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Using AWS Application Composer with Amazon Q Developer

AWS Application Composer from the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code provides an integration with Amazon Q. You can use Amazon Q within Application Composer to generate the infrastructure code for your AWS resources as you design your application.

Amazon Q is a general purpose, machine learning-powered code generator. To learn more, see What is Amazon Q? in the Amazon Q Developer User Guide.

For standard resource and standard component cards, you can use Amazon Q to generate infrastructure code suggestions for your resources.

Amazon Q generating a code suggestion in Application Composer

Standard resource and standard component cards can represent an AWS CloudFormation resource or a collection of AWS CloudFormation resources. To learn more, see Configure and modify cards in Application Composer.

Setting up

To use Amazon Q in Application Composer, you must authenticate with Amazon Q in the Toolkit. For instructions, see Getting started with Amazon Q in VS Code and JetBrains in the Amazon Q Developer User Guide.

Using Amazon Q Developer in Application Composer

You can use Amazon Q Developer from the Resource properties panel of any standard resource or standard component card.

To use Amazon Q in Application Composer

  1. From a standard resource or standard component card, open the Resource properties panel.

  2. Locate the Resource configuration field. This field contains the infrastructure code for the card.

  3. Select the Generate suggestions button. Amazon Q will generate a suggestion.

    Note

    Code generated at this stage will not overwrite existing infrastructure code from your template.

  4. To generate more suggestions, select Regenerate. You can toggle through the samples to compare results.

  5. To select an option, choose Select. You can modify the code here before saving it to your application. To exit without saving, select the exit icon (X).

  6. To save the code to your application template, select Save from the Resource properties panel.

Learn more

To learn more about Amazon Q, see What is Amazon Q? in the Amazon Q Developer User Guide.