Getting started with Amazon Q Developer

Amazon Q Developer is available wherever you work—in popular IDEs, on the command line, in the AWS Management Console, GitLab Duo with Amazon Q, and in the Amazon Q Developer transformation web experience. Get started on the expansive AWS Free Tier or explore Pro Tier pricing.

Amazon Q Developer in the IDE

Amazon Q Developer is available in Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Eclipse (preview) and the JetBrains family of integrated development environments (IDEs). Get started with Amazon Q in just a few minutes.
1

Install

Install the Amazon Q extension for your editor.

2

Authenticate

Amazon Q Developer Free Tier users: Create or sign in with Builder ID. Amazon Q Developer Professional Tier users: Sign in with AWS IAM Identity Center.

3

Develop software, chat inline, get suggestions, refactor, and transform

Amazon Q can be found in the activity bar in VS Code or the tool window anchored to the top-right space in IntelliJ IDEA.

GitLab Duo with Amazon Q (preview)

GitLab Duo with Amazon Q is available in preview for GitLab Ultimate self-managed customers. Visit the offering page to learn more.

Amazon Q Developer in the console

1

Sign in to the console or create a free AWS account

Take the tutorial: Create your AWS account.

2

Get expert assistance for your AWS resources

To get started, select the Amazon Q icon in the console Home on the right sidebar. Once signed in, you can also get guidance from Amazon Q on the AWS website and in the AWS documentation.

Accessing additional capabilities in the console
Amazon Q can help you perform network troubleshooting by working with VPC Reachability Analyzer to check your connections and inspect your network configuration to identify potential issues. Get started with Amazon Q network troubleshooting.

Selecting Amazon EC2 instances
Amazon Q Developer can help you make quick and cost-effective decisions to find the optimal compute instance type before building your workloads. Amazon Q generates personalized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance type finder, contextualized by your actions in the console. Visit the Amazon EC2 console to get started.

Learn more about Amazon Q Developer use cases in the console. Visit the AWS documentation to learn more about chatting with Amazon Q.

Amazon Q Developer unified web experience for workload transformations

Setup of the Amazon Q Developer transformation web experience
Amazon Q Developer accelerates large-scale enterprise workload transformations, including modernizing .NET Framework applications to cross-platform .NET, mainframe application modernization, VMware workload migration, and modernization from the unified web experience. Visit the documentation for more information.

Setup of Amazon Q Developer
Visit the documentation for more information on the general setup of Amazon Q Developer.