Amazon Q Developer is an AI-driven coding assistant built on AWS that helps developers write, debug, and optimize code securely within IDEs and AWS environments.

A code assistant that blends intelligent code suggestions with AWS-specific guidance including security checks, deployment scripting, and debugging within your IDE.

Amazon Q Developer uses large language models trained on code and AWS best practices. It offers real-time completion, in-line security alerts, code review summaries, and infrastructure-as-code generation—all within IDEs like VS Code and JetBrains.

Core Features & Capabilities

Built for AWS developers and DevOps engineers, it aims to improve code quality and deployment speed while maintaining AWS best practices and compliance.

• Context-aware code completion for multiple languages
• Inline security warnings and vulnerability detection
• AI-generated code reviews and summary explanations
• Infrastructure-as-code snippet creation for AWS services
• Works within VS Code, JetBrains, and web IDEs
• AWS best-practice adherence and compliance checks

Why Developers Choose Amazon Q

Enable Q Developer in your IDE via AWS Toolkit, configure permissions, and start coding with AI suggestions. Logs, security alerts, and generated IaC templates appear inline. Upgrade for team and enterprise features.

“Amazon Q Developer accelerates secure coding on AWS by blending AI coding assistance with built-in infrastructure and compliance checks.”

Getting Started with Amazon Q

By combining AWS best-practice guidance and AI code generation within the IDE, Amazon Q Developer helps development teams ship faster with confidence in security and compliance.