Amazon Q documentation hub — AI assistants for developers, business users, and enterprise workflows.


Overview

Amazon Q is AWS’s family of generative AI assistants built on Amazon Bedrock, designed for different personas and use cases.

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Product Family

Amazon Q Developer

For: Software developers, DevOps engineers, data engineers

Key features:

  • Code generation and autocomplete
  • AWS expertise and troubleshooting
  • Security scanning and fixes
  • Agentic coding (SWE-Bench leader)
  • Application transformation (.NET, Java)

🟡 Free tier available (50 agentic chats/month)


Amazon Q Business

For: Business users, analysts, enterprise teams

Key features:

  • Unified search across enterprise systems
  • Amazon Q Apps (lightweight app creation)
  • 50+ cross-application integrations
  • Workflow automation

🔴 AWS account required ($3-20/user/month)


Amazon Q Apps

For: Business users creating automations

Key features:

  • Natural language app creation
  • No coding required
  • Shareable across organization
  • Built into Q Business Pro

🔴 Requires Q Business Pro ($20/user/month)


Access Requirements

ProductAccess Level
Q Developer Free🟡 Free tier (no credit card)
Q Developer Pro🔴 $19/user/month
Q Business Lite🔴 $3/user/month
Q Business Pro🔴 $20/user/month (includes Q Apps)

Study Path

  1. Start: Amazon-Q-Overview - Understand the Q family
  2. For Developers: Amazon-Q-Developer - Coding assistant
  3. For Business: Amazon-Q-Business - Enterprise features
  4. App Creation: Amazon-Q-Apps - Build automations

Comparison Quick Reference

FeatureQ DeveloperQ Business
Target usersDevelopersBusiness users
Code generation✅ Core feature❌ Not applicable
Enterprise search❌ Not applicable✅ Core feature
AWS expertise✅ Deep integration⚠️ Via console Q
Free tier✅ Available❌ Paid only
App creation❌ Not included✅ Q Apps (Pro)