Amazon Q Developer

AWS AI assistant for writing, transforming and securing code in the IDE or command line, integrated with Amazon cloud ecosystem

Development & no-code

Overview

Amazon Q Developer is AWS's AI assistant for developers: code completion, generation from natural language, security review, language version migration (for example Java) and contextual chat, available in AWS Toolkit extensions for VS Code, JetBrains and on the command line. The Free plan, at $0, grants 50 agentic requests per month and access to the latest Claude models in the IDE or CLI. The Pro plan, at $19 per user per month, significantly increases agentic request limits, adds an administration dashboard and usage pooling at the account level, with 4,000 lines of Java transformation included per month then $0.003 per additional line. This pricing adds to existing AWS billing for an organization rather than forming an isolated subscription.

Amazon Q Developer is available in French via aws.amazon.com/fr, with a localized interface and documentation for the French-speaking market. AWS documents its compliance certifications (including GDPR) at the AWS global platform level, applicable to data processed by Q Developer according to the region chosen. The tool integrates with Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, AWS Toolkit, and enterprise chat channels like Slack or Microsoft Teams via Amazon Q Developer in chat applications, with documented APIs for these integrations. The practical limit is that the tool's value depends heavily on already being anchored in the AWS ecosystem: outside this context, the proposition loses interest against more general-purpose assistants, and the Pro tier remains a per-user cost to add to the existing cloud bill.

Our verdict

Best for teams already hosting on AWS who want a code assistant integrated with their cloud infrastructure and existing security tools. Not for you if your stack is not on AWS: most of Q Developer's added value lies in its deep integration with Amazon services.

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