We believe generative artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform virtually every customer experience. To enable this, we are rapidly innovating to provide the most comprehensive feature set across the three layers of our generative AI stack. This includes a bottom layer with the infrastructure to train large language models (LLMs) and other foundational models (FMs) to generate inferences and predictions, and tools to easily and quickly build generative AI applications. middle tier, and innovative applications. All of these layers are important to the advancement of generative AI, but today we're excited to share more details about investing in the top-level application layer.
With the help of generative AI, everyone from developers and business analysts to specialized employees such as customer service and supply chain operations can be more productive, creative, and data-driven than ever before. can. But for generative AI apps and assistants to be truly useful at work, they need to understand your organization's data, customers, operations, and business. Many of today's assistants are not easily customizable and were not designed to meet the data privacy and security requirements that businesses require.
That's why we invented Amazon Q, the most capable AI-powered generative assistant for accelerating software development and leveraging business data. We're excited to share that Amazon Q for Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q Business, and QuickSight is available starting today with several new features. Watch this video from Dr. Matt Wood for an overview of today's announcements and demos.
Amazon Q is the most capable work assistant available today, and was built from the beginning with security and privacy in mind. If your employees don't normally have access to the data source, they also won't be able to access it through Q.
Today we have a lot of great features and experiences for you. I would like to introduce just a few of them.
Amazon Q Developer – Assistant throughout the software development lifecycle
Amazon Q Developer helps developers and IT professionals do everything from coding, testing, and upgrading to troubleshooting, running security scans and remediation, optimizing AWS resources, and creating data engineering pipelines. Assist with tasks. Customers are already seeing the value of Amazon Q Developer. Digital transformation services company Eviden sees productivity increases of 20-40%. Switchboard MD, a healthcare company, reduced the time to introduce new product features by 25%. Datapel Systems, a warehouse management and inventory stocking solutions company, has achieved significant efficiency gains of at least 70%.
Amazon Q Developer helps developers build faster and more securely by generating code suggestions and recommendations in near real-time. In fact, Amazon Q Developer reportedly has the highest code acceptance rate in the industry for its assistants that perform multi-line code suggestions, with BT Group recently reporting that it accepted 37% of Q's code suggestions, and the National Australia Bank reports an acceptance rate of 50%. Previously, some of these coding assistant features were provided by Amazon CodeWhisperer, which is now part of Amazon Q Developer.
The Amazon Q Developer Agent feature can autonomously perform a variety of tasks, from implementing features, documenting code, and refactoring to performing software upgrades. You can ask Amazon Q Developers to add new checkout functionality to your e-commerce app. It analyzes your existing codebase, plans an implementation plan that spans multiple files, and, once approved, performs all necessary code changes and tests. Minutes. See this feature in action. Implement APIs using the Amazon Q Developer Agent for software development. The software development agents that performed these tasks achieved the highest scores of 13.4% on SWE-Bench Leaderboard (Lite) and 20.5% on SWE-bench Leaderboard (Lite), a dataset that benchmarks coding capabilities. These updates will be available to customers within the next few days.
Q can also automate app upgrades, reducing tasks from days to minutes. Recently, a five-person Amazon team used the Amazon Q Code Transformation agent to upgrade over 1,000 production applications from Java 8 to Java 17 in just two days (average time per application was less than 10 minutes). , saved months of time and realized improvements. Application performance. Amazon Q is currently undergoing a Java language upgrade, with a cross-platform .NET upgrade coming soon to accelerate migration to Linux and save customers millions of dollars in license fees. Check the operation of the code conversion agent. Upgrade your Java app using Amazon Q Developer Agent for code conversion.
Starting today, you can ask Q Developer questions about your AWS account (preview), such as “What instances are currently running in us-east-1?” or “What is S3 bucket encryption?” or “What were my EC2 costs by region last month?” Amazon Q Developer provides resources and details summarized with links to learn more. It will be listed as an answer.
For more information about Amazon Q Developer, please visit the AWS News Blog.
Amazon Q Business helps employees become more creative, data-driven, efficient, prepared, and productive.
Our vision for Amazon Q Business is to enable any business to harness the power of generative AI to gain insights, take actions, and build applications from all their data (unstructured and structured). That's it.
