Amazon Q Developer, now usually accessible, contains previews of latest capabilities to reimagine developer expertise

When Amazon Internet Providers (AWS) launched Amazon Q Developer as a preview final 12 months, it modified my expertise of interacting with AWS providers and, on the similar time, maximizing the potential of AWS providers every day. Skilled on 17 years of AWS data and expertise, this generative synthetic intelligence (generative AI)–powered assistant helps me construct purposes on AWS, analysis greatest practices, carry out troubleshooting, and resolve errors.

In the present day, we’re saying the overall availability of Amazon Q Developer. With this announcement, we’re sharing some updates and previewing further capabilities. Let’s get began.

Amazon Q Developer has data of your AWS account assets (preview)
This new functionality, launching in preview, helps you perceive and handle your cloud infrastructure on AWS. With this functionality, you’ll be able to record and describe your AWS assets utilizing pure language prompts, minimizing friction in navigating the AWS Administration Console and compiling all info from documentation pages.

To get began, you’ll be able to navigate to the AWS Administration Console and choose the Amazon Q Developer icon.

With this functionality, I can ask Amazon Q Developer to record all of my AWS assets. For instance, if I ask Amazon Q Developer, “Listing all of my Lambda capabilities,” Amazon Q Developer returns the response with a set of my AWS Lambda capabilities as requested, in addition to deep hyperlinks so I can navigate to every useful resource simply.

Immediate so that you can strive: Listing all of my Lambda capabilities.

I may record my assets residing in different AWS Areas with out having to navigate by the AWS Administration Console.

Immediate so that you can strive: Listing my Lambda capabilities within the Singapore Area.

Not solely that, this functionality may generate AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) instructions so I could make modifications instantly. Right here, I ask Amazon Q Developer to vary the timeout configuration for my Lambda perform.

Immediate so that you can strive: Change the timeout for Lambda perform <NAME of AWS LAMBDA FUNCTION> within the Singapore Area to 10 seconds.

I can see Amazon Q Developer generated an AWS CLI command for me to carry out the motion. Subsequent, I can copy and paste the command into my terminal to carry out the change.

$> aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name <AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME> --region ap-southeast-1 --timeout 10
{
    "FunctionName": "<AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME>",
    "FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:ap-southeast-1:<ACCOUNT_ID>:perform:<AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME>",
    "Runtime": "python3.8",
    "Function": "arn:aws:iam::<ACCOUNT_ID>:function/service-role/-role-1o58f7qb",
    "Handler": "lambda_function.lambda_handler",
    "CodeSize": 399,
    "Description": "",
    "Timeout": 10,
...
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What I actually like about this functionality is that it minimizes the effort and time wanted to get my account info within the AWS Administration Console and generate AWS CLI instructions so I can instantly implement any modifications that I want. This helps me give attention to my workflow to handle my AWS assets.

Amazon Q Developer can now enable you to perceive your prices (preview)
To totally maximize the worth of cloud spend, I must have an intensive understanding of my cloud prices. With this functionality, I can get solutions to AWS cost-related questions utilizing pure language. This functionality works by retrieving and analyzing price information from AWS Price Explorer.

Within the following instance, I can ask Amazon Q Developer the highest three highest-cost providers in Q1 this 12 months.

Immediate so that you can strive: What have been the highest three highest-cost providers in Q1?

From the Amazon Q response, I can validate and additional examine this end result by choosing the Visualize this information in AWS Price Explorer, which is able to carry me to the AWS Price Explorer dashboard. Then, I can observe up with this immediate:

Immediate so that you can strive: Listing providers in my account which elevated essentially the most from February to March.

Briefly, this functionality makes it simpler for me to develop a deep understanding and get priceless insights into my cloud spending.

Amazon Q extension for IDEs
As a part of the replace, we additionally launched an Amazon Q built-in improvement atmosphere (IDE) extension for Visible Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs. Now, you will note two extensions within the IDE marketplaces: (1) Amazon Q and (2) AWS Toolkit.

