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Amazon Q Developer

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.

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File Access
Integrations
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RAG
Copilot (Human-in-Loop)
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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.

According to AWS, you can use it in popular IDEs such as JetBrains, VS Code, Visual Studio, and Eclipse, as well as from the command line. It also appears in the AWS Management Console and can be used in Microsoft Teams and Slack, so it fits into both development and operations workflows.

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, reviewing, refactoring, and handling upgrades, but the page does not make clear how often human approval is required or how independent it can be in practice.

The product appears tightly centered on the AWS ecosystem, especially for cloud cost, architecture, incident, and networking help. The crawled content does not clearly state which underlying model it uses, whether it supports local models, or whether MCP is supported. Pricing details were not fully available in the crawled content beyond a free tier mention, so you should check AWS’s pricing page for current plan details.

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: Mar 28, 2026

Dimension Breakdown

Action Capability
Autonomy
Adaptation
State & Memory
Safety

Categories

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
AddedMarch 26, 2026
RefreshedMarch 28, 2026
Quick Facts
DeploymentCloud-hosted
AutonomySemi-autonomous
Model supportSingle model
Open sourceNo
Team supportEnterprise
Pricing modelFreemium
Interfacechat, gui, cli, browser, ide
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