Supercharge Your AWS Cost Efficiency with Generative AI-Powered Tools
Use Amazon Q Developer to build custom data analysis tools
Steph Gooch
Amazon Employee
Published May 27, 2025
In this weekly "Keys to AWS Optimization" live stream episode, Steph Gooch (Senior Optimization Solutions Architect Advocate) and John Masci (Principal Optimization Solutions Architect) demonstrate how to leverage the power of Amazon CodeWhisperer (now Amazon Q Developer) to build custom data analysis tools and automate repetitive tasks. By taking advantage of generative AI capabilities, they showcase methods to optimize your AWS infrastructure and unlock significant cost savings.
Key Takeaways:
1. Leverage Amazon Q Developer to rapidly create Python-based applications that can analyze your AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations, group them by instance family, and identify opportunities for optimization.
2. Utilize Amazon Q Developer's interactive coding features to add visualizations, caching, and other performance enhancements to your scripts, reducing code complexity and improving efficiency.
3. Explore using Amazon Q Developer to generate lists of alternative, cost-effective instance types based on your current workload requirements, helping you diversify your instance portfolio and reduce costs.
4. Integrate Amazon Q Developer with your existing development workflows, such as connecting it to your GitHub/GitLab repositories to streamline code updates and collaboration.
5. Combine Amazon Q Developer with other AWS cost optimization tools like AWS Budgets and AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a comprehensive cost management solution.
1. Leverage Amazon Q Developer to rapidly create Python-based applications that can analyze your AWS Compute Optimizer recommendations, group them by instance family, and identify opportunities for optimization.
2. Utilize Amazon Q Developer's interactive coding features to add visualizations, caching, and other performance enhancements to your scripts, reducing code complexity and improving efficiency.
3. Explore using Amazon Q Developer to generate lists of alternative, cost-effective instance types based on your current workload requirements, helping you diversify your instance portfolio and reduce costs.
4. Integrate Amazon Q Developer with your existing development workflows, such as connecting it to your GitHub/GitLab repositories to streamline code updates and collaboration.
5. Combine Amazon Q Developer with other AWS cost optimization tools like AWS Budgets and AWS Cost and Usage Reports to create a comprehensive cost management solution.
Notable Quotes:
"Having these scripts go through and do that for you, it's just so cool. Especially when you have things that you see that you'd like to do within your organization or you see what those paper cuts are, the tedious tasks, and you want to find a better way to do that - having the ability to leverage these AI-powered tools is just awesome."
- John Masci, Principal Optimization Solutions Architect
"Having these scripts go through and do that for you, it's just so cool. Especially when you have things that you see that you'd like to do within your organization or you see what those paper cuts are, the tedious tasks, and you want to find a better way to do that - having the ability to leverage these AI-powered tools is just awesome."
- John Masci, Principal Optimization Solutions Architect
Call to Action:
Don't miss the opportunity to see Steph Gooch and other AWS cost efficiency experts speak at FinOps X in April 2023. Check out the conference agenda and register today at finopsx.com. For any questions or suggestions on future content, reach out to the AWS cost optimization team at cost-optimization@amazon.com.
Don't miss the opportunity to see Steph Gooch and other AWS cost efficiency experts speak at FinOps X in April 2023. Check out the conference agenda and register today at finopsx.com. For any questions or suggestions on future content, reach out to the AWS cost optimization team at cost-optimization@amazon.com.
Youtube link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ESIJ6II71XM
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