Stage 01 / 07·Platform EngineerInfrastructure Engineer·13 tools

Provision. Design, codify, and instantiate cloud infrastructure using IaC and automation.

Before anything runs, something has to exist. Tools indexed below help platform teams automate or augment the work in this stage.

AI Assistants for this stage

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Coding assistants, IDEs, and terminal tools that aren't tied to a single stage but are commonly used by platform engineers working in provision.

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Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Web Services

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AWS-native AI coding assistant with deep integration for IAM, CloudFormation, CDK, and Terraform patterns.

Freemium· free tierAI Enhanced
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Amp Code

Amp

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Terminal coding agent with multi-model routing and specialized subagents for complex infrastructure tasks.

PaidAI Native
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Bito

Bito

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Multi-repo codebase knowledge graph available via MCP, providing system context to AI coding agents across repositories.

PaidAI Native
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Claude Code

Anthropic

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Terminal-native coding agent that edits files, runs commands, and manages git workflows with deep codebase reasoning.

PaidAI Native
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Codebuddy

Tencent Cloud

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Tencent AI code editor with multi-file agentic generation, MCP support, and programmatic Agent SDK for custom workflows.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Codeium / Windsurf

Codeium (Windsurf)

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Free, fast AI completion plus Windsurf, an agentic IDE. Cascade is its agent: reads the codebase, plans, edits, verifies. Supports 70+ IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains, and Neovim via plugin. Self-hosted and air-gapped option for regulated teams. Now operating under the Windsurf brand as the flagship product.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Continue

Continue Dev, Inc.

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Open-source VS Code and JetBrains extension connecting any LLM for chat, autocomplete, and agentic coding.

Open sourceAI Native
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Cursor

Anysphere

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AI-first IDE forked from VS Code, by Anysphere. Tab completion is the headline (deep multi-file edit predictions), plus Composer for repo-wide changes, agent mode, and chat that understands the whole codebase via embeddings. Bring-your-own model (Claude, GPT-5, Gemini). Privacy mode keeps your code out of training.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Devin

Cognition Labs

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Autonomous AI software engineer that plans, codes, tests, and ships from a cloud environment or terminal.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Factory.ai

Factory

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Agentic platform deploying autonomous Droids across desktop, CLI, and cloud for enterprise-scale software tasks.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Gemini CLI

Google

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Open-source terminal agent with 1M token context, multimodal support, and generous free daily usage limits.

Open sourceAI Native
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GitHub Copilot

GitHub (Microsoft)

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AI pair programmer from GitHub. Inline completions, multi-line suggestions, slash commands, chat for explaining and refactoring, and agent mode that can author PRs end-to-end. Trained on public code with enterprise filters for license-safe output. Available in VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, Visual Studio, and the GitHub web UI.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Kilo Code

Kilo

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Open-source AI coding agent for VS Code, JetBrains, and CLI with 500+ models at provider rates and zero markup.

Open sourceAI Native
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Qoder

Alibaba Cloud

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Alibaba Cloud agentic IDE with Quest Mode for spec-to-code delivery and 100K-file context retrieval.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Qodo

Qodo

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Enterprise AI code-review platform with in-IDE agents, PR automation, and multi-repo context engine.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Tabnine

Tabnine

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Enterprise AI coding assistant with on-prem and air-gapped deployment, zero data retention, and organizational context.

PaidAI Native
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Trae

ByteDance

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ByteDance agentic IDE with autonomous project building, multi-model switching, and free frontier model access.

Freemium· free tierAI Native
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Warp

Warp

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Rust-based AI terminal with natural-language command generation, agentic workflows, and team collaboration.

Open sourceAI Native