Vendor-published Version upgrade
Amazon upgrades tens of thousands of production apps to Java 17 with Amazon Q Developer
Andy Jassy shared that Amazon migrated tens of thousands of production applications from Java 8 or 11 to Java 17 with the Amazon Q Developer code-transformation agent. Time saved was estimated from the number of dependencies migrated; cost savings from hosts removed after the upgrade.
The numbers (as reported)
| Applications upgraded | Tens of thousands (Java 8/11 → 17) |
|---|---|
| Development work saved (estimate) | 4,500+ years |
| Annual cost savings (estimate) | $260M from performance improvements |
Facts
- Company / subject
- Amazon
- Tools
- Amazon Q Developer (code transformation agent)
- Codebase
- brownfield
- Work type
- Version upgrade
- Stack
- Java
- Published
- 2024-08-01
- Last checked
- 2026-10-17
Caveats
Vendor (Amazon) reporting on its own product; both figures are Amazon's estimates, described as conservative.