Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that the company's AI assistant, Amazon Q, has significantly reduced software upgrade times, saving thousands of work hours. It reduced the average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 from 50 developer days to just a few hours. This has saved Amazon the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work and also reduced infrastructure costs, with estimated annual savings of $260 million.
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy announced that the company's AI assistant, Amazon Q, has significantly reduced software upgrade times, saving thousands of work hours. It reduced the average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 from 50 developer days to just a few hours. This has saved Amazon the equivalent of 4,500 developer-years of work and also reduced infrastructure costs, with estimated annual savings of $260 million.