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Amazon Q Developer

AWS-native AI coding assistant with deep cloud-service knowledge.

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About Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer (formerly CodeWhisperer) is AWS's coding assistant. Knows AWS APIs cold and can write IaC (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform) confidently. Free tier is generous for individual developers; Pro tier adds enterprise context and IAM compliance scanning.

Key features

  • AWS-aware code generation
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform)
  • Security and IAM compliance scanning
  • VS Code, JetBrains, AWS Console support
  • Chat about your AWS environment

Pros & limitations

Pros

  • Best assistant for AWS-heavy workloads
  • Generous free tier
  • Compliance scanning is genuinely useful

Limitations

  • Weaker than Cursor / Copilot for non-AWS code
  • Tied to AWS ecosystem
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