AWS targets software release bottlenecks with DevOps Agent update
The problem with software development today may no longer be writing code. With AI coding assistants generating code faster than ever, the bigger challenge is reviewing, testing, and safely releasing it. AWS is betting that software teams need help with that part of the process, adding release management features to its DevOps Agent. The new features, currently in preview, automatically assess code changes against organizational standards, identify potential release risks, and generate tests tailored to individual changes before they reach production. The release readiness feature, in particular, runs the code in an AWS-managed isolated environment, executing lightweight user journey tests to verify the software builds, runs, and passes basic functional checks before the change enters the pipeline, the company wrote in a blog post. The findings of these tests can be viewed through the DevOps Agent console, as comments on pull requests in GitHub or GitLab, or can be invoked directly thr