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Amazon Q Developer

AWS

Vendor

AWS coding assistant whose IDE plugins and paid subscriptions reach end of support on April 30, 2027; AWS steers new users to Kiro.

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale

Proprietary
DocsWebsite

Strengths

  • AWS-native development fit
  • Console and chat integrations continue
  • Migration path to Kiro

Practitioner note

Do not start new rollouts. Existing AWS-heavy teams should plan the move to Kiro (IDE/CLI) before April 2027, and to AWS Transform for Java/.NET upgrade work.

Warning

Amazon Q Developer: Announced April 30, 2026: new signups blocked from May 15, 2026 and IDE plugins plus paid subscriptions end support on April 30, 2027. Amazon Q in the AWS console, docs, and Slack/Teams chat is unaffected.

Where it sits in the stack

Listed under Assistants & copilots in the Use layer.

  1. Build & orchestrate
  2. Control plane
  3. Use

Pairs with, from AWS

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Governance posture

Reviewed 2026-05-26
PartialData residency

Pro tier stores in the profile region; free tier defaults US East; EU inference kept in EU.

Source
YesDeployment model

SaaS via IDE plugin / AWS console; no self-hosted option. (saas)

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YesAudit logging

All Pro API calls logged via CloudTrail; configurable S3 delivery.

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YesSOC 2

Amazon Q Developer in scope for AWS SOC 1/2/3.

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YesISO 27001

Amazon Q Developer ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified.

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UnknownISO 42001

AWS ISO 42001 scope names Q Business/Bedrock/Textract/Transcribe; Q Developer not explicitly listed.

UnknownEU AI Act

Assessed limited-risk by product category; no published vendor EU AI Act conformity assessment. (role: limited-risk)

YesLicense risk

Proprietary SaaS; AWS toolchain lock-in. (medium)

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EU AI Act obligations

Risk tier: Limited risk · as of 2026-10-10

Source-backed information mapped from Amazon Q Developer's tracked risk tier — not legal advice. Obligations depend on how your organisation deploys the system; see the full obligation reference and timeline.

Article 4AI literacy

Providers and deployers must take measures to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy in staff and other persons operating AI systems on their behalf.

Applies from

Official text
Article 50Transparency for certain AI systems

People must be informed when they interact with an AI system; synthetic audio, image, video, and text content must be marked as artificially generated, and deepfakes disclosed.

Applies from

Official text

Change history

Source-backed and auto-detected events for this tool, newest first.

  1. DeprecationHigh impact

    AWS announced end of support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on April 30, 2027, blocked new signups from May 15, 2026, and recommended Kiro.

    Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement · AWS DevOps Blog
  2. Auto-detectedHigh impact
    status: active → deprecated

    From snapshot diff 2026-09-13 → 2026-10-10.

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