A generative AI-powered assistant designed for work and developers within AWS.
Amazon Q is AWS's brand for generative AI assistants, announced at re:Invent in November 2023 and made generally available on April 30, 2024. It split into two products: Amazon Q Developer, a coding assistant that absorbed the earlier Amazon CodeWhisperer, and Amazon Q Business, an enterprise assistant that answers questions from a company's internal data while respecting existing permissions.
Both were built on Amazon Bedrock, routing requests to different underlying models rather than letting the user pick one. The problem Amazon Q set out to solve was narrow: bring AI assistance natively into AWS workflows, for both writing code and finding company information, without leaving the AWS ecosystem.
That plan changed in 2026. AWS is retiring both flagship products in favor of purpose-built successors — Kiro for coding, Amazon Quick for business data.
When it was open to new signups, Amazon Q Developer was used inside VS Code, JetBrains, and the CLI for inline code completion, chat-based debugging, security scanning, and automated Java and .NET version upgrades. Amazon Q Business was used to build an internal chatbot over company documents, wikis, and tools like Salesforce, Slack, and Gmail, so employees could ask questions in plain language and get permission-aware answers.
Neither product was built with a one-person business primarily in mind. Q Developer's pricing and admin controls assume a team large enough to need centralized dashboards, and Q Business's index-capacity fees are structured around indexing a real company's document volume, not a single founder's Google Drive.
As of today, this section is largely historical: new signups for Q Developer closed on May 15, 2026, and Q Business stops accepting new customers on July 31, 2026 — about two and a half weeks from now.
Answers general questions and diagnoses common errors directly inside the AWS Management Console. This piece is unaffected by the Q Developer sunset and keeps working for any AWS account.
Generated multi-file code changes, wrote tests and documentation, and automated Java and .NET version upgrades against a monthly lines-of-code allowance. New users can no longer subscribe to this.
Ran static analysis for vulnerabilities and secrets across your codebase, included on both the free and paid tiers. Also frozen to existing subscribers only.
Answered questions from indexed company documents and connected tools without exposing data a given employee wasn't already authorized to see. Migrating to Amazon Quick preserves this index.
Connected out of the box to Slack, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, and Amazon S3, among others. Amazon Quick expands this connector list further, including Google Workspace and Zoom.
Engineering teams already standardized on AWS who used Q Developer for Java modernization and console troubleshooting, and large organizations with enterprise data scattered across many internal systems that used Q Business as an internal search layer.
None realistic for new adopters right now a solo founder evaluating tools today would be better served starting directly with Kiro or Amazon Quick, both of which are built for the current moment rather than a legacy migration.
Inline code completion, agentic multi-file coding, Q&A chat in IDE and CLI, security scanning and secrets detection, Java and .NET code transformation, reference tracking for license compliance, admin dashboard (Pro tier), IP indemnity (Pro tier)
Permission-aware Q&A over enterprise data, Amazon Q Apps (no-code app builder), 50+ data source connectors, anonymous/embedded web chat, Slack/Teams/Outlook integrations, Amazon Q in QuickSight (BI assistant)
Amazon Q in QuickSight (natural-language BI), Amazon Q in Connect (contact center agent assist), Amazon Q in AWS Supply Chain
Amazon Q Developer: Free tier includes 50 agentic requests per month and 1,000 lines of code for transformation. Pro tier is $19/user/month, with higher limits, an admin dashboard, and IP indemnity. New subscriptions have not been available since May 15, 2026.
Amazon Q Business: Lite is $3/user/month for basic Q&A. Pro is $20/user/month, adding Amazon Q Apps and BI access. Both also carry a separate index-capacity fee — a Starter index runs about $0.14/hour, and a production-scale Enterprise index indexing a million documents can run roughly $9,500/month on its own. New customer signups close July 31, 2026.
If you're an existing user: Q Developer subscribers keep IDE access through April 30, 2027, though the newest Claude models were removed from Q Developer Pro on May 29, 2026 in favor of Kiro. Q Business customers keep full support and bug fixes indefinitely, but new feature development has stopped, and AWS recommends migrating to Amazon Quick, which can reuse an existing Q Business search index.
⚠️ Worth knowing: if you want to try Amazon Q Business at all, you have until July 31, 2026 — after that, Amazon Quick is the only path in for new AWS customers.
Prices and dates last verified July 2026, based on AWS's official pricing pages and end-of-support announcement.
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