neglected Java
application
Scenario
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk is retiring Java 8 on
September 30
• The original developer left the company years ago
• I am a developer but have no Java experience
• There is a feature backlog for this application

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How do I get started
with Java on AWS?

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What services
does my
organization
allow?

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First, let’s upgrade to
Java 17

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Next, let’s improve test
coverage

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Then, add some
documentation

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Oh no! Troubleshooting
Lambda

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Finally, we can add new
features

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Wow, let’s have
Amazon Q
Developer add more

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P.S. Assess the
impact

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