Recently, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy revealed that by leveraging Amazon Q, the company was able to save 4,500 developers-years of work. “Yes, the number is crazy, but real,” he posted on X.
With Amazon Q, the company has significantly cut down the time needed to update Java applications. “The average time to upgrade an application to Java 17 plummeted from what’s typically 50 developer days to just a few hours,” he said.
He added that in under six months, the company has been able to upgrade more than 50% of its production Java systems to modernised Java versions at a fraction of the usual time and effort. “Our developers shipped 79% of the auto-generated code reviews without any additional…
