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Working with Amazon Q Developer by using AWS Cloud9

What is Amazon Q?

Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate AWS applications. In the context of an integrated AWS coding environment, Amazon Q can generate code recommendations based on developers' code, as well as their comments in natural language. Amazon Q has the most support for Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, Go, PHP, Rust, Kotlin, and SQL, as well as the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) languages JSON (AWS CloudFormation), YAML (AWS CloudFormation), HCL (Terraform), and CDK (Typescript, Python). It also supports code generation for Ruby, C++, C, Shell, and Scala. For examples of how Amazon Q integrates with AWS Cloud9 and displays code suggestions in the AWS Cloud9 IDE, see Code Examples in the Amazon Q Developer User Guide.

For more information on using Amazon Q with AWS Cloud9, see the Amazon Q Developer User Guide.

AWS Identity and Access Management permissions for AWS Cloud9

For Amazon Q to provide recommendations in the AWS Cloud9 console, you must enable the correct IAM permissions for either your IAM user or role. You must add the codewhisperer:GenerateRecommendations permission, as outlined in the sample IAM policy below:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
    {
      "Sid": "AmazonQDeveloperPermissions",
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Action": ["codewhisperer:GenerateRecommendations"],
      "Resource": "*"
    }
  ]
}

It is best practice to use IAM policies to grant restrictive permissions to IAM principals.