The AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code is an open-source extension designed for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) editor. This tool assists developers in developing, debugging, and deploying serverless applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS) services.
Amazon Q
Amazon Q is a conversational assistant to help build, maintain, and transform applications. From the Integrated Development Environment (IDE), Amazon Q can:
- Answer questions about AWS.
- Explain common programming concepts.
- Explain the meaning of command lines or code functions.
- Write unit tests and code.
- Debug and troubleshoot code.
- Optimize code.

Amazon CodeWhisperer
An AI-powered productivity enhancement tool for Integrated Development Environment (IDE) environments.
- Real-Time Code Suggestions: Automatically suggests code in over 15 languages, including Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Terraform).
- AWS Service Usage Optimization: Code suggestions optimized for AWS APIs such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).
- Integrated Security Scanning: Detect hard-to-find security vulnerabilities in code and provide immediate remediation suggestions.
