
What is Amazon Q Developer?
Amazon Q Developer (previously Amazon CodeWhisperer) The most capable generative AI鈥損owered assistant for software development. To accelerate building across the entire software development lifecycle, Amazon Q agents can autonomously perform a range of tasks鈥揺verything from implementing features, documenting, testing, reviewing, and refactoring code, to performing software upgrades.
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84 Likeliness to Recommend
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94 Plan to Renew
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83 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+94 Net Emotional Footprint
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Pros
- Saves Time
- Respectful
- Generous Negotitation
- Helps Innovate
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Feature Ratings
Natural Language Generation
Bug Detection
Summarization & Explanation
IDE Integration
Code Completion
Multi-Language Support
Commenting
Refactoring
Unit Tests
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Amazon Q Developer Reviews

Sushil F.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Other
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
Code Generation, Reference Tracking, Security Scan
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Q Developer from other similar products?
Security Focus, Free tier
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Broad Language Support
What do you dislike most about this product?
Broad Language Support
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Focus on AWS Integration, Utilize Security Features
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Rafael M.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Jan 2025
Focused and productive, great assistant
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Q Developer from other similar products?
If you develop with a focus on the AWS system is for you, it optimizes the suggestions to integrate with AWS services
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Fluid integration with AWS environments are very relevant suggestions that are able to speed up development
What do you dislike most about this product?
the limited support for some languages, the dependence on the AWS ecosystem, it lacks a bit of explanations for the generated codes
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are looking for interaction with AWS is with it, make sure it supports the language you use, always have the human opinion, don't depend only on it.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Enables Productivity
- Effective Service
- Inspires Innovation

Gurdeep S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2024
Good code suggestions, scans and AWS Integration.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Amazon Q Developer from other similar products?
Great for integrating with AWS services and has a strong focus on security, as it has an in build security scan feature to identify vulnerabilities in you code.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Integration with AWS APIs like lambda and cloud9 makes it really useful for my project needs.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Is good with code generation but provides less code suggestions and is handy for developers working outside AWS ecosystem.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you are working on AWS ecosystem, this tool is a strong choice already, Security scan feature might also come handy for big projects to manage vulnerabilities and it also includes a test free version to see if it fits your project needs.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing