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AWS’s Well-Architected Framework Transformed by Amazon Q Developer

In the rapidly evolving landscape of cloud computing, developers, and architects face unprecedented challenges. These challenges include designing, implementing, and maintaining robust cloud infrastructures. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is the gold standard for building secure, efficient, and optimized cloud solutions. Traditionally, complying with this framework required deep expertise and manual analysis. Now, Amazon Q Developer […]

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 To avoid the potential issues that come with using an outdated version and to take advantage of […]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 […]

Accelerate large-scale modernization of .NET, mainframe, and VMware workloads using Amazon Q Developer

Software runs the world – not just the new software applications built in modern languages and deployed on the most optimized cloud infrastructure, but also legacy software built over years and barely understood by the teams that inherit them. These legacy applications may have snowballed into monolithic blocks or may be fragmented across siloed on-premises […]

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Simplifying Code Documentation with Amazon Q Developer

In the fast-paced world of software development, maintaining comprehensive documentation often falls to the bottom of priority lists in favor of delivering functionality. Amazon Q Developer’s /doc agent changes this equation by automating README generation and updates. With this tool, the variable of time spent producing documentation is reduced to the point that it’s no longer […]