Amazon Q Developer
Integration · AWS-heavy projects, enterprise teams on Bedrock, architectural guidance
At a glance
| Pricing | Freemium |
| Setup effort | Low |
| Released | 2024 |
| Open source | No |
| Interface | In-editor |
| Privacy | Sent to provider |
| Model choice | Fixed |
| Context handling | Indexed RAG |
| Compatibility | VS Code, JetBrains, AWS Console |
| Capabilities | Inline completion, Chat, Multi-file edits, Agent mode, AWS best practices, Security scanning |
What Amazon Q Developer does
Inline completion, Chat, Multi-file edits, Agent mode, AWS best practices, Security scanning
Best for
AWS-heavy projects, enterprise teams on Bedrock, architectural guidance
Works well with
LLM Provider / Model
Agent / Orchestration
Conflicts & caveats
- Amazon Q Developer does not officially support Cursor — use VS Code or JetBrains.
- Replit has its own built-in AI Agent — external integrations like Amazon Q Developer cannot run inside the Replit web IDE.
- Amazon Q Developer does not officially support Xcode. Use GitHub Copilot for Xcode or Direct API.
- Amazon Q Developer has limited or no official Android Studio support. Use GitHub Copilot or JetBrains AI Assistant.
- Void Editor is BYO-API-key first — Amazon Q Developer runs as an extension on top, which can work but isn't the intended Void workflow.
- Lapce has a small plugin ecosystem; Amazon Q Developer may not have an official plugin yet.
- Positron is VS Code-based but tuned for R/Python data science — Amazon Q Developer may install but is not officially supported.
- Amazon Q Developer does not officially support RStudio — use direct API calls or the rstudio.cloud Copilot integration.
- Amazon Q Developer does not officially support Spyder — use the direct API.
- Cursor Mobile only runs Cursor-managed agents and background tasks — local-only integrations like Amazon Q Developer cannot run on the phone.
- Amazon Q Developer does not officially support Eclipse — Copilot, Tabnine, and Codeium are the main supported options.
- Amazon Q Developer does not officially support Apache NetBeans — Copilot and Tabnine are the main supported options.
- @codebase (Cursor) only works with Cursor built-in integration (yours is Amazon Q Developer).
- Continue's codebase indexing only works when the integration is Continue.dev (yours is Amazon Q Developer).
- Windsurf codebase indexing only works with Windsurf Cascade integration (yours is Amazon Q Developer).
- Aider architect mode requires the Aider integration (yours is Amazon Q Developer).
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