Amazon Q: Your new assistant and guide for building with AWS
summary
Amazon Q for building on AWS is a generative AI assistant that autogenerates and edits code inside VS Code and JetBrains IDEs, diagnoses Lambda and S3 errors, suggests DynamoDB pagination fixes, and creates unit tests (example uses moto). It is trained on 17 years of AWS docs and code, flags public code with source URL and license, and automates large migrations — 1,000+ apps upgraded from Java 8 to 17 in two days — with inline code generation in VS Code and JetBrains. Pro tier is $9/month with a free trial.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction to Amazon Q
- 1:07Amazon Q capabilities overview
- 13:25Code generation in IDE
- 19:28Demo: Developer workflow
- 39:07Getting started with Q
- 41:57Summary and next steps
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