Amazon Q generative AI-powered assistant now generally available

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging business data.

Amazon Q generates code, tests, debugs, and has multi-step planning and reasoning capabilities that can transform and implement new code generated from developer requests.

The Amazon Q Developer service assists developers and IT professionals with all of their tasks including coding, testing, and upgrading applications, troubleshooting, performing security scanning and fixes, and optimizing AWS resources.

Amazon Q Business answers questions, provides summaries, generates content, and securely completes tasks based on data and information in your enterprise systems. The service 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).

Further, AWS has introduced Amazon Q Apps (in preview), a new capability of Amazon Q Business that helps employees build generative AI apps from their company’s data. Employees simply describe the type of app they want, in natural language, and Q Apps will quickly generate an app that accomplishes their desired task, helping them streamline and automate their daily work with ease and efficiency

"Amazon Q is the most capable generative AI-powered assistant available today with industry-leading accuracy, advanced agents capabilities, and best-in-class security that helps developers become more productive and helps business users to accelerate decision making. Since we announced the service at re:Invent, we have been amazed at the productivity gains developers and business users have seen. Early indications signal Amazon Q could help our customers’ employees become more than 80% more productive at their jobs; and with the new features we're planning on introducing in the future, we think this will only continue to grow," said Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian, vice president of Artificial Intelligence and Data at AWS.