# Amazon Q

> AWS's AI assistant for writing code and for answering questions about company data.

- Level: Basic
- Topics: AWS, AI
- URL: https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-q/
- In Spanish: [Amazon Q](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/es/amazon-q/)

**Amazon Q** is the name AWS gave, in 2023, to its family of generative AI assistants. Like a chatbot, you ask in plain language and it answers, but each version is connected to a specific kind of work. It runs on large language models served through Amazon Bedrock.

**Amazon Q Developer** is for people who build software. It lives inside code editors like VS Code and JetBrains, in the terminal and in the AWS console. It suggests code as you type, explains unfamiliar code, writes tests, helps fix errors and answers questions like "why is my Lambda function timing out?" using what it can see of your AWS account. It can also carry out longer jobs, like upgrading an old Java application to a newer version.

**Amazon Q Business** is for everyone else at a company. It connects to internal sources like document drives, wikis, ticket systems and Salesforce, and answers questions using that content, respecting who is allowed to see what. Q has also appeared inside other AWS services. AWS keeps reshaping the line-up: in 2025 it launched Kiro, a coding tool, and Amazon Quick, a workplace assistant, which overlap with parts of Q, so expect the names to keep shifting.

## An analogy

A colleague who already knows your company's systems: one desk helps the programmers with their code, the other helps everyone find answers in the company's files.

## Keep in mind

- Q Developer helps write, explain and fix code, and answers AWS questions.
- Q Business answers employees' questions from company data, respecting permissions.
- It runs on models served through Amazon Bedrock.
- AWS product names in this area change often; check the current docs.

## Go deeper

- [What is Amazon Q Developer? (official docs)](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/what-is.html)
- [Amazon Q](https://aws.amazon.com/q/)

## Related terms

- [Generative AI](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/generative-ai/): AI that creates new text, images, audio or code instead of just sorting things.
- [Chatbot](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/chatbot/): A program you talk to by typing or speaking, as if it were a person.
- [Amazon Bedrock](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/amazon-bedrock/): A single AWS service to call AI models from Anthropic, Meta, Amazon and others.
- [IDE](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/ide/): The app where programmers write, run and fix code, with all the tools in one window.
- [Command line](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/command-line/): Controlling a computer by typing text commands instead of clicking icons.
- [Cloud console](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/cloud-console/): The website where you log in to see and manage everything you rent in the cloud.
- [AWS Lambda](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-lambda/): Run a piece of code only when something happens, with no server to manage.
- [AWS account and billing](https://tidbit.legios.com.ar/aws-account-and-billing/): What an AWS account is, how you get charged, and how to avoid a surprise bill.