Amazon Q Developer and Business are now generally available!

Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced Amazon Q, a productive AI-powered assistant to optimize software development and business processes. Amazon Q is available in two different editions for both developers and enterprise users: Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business.

Amazon Q Developer and Amazon Q Business are now generally available!

Amazon Q Developer: Designed for software developers, this version was developed to speed up the coding process and increase efficiency. It helps developers write faster and more secure code by providing real-time code suggestions.

It can also automatically perform tasks such as detecting and fixing errors, upgrading applications to new versions, scanning and fixing security vulnerabilities. In addition, it makes the job of IT professionals easier by providing guidance on optimizing AWS resources.

Amazon Q Business: Designed for enterprise users, this version is an AI assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, create content, and complete tasks based on company data.

Amazon Q Business, which can be connected to many data sources such as wikis, intranets, e-mail systems, CRM platforms, allows users to access the information they need quickly and easily. In addition, this assistant, which was developed with security and privacy in mind, can work integrated with user identities, roles and access permissions while protecting sensitive information.

One of the most notable features of Amazon Q Business is a new app creation tool called Amazon Q Apps. Thanks to this tool, employees can create productive artificial intelligence applications based on company data without needing any coding experience. For example, the HR department can create personalized orientation plans for new employees, or the sales team can create customized reports based on customer data.

The advanced and special productive artificial intelligence features offered by Amazon Q are mainly as follows:

• The most accurate coding suggestions:
  • Amazon Q helps developers work faster and more securely by generating code suggestions and recommendations in near real-time. Customers like Blackberry, BT Group, and Toyota use Q to increase developer productivity and accelerate innovation within their organizations.
  • Amazon Q Developer has the industry’s highest code acceptance rates for assistants performing multi-line code suggestions; BT Group Q reports accepting 37 per cent of code suggestions, while National Australia Bank reports accepting 50 per cent. Q also has a powerful customization capability that safely leverages the client’s internal code base to provide more relevant and useful code recommendations.
  • Thanks to this capability, Q specializes in your code and offers more relevant suggestions to save even more time. Q keeps customizations completely private and the underlying base model (FM) does not use them for training, thus protecting customers’ valuable intellectual property.
• Amazon Q Developer Agents:
  • Q has a unique capability called agents that can autonomously perform a range of tasks, from implementing features, documenting, and refactoring code to performing software upgrades. Developers can ask Amazon Q to implement an app feature (for example, ask it to create a “favorite” feature in a social networking app), and the tool analyzes existing app code to create a step-by-step implementation plan.
  • Developers can work with the agent to review and iterate the plan, link multiple steps together, and apply updates to source files, code blocks, and test suites before implementing the tool. Performing these tasks, Q scored 13.4 percent on the SWE-Bench Leaderboard, a dataset that benchmarks coding abilities, and 20.5 percent on the SWE-Bench Leaderboard (Lite), the highest scores among software development assistants available today. did.

• Best-in-class vulnerability scanning and remediation:
  • Q scans code for hard-to-detect vulnerabilities such as compromised credentials and log file injection. It automatically suggests fixes tailored to application code with a single click, allowing developers to quickly accept fixes with confidence.
  • Q’s security scanning capabilities help developers significantly improve the security and code quality of their applications by outperforming leading, publicly available comparable tools at threat detection in most popular programming languages.
• Q, an AWS expert, also specializes in optimizing your AWS environment:
  • Amazon Q Developer, an expert on AWS, helps IT professionals optimize cloud environments as well as detect and resolve errors and network issues, select instances, optimize structured query language (SQL) queries, extract, transform, and load pipelines, and learn about application architecture. It also performs duties such as providing guidance.
  • To further help customers optimize their cloud environments, Amazon Q Developer introduces a new feature that helps customers list their AWS account resources and configurations, analyzes billing information and trends, making it easier for them to manage their accounts.
  • For example, IT professionals might ask, “Which instances are currently running on US East 1?” or “What is my S3 bucket encryption?” or “What were my EC2 costs by region last month?” Amazon Q Developer lists resources and details in a concise answer with links to learn more.
• Q brings together more data sources than any other productive AI assistant:
  • Amazon Q Business easily and securely connects to more than 40 commonly used business tools, including wikis, intranets, Atlassian, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
  • That’s more than any other productive AI assistant available today is connected. Simply point Q to your enterprise data repositories, and then Q searches through all your data, logically summarizes it, analyzes trends, and engages in dialogue with end users about the data. This helps enterprise users access all their data wherever they are in their organization.
• Built from scratch with security and privacy in mind:
  • Amazon Q Business maintains the highest level of security while seamlessly integrating with customer’s existing identities, roles, and access permissions to personalize interactions for each user. It generates accurate answers based on corporate knowledge and offers customers the ability to restrict sensitive topics, block certain keywords, and filter inappropriate content.
  • Q also never uses customer content to train underlying models for others. Amazon Q Business outperforms all other assistants’ published results on accuracy, fidelity, and helpfulness for general Q&A (using the MultiHop-RAG dataset), as well as for industries such as finance (using the FiQA dataset example) and technology (using the LoTTE dataset example). performs better.
• Creative productive business intelligence allows analysts to create detailed dashboards in minutes and enterprise users to quickly gain insights:
  • Amazon Q brings advanced generative AI technology to Amazon QuickSight, AWS’s unified Business Intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud. With Amazon Q on QuickSight, customers get a Productive BI assistant that allows business analysts to create BI dashboards in minutes using natural language and easily perform visualizations and complex calculations.
  • It is also the only business intelligence product where enterprise users can get AI-powered executive summaries of dashboards, ask questions about the data in addition to what is presented in the dashboards, and create detailed and customizable data stories that highlight key insights, trends, and drivers.
  • For example, when users want to “create a story about how the business has changed in the last month for a business review with executives,” Amazon Q can generate a result in seconds with insights and supporting visuals, including specific ideas on how to improve the business. Users can organize Q-generated content into an easy-to-share document or presentation, replace text, images, and themes as desired, and use Amazon Q to rewrite or enhance text.
• First-of-its-kind feature that helps any worker create productive AI-powered applications in seconds:
  • AWS is announcing the new Amazon Q Apps feature, which is still in preview. Amazon Q Apps allows employees to easily and quickly create productive AI-powered applications based on company data, without requiring any prior coding experience.
  • With Q Apps, employees simply describe the app they want in natural language or copy an existing conversation where Amazon Q Business helps them solve a problem, then with a single click, Q instantly creates an app that performs the task they want and can be easily shared across the organization.