Amazon Q Developer is AWS's native AI coding assistant covering four surfaces: IDE plugins for VS Code, JetBrains, and Visual Studio; a CLI agent; an AWS Console chat interface; and automated transformation agents for legacy Java and .NET migrations.
The AWS context layer is the product's differentiating characteristic. Q Developer is trained on AWS service taxonomies and, in the Console, reads CloudWatch error context alongside the failing resource — enabling it to propose fixes with correct IAM permissions and service references. The Java transformation agent upgrades Java 8 and 11 codebases to Java 17 or 21; the .NET agent handles Framework-to-.NET 6+ migrations.
Two tiers: Free (Builder ID, no AWS account required, 50 agentic requests/month, 1,000 LOC/month of Java upgrades) and Pro ($19/user/month, IAM Identity Center admin, pooled transformation quotas, IP indemnity). Q Developer is one of several AWS products sharing the "Q" branding.
