Important points
- Amazon announced Tuesday that its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant Amazon Q is generally available to AWS enterprise customers.
- The service could help the e-commerce giant better compete with big tech companies amid the AI boom.
- Amazon Q Business allows business customers to customize an AI-powered assistant to suit their needs, and Amazon Q Developer provides coding-specific features.
- Microsoft and Alphabet's Google also offer AI assistants and coding tools for developers to enterprise customers.
Amazon (AMZN) announced Tuesday that Amazon Q, its artificial intelligence (AI) assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available in the U.S. for AWS enterprise customers. AI boom.
Amazon Q Business for AWS Enterprise Customers
Generative AI (genAI) tools for enterprise customers, first announced at the AWS re:Invent conference in November 2023, “answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and perform tasks based on data and information. It can be completed safely.” [the customer’s] Enterprise systems. ”
“With Amazon Q Business, you can deploy secure, private, generative AI assistants that make your organization's users more creative, data-driven, efficient, prepared, and productive. ” the company said in a release.
Enterprise AI Assistant has a variety of features that businesses can customize to fit their organization's workflows and goals. Amazon says it can connect to more than 40 enterprise data sources, including Microsoft 365 and Salesforce, and can be used to create chatbots built on company-specific data to answer employee questions.
Amazon Q Business is available through two subscription options. Amazon Q Business Lite “gives users access to the basic features of Amazon Q Business” and is priced at $3 per user per month, while the Amazon Business Pro option gives users access to all features for $3 per user per month. We offer it for $20 per person per month.
Amazon Q developers offer coding-specific help
Alongside Amazon Q Business, the company announced the general availability of Amazon Q Developer, a coding-focused AI assistant.
“Q helps developers and IT professionals with all their tasks, from coding, testing, and upgrading applications to troubleshooting, performing security scans and remediation, and optimizing AWS resources,” says Amazon. says in the release.
AWS offers a free tier of Amazon Q Developer. It “offers individuals free coding in the IDE and command line, as well as limited free access to cutting-edge features such as Amazon Q Developer Agents” and is part of the Amazon Q Developer Pro tier. We also offer More advanced features and higher limits cost $19 per user per month.
Microsoft and Google already offer similar AI assistant subscriptions
Amazon Q Business could help Amazon compete, as Microsoft (MSFT) and Alphabet's Google (GOOGL) have already introduced enterprise AI assistants.
Microsoft offers Copilot, which can be integrated into Office 365 products, and Google offers Gemini, which can connect to the Google Workspace app. Both companies also offer coding-specific tools for developers.
Meta recently announced its own AI assistant called Meta AI, but the tools integrated into its platform are designed for individual consumers rather than businesses.
Amazon announced the availability of its enterprise AI assistant on Tuesday morning ahead of the e-commerce giant's expected post-market earnings report.
Amazon shares were down 0.6% at $179.83 as of 3:15pm ET on Tuesday, but are up more than 18% year-to-date.
