Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement
Amazon is ending support for Amazon Q Developer IDE plugins and paid subscriptions by April 30, 2027, encouraging users to transition to its new agentic development environment, Kiro. The company cites the need for AI tools that understand full project contexts as the reason for the shift, introducing Kiro as a purpose-built platform for spec-driven development. Existing Q Developer users will retain access during the transition period, while new signups end on May 15, 2026, and certain model updates will be exclusive to Kiro.
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Amazon Q Developer end-of-support announcement by Ankit Sharma and Brian Beach on 30 APR 2026 in Amazon Q, Amazon Q Developer Permalink Share When we launched Amazon Q Developer, our goal was to bring AI assistance directly into the developer workflow. Customers adopted Q Developer across VS Code, JetBrains, Eclipse, and Visual Studio, using it for code generation, debugging, and chat-based guidance. Q Developer proved that AI belongs in the inner loop of software development. Over the past year, we’ve learned that the most impactful AI developer experiences go far beyond code generation and completion. Developers need AI that understands their entire project: the architecture, the requirements, the tests, and the intent behind the code. It requires a purpose-built environment.
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