New generative AI-powered service empowers a
new set of builders to create applications in minutes
At AWS Summit New York, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced AWS App Studio,
a generative artificial intelligence (AI)-powered service that uses
natural language to create 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. Modifying App
Studio applications is easy using its point-and-click interface,
and users also get immediate guidance on how to accomplish a task
by asking its generative AI-powered assistant. 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. To learn more about
AWS App Studio, visit aws.amazon.com/app-studio.
Every company has internal processes and activities that
employees manage daily to keep their organization running. Hospital
procurement teams track medical supplies to understand what is in
stock and to order more when low; account executives at advertising
agencies follow a specific workflow when designing, reviewing, and
approving advertisements; and property managers monitor their
housing inventory and repairs needed on rentals. These processes
are time-consuming and often managed through spreadsheets and
documents that are difficult to maintain, error prone, insecure,
and tough to scale to multiple users. Employees are much more
effective when they can use a custom application tailored to these
problems, making it easier to enter information, manage complex
processes, and connect to their trusted systems, like Amazon Simple
Storage Service (Amazon S3) or Salesforce. Despite that,
development resources to build custom applications are scarce, and
as a result, many internal applications do not get built. That is
why employees with technical experience turn to low-code tools to
build applications themselves. These tools, however, come with
their own challenges. Current low-code tools often have a steep
learning curve, requiring platform-specific knowledge, and the
applications users build often do not meet their company’s security
requirements, leading to the information technology (IT) department
shutting them down. These applications also struggle to scale as
usage grows, forcing users to hand off hosting and running the
application to their company’s development team. This leaves many
employees stuck between low-code solutions that do not meet their
needs or continuing to painstakingly manage these processes
manually through spreadsheets and documents.
AWS App Studio is the fastest and easiest way for people with
some technical experience to build the types of enterprise-grade
applications that were previously only built by professional
developers. 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. For example, the user identifies the specific data
sources at their company that the application should connect to,
using a drop-down menu, and then writes a basic prompt such as,
“Create an app for tracking inventory across stores.” App Studio
generates an outline to verify the user’s intent and then builds an
application with a multi-page UI, a data model, and business logic.
The user can then ask clarifying questions such as, “How can I
display the ‘approve’ button only to reviewers?” and App Studio
gives detailed answers on how to make the change using the
point-and-click interface. To test their application, a user simply
clicks the “generate data” button to create sample data that will
show how their application will handle information in real time.
The user can also easily connect their application to internal data
sources using built-in connectors for AWS (such as Amazon Aurora,
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon S3) and Salesforce, along with hundreds
of third-party services (such as HubSpot, Twilio, and Zendesk)
using an application programming interface (API) connector. With
App Studio, users do not have to think about the underlying code at
all—App Studio handles all the deployment, operations, and
maintenance. Once an application is ready to deploy, App Studio
generates a custom URL that end users can access using existing
enterprise authentication tools and role-based access controls.
“AWS App Studio opens up application development to an entirely
new set of builders, helping them create enterprise-grade
applications in minutes,” said Dilip Kumar, vice president of
Applications at AWS. “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. Now, using
natural language, any user with some technical experience can
simply describe the application they want to build, and App Studio
takes care of the development process, delivering an application
that employees can start using immediately. It has never been
easier for technical professionals to build custom applications
tailored to the unique needs of their business, ushering in a new
world of productivity for businesses of all sizes.”
Every application deployed via App Studio is highly secure,
scalable, and performant, freeing technical professionals to focus
on innovating rather than application management. App Studio gives
IT teams visibility into every application, so they can easily
track usage patterns, control user and data access, and set
guardrails to maintain compliance with a company’s security
policies. It is free to build with App Studio, and customers only
pay for the time employees spend using the published applications,
saving up to 80% compared to other low-code offerings. App Studio
is available in preview today in US West (Oregon).
Campus Life & Style helps over 28,000 students across 50
locations find their room (and community) to call home for the
school year. “With App Studio, a team of two were able to build a
complete application that streamlines data intake, management, and
reporting for our 150-person team,” said Scott Puntenney, national
revenue manager at Campus Life & Style. “Our market survey
process gives us the data to determine the next locations to
provide student housing, but this process is excruciatingly manual
with more than 150 people involved in data collection, entry, and
validation across multiple spreadsheets, forms, and dashboards. We
expect that this data processing application will increase the
efficiency of our market survey collection and distribution process
by 20% and cut down on 98% of the human errors associated with
manual data entry. We now plan to roll out App Studio to modernize
our financial and HR data pipelines and use other AWS generative AI
services to further improve how we manage our processes at
scale.”
Deloitte is a leading provider of audit and assurance,
consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, tax, and related
services. “App Studio can help our technical employees build
secure, scalable applications in minutes that streamline tasks and
increase operational efficiency,” said JB McGinnis, US AWS alliance
leader at Deloitte Consulting LLP. “As a global provider working
with brands from all around the world across various industries,
our teams need to operate across a diverse set of clients that all
have distinct tasks and processes. With App Studio, our technical
employees are able to take charge and easily go from idea to
application in just a few sentences, streamlining these activities
for the entire team. As teams grow and business goals change, App
Studio applications can efficiently scale and shift to our
employees’ needs, helping us better deliver for our clients.”
HealthVerity provides the largest ecosystem of healthcare and
consumer data in the US to help build patient journeys and improve
patient outcomes. “App Studio opens up low-code tools to our
company for the first time, allowing us to leverage our many
existing AWS investments and empowering employees to build
applications in minutes, instead of days, with the help of its
generative AI-powered assistant,” said Jeremy Stewart, vice
president of engineering at HealthVerity. “Historically, we built
all of our internal tools from the ground up because existing
low-code solutions did not meet our company’s strict security
requirement. A small team of five developers had to manage this
infrastructure on top of their day-to-day work, increasing our
operational costs and taking them away from their core
responsibilities. With App Studio, every application is secure and
fully managed by AWS, freeing our employees to focus on
customer-facing projects.”
LaunchDarkly enables high velocity teams to release, monitor,
and optimize software in production. “Combining an intuitive UI
with a generative AI-powered assistant, App Studio helps bridge the
skills gap so the technical employees most familiar with a business
problem are empowered to solve it,” said Claire Vo, chief product
officer at LaunchDarkly. “There are numerous processes that could
be managed more efficiently with a custom application, and most
businesses are not eager to add a specialized vendor and the
associated costs. By lowering the barrier to creating an internal
application, the technical employees best positioned to address
these challenges can now rapidly solve them with a secure, scalable
solution tailored to their problem.”
TrustPortal is a no-code, intelligent hyperautomation
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform that delivers
high-productivity services to contact center agents and customer
self-service across all channels. “With generative AI-powered
guidance available throughout the development process, App Studio
is a game changer for technical employees to create high-quality,
visually attractive, and intuitive business applications,” said
Chris Lamberton, chief executive officer at TrustPortal. “We work
with some of today’s largest enterprises, so our developers have
limited time to dedicate to build and run internal applications.
App Studio helps remove the cost and complexity of developing and
operating our own internal tools, giving developers more time to
innovate on behalf of customers.”
About Amazon Web Services
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comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually
expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it
now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage,
databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial
intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security,
hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and
management from 105 Availability Zones within 33 geographic
regions, with announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and
seven more AWS Regions in Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Thailand, and the AWS European
Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the
fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading
government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become
more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
aws.amazon.com.
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