James Hood

Enabling tens of thousands of engineers to work more efficiently with AI is a daunting task, especially when security is essential. At Amazon we’ve enabled our engineers to use hundreds of MCP servers for everything from ticket/issue systems to design/architecture guidance documentation. Along the...

Amazon and AWS have evolved beyond AI-assisted development to embrace AI Native practices, integrating AI as a partner throughout the software development lifecycle. Learn how their teams leverage AWS foundational tools including Amazon Q Developer, Kiro, and Amazon Bedrock.

Learn how Amazon developers achieve real productivity gains using Amazon Q Developer, an AI-powered coding assistant. This code talk demonstrates proven techniques for accelerating development workflows using Prompt-Driven Development and Agent Scripts.

AWS provides services that enable the creation, deployment and maintenance of application infrastructure in a programmatic, descriptive, and declarative way. These services provide rigor, clarity, and reliability to application development.

AWS CloudFormation helps you manage your AWS infrastructure as code, increasing automation and supporting infrastructure-as-code best practices. In this chalk talk, dive deep into the topic of optimizing your experience with CloudFormation.

AWS provides services that help with the creation, deployment, and maintenance of application infrastructure in a programmatic, descriptive, and declarative way. These services help provide rigor, clarity, and reliability to application development.

In this chalk talk, we give an overview of AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) toolkit, an AWS CloudFormation extension and companion CLI tool for building, testing, and deploying serverless applications on AWS. We talk about why we created it, the decision and thinking behind open sourcing it, and the progress that has been made in the community since inception.