What is Amazon Q Developer?
End of support notice
On April 30, 2027, AWS will discontinue support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins. For capabilities similar to Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins, explore Kiro to access the latest models and features, including agentic coding, chat and MCP support. For more information, see Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins end of support.
Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console is now the AWS assistant
The Amazon Q Developer conversational experience in the AWS Management Console and AWS Console Mobile Application is now the AWS assistant. For documentation about chatting with the AWS assistant, including questions about your resources and costs, see the AWS assistant User Guide. Amazon Q Developer in the IDE and on the command line keeps its name.
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Powered by Amazon Bedrock: Amazon Q Developer is built on Amazon Bedrock and includes automated abuse detection implemented in Amazon Bedrock to enforce safety, security, and the responsible use of AI.
Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. You can ask questions about AWS architecture, your AWS resources, best practices, documentation, support, and more. Amazon Q is constantly updating its capabilities so your questions get the most contextually relevant and actionable answers.
When used in an integrated development environment (IDE), Amazon Q provides software development assistance. Amazon Q can chat about code, provide inline code completions, generate net new code, scan your code for security vulnerabilities, and make code upgrades and improvements, such as language updates, debugging, and optimizations.
Amazon Q is powered by Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that makes foundation models (FMs) available through an API. The model that powers Amazon Q has been augmented with high quality AWS content to get you more complete, actionable, and referenced answers to accelerate your building on AWS.
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This is the documentation for Amazon Q Developer. If you are looking for documentation for Amazon Q Business, see the Amazon Q Business User Guide.
Get started with Amazon Q Developer
To quickly get started using Amazon Q, you can access it in the following ways:
- AWS apps and websites
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Chatting with Amazon Q Developer in the AWS Management Console and AWS Console Mobile Application is now the AWS assistant. For more information, see the AWS assistant User Guide. On the AWS Marketing website, it's now Ask AWS. On the AWS Documentation website, it's now the AWS documentation assistant.
- IDEs
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Download the Amazon Q extension and use your AWS Builder ID (no AWS account required) to sign in for free.
Download Amazon Q in Visual Studio Code
Download Amazon Q in JetBrains IDEs
Download Amazon Q in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
Download Amazon Q in Eclipse IDEs (Preview)From your IDE, choose the Amazon Q icon to start chatting or initiate a development workflow. For more information, see Installing the Amazon Q Developer extension or plugin in your IDE.
- Amazon Q Developer in chat applications
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Add the AmazonQDeveloperAccess managed policy to your IAM identity and channel guardrails for Microsoft Teams or Slack applications. For more information, see Chatting with Amazon Q Developer in chat applications.
Amazon Q Developer pricing
Amazon Q Developer is available through a Free tier and the Amazon Q Developer Pro subscription. For
more information, see Amazon Q Developer pricing
