What is Amazon Q Developer in chat applications?

Ask Amazon Q – You can get Amazon Q Developer, Generative Artifical Intelligence (AI) assistant powered answers to your AWS questions directly in your chat channels. For more information about see Chatting with Amazon Q Developer in chat channels.

Supports Amazon Chime, Microsoft Teams, and Slack – You can add Amazon Q Developer to your Amazon Chime chat rooms, Microsoft Teams channels, or Slack channels in just a few clicks.

Predefined AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policy templates – Amazon Q Developer provides chat room-specific permission controls through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). The available predefined templates make it easy to select and set up the permissions you want associated with a given channel or chat room.

Receive notifications – Use Amazon Q Developer to receive notifications about operational incidents and other events from supported sources, such as operational alarms, security alerts, or budget deviations. To set up notifications in the Amazon Q Developer console, choose the channels or chat rooms you want to receive notifications and then choose which Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics should trigger notifications.

Customize notifications – You can define and receive customized AWS service and application notifications directly in your chat channels. Custom notifications can be as succint or comprehensive you desire and use the same Amazon SNS-based mechanisms as default notifications.

Create custom actions – Custom actions transform your notifications into actionable items. A custom action appears as a button on your notifications. This button represents a Lambda function or CLI command that you define. You can use custom actions to retrieve telemetry information, run Lambda functions, run an automation runbook, and notify team members. When an issue arises, you can easily take action directly from your notifications.

Monitor and manage AWS resources through the AWS CLI with Microsoft Teams and Slack – Amazon Q Developer supports CLI commands for most AWS services, making it easy to monitor and manage your AWS resources from your chat clients on desktop and mobile devices. Your teams can retrieve diagnostic information in real-time, change your AWS resources, run AWS SSM runbooks, and start long running jobs from a centralized location. Amazon Q Developer commands use the standard AWS Command Line Interface syntax.

Supports developer tools – You can manage your Amazon Q Developer resources using developer tools such as AWS software development kits (SDKs), the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK), AWS CloudFormation, and AWS Cloud Control API. You can also use third party infrastructure as code (IaaC) providers such as Terraform.

An AWS account to associate with Amazon Chime, Microsoft Teams, or Slack chat clients during Amazon Q Developer setup.

Administrative privileges for your Amazon Chime chat room, Microsoft Teams tenant, or Slack workspace. You can be the Slack workspace owner or have the ability to work with workspace owners to get approval for installing Amazon Q Developer.

Familiarity with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and IAM roles and policies. For more information about IAM, see What is IAM? in the IAM User Guide.

Experience with the AWS services supported by Amazon Q Developer, including experience configuring those services to subscribe to Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics to send notifications. For information about supported services, see Using Amazon Q Developer with Other AWS Services.