AWS unveils studio for rapid AI-driven app development

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced AWS App Studio, a new generative AI service designed to enable financial institutions, fintech firms, and other organisations to create applications in minutes, a task that would typically take professional developers days.

Revealed at the AWS Summit New York, the service is intended for IT project managers, data engineers, and enterprise architects without software development skills, allowing them to quickly develop and manage internal apps using AWS.

Development resources for custom applications are often scarce, pushing users towards low-code tools, which can have a steep learning curve and may not meet security requirements. AWS App Studio addresses these issues by enabling users to describe the desired application, its functions, and the data sources it should integrate with. Users can make modifications through a point-and-click interface, guided by a generative AI-powered assistant.

AWS App Studio empowers individuals with some technical experience to build enterprise-grade applications without needing to write underlying code. The service generates an outline to verify the user’s intent, creating a multi-page UI, a data model, and business logic.

Dilip Kumar, vice president of applications at AWS, stated that AWS App Studio opens application development to a new set of builders, enhancing productivity for businesses of all sizes by allowing technical professionals to create custom applications tailored to their unique needs.