Amazon Q Developer
AWS's sunsetting AI coding assistant — Kiro is the successor
Overview
AWS's AI coding assistant (formerly CodeWhisperer), now sunsetting: new signups closed May 15, 2026 and IDE plugins/subscriptions reach end of support on April 30, 2027. Kiro, AWS's spec-driven agent IDE, is the designated successor.
Pricing
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- 50 agentic requests/month
- IDE and CLI access
- Latest available Claude models
- Higher agentic request limits
- Java/.NET transforms (4,000 LOC/mo)
- IAM Identity Center + admin dashboards
- IP indemnity
Use cases
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Amazon Q Developer is on the clock: AWS closed new signups on May 15, 2026 and ends support for the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions on April 30, 2027, steering everyone toward Kiro, its spec-driven successor. Until then it remains a competent assistant for teams living inside AWS — code completion, multi-file agent tasks, security scanning, and Java/.NET transforms with IAM and CloudWatch context that generic copilots lack. The free tier (50 agentic requests a month) and $19 Pro seat still work for existing users, but Opus 4.6 and newer coding models were pulled from Q Developer Pro in May 2026 and reserved for Kiro, so the capability gap only widens from here. Existing AWS shops should plan the Kiro migration now rather than ride out the deprecation window; nobody new should adopt it.
What people say
April 30, 2027 is the date every Q Developer shop should have circled. AWS announced end of support in April 2026: new signups closed on May 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 and newer coding models came off Q Developer Pro on May 29 (they're now exclusive to Kiro, the spec-driven successor), and the IDE plugins and paid subscriptions shut down entirely in April 2027.
Until then, Q Developer keeps doing what it was always best at: coding with AWS context. Completions and agent tasks understand IAM policies, CloudWatch, and CDK in a way generic copilots don't, the security scanning is solid, and the Java/.NET transformation agent — up to 4,000 lines a month on Pro — has real fans among teams dragging Java 8 estates forward. The free tier still includes 50 agentic requests a month, and existing Pro subscribers keep their $19 seats through the sunset.
Developer sentiment was always split. On AWS-specific work — infrastructure-as-code, Lambda, console troubleshooting — users rated it above Copilot; on general-purpose coding it trailed Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code in most head-to-heads, and the model removals widen that gap monthly. The practical question now is migration, not adoption. Kiro offers a config auto-copy for CLI users and a near-identical Code OSS environment for VS Code users; JetBrains users get a rougher path via ACP. Kiro's pricing runs from a free tier (50 requests) through a $19 Pro up to a $200 Power tier, so budget parity is roughly there. There is no scenario in which a new team should start on Q Developer in mid-2026.
Summary of public user & expert reviews, compiled by RECATOOLS.
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