Amazon Q Developer can now generate documentation within your source code

Starting today, Amazon Q Developer can document your code by automatically generating readme files and data-flow diagrams within your projects.

Today, developers report they spend an average of just one hour per day coding. They spend most of their time on tedious, undifferentiated tasks such as learning codebases, writing and reviewing documentation, testing, managing deployments, troubleshooting issues or finding and fixing vulnerabilities. Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant for designing, building, testing, deploying, and maintaining software. Its agents for software development have a deep understanding of your entire code repos, so they can accelerate many tasks beyond coding. With this new capability, Q Developer can help you understand your existing code bases faster, or quickly document new features, so you can focus on shipping features for your customers.

This capability is available in the integrated development environment (IDE) through a new chat command: /doc . You can get started generating documentation within the Visual Studio Code and IntelliJ IDEA IDEs with an Amazon Q Developer Free Tier or Pro Tier subscription. For more details on pricing, see Amazon Q Developer pricing.

This capability is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon Q Developer is available. To get started with generating documentation, visit Amazon Q Developer or read the news blog.