How to Q

Welcome to your comprehensive guide for Amazon Q. This is your one-stop hub for How and Why to use Amazon Q.

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Basics

Let’s start with the basics. What is Amazon Q? It’s a generative AI (GenAI) assistant with specialized capabilities for software developers, business intelligence analysts, contact center employees, supply chain analysts, and really anyone building with AWS. It can help you to get insights on your data and accelerate your tasks, be that developing software or analyzing data. You can also benefit from Amazon Q’s advanced capabilities to build agentic workflows.

There are two products available currently under the Q brand:

  • Amazon Q Developer: Is the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for building, operating, and transforming software, with advanced capabilities for managing data and AI/ML. You want to use it if your main tasks revolve around coding, testing, deploying, troubleshooting, performing security fixes, modernizing applications (migrate or rewrite legacy apps), optimizing AWS resources, and creating data engineering pipelines.
  • Amazon Q Business: Makes GenAI securely accessible to everyone in your organization. Leveraging your own company’s content, data, and systems, Amazon Q Business makes it easier to get you fast, relevant answers to pressing questions, solve problems, generate content, and take actions on your behalf.

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