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Amazon Q Developer

AWS's generative-AI assistant for software development.

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Multi-model
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Jun 15, 2026

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's generative-AI coding assistant that supports developers across the software lifecycle. It offers inline code completions, agentic chat, automated code transformation for language and framework upgrades, security scanning, and AWS-aware troubleshooting. It runs in popular IDEs, the command line, and the AWS console, with deep integration into AWS services.

Pros & cons

  • Generous perpetual free tier
  • Deep AWS service integration
  • Agentic code transformation for upgrades
  • Works in IDEs, CLI, and AWS console
  • IP indemnity on the Pro tier
  • Best value inside the AWS ecosystem
  • Less compelling for non-AWS stacks
  • Smaller community than GitHub Copilot

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