DiscoverAWS for Software Companies PodcastEp133: Enabling Better Customer Experiences with Amazon Q Index w/ PagerDuty and Zoom
Ep133: Enabling Better Customer Experiences with Amazon Q Index w/ PagerDuty and Zoom

Ep133: Enabling Better Customer Experiences with Amazon Q Index w/ PagerDuty and Zoom

Update: 2025-08-18
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Hear how PagerDuty and Zoom built successful AI products using Amazon Q-Index to solve real customer problems like incident response and meeting intelligence, while sharing practical lessons from their early adoption journey.

Topics Include:

  • David Gordon introduces AWS Q-Business partnerships with PagerDuty and Zoom
  • Meet Everaldo Aguiar: PagerDuty's Applied AI leader with academia and enterprise background
  • Paul Magnaghi from Zoom brings AI platform scaling experience from Seattle
  • Q-Business launched over a year ago as managed generative AI service
  • Platform enables agentic experiences: content discovery, analysis, and process automation
  • Built on AWS Bedrock with enterprise guardrails and data source integration
  • Partners wanted backend capabilities but preferred their own UI and models
  • Q-Index provides vector database functionality for ISV partner integrations
  • Everaldo explains PagerDuty's evolution from traditional ML to generative AI solutions
  • Historical challenges: alert fatigue, noise reduction using machine learning approaches
  • New gen AI opportunities: incident context, relevant data surfacing, automated postmortems
  • Engineering teams faced learning curve with agents and high-latency user experiences
  • Paul discusses Zoom's existing AI: virtual backgrounds and voice isolation technology
  • AI Companion strategy focused on simplicity during complex generative AI adoption
  • Problem identified: valuable meeting conversations disappear after Zoom calls end
  • Customer feedback revealed need for enterprise data integration beyond basic summaries
  • Goal: combine unstructured conversations with structured enterprise data seamlessly
  • PagerDuty Advanced provides agentic AI for on-call engineers during incidents
  • Q-Index integration accesses internal documentation: Confluence pages, runbooks, procedures
  • Demo shows Slack integration pulling relevant incident response documentation automatically
  • Access control lists ensure users see only data they're authorized to access
  • Zoom's AI companion panel enables real-time meeting questions and summaries
  • Example use cases: decision tracking, incident analysis, action item identification
  • Advice for starting: standardize practices and create internal development templates
  • Single data access point reduces legal and security evaluation overhead
  • Center of excellence approach helps teams move quickly across product divisions
  • Cut through generative AI buzzwords to focus on real user value
  • Federated AWS Bedrock architecture provides model choice and flexibility meeting customers
  • Customer trust alignment between Zoom conversations and AWS data handling
  • Getting started: PagerDuty Advance available now, Zoom AI free with paid add-ons


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See how Amazon Web Services gives you the freedom to migrate, innovate, and scale your software company at https://aws.amazon.com/isv/

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Ep133: Enabling Better Customer Experiences with Amazon Q Index w/ PagerDuty and Zoom

Ep133: Enabling Better Customer Experiences with Amazon Q Index w/ PagerDuty and Zoom