You can now use Amazon Q inline in your IDE, without ever touching the mouse or using copy and paste. Press ⌘+I (Ctrl+I on Windows) to trigger inline chat. Describe a function or feature you’d like to develop and Amazon Q will generate and display a code diff that inserts new code at the cursor position. Press Enter to accept and apply the diff, or Escape to reject it. Alternatively you select a block of code (maybe even the entire file) then press ⌘+I (Ctrl+I on Windows) to provide instructions on how to refactor the selected code. You will see a diff against the selected code and can press Enter to accept and apply the diff.

When you start a shell interface in the AWS console, you now have automatic access to Amazon Q powered autocomplete suggestions, natural-language-to-code translation, and inline documentation.

You can now record your actions in the EC2, VPC, and RDS console, and automatically generate the CLI commands, Cloud Development Kit app, or CloudFormation template to recreate what you did. This new feature will assist with automation and the adoption of infrastructure as code.

When chatting with Amazon Q about your AWS resources, you can now click on links to jump directly to the referenced resource or resource list. Try it out by opening Amazon Q in the AWS console and asking a question like “what EC2 instances are running?”

Amazon Q is now allowed to generate longer code snippets (>20 lines of code) when chatting in the AWS console chat and AWS documentation. This update is accompanied by code references. When generated code appears similar to open source training data, you will now be able to see the attributed reference.  

When chatting with your workspace you can now ask questions that reference specific files. For example: @workspace what does factory.ts do? To try it out use the @workspace keyword in the IDE chat prompt, while also including a specific file name from your project.

For software development organizations that require auditing, debugging, analytics, or compliance, you can now enable prompt logging. On each chat or inline code completion, both the outbound prompt content as well as the response content that was returned will be logged into an S3 bucket. To query this data, consider using Amazon Athena.  

Previously, Q Developer Agent required human intervention to review and approve a work plan for how to write the code. We have made a significant internal improvement to how Q Developer Agent functions. It now combines the planning and coding phase, and works in iterations. This allows it to adapt on the fly and autonomously solve problems without direct human guidance. You will see increased accuracy and quality of generated code. Update to the latest version of the Q Developer IDE extension and use /dev to try it out.

As an administrator of Amazon Q Developer you can now see additional status about subscription status and subscribed applications, when viewing users in the Amazon Q Developer console.

Amazon Q Developer can help you troubleshoot errors from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and AWS Lambda. Generating these error remediation recommendations is now approximately 4x faster.

When you use /dev to describe a feature you want to develop, Amazon Q Developer creates a plan, then a code diff that delivers on that plan. We have made a significant internal improvement to Amazon Q Developer to improve how closely the code diff adheres to the plan. You should now see more complete code diffs, with fewer missed files.

You can now receive security scan findings for your Kotlin, Scala, and JSX code, through the Amazon Q Developer IDE extension. We have launched 26 Kotlin, 38 Scala, and 161 JSX rules. 

Previously Amazon Q Developer chat in your IDE was aware of your currently open file, but did not consider all project files. You can now add @workspace to chat messages. Amazon Q Developer will then consider all code files in the current project. Try out questions such as “@workspace what does this codebase do?” or “where does this @workspace implement authentication and authorization?”.

When you open the Amazon Q chat panel within the AWS console, you can now query resources on your AWS account with statements such as “list the EC2 instances in this region” or “show me the open ports on security group X”

Connect Amazon Q Developer to your organization's private code repositories to create customizations that will modify how inline code recommendation and chat function. Amazon Q Developer can now learn your org's coding style, write code snippets that utilize your private internal libraries, and better understand the overall structure of existing internal codebases.

Chat with Amazon Q, generate code, and debug error messages inside of Amazon SageMaker Studio. As a data science or ML engineer you will benefit from Amazon Q assistance throughout the machine learning development process.

Amazon Q is now generally available for Visual Studio 2022. Use Amazon Q Chat to help author, explain, refactor, fix, and optimize code. Run security scans on C# code to catch security vulnerabilities.

Amazon Q Developer Agent now has increased understanding of the following programming languages: C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, and TypeScript. We have made internal improvements to the syntax parser that allows Q Developer Agent to understand large codebases. This will enable improved code diffs that stick to the feature development plan.

Amazon Q Developer is now available in the AWS Console, and as part of the AWS Toolkit installed in Visual Studio Code, and JetBrains IDE’s.

Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer Individual tier that’s free to use for all developers.