AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer

AWS Chatbot is now called Amazon Q Developer. The new name recognizes the integration of Amazon Q Developer, the most capable generative AI-powered assistant for software development, in Microsoft Teams and Slack to manage and optimize AWS resources. With Amazon Q Developer, customers can monitor, operate, and troubleshoot AWS resources in chat channels faster. Customers can quickly retrieve telemetry and ask questions to understand the state of their resources. Customers can leverage the existing non-generative AI features to operationalize Dev Ops and incident response processes with customizable notifications, action buttons, and command aliases.

With this launch, the Microsoft Teams and Slack chat application names will change from AWS Chatbot to Amazon Q Developer. The notifications and responses received will display Amazon Q as the application name instead of AWS. Running tasks will now use “@Amazon Q” mention instead of “@aws”. Slack automation workflows that trigger AWS Chatbot messages within chat channels will continue to work after this renaming. For existing AWS Chatbot customers, there is no other change to how features work, setup, usage, and pricing. The service APIs, SDK, service endpoints, IAM permissions, and region availability are not affected by this change.

Customers need to allow permissions to enable generative AI features. Amazon Q Developer generative AI features are available in chat applications at no additional cost.

Amazon Q Developer is available in chat applications at no additional cost in AWS Regions where this capability is offered. Get started with using Amazon Q Developer in your chat applications with the free tier by visiting the Amazon Q Developer console. Visit the documentation & blog to learn more.