Amazon Q Developer

AWS

Vendor

AWS coding assistant integrated into IDE workflows with agentic request limits and AWS-native context.

Proprietary

Strengths

Practitioner note

Best fit for AWS-heavy engineering teams that want coding help tied closely to cloud context, IAM, and internal AWS workflows.

Reviewed 2026-05-26

PartialData residency

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

YesDeployment model

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

YesAudit logging

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

YesSOC 2

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

YesISO 27001

Amazon Q Developer ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified.

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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