GitLab and AWS Team Up to Integrate AI Agents into Developer Workflow

GitLab and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to integrate Amazon's Q autonomous AI agents into GitLab's Duo AI assistant, aiming to boost developer productivity and accelerate software innovation, reports TechCrunch.

This collaboration goes beyond a simple integration, involving joint engineering efforts to seamlessly link the two platforms and the creation of a dedicated sales team. GitLab users will now be able to access Amazon Q Developer agents directly through Duo's chat interface, enabling them to perform tasks like code reviews, generate unit tests, modernize Java applications, and even plan and develop entire features.

"To us, this is bringing together the best of both worlds: our deep knowledge of the [software development life cycle], with our unified data store, which becomes really powerful as part of AI — and the breadth of cloud technologies plus AI agents and services that AWS brings," Ashley Kramer, GitLab's CMSO and interim CRO, told TechCrunch. "Being able to bring those together, our ultimate goal is to meet customers and future prospects where they are, and that’s often developing their code in GitLab and using the AWS Developer Console and services.”

Kramer emphasized that GitLab continues to partner with other companies, including Google and Anthropic, but highlighted the significance of the AWS partnership due to the large overlap in their customer base.

"We believe this will be the first step in a long, more integrated partnership," Kramer stated. "First step is integrating even more beyond the use cases [we] described, as far as one seamless interface, whether that’s GitLab’s interface, IDE, when it comes to GenAI and agentic AI, and then we’re looking into further services with AWS that we can integrate even more seamlessly as next steps in the partnership.”