Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's generative AI assistant for software development. In the IDE it provides inline code suggestions, chat, inline chat and agentic coding, where it reads files, generates code changes and runs commands from a natural-language request. It installs as an extension or plugin in Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, Visual Studio and Eclipse (preview). Beyond the IDE, it answers questions and diagnoses common errors in the AWS Management Console and the AWS Console Mobile Application, and it works in Microsoft Teams and Slack to help monitor operational events and operate AWS resources. Amazon Q Developer is built on Amazon Bedrock and offers the latest Claude models.

AWS-specific work is the product's focus: questions about AWS architecture, resources, best practices and bills, and code for AWS services. It also generates documentation and unit tests, reviews code, and runs transformations that upgrade Java applications and port .NET applications from Windows to Linux. It acts as an MCP client in the IDE, connecting to local and remote MCP servers. GitLab Duo with Amazon Q brings it into GitLab workflows, and Amazon Q Developer for GitHub (preview) implements features and reviews code in GitHub.

Pricing is in USD and has two tiers. The perpetual Free Tier includes 50 agentic requests per month, where an agentic request is any chat or agentic coding interaction in the IDE, plus 1,000 lines of code per month for Java upgrades. Pro is $19 per user per month, billed monthly until canceled and pro-rated in the first month, and adds higher agentic request limits, 4,000 lines of code per user per month for transformations pooled across the AWS payer account, IAM Identity Center support with admin dashboards and policy controls, and IP indemnity. Transformation usage beyond the pooled allowance is charged at $0.003 per line of code.

The Free Tier limits in the IDE apply to AWS Builder ID users, and chat in the AWS Console Mobile Application, chat applications and AWS websites is governed by Free Tier limits. Canceling a Pro subscription mid-month still charges the full month and ends access immediately. Content from the Free Tier, such as questions and generated code, may be used for service improvement including model training unless the user opts out in the IDE or through an AWS Organizations policy, and Pro content is not used.

Amazon Q Developer suits developers and teams who build and operate on AWS and want an assistant that works in their existing IDE and inside the AWS Console. Developers who want an AWS-built agentic IDE with spec-driven development should consider Kiro, which AWS names as the path forward from the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins, and developers who want one assistant across many editors that is not tied to a single cloud should consider GitHub Copilot.

Current state Q4 2026: AWS has announced that it will discontinue support for the Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027, and points IDE users to Kiro for similar capabilities, with a published migration guide. Since October 2026, answers in the AWS Management Console can include health dashboards, time-series charts and troubleshooting views built from calls across AWS services. The Amazon Q Developer command line tool has become the Kiro CLI. Code transformation for Java modernization has been retired from Amazon Q Developer for GitHub and from GitLab Duo with Amazon Q. Amazon Q Developer is in scope for AWS's SOC 1, 2 and 3 reports, ISO certifications and BSI C5, and AWS states that customers can use all AWS services to process personal data in compliance with the GDPR.