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Amazon Q Developer - AWS AI Coding Assistant | AI.info
Amazon Q Developer offers AI code completions, an autonomous coding agent, security scanning, and Java migration — deeply integrated with the full AWS ecosystem.
In inglese
Amazon Q Developer helps developers and IT professionals write, test, review, document, and refactor code. It provides code suggestions, inline chat, agentic coding, vulnerability scanning, AWS guidance, CLI assistance, and code transformation tools.
It is available in IDEs, the command line, the AWS Management Console, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitLab, and GitHub. A Free Tier is available; Pro costs $19/mo. per user, and transformation usage beyond included limits costs extra. AWS says support for the IDE plugins will end on April 30, 2027, while console and other first-party experiences continue.
Features
- Generates code suggestions from comments and existing code
- Reads and writes files, generates diffs, and runs shell commands
- Scans code for vulnerabilities and suggests remediations
- Generates unit tests, documentation, and code reviews
- Answers questions about AWS resources, architecture, and billing
- Transforms Java applications and ports .NET applications to Linux
- Provides CLI autocompletions and natural-language-to-bash translation
- Connects to private repositories for organization-specific recommendations
Use cases
- Generate and implement features across multiple files
- Review code and fix security vulnerabilities
- Explain unfamiliar code and troubleshoot application errors
- Analyze AWS resources, costs, and operational incidents
- Upgrade Java applications and port .NET applications
- Create data pipelines, SQL queries, and machine-learning workflows
Pros
Cons
Latest updates
- End of support notice
On April 30, 2027, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins.
- Updated account limit for subscriptions
You can now subscribe users in a maximum of 20 accounts per AWS Region, per organization, increased from 10.
- Deprecated code transformation for GitLab
Code transformation capabilities for Java modernization have been deprecated for GitLab Duo with Amazon Q Developer.
- Updated GitHub feature development workflow
Users can now provide feedback through natural language commands in pull request conversations.
- Deprecated code transformation for GitHub
Code transformation capabilities for Java modernization have been deprecated for Amazon Q Developer for GitHub.
Capabilities
- Inline completion — “Amazon Q Developer generates real-time code suggestions ranging from snippets to full functions based on your comments and existing code.” source
- Chat about your code — “It also supports inline chat directly in the code editor, and CLI completions and natural language–to-bash translation in the command line.” source
- Knows the whole codebase — “Securely connect Amazon Q Developer to your private repositories to generate even more relevant code recommendations, ask questions about your company code, and understand your internal code bases faster.” source
- Reviews pull requests — “Use Amazon Q Developer within GitHub to implement features, perform code reviews, and transform Java applications to streamline the developer experience (preview).” source
- VS Code — “Amazon Q Developer provides inline code suggestions, vulnerability scanning, and chat in popular integrated development environments (IDEs), including JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, VS Code, and Eclipse (preview).” source
- JetBrains IDEs — “Amazon Q Developer provides inline code suggestions, vulnerability scanning, and chat in popular integrated development environments (IDEs), including JetBrains, IntelliJ IDEA, Visual Studio, VS Code, and Eclipse (preview).” source
- Command line — “Get CLI autocompletions and AI chat in your favorite terminal (locally and over Secure Shell).” source
Get it
Pricing
- Starting price
- $19/user/mo
- Prices checked
- 2026-09-26
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Free Tier
Free
- 50 agentic requests per month (Q&A chat, agentic coding)
- 1,000 lines of code per month for Java upgrades transformation
- IDE plugins and CLI
- Reference tracking and suppress public code suggestions
- General Q&A and diagnose errors in AWS Console
Pro Tier
- $19/mo. per user
- Everything in Free tier with increased agentic request limits
- 4,000 lines of code per month per user (pooled at account level) for Java upgrades; extra at $0.003/LOC
- Admin dashboard with user and policy management
- IP indemnity
- Automatically opted out of data collection