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Amazon Q Developer

Agenticness8/36·Guided Assistant

An AI coding assistant for AWS and software development workflows

Amazon Q Developer helps you write, review, test, refactor, and upgrade code, with extra support for AWS operations and data/AI tasks. It runs in IDEs, the command line, AWS console, and chat tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams.

Code Execution
File Access
Integrations
B2B
RAG
Copilot (Human-in-Loop)
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  • Score change
    Rubric upgrade v3_0 → v3.1: score 7/32 → 8/367 → 8/36(+1)

    Rubric upgrade: agenticness v3.0 (8 dims, /32) → v3.1 (9 dims, /36). Adds Dim 9 (Operator Sovereignty), splits Dim 6 into 6a/6b lenses, tightens Dim 4 autonomous-retry distinction. Not a product change — score shift reflects new dimension + recalibrated rubric, not a change in the tool. Fanout suppressed.

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  • Score change
    Agenticness score 9 → 7 ↓9 → 7/36(-2)

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What It Is

Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI assistant for software development and AWS operations. It is aimed at developers and teams building on AWS, with a strong focus on coding, software maintenance, cloud operations, and application modernization.

What to Know

Amazon Q Developer is more than a chat assistant, but it is not a fully hands-off agent from the information shown here. AWS describes agentic capabilities that can autonomously perform tasks such as implementing features, documenting, testing,...

Key Features
Code generation in IDEs and the command line
Autonomously performs coding tasks such as feature work, testing, review, refactoring, and upgrades
AWS console assistance for cost, resource, architecture, incident, and networking guidance
Works in Microsoft Teams and Slack
Supports .NET porting from Windows to Linux
Use Cases
A developer wants help writing and refactoring code inside VS Code or JetBrains
An AWS user needs guidance on cloud costs, architecture best practices, or incident diagnosis
A team is upgrading Java applications or porting .NET workloads from Windows to Linux
Agenticness: Guided Assistant

Executes tasks you assign, one step at a time, within narrow domains.

High evidence
Last evaluated: May 23, 2026

Dimension Breakdown

Action Capability
Autonomy
Adaptation
State & Memory
Safety
How agenticness works →

Categories

Engineering & DevTools
Pricing
  • Free tier: Available for getting started in supported IDEs and the command line.
  • Paid plans: Pricing not publicly available in the crawled content.
  • Enterprise: Not clearly specified in the crawled content.
Details
aws.amazon.com
AddedMarch 26, 2026
RefreshedMarch 28, 2026
Agenticness
Guided Assistant
Quick Facts
DeploymentCloud-hosted
AutonomySemi-autonomous
Model supportSingle model
Open sourceNo
Team supportEnterprise
Pricing modelFreemium
Interfacechat, gui, cli, browser, ide
Sources
WebGenerative AI Assistant for Software Development – Amazon Q Developer – AWS
Last updated May 23, 2026
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