Amazon Q Developer
About Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI coding assistant for IDE and CLI workflows with code chat, suggestions, transformations, and security scanning.
Key Capabilities
IDE and CLI support for coding workflows
Agentic coding interactions with 50 free-tier requests/month and 10,000 Pro inference calls/month
Built-in AWS expertise for cloud implementation guidance
Code transformation support for Java/.NET modernization
Security scanning and remediation suggestions
AWS IAM Identity Center support on Pro
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Most Used AI Coding Agents / Tools Right Now (Feb 2026): 1. GitHub Copilot 2. Cursor 3. ChatGPT 4. Claude 5. Google Gemini 6. JetBrains AI Assistant 7. Amazon Q Developer (ex CodeWhisperer) 8. Codeium 9. Tabnine
Amazon's own AI tooling being garbage is so funny. Every customer could tell you how trash Amazon Q is.
Amazon's AI coding agent Kiro reportedly "decided" the fastest way to fix a config error was to delete the entire production environment. Gone. A 6-hour outage. 6.3 million orders lost.
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