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What it does
Amazon Q is AWS's generative AI assistant family for enterprise information work and software development.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Free plan
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Paid from
3Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
API
AWS publishes an Amazon Q Business API Reference describing operations, parameters, responses and common errors.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
App integrations
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Mobile apps
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Agentic coding
The Developer agent can inspect a codebase, create a multi-file implementation plan and execute approved code changes and tests.Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Browser extension functions
The Q Business extension summarizes pages, answers questions about pages or files, and supports content creation, translation, categorization and data analysis.Read 14 Oct 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com
Business capabilities
Q Business answers questions, summarizes and generates content, and completes tasks using enterprise data and permissions.Read 14 Oct 2026 · press.aboutamazon.com
CLI transition
AWS documentation says the Amazon Q CLI has become the Kiro CLI.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Code customization
Organizations can customize Developer with internal libraries, APIs, coding standards and architectural patterns.Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Code review
Developer reviews complete projects or individual files for security and quality issues using generative and rule-based detectors.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Code suggestions
Developer provides real-time suggestions from snippets through full functions in more than 25 programming languages.Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Company facts
LinkedIn lists AWS as founded in 2006, headquartered in Seattle and employing more than 10,001 people.Read 14 Oct 2026 · am.linkedin.com
Company legal entity
AWS identifies Amazon Web Services, Inc. as a contracting party and gives its Seattle address as 410 Terry Avenue North.Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Console-to-Code
Developer can capture AWS console actions and turn workflows into reusable deployment code.Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Developer capabilities
Q Developer answers AWS questions, generates and explains code, debugs, performs security scans, upgrades applications and helps operate AWS workloads.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Documentation depth
AWS provides separate Business and Developer user guides, a Business API reference and a Developer detector library.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Enterprise connectors
Q Business lists connectors for S3, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, SharePoint, OneDrive, Google Drive, Gmail, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Box, Dropbox and others.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
File uploads
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
IDE support sunset
AWS plans to discontinue support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins on April 30, 2027.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Image generation
NoRead 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Launch date
AWS announced Amazon Q general availability on April 30, 2024.Read 14 Oct 2026 · press.aboutamazon.com
Limit: G2 sample size
G2 says Amazon Q has too few reviews on its profile to provide buying insight.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limit: governance and legacy connections
Gartner pages cite missing governance templates and legacy database connection obstacles.Read 14 Oct 2026 · gartner.com
Limit: response consistency
The same G2 reviewer reported slow responses, weak conversational memory and difficulty relating files in different directories.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Limit: specificity and options
A Capterra reviewer said Q struggles with very specific questions and offers fewer alternatives than competing AI tools.Read 14 Oct 2026 · capterra.com
Limit: support and billing complaints
Trustpilot's review summary highlights complaints about reaching human support, ineffective automated help, unexpected billing and account suspensions.Read 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com
Model foundation
Q runs on Amazon Bedrock, routes work across multiple foundation models and inherits Bedrock safety controls.Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Praise: AWS integration
A verified G2 reviewer praised deep AWS integration, productivity gains, automation of code migrations and data analysis, and permission-aware security.Read 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Praise: governed enterprise search
Gartner reviewers praised policy knowledge bases, QuickSight dashboard generation, Jira integration and access-controlled retrieval.Read 14 Oct 2026 · gartner.com
Praise: programming assistance
InfoWorld's hands-on review found Q useful for code completion, whole-function generation and vulnerability scanning, especially for experienced programmers.Read 14 Oct 2026 · infoworld.com
Praise: speed and AWS automation
Capterra reviewers described fast answers, automatic task execution and useful AWS-service integration.Read 14 Oct 2026 · capterra.com
Q Apps
Q Apps lets employees create shareable generative AI applications from natural-language descriptions or existing Q conversations without coding.Read 14 Oct 2026 · press.aboutamazon.com
Rating on Capterra
4.0 out of 5 from 2 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · capterra.com
Rating on Chrome Web Store
5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratingsRead 14 Oct 2026 · chromewebstore.google.com
Rating on G2
5.0 out of 5 from 1 reviewRead 14 Oct 2026 · g2.com
Rating on Gartner Peer Insights Business
4.4 out of 5 from 270 ratingsRead 14 Oct 2026 · gartner.com
Rating on Gartner Peer Insights Developer
4.4 out of 5 from 510 ratingsRead 14 Oct 2026 · gartner.com
Rating on Software Advice
4.0 out of 5 from 2 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · softwareadvice.com
Rating on Trustpilot
1.3 out of 5 from 430 reviewsRead 14 Oct 2026 · trustpilot.com
SDK and extensibility
The Developer CLI uses native and MCP-server tools to read and write local files, call AWS APIs and run shell commands.Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Security model
AWS documents shared-responsibility security, data protection, IAM, compliance validation, resilience, infrastructure security and PrivateLink for Q Developer.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com
Team workspace
YesRead 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Web search
NoRead 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Workflow integrations
Q Business integrations include Chrome, Edge and Firefox extensions plus Slack, Teams, Outlook and Word, with some limited to Pro.Read 14 Oct 2026 · docs.aws.amazon.com

Plans and prices

Amazon Q Developer Free Tier Free 50 agentic requests/month · 1,000 Java-upgrade lines/month · limited advanced features Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Developer Pro Tier $19 a month billed monthly 4,000 lines of code per month per user pooled at account level Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Business Lite $3 a month billed monthly Responses up to approximately one page Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Business Pro $20 a month billed monthly Responses up to approximately seven pages Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Business Consumption $200 a month billed monthly 30,000 units per month · 2 units per ChatSync API call or embedded prompt Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Business Starter Index Price not published 5 units per application · 20,000 documents or 200 MB extracted text per unit · 100 connector hours per month per unit Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Business Starter Index Priced on request 5 units per application · 20,000 documents or 200 MB extracted text per unit · 100 connector hours per month per unit Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Business Enterprise Index $0.26 a month 20,000 documents or 200 MB extracted text per unit · 100 connector hours per month per unit Read 20 Sep 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q in Connect chat Free per chat message agent suggested solutions and connected-knowledge search; customer self-service conversations Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q in Connect voice $0.01, paid once per voice minute agent assistance or customer self-service Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q Business Lite $3 a month per user/month basic questions · permission-aware responses Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
Amazon Q in QuickSight Reader $3 a month per user/month interactive dashboards · pixel-perfect reports · downloads · personalized alerts Read 14 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com

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