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In today's Cloud Wars Minute, we discuss how Amazon is leveraging generative AI to deliver significant cost and developer time savings.
Highlights
00:15 — Amazon is one of those companies that has created a very interesting future, one that has quietly but powerfully taken hold for just 25 years and is now taken for granted. Amazon recently provided the world with evidence that the whole GenAI phenomenon is real, that it is durable, and that it has demonstrable value.
01:03 — This is shocking news for GenAI, because Jassy says his company, Amazon, saved $260 million by using one of the GenAI assistants it developed, and Jassy says it took the equivalent of 4,500 developer years to migrate 30,000 applications to a new, modern platform in just a few months. That's really fast. It saved them a lot of tedious work.
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02:15 — I thought Jassy did a great job explaining how this GenAI assistant, called Q for Software Development, serves its purpose. Jassy called it a game changer, and judging by the results, I think he was right. He said that this Q assistant saves development teams time and money on the heavy lifting that no one wants to talk about: hard work.
03:19 — Jassy offered a different take. He said that in the past, these types of projects would take development teams months or even years to complete, wasting valuable opportunity cost and leading to developer attrition because they hated this tedious but important work.
03:55 — Talented software developers with modern skills are the most in-demand professionals in the world, so the demand for this field is high. But as Jassy tells us here, a lot of the work that still needs to be done is what he calls the “dirty work” — the kind of work that developers hate. So Q is going to free up those developers for more advanced jobs.