AWS unveils new AI methodology for software development

Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Friday introduced a new artificial intelligence (AI) technology platform that aims to ease the process of new software development.

The new methodology, called AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC), is expected to help software development teams focus on strategic work while AI handles implementation tasks such as workflow orchestration, task breakdown, coding, testing, and deployments.

At the AWS DevSphere 2025 event in Bengaluru, Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Agentic AI, AWS, delivered the keynote address, highlighting how the company is helping customers build and deploy AI agents that accelerate software development, boost productivity, and bring a change in customer experiences.

Sivasubramanian also announced AI-DLC is available as a freely accessible methodology on AWS, and as a custom workflow in Kiro.

According to AWS, this new methodology is helping businesses such as S&P Global, Wipro, HackerRank, and Dhan to integrate AI into software development, in order to condense complex development processes and timelines from months into days and even hours.

At the summit, Wipro Chief Technology Officer Sandhya Arun shared that by implementing AI-DLC methodology and using Amazon Q developer, they were able to build four production-ready modules within just 20 hours.

AWS also introduced the AI-Native Builders Community, a peer-to-peer network of technology leaders united to share breakthroughs, avoid pitfalls, and accelerate the journey to AI-native transformation.

This community is built on three foundations: AI-native builders—where individuals reskill themselves, experiment, and show what's possible with AI; AI-native practices—where there will be curation and sharing of best practices to make AI a natural part of the development cycle. Lastly, AI-native organisations—where enterprises will rethink how they operate to lead in the AI era.

AWS has also launched the AWS AI League, where developers compete to solve real-world business challenges with generative AI. The programme offers up to $2 million in AWS credits for developers to get hands-on experience in fine-tuning, model customisation, and prompt engineering.

To help early-career professionals with AI-transformed tech careers, AWS is providing AWS Academy students globally with a free subscription to AWS Skill Builder for 12 months. The goal is to engage with 2.7 million students and early-career professionals globally within the first year.

AWS Academy provides more than 6,600 higher education institutions around the globe with free, ready-to-teach cloud computing and generative AI curricula that prepare students to pursue AWS certifications and in-demand jobs.