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Amazon Q Developer
AWS’s IDE and CLI coding assistant, combining completion, agentic requests, transformation workflows, and enterprise controls.
Visit Amazon Q Developer ↗Verified ·Aug 23, 2026
- Best for
- AWS-centered teams that want coding assistance tied to Identity Center, policy administration, and application transformation.
- Avoid if
- You want broad model choice, local inference, or an open-source agent harness.
01 / Editorial view
Where it fits
Strengths
- AWS administration and identity integration
- Free individual starting point
- Java and .NET transformation workflows
Limitations
- AWS-managed model strategy
- Some quotas and transformation overages require careful comparison
02 / Workflow
Surfaces and capabilities
- Autocomplete
- Yes
- Chat
- Yes
- Agent
- Yes
- Background agent
- No
- Review
- Yes
- Testing
- Yes
Editors
VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio
Operating systems
macOS, Windows, Linux
Repository hosts
GitHub
Languages
Language-agnostic, Java, .NET
Bring your own key
No
Bring your own model
No
03 / Cost and deployment
What it costs to run
Individual
The perpetual Free tier includes limited monthly agentic requests.
Team
Pro costs $19 per user/month with higher limits and administration.
Enterprise
Pro uses IAM Identity Center for workforce subscription and policy management.
Transformation overages can be billed separately after included lines of code.
04 / Privacy
Data handling
- Code processing
- IDE and CLI context is processed by the managed Amazon Q Developer service.
- Indexing
- Pro can customize suggestions to an organization’s codebase.
- Retention
- Unknown
- Training policy
- Pro content is not used for service improvement or foundation-model training; Free users can opt out.
- Enterprise controls
- IAM Identity Center, Admin dashboards, Policy controls, IP indemnity
05 / Evidence
Primary sources
- Amazon Q Developer pricing ↗Checked Aug 23, 2026pricing, classification, capabilities, privacy.enterprise_controls
- Amazon Q Developer FAQ ↗Checked Aug 23, 2026privacy.training_policy, privacy.code_processing
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