What is Amazon Q Developer?
Amazon Q Developer is the generative AI assistant from AWS for development and operations. In the AWS Management Console, it answers questions about AWS services, gives architecture recommendations, analyzes costs, and supports incident analysis. Through the chat apps for Slack and Microsoft Teams, the same assistant is available right inside the team workflow.
Important for 2026 planning: AWS is ending the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions of Q Developer on April 30, 2027. New signups have not been possible since May 15, 2026. For agentic coding in the IDE and CLI, AWS positions the successor Kiro. The Console and chat experience of Q Developer is unaffected and remains available.
Core Features
- AI chat in the AWS Console: Get answers about services, configurations, and best practices right in the context of the console.
- Architecture and cost guidance: Recommendations for architectures plus analysis and visualization of resource and cost data.
- Incident and troubleshooting help: Analyze error messages, CloudWatch data, and networking issues, and propose solutions.
- Chat in Slack and Teams: The same assistant in collaboration tools, without switching to the console.
- EU data residency: Availability in Europe (Frankfurt) with EU cross-region inference for European requirements.
- Transition to Kiro: Spec-driven development in the agentic IDE and CLI of Kiro for coding workflows.
Typical Use Cases
Operations and cloud management: Teams use Q Developer in the AWS Console to understand services faster, clarify configuration questions, and make costs transparent. Generative AI artifacts visualize resource and cost data.
Incident response: During outages, Q Developer analyzes error messages and telemetry and suggests concrete remediation steps. Through Slack and Teams, the assistant is reachable right in the escalation channel.
Code workflows via Kiro: For AI-assisted development in the IDE and CLI, teams rely on Kiro. Spec-driven development moves from requirement to specification to generated implementation, including tests and documentation.
Benefits
- Deep integration into the AWS Console and first-hand knowledge of AWS services
- AI chat directly in Slack and Microsoft Teams, without switching tools
- EU data residency via Europe (Frankfurt) and EU inference
- Perpetual free tier for getting started, Pro tier without limits
- Clear migration path to Kiro for coding and to AWS Transform for modernization
Integration with innFactory
As an AWS Reseller, innFactory guides you through the changes around Amazon Q Developer: we set up the console and chat assistant for your teams, clarify EU data residency, and plan the transition of your coding workflows to Kiro. For Java upgrades and .NET modernization via AWS Transform, we run migration projects in a structured way and make sure your teams are cleanly switched over before the end of support on April 30, 2027.
Typical Use Cases
Frequently Asked Questions
What can Amazon Q Developer do in 2026?
In the AWS Management Console, Q Developer answers questions about services, gives architecture guidance, analyzes costs, helps with incidents, and explains networking issues. It is also available as chat in Slack and Microsoft Teams. For agentic coding in the IDE and CLI, AWS now points to its successor Kiro.
Is it true that Amazon Q Developer is being discontinued?
Partly. The IDE plugins (VS Code, JetBrains, Visual Studio, Eclipse) and paid subscriptions reach end of support on April 30, 2027. New signups have not been possible since May 15, 2026. Q Developer in the AWS Console and the chat apps for Slack and Teams remain available and are not affected.
What is Kiro and why do I need it?
Kiro is the agentic development environment (IDE and CLI) that AWS positions as the successor to the coding features of Q Developer. Kiro is built around spec-driven development, runs on Code OSS (the VS Code base), and has been generally available since May 2026. Existing VS Code extensions and keybindings carry over.
Is Amazon Q Developer available in the EU?
Yes. Q Developer has been generally available in the Europe (Frankfurt) Region since April 2025. Pro customers can store data in Frankfurt, and inference runs via EU cross-region inference within the EU. This helps meet European data residency requirements.
What does Amazon Q Developer cost?
There is a perpetual free tier with a limited scope (around 50 agentic chat interactions per month and code transformation of up to roughly 1,000 lines per month). The Pro tier is billed per user per month and removes these limits. Current prices are on the AWS pricing page.
What happens to Java and .NET code transformations?
Code transformations move into dedicated services: Java upgrades run via AWS Transform (usage-based billing), and .NET modernization via AWS Transform full-stack Windows modernization. innFactory supports these migration projects as an AWS Reseller.
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