- AWS has introduced a new application development tool called App Studio.
- The new offering features a generative AI assistant and simple language prompts to create enterprise-level applications.
- AWS says it can create an application that would take a developer days to do.
When we attended AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas at the end of last year, we got the chance to play around with a new platform called PartyRock. It leveraged generative AI in order to help AWS customers create applications for all kinds of things.
Now that company has introduced a similar offering for the enterprises in the form of App Studio, which is currently in preview.
Quite simply, App Studio features a generative AI assistant as its primary interface, and makes use of natural language prompts in order to help customers build enterprise-grade applications.
“A user simply describes the application they want, what they want it to do, and the data sources they want to integrate with, and in just minutes, App Studio builds an application that could have taken a professional developer days to build from scratch,” AWS explained in a press release.
The company has also been careful to point out that App Studio is not designed to put a company’s existing developers out of business, but is rather aimed at enterprises that have technical expertise, but not a dedicated developer in-house to assist them.
“App Studio is for technical folks who have technical expertise but are not professional developers, and we’re enabling them to build enterprise-grade apps,” Sriram Devanathan, GM of Amazon Q Apps and AWS App Studio, told TechCrunch in a statement.
Here the company is specifically looking at companies that are working with multiple data sources and perform complex operations, therefore making App Studio a platform designed for creating in-house apps built on embedded business logic.
“App Studio opens up application development to technical professionals without software development skills (such as IT project managers, data engineers, and enterprise architects), empowering them to quickly build internal applications that are secure and fully managed by AWS, eliminating the need for operational expertise. This allows users to focus on building applications that help solve business problems and increase productivity in their roles, while removing the heavy lifting of building and running applications,” it highlighted.
“App Studio’s generative AI-powered assistant eliminates the learning curve of typical low-code tools, accelerating the application creation process and simplifying common tasks like designing the user interface (UI), building workflows, and testing the application,” AWS added.
“AWS App Studio opens up application development to an entirely new set of builders, helping them create enterprise-grade applications in minutes. Designed to meet the needs of the largest enterprise customers and fastest growing startups, App Studio is a force multiplier for technical employees at any company,” noted Dilip Kumar, VP of Applications at AWS.
While it remains to be seen what the uptake for such an offering will be, we expect to see more of this kind of solution to feature at AWS re:Invent later this year, with generative AI set to once again be a key focus for the hyperscaler.
To find out more about AWS App Studio, head here.
