What is Amazon CodeWhisperer?
Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI code completion and generation tool from AWS, offering real-time code suggestions across multiple programming languages directly within popular IDEs including VS Code, JetBrains and AWS Cloud9. It is free for individual developers and includes a security scanning feature that identifies vulnerabilities in generated code — differentiating it from competitors that focus purely on generation.
Pros & Cons
What we like
Free for individual developers — no subscription required
Security scanning identifies vulnerabilities in generated code
Strong integration with AWS services and infrastructure
Supports multiple languages and major IDEs
Watch out for
Less powerful for complex multi-file tasks than Cursor or Windsurf
Best suited to AWS-focused development workflows
Security scanning is AWS-specific context
Smaller community and fewer tutorials than GitHub Copilot