If you happen to’re a brand new person, after putting in the Amazon Q extension, you will note a sign-in web page within the IDE with two choices: utilizing AWS Builder ID or single sign-on. You may proceed to make use of Amazon Q usually.

For present customers, you will want to replace the AWS Toolkit extension in your IDEs. When you’ve completed the replace, when you have present Amazon Q and Amazon CodeWhisperer connections, even when they’re expired, the brand new Amazon Q extension might be mechanically put in for you.

If you happen to’re utilizing Visible Studio 2022, you should utilize Amazon Q Developer as a part of the AWS Toolkit for Visible Studio 2022 extension.

Free entry for superior capabilities in IDE
As you may know, you should utilize AWS Builder ID to start out utilizing Amazon Q Developer in your most well-liked IDEs. Now, with this announcement, you have got free entry to 2 present superior capabilities of Amazon Q Developer in IDE, Amazon Q Developer Agent for software program improvement and Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation. I’m actually enthusiastic about this replace!

With the Amazon Q Developer Agent for software program improvement, Amazon Q Developer may also help you develop code options for tasks in your IDE. To get began, you enter /dev within the Amazon Q Developer chat panel. My colleague Séb shared with me the next screenshot when he was utilizing this functionality for his assist case undertaking. He used the next immediate to generate an implementation plan for creating a brand new API in AWS Lambda:

Immediate so that you can strive: Add an API to record all assist circumstances. Expose this API as a brand new Lambda perform

Amazon Q Developer then gives an preliminary plan and you may carry on iterating this plan till you’re positive principally every thing is roofed. Then, you’ll be able to settle for the plan and choose Insert code.

The opposite functionality you’ll be able to entry utilizing AWS Builder ID is Developer Agent for code transformation. This functionality will enable you to in upgrading your Java purposes in IntelliJ or Visible Studio Code. Danilo described this functionality final 12 months, and you may see his thorough journey in Improve your Java purposes with Amazon Q Code Transformation (preview).

Enhancements in Amazon Q Developer Agent for Code Transformation
The brand new transformation plan gives particulars particular to my purposes to assist me perceive the general improve course of. To get began, I enter /rework within the Amazon Q Developer chat and supply the required particulars for Amazon Q to start out upgrading my java undertaking.

In step one, Amazon Q identifies and gives particulars on the Java Improvement Package (JDK) model, dependencies, and associated code that must be up to date. The dependencies upgrades now embody upgrading common frameworks to their newest main variations. For instance, for those who’re constructing with Spring Boot, it now will get upgraded to model 3 as a part of the Java 17 improve.

On this step, if Amazon Q identifies any deprecated code that Java language specs suggest changing, it should make these updates mechanically through the improve. This can be a new enhancement to Amazon Q capabilities and is offered now.

Within the third step, this functionality will construct and run unit assessments on the upgraded code, together with fixing any points to make sure the code compilation course of will run easily after the improve.

With this functionality, you’ll be able to improve Java 8 and 11 purposes which might be constructed utilizing Apache Maven to Java model 17. To get began with the Amazon Q Developer Agent for code transformation functionality, you’ll be able to learn and observe the steps at Improve language variations with Amazon Q Code Transformation. We even have pattern code so that you can do this functionality.

Issues to know

• Availability — To be taught extra concerning the availability of Amazon Q Developer capabilities, please go to Amazon Q Developer FAQs web page.
• Pricing — Amazon Q Developer now provides two pricing tiers – Free (free), and Professional, at $19/month/person.
• Free self-paced course on AWS Ability Builder — Amazon Q Introduction is a 15-minute course that gives a high-level overview of Amazon Q, a generative AI–powered assistant, and the use circumstances and advantages of utilizing it. This course is a part of Amazon’s AI Prepared initiative to offer free AI abilities coaching to 2 million individuals globally by 2025.

Go to our Amazon Q Developer Heart to seek out deep-dive technical content material and to find how one can pace up your software program improvement work.

Joyful constructing,
— Donnie

April 30, 2024 replace: This publish has been corrected to notice that Amazon Q data of your account assets is offered solely in preview.