Accelerating Legacy Code Modernization: EPAM's Journey with Amazon Q Developer

EPAM, an AWS Premier Partner, collaborated with a direct-selling industry giant to modernize legacy applications to AWS Cloud. Amazon Q Developer, an AI code assistant, significantly improved developer efficiency across the software development lifecycle, resulting in substantial time and effort savings. The tool enabled engineers to autonomously perform tasks such as implementing new microservices, documenting code, testing, reviewing, and refactoring Java code, and performing critical platform upgrades. Estimated time savings of 60-70% were achieved through automation of routine tasks and intelligent code suggestions.