AWS Brings Machine Learning to Code Optimization - DevOps.com

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made generally available a tool dubbed Amazon CodeGuru that employs machine learning algorithms to recommend ways to improve code quality and identify which lines of code are the most expensive to run on its cloud service. Peder Ulander, director of open source for AWS, said Amazon CodeGuru not only helps improve performance and resource utilization but also reduces the time and effort spent optimizing applications before and after they are deployed. Amazon CodeGuru is based on a set of AWS machine learning algorithms to identify best practices for deploying code. It creates a profile of the code deployed and then surfaces recommendations to improve performance and reduce costs by employing the most appropriate tier of the cloud service. That latter capability is critical because developers don't always factor costs into deciding which tier of a cloud service to employ.