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Amazon Q Developer

AWS

Vendor

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

Curated by Tiberiu ArvaStale

Proprietary
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Strengths

  • AWS-native development fit
  • Free tier
  • Enterprise plans available

Practitioner note

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

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 2026-08-23

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

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