Amazon Q - Build on AWS like a Pro using Amazon's new AI coding assistant

Amazon released its new AI coding assistant - Trained on 17 years of AWS knowledge, it may be your ultimate AWS expert that can accelerate building on AWS cloud 🚀

AI coding assistants are becoming better and better and probably soon will be a required skill in an engineer's skillset. Check out the video to see whether Amazon Q can be THE AI coding assistant for working with AWS cloud.

I’m using Terraform project for provisioning AWS infrastructure to show some of the demo use cases and various features of Amazon Q.

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Some Amazon Q features I'll talk about:
► Application Understanding
► Code Creation
► Improving your code
► Debugging and Troubleshooting
► Feature Development

► Code Suggestions, Chat with Amazon Q in IDE
► Chat with Amazon Q in AWS Management Console

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▬▬▬▬▬▬ T I M E S T A M P S ⏰ ▬▬▬▬▬▬
00:00 - Intro and Overview
00:52 - What makes a great AI Coding Assistant?
03:03 - Amazon Q Capabilities - what tasks it can help us with
07:12 - See Amazon Q in Action
07:38 - Set up Amazon Q in VSC
09:43 - Chat with Amazon Q
14:03 - Inline Code Suggestions
16:48 - Ask how to improve our EKS cluster
18:56 - References to Sources
25:04 - Using Amazon Q in AWS Management Console

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[TechWorldwithNana]

What do you think about Amazon's new AI coding assistant? Will you use it? Happy to hear your opinion on it 😊

[ishimweisaac]

Coincidence to find your video on the same day I started using it. I started using this tool 8 hours prior to this video and it is amazing.

[mohieali]

Great video, well prepared, highly organized and focused . Thank you !!

[visceralcinema]

I'm Terraform Certified--big whoop--reason I mention is because you can just read the docs instead of blindly trusting an Ai.

Depending on your reading comprehension and technical aptitude, human brain power is still faster and more reliable. 🧠

[prudhviyashwanthreddykikku]

Dear Nana,

I recently discovered your videos and want to express my deep gratitude for sharing such valuable content. Your courses are incredibly enriching, yet I believe there's an opportunity to make them more accessible to Indian students like myself.

While the pricing may seem reasonable in US dollars, it translates to a substantial amount in Indian rupees, making it challenging for many students to afford. I kindly request that you consider adjusting the pricing to better suit the financial realities of Indian learners, perhaps by offering payment options in rupees or reducing the overall cost.

Furthermore, I believe initiatives like technology transfer or add the courses on udemy or collaborations with local partners could greatly benefit Indian students and help disseminate your knowledge to a broader audience at the grassroots level. Your expertise could make a significant impact in our educational landscape.

[ThoughtfulTechyCloud]

Game changer for developer experience!

[chatchaikomrangded]

It super fast!!! Thank for your great demo!

[jeevanreddy]

Woww.. Excellent ... Thanks Nana for delivering this content quickly.

[humeidussenejocordasse]

Amazing video, congrats for the amazing work

[alexbaily]

I used the premium version to try and convert GCP modules to AWS modules for terraform code and I found it was ok for scaffolding, but giving it existing code and asking it to try more complex features didn’t work at all e.g. If I wanted dynamic blocks, complex for_each or other things it was pretty useless.

I asked it to scan a module and to help but it just told me to turn it into a module (it already was) and completely removed some features from the module.

I asked it to turn one 10.0.0.0/16 block into 3 public subnets at /26 and 3 private into /24 but it just gave me all /26 subnets.

[OMNS]

I use it for my iac with my AWS scripts.

[iaroslavdavydiak]

I'd like to see the comparison with GH Copilot 🙂

[TheNeosw]

I will try it for my personnal projects, unfortunatly for work they are NDA and my client do not want us to use IA tools.

Thank you for giving an overview of the tools it will help me getting started faster.

[leonardox]

I'm discovering it, an I'm Amazed. Very good explanation BTW, Congrants!

[saiganeshroyal]

Thank you very much for this content it was really awesome..

[jasdhusjdhfj]

Hi, I didn't find any system requirements (can I manage with my MAC book alone?) Are there deadlines in the projects, are there homework assignments that are checked by you and on which you get feedback? Or is it pure self learning at your own pace ? Thank You for any feedback to this questions :)

[Steve-xixu]

Nice clear and practical intro, danke

[skenderaxe]

I’m a bit new to all this but isn’t Q sourcing Amazon non-independent? I don’t know much about coding so maybe it’s different than confirmation bias with citation

[seanshah]

Hey Nana, Tq for sharing your knowledge. Can you give some tips when to you use terraform vs cloudformation with Amazon Q. Isit better than chatgpt 40 latest release?

[MikeNugget]

Interesting, does it work with SST framework?