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Srinivasulu Paranduru
Srinivasulu Paranduru

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Getting started with Amazon Q Developer

Introduction:
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.

Different IDE's where you can start using Amazon Q Developer:

  • JetBrains
  • VS Code
  • Visual Studio
  • Command Line
  • Eclipse

Using Amazon Q in VS Code:

  • Open Visual studio code --> Extensions -> search for Amazon Q and then install

  • We need to choose one options for Amazon Q to login

  • I have choosen option1 and popup window like below and you need to Allow Access

  • Close browser and ready to use from VS Code

Pricing Overview
Amazon Q Developer reimagines the experience across the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), making it faster and easier to build, secure, manage, and optimize applications on or off of AWS. Amazon Q Developer offers two pricing tiers.

Upgrade to Kiro
The Amazon Q Developer CLI has been rebranded to Kiro.

  • What does this rebrand mean for you? If you're a user with a personal account: Optionally upgrade the Q CLI and Amazon Q extension in your IDE to Kiro to take advantage of all the updates that will only be available in Kiro going forward
  • If you're an administrator of Amazon Q Developer Pro subscriptions: Start using the Kiro console to manage your users' subscriptions. The Kiro console is a rebrand of the Amazon Q Developer console, with all the same functionality

References:

  1. https://aws.amazon.com/q/developer/getting-started/#ide
  2. https://kiro.dev/docs/

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