GitLab Duo with Amazon Q general availability announced
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GitLab Duo with Amazon Q general availability announced
Jobin Kuruvilla
28 April 2025
3 min read
Jobin Kuruvilla
28 April 2025
3 min read
GitLab and AWS have launched GitLab Duo with Amazon Q, bringing AI into software development. It offers code help, security, and faster development cycles, streamlining workflows.
It’s exciting times for our partners GitLab and AWS, who have announced the general availability of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. This powerful combination brings agentic AI directly into your software development lifecycle, promising to revolutionise how you build and deploy software.
Built on GitLab Ultimate, GitLab Duo with Amazon Q empowers your team with features like code generation, explanation, reviews, chat, and vulnerability resolution—all driven by the intelligence of Amazon Q. Designed for a Self-Managed deployment model, it fits right into your existing AWS infrastructure, making adoption smooth and efficient.
Benefits of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q
Integrated developer experience
With GitLab Duo, developers can interact with Amazon Q through the GitLab Duo Chat interface, either from their preferred IDE or the GitLab web interface. This means less context switching and more focused, productive development time.
Comprehensive lifecycle solution
GitLab Duo leverages AWS-specific patterns and practices, providing code suggestions and optimisations. With a shared data store, you get visibility and traceability throughout every stage of development. It's a complete solution designed to support your entire process.
Secure development with guardrails
Security and compliance are integral to the development platform, with built-in guardrails that reduce risk while maintaining velocity. Aligning seamlessly with AWS security services and compliance frameworks, it ensures transparency and auditability, giving you peace of mind.
Increased developer productivity
By automating tasks, providing code suggestions, and streamlining workflows, GitLab Duo with Amazon Q inherently leads to increased developer productivity. Teams can accomplish more in less time, freeing them to focus on higher-level tasks and innovation.
Use cases to support your development
GitLab Duo with Amazon Q tackles real-world development challenges head-on:
- Feature development acceleration: Convert issue descriptions into merge-ready code efficiently, ensuring quick feature delivery without compromising quality.
- Legacy application modernisation: Breathe new life into your Java codebases with comprehensive upgrade plans and merge requests. Support for .NET and other languages is on the horizon.
- Quality assurance enhancement: Automatically generate comprehensive unit tests to increase test, boosting test coverage and maintaining consistent quality across your applications.
- Code review optimisation: Streamline code review cycles with inline feedback and suggestions, leading to higher-quality code merges and happier teams.
- Vulnerability remediation: Reduce remediation time with clear explanations and one-click solutions for detected vulnerabilities. It's about making your work easier and faster.
Why consider GitLab Duo with Amazon Q?
By embedding Amazon Q's powerful software development agents directly into the GitLab DevSecOps platform, GitLab Duo with Amazon Q simplifies complex tasks, minimises context switching, and dramatically improves development cycles. This means your team can dedicate more time to innovation and driving digital transformation.
Ready to get started?
As a GitLab Professional Services Partner and Select Partner, as well as an AWS Advanced Tier Consulting Services Partner and AWS DevOps Competency Partner, we are officially authorised by AWS and GitLab to provide GitLab Duo with Amazon Q through the AWS Marketplace as part of a Consulting Partner Private Offer (CPPO).
Currently, Amazon Q is only available for self-hosted GitLab instances. If you are looking to leverage this functionality but don't want the overhead of managing your own hosting infrastructure, then Adaptavist's expert managed services can provide you with a seamlessly hosted self-managed GitLab environment. This ensures you get the best possible support, guidance, and access to the latest features.
If you're eager to learn more or want to connect with our experts, please reach out to us.
We're here to help you unlock the full potential of GitLab Duo with Amazon Q and transform your development process.
Written by
Head of DevOps Practice
Jobin ia a DevOps expert and app developer, with certifications in Atlassian, GitLab PSE, AWS, Kubernetes, and Jenkins. He has led digital transformation initiatives for teams and enterprises and leads the DevOps practice at Adaptavist.