New capabilities from Amazon Q Business enable ISVs to enhance generative AI experiences

Since its launch, companies have been using Amazon Q Business to improve their employees’ productivity with a generative AI–powered assistant that helps them make better decisions based on company data and information. Employees also use various software applications provided by independent software vendors (ISVs) to complete their tasks. Many ISVs are creating their own generative AI features intended to make their users more productive, but ISVs are often limited to data within their own application, resulting in end users still shifting between applications to complete tasks. Today, we’re excited to announce new Amazon Q Business capabilities for ISVs. ISVs can now integrate with the Amazon Q index to retrieve data from multiple sources through a single API and customize the…

New Amazon Q Developer agent capabilities include generating documentation, code reviews, and unit tests

Last year at AWS re:Invent, we previewed Amazon Q Developer, a generative AI–powered assistant for designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software across integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Eclipse (preview), JupyterLab, Amazon EMR Studio, or AWS Glue Studio. You can also use Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console, AWS Console Mobile Application, Amazon CodeCatalyst, AWS Support, AWS website, or through Slack and Microsoft Teams with AWS Chatbot. Due to the rapid pace of innovation, we announced the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in April and added more capabilities, such as supporting AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), Amazon SageMaker Studio, AWS CloudShell, as well as inline chat for seamless…

Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET (preview)

.NET Framework, introduced in 2002, runs only on Windows and although it’s still supported, it’s no longer in active development. However, cross-platform .NET, launched in 2016, is open source, runs on Linux, and is lightweight and higher performing. It receives regular updates, with new features and performance improvements every year. By porting your .NET applications from .NET Framework to cross-platform .NET, you can migrate from Windows to Linux. As a result, you can not only take advantage of the latest innovations in the .NET platform, you can also reduce your Microsoft licensing spend. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we have been helping you port and modernize your .NET applications from Windows to Linux with tools such as Porting Assistant for…

Announcing Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads (preview)

Today, we’re announcing the public preview of new Amazon Q Developer transformation capabilities for .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads Amazon Q Developer accelerates large-scale transformation of enterprise workloads with domain-expert generative AI agents supervised by modernization teams in a unified collaborative web experience. Using the transformation capabilities of Amazon Q Developer, modernization teams can deliver large and complex projects, accelerating .NET porting, mainframe modernization, and VMware migration, while enhancing application security, resilience, performance, and scalability. In this post, I give you a quick tour of the Amazon Q Developer transformation web experience. Getting started with Amazon Q Developer transformation web experience My organization’s Amazon Q Developer administrator previously provided me access to the web experience. The prerequisites are that I…