Called AWS App Studio, the tool enables financial institutions, fintech companies, and virtually any organization to build applications in just minutes that would take a professional developer days to build from scratch.
Announced at AWS Summit New York this week, App Studio is aimed at technical professionals without software development skills, such as IT project managers, data engineers and enterprise architects, who can quickly launch in-house apps with the knowledge that they're being managed by AWS.
The lack of development resources to build custom applications is a well-known fact, and is the primary reason users turn to low-code tools. However, as AWS explains, these tools have a steep learning curve, require platform-specific knowledge, and often don't meet security requirements, forcing users to hand over management of their apps to development teams.
The company explained that users need to describe the application they want, what they want the application to do, and what data sources they want to integrate. Furthermore, if any changes need to be made, users can access a point-and-click interface and receive guidance from a generative AI-powered assistant.
AWS App Studio enables anyone with some technical experience to build enterprise-grade applications previously only built by professional developers. By generating an outline and understanding user intent, you can build apps with multi-page UIs, data models, and business logic without ever thinking about the underlying code.
Dilip Kumar, vice president, Applications, AWS, said, “AWS App Studio opens the door to application development to a whole new set of developers, empowering them to create enterprise-grade applications in minutes. Designed to meet the needs of the largest enterprise customers and fast-growing startups, App Studio can help augment the technical workforce of any company. Now, users with some technical experience can simply describe the application they want to create, using natural language, and App Studio takes care of the development process, delivering an application that employees can start using right away. It's now easier than ever for technical professionals to build custom applications tailored to the unique needs of their business, bringing a new world of productivity to companies of all sizes.”