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At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced new capabilities for Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI assistant for software development, that take the undifferentiated heavy-lifting out of complex and time-consuming application migration and modernization projects, saving customers and partners time and money.
“We are combining Amazon Q Developer with our nearly two decades of experience helping organizations migrate and modernize their legacy workloads on AWS to accelerate and simplify large-scale transformations,” said Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec, vice president of Technology, at AWS. “This is a game-changer for customers and partners looking to move off of Windows .NET, VMware, and mainframes. Now, Amazon Q significantly speeds up application transformation projects with agents that can autonomously complete some of the most labor-intensive tasks, such as analyzing, planning, code generation, and testing, saving customers time and money, and helping them realize the full value of the cloud.”
Many organizations have a large number of legacy applications that often require specialized expertise to operate and are expensive and time-consuming to maintain. While they want to move away from these legacy technologies, modernizing them can take months or years of tedious work. As a result, organizations stall or postpone these projects entirely, so they can prioritize building new applications and experiences. To make these kinds of projects easier, Amazon Q Developer provides transformation capabilities that use AI-powered agents to automate the heavy lifting involved in upgrading and modernizing, such as autonomously analyzing source code, generating new code, testing it, and executing the change once approved by the customer. Earlier this year, Amazon integrated the Java transformation capability of Amazon Q Developer into its internal systems to migrate tens of thousands of production applications from older versions of Java to Java 17. This effort saved more than 4,500 years of development work, compared to what it would have taken previously, and realized performance improvements of $260 million in annual cost savings. Now, AWS is extending this technology to support more large-scale legacy transformation projects.
To help customers and partners more efficiently collaborate on large-scale transformation projects, all three of these capabilities are available through a new Amazon Q Developer web application. Designed to specifically help customers perform hundreds of complex transformation projects at the same time, the new web experience gives teams a central place to review plans, refine them based on their organization’s specific needs, and track key project milestones throughout the process. The VMware and mainframe modernization capabilities are only available through this new experience, while developers can also perform Windows .NET transformations within their IDE.
All of these new Amazon Q capabilities are available in preview today.
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