Overview
Amazon Q Developer is a generative AI-powered assistant designed to enhance software development on AWS, providing real-time code suggestions, automation, and infrastructure management across various environments.
Key Features:
- Real-time code suggestions for snippets, functions, and CLI completions
- Autonomous agents for feature implementation, code documentation, and project bootstrapping
- Code transformation tools for upgrading legacy Java applications
- Vulnerability scanning and optimization for code reliability and security
- Seamless integration with popular IDEs, command line, and AWS Management Console
Use Cases:
- Accelerate development with context-aware code completions and suggestions
- Automate complex tasks like code transformation and project setup
- Manage AWS resources, diagnose errors, and optimize infrastructure through natural language prompts
- Scan codebases for vulnerabilities and write unit tests automatically
- Customize code recommendations by securely connecting to private repositories
Benefits:
- Increases developer productivity by streamlining the entire development lifecycle
- Improves code quality with built-in security scanning and optimization
- Offers flexible integration across IDEs, terminals, and AWS Console
- Ensures data privacy with enterprise-grade security and no data used for model training
- Supports seamless collaboration with AWS IAM Identity Center and access controls
Capabilities
- Provides inline code suggestions and vulnerability scanning within popular IDEs.
- Offers AI chat and autocomplete functionality in the command line interface.
- Performs autonomous development tasks such as implementing features, documenting, testing, reviewing, and refactoring code.
- Assists in large-scale transformations like Java upgrades, .NET porting, and mainframe modernization.
- Generates and customizes code to accelerate application development.
- Improves code reliability and security through built-in review and validation.
- Answers development and cloud infrastructure questions directly within IDEs or chat.
- Integrates with GitHub and GitLab to streamline code reviews and transformations.
- Provides expert-level AWS guidance on architecture, cost optimization, and incident resolution.
- Supports AWS console operations with in-context help and resource management.
- Enables collaboration through chat tools like Microsoft Teams and Slack.
- Offers code transformation and modernization tools for enterprise migrations.
- Generates analytics and ML pipelines from natural language queries.
- Follows enterprise-grade access controls using AWS IAM Identity Center.
- Ensures user content privacy with no training on proprietary inputs in Pro tier.
- Speeds up full SDLC workflows including build, operate, and transform phases.
- Delivers personalized interactions based on roles, permissions, and coding patterns.
- Supports integration with major IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio.
- Includes a Free Tier with monthly chat, development, and code transformation limits.
- Continuously evolves with new capabilities for workload modernization and agent features.
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