Most companies have large amounts of valuable data that is difficult to access and analyze. Amazon Q Business allows employees to connect to enterprise data repositories to logically summarize data, analyze trends, and understand business topics such as corporate policies, product information, business results, code bases, human resources, and many other topics. Get answers to questions across your data. Join the conversation about your data. To make this possible, Amazon Q Business includes more managed and secure data connectors to connect to your enterprise data than any other generative AI assistant. This includes commonly used business tools such as wikis, intranets, Atlassian, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). You can also build custom plugins that allow Amazon Q Business to perform actions directly, such as sending a vacation request. Need to summarize your latest sales figures? Looking for competitive intelligence about your prospects? Amazon Q Business's advanced language capabilities quickly integrate relevant information from scattered documents, databases, and chat logs, and Generate consistent responses.
One of the most exciting announcements today is the capabilities of Amazon Q Business. Amazon Q app. Amazon Q Apps makes it much easier to streamline and automate daily tasks by empowering any employee to build AI-powered generated apps from conversations in seconds. Creating applications with Amazon Q Apps is easy. Employees can describe the type of app they want in natural language, or they can tell Amazon Q Apps to run it from a conversation where Amazon Q helped them solve a problem. For example, a marketer can ask her Q Apps to create an app that generates compelling customer stories by simply entering the customer's name, product used, business challenge, and business impact. . In seconds, Q creates apps that you can share with other marketers across your organization. For more examples, see Introducing the Amazon Q App (Preview).
I recently sat down with Praerit Garg, President of Product & Innovation at Smartsheet, to discuss how Amazon Q Business helps employees get answers faster, ultimately increasing productivity and hiring new employees. We talked about how we help people hire employees faster.
For more information about Amazon Q Business, please visit the AWS News Blog and the AWS Machine Learning Blog.
Generative BI allows analysts to build detailed dashboards in minutes, and business users can quickly gain insights.
Historically, businesses have stored large amounts of valuable structured data in databases and data warehouses, but this data is typically only accessible through business intelligence (BI) tools. When business owners needed to extract information from data, they had to rely on overburdened business analysts to build dashboards, which often took days or weeks. . Even when dashboards were created, it was difficult to extract and share important insights from these dashboards. Now, Amazon Q has brought its advanced generative AI technology to Amazon QuickSight, his AWS integrated BI service built for the cloud. With QuickSight's Amazon Q, customers have a generative BI assistant that allows business analysts to use natural language to reduce the time they spend building BI dashboards from hours to minutes. It also helps everyone in your organization become more data-driven by making data more accessible. It allows business users to get an executive summary of AI-powered dashboards, ask and get instant answers to data questions beyond what's visible on the dashboard, and discover key insights, trends, and drivers. The only BI product that lets you create detailed, customizable data stories that highlight your drivers. . All you have to do is say what you want in natural language.
As a leading provider of sales enablement solutions, Showpad can give customers the ability to query data without the need for complex user interfaces or SQL to know. The integration took just over a week and allowed Showpad to customize the experience to blend seamlessly into their own. Clinigence Health, a healthcare information technology company, also leverages QuickSight's Amazon Q to identify insights and trends in its data in minutes, a process that previously took hours.
To learn more about Amazon Q for QuickSight, visit the AWS Business Intelligence blog.
New pricing including Amazon Q Developer free tier
In addition to these new features, we're also announcing new price tiers that make Amazon Q even easier to use. Amazon Q offers a free tier for developers. It not only offers individuals free coding in his IDE and command line, but also free use of the most advanced features, such as the Amazon Q developer agent, with limitations. For customers who want organized license management, the ability to customize Amazon Q Developer to their codebase for more relevant coding suggestions, and increased limits on advanced features, the Amazon Q Developer Pro tier costs $19 per user per month. Offered in dollars. The Amazon Q Business Pro subscription, which costs $20 per user per month, gives users access to the full functionality of Amazon Q Business, including access to Amazon Q for Amazon Q Apps and QuickSight (Reader Pro). Finally, you can access free trials of Amazon Q Developer Pro and Amazon Q Business Pro until June 30, 2024.
We are excited to offer these new features across Amazon Q Developer, Amazon Q Business, and Amazon Q in QuickSight. We're just getting started on helping our customers improve productivity, leverage organizational data, and create new ways of working.
To learn more about this announcement, check out the following resources:
About the author
Swami Sivasubramanian I'm the Vice President of Data and Machine Learning at AWS. In this role, Swami will oversee all his AWS database, analytics, AI and machine learning services. His team's mission is to help organizations leverage and leverage complete end-to-end data solutions to store, access, analyze, visualize, and predict data.
