Amazon Q Developer
AWS's AI coding assistant with agentic capabilities, security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code generation. Evolved from Amazon CodeWhisperer.
Overview
Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI-powered coding assistant that evolved from Amazon CodeWhisperer. It provides intelligent code suggestions, security scanning, and infrastructure-as-code generation with deep integration into AWS services. Note: End of support is planned for April 2027, with functionality migrating to AWS Kiro IDE.
Key Features
Amazon Q Developer offers code generation, security vulnerability scanning, AWS service integration, and infrastructure-as-code templates. It can generate CloudFormation templates, optimize AWS costs, and provide best practice recommendations.
Use Cases
AWS infrastructure code generation, security-focused development, cloud-native application building, and infrastructure automation.