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Amazon Q generative AI chatbot now generally available

Amazon Web Service (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant that leverages companies’ internal data.

Q generates code, tests, debugs, and has multi-step planning and reasoning capabilities, says Amazon. It also helps employees get answers to questions across business data by connecting to enterprise data repositories, summarizing data, analyzing trends, and engaging in dialog about the data.

There are two flavors of Q generally available says Amazon.

Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for software development. It can help developers and IT professionals with tasks such as coding, testing, upgrading applications, troubleshooting, performing security scanning and fixes, and optimizing AWS resources, says Amazon.

Amazon Q Business can use company data to answer questions, provide summaries, generate content, and complete tasks based on data and information in enterprise systems.

Q also brings its generative AI technology to Amazon QuickSight, AWS’s unified Business Intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud.

There is also Q Apps, a capability of Amazon Q Business, that lets employees build generative AI-powered apps from their company’s data, without any prior coding experience, according to Amazon.

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