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The True Cost of AI Software Development vs. Manual Coding

March 5, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Are you still spending months (and a fortune) on manual coding when AI software development can generate whatever you need in minutes?  If yes, think again. The fact that AI is a cost-effective strategy (especially in the long run) is not a catchy trick or…

Best practices for rapidly deploying Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

March 3, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) enables customers to deploy a flexible, configuration-driven solution to establish a landing zone while also leveraging AWS Control Tower. At AWS Professional Services, we’ve helped customers deploy and configure LZA hundreds of times. A common request we encounter is…

AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer

February 27, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Today, we’re excited to announce that AWS Chatbot has been renamed to Amazon Q Developer, representing an enhancement to developer productivity through generative AI-powered capabilities. This update represents more than a name change – it’s an enhancement of our chat-based DevOps capabilities. By combining AWS…

Announcing CDK Garbage Collection

February 21, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is an open source framework that enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using a familiar programming language. Additionally, CDK provides higher level abstractions (Constructs), which reduce the complexity required to define and integrate AWS services together when building on…

Streamline Development with New Amazon Q Developer Agents

February 19, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

As software development continues to evolve at a rapid pace, developers are constantly seeking tools that can streamline their workflow, improve code quality, and boost productivity. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has answered this call with the introduction of powerful new AI agents for Amazon Q…

Best SAP Alternatives 2025: Choose the Right ERP

February 19, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Forbes says, “The biggest reason ERP implementations fail is because companies don’t have a clear understanding of their business needs and how the software can meet them.”  For a long time, SAP has been a market leader for enterprise management. However, as technology evolves, many…

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review

February 18, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

AWS CloudFormation: 2024 Year in Review AWS CloudFormation enables you to model and provision your cloud application infrastructure as code-base templates. Whether you prefer writing templates directly in JSON or YAML, or using programming languages like Python, Java, and TypeScript with the AWS Cloud Development…

Deploying and Managing Application Configurations using AWS AppConfig

February 17, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

The management of configurations across multiple environments and tenants poses a significant challenge in modern software development. Organizations must balance maintaining distinct settings for various environments while accommodating the unique needs of different tenants in multi-tenant architectures. This complexity is compounded by requirements for consistency,…

Learning AWS best practices from Amazon Q in the Console

February 8, 2025 By Mark Otto Off

Operators, administrators, developers, and many other personas leveraging AWS come across multiple use cases and common issues such as lack of permissions, bugs in code in AWS Lambda, and more when leveraging the AWS console. To help alleviate this burden when using the console, AWS…