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Continue to take control over your code with Amazon Q Developer’s new context features
In this blog post, I explore Amazon Q Developer’s latest enhancements to the IDE chat experience including increased context control, chat history and other conversation management features. On March 11th, 2025, my colleague published Take control of your code with Amazon Q Developer’s new context features detailing several improvements to the chat experience within VS […]
How to enhance your application resiliency using Amazon Q Developer
“Everything fails, all the time” – Werner Vogels, Amazon.com CTO In today’s digital landscape, designing applications with resilience in mind is crucial. Resiliency is the ability of applications to handle failures gracefully, adapt to changing conditions, and recover swiftly from disruptions. By integrating resilience into your application architecture, you can minimize downtime, mitigate the impact […]
Accelerate development workflows to reduce release cycles using the Amazon Q Developer integration for GitHub (Preview)
Automatically execute coding tasks to reduce development cycles using Amazon Q Developer in GitHub (in-preview), available for free, no AWS account required. Amazon Q Developer accelerates feature development within GitHub.com and GitHub Enterprise Cloud. Leverage the premium models that power Q Developer at no additional cost, to automatically implement new features, generate bug fixes, increase […]
Intelligent coding at your fingertips: Introducing an agentic coding experience in your IDE
Back in March, I wrote about the new agentic coding experience within the Amazon Q Developer CLI. Recently, Amazon Q Developer announced that it has added a similar experience to the integrated development environement (IDE). Agentic coding in the IDE allows you to work with Amazon Q Developer to read and write files locally, run […]
April 2025: A month of innovation for Amazon Q Developer
As April 2025 comes to a close, I’m amazed by the innovations that Amazon Q Developer has launched in the past few weeks. Generative AI is evolving fast, enabling developer experiences that were just not possible a few months ago. Each new launch helps make Q Developer the most capable generative AI–powered assistant for software […]
Migrating a CDK v1 Application to CDK v2 with Amazon Q Developer
Introduction: AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source software development framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code and provisioning it through AWS CloudFormation. As of June 1, 2023, AWS CDK version 1 is no longer supported. To avoid the potential issues that come with using an outdated version and to take advantage of […]
Extend the Amazon Q Developer CLI with Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Richer Context
Earlier today, Amazon Q Developer announced Model Context Protocol (MCP) support in the command line interface (CLI). Developers can connect external data sources to Amazon Q Developer CLI with MCP support for more context-aware responses. By integrating MCP tools and prompts into Q Developer CLI, you get access to an expansive list of pre-built integrations […]
Combining Snyk’s Insight with Amazon Q Developer’s Assistance to Streamline Secure Development
Developers today face a constant balancing act – building new features and functionality while also ensuring the security and reliability of their codebase. Two powerful tools, Snyk and Amazon Q Developer, can work in tandem to help developers navigate this challenge with greater efficiency and efficacy. Snyk is a leading developer security platform that empowers […]
Amazon introduces SWE-PolyBench, a multilingual benchmark for AI Coding Agents
Coding agents powered by large language models have shown impressive capabilities in software engineering tasks, but evaluating their performance across diverse programming languages and real-world scenarios remains challenging. This led to a recent explosion in benchmark creation to assess the coding effectiveness of said systems in controlled environments. In particular, SWE-Bench which measures the performance […]
Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q
Announcing General Availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. This new offering is an integrated product, bringing together GitLab’s DevSecOps platform with Amazon Q’s generative AI capabilities. Gitlab Duo with Amazon Q embeds Amazon Q agent capabilities directly in GitLab’s DevSecOps […]