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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I discuss how Amazon is leveraging generative AI to save significant costs and developer time.
Highlights
00:15 — Amazon has been one of the companies that created a very interesting future, one that we take for granted now, only 25 years after it took hold in a quiet but very powerful way. Amazon recently supplied the world with some evidence that the whole GenAI phenomenon is real. It has legs, and it has demonstrable value.
01:03 — This is a GenAI shocker because Jassy said his own company, Amazon, is using one of the GenAI assistants that the company created to save $260 million and what Jassy said was the equivalent of 4,500 developer years to migrate 30,000 applications onto a new, modern platform in just a matter of what he called a few months—so incredibly fast. It took a lot of the grunt work out.
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02:15 — I thought Jassy did a great job of describing how this GenAI assistant, called Q for software development, is delivering on that. Jassy called it a game-changer, and I think he’s right based on these results. He said that this Q assistant saves development teams time and money on the muck that nobody likes to talk about, and that is the hard, grueling work.
03:19 — Jassy offered another thought. He said that in the past, these sorts of projects took development teams many months and even years to complete, burning valuable opportunity costs and churning developers who hate this tedious, though important, work.
03:55 — Talented software developers with modern skills are among the most in-demand sets of professionals in the world. So, there’s huge demand for this. Yet a lot of the work that still has to be done, as the stories that Jassy told here involve, is what he called the muck, or the sort of work that developers hate. So, with Q coming in, those developers can go on to do higher-level work.
