AWS Transform adds agentic AI assistant to the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

To improve developer experience, AWS Transform now includes an interactive agentic AI assistant in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio. This enables .NET developers to modernize applications through a conversational, step-by-step guided experience directly in their IDE. The assistant provides visibility, checkpointing, and enhanced steering capabilities. So, a developer that lives in IDE can continue to work in IDE leveraging fine granular control. The agent analyzes source code, provides a detailed assessment report, and generates a transformation plan. It then executes modernization tasks interactively, allowing developers to review, edit, and approve each step before proceeding, all without switching to the web console.

You can pause at any step, inspect generated diffs, upload a custom plan, and direct the agent with natural language. The agent automatically attempts to fix build errors encountered during transformation, provides detailed worklogs for transparency, and generates a downloadable HTML summary report upon completion along with recommended next steps. You can start a modernization project in the AWS Transform web console and continue directly in Visual Studio, with full context and progress preserved across both environments, eliminating the need to restart or reconfigure your workflow. In addition to Visual Studio, you can invoke the power of AWS Transform agents from Kiro and other AI coding assistants and coding environments. Through Kiro power for AWS Transform and AWS Transform MCP agents, you can enjoy a unified tool experience to reduce context-switching and continue iterating on transformed code in your preferred development.

This capability is available in the following AWS Regions: US East (N. Virginia), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (London), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Sydney), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo).

To get started, download the latest AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio from the Visual Studio Marketplace. To learn more, visit the AWS Transform for Windows .NET page.