Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI assistant from Amazon Web Services for designing, building, testing, deploying, and operating software on AWS. Released in April 2024 as the rebrand of Amazon CodeWhisperer, the product runs on Amazon Bedrock and routes tasks across multiple foundation models. The tool encodes AWS architectural patterns, billing data, and account-level resource awareness alongside general-purpose coding capabilities.

Key Capabilities:

• Inline code completions and chat across Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and JupyterLab

• Agentic coding for multi-step tasks including file reads, code diffs, and shell command execution

• /doc, /review, and /test slash commands for documentation, code review, and unit test generation

• Code transformation agents for Java 8 to 17 upgrades and .NET framework porting to .NET 8 on Linux

• Security scanning with auto-remediation for exposed credentials, log injection, and other vulnerabilities

• Workspace context awareness across the full project, with optional connection to private repositories

• AWS resource and bill awareness for infrastructure questions and console operations

• CloudWatch Investigations integration for anomaly detection and root-cause analysis

• Surface coverage across the AWS Management Console, Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, and GitLab Duo

• Generative SQL in Amazon Redshift and natural language ETL generation in AWS Glue

• Open-source code reference and attribution for generated suggestions

See Amazon Q Developer pricing details →