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About Amazon CodeWhisperer
AWS‑integrated AI assistant that generates secure, context‑aware code suggestions with compliance features.
Amazon CodeWhisperer is an AI‑driven coding assistant built within the AWS ecosystem, designed to help developers write better, faster, and more secure code by automatically generating suggestions and code snippets as they write, based on comments, context, and AWS‑specific APIs. It supports popular programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, and others, and integrates with multiple IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, JetBrains IDEs, AWS Cloud9, and through the AWS Toolkit. One of its distinguishing features is the built‑in security and compliance capabilities: CodeWhisperer not only suggests code, but also checks for potential security vulnerabilities, license compliance when using open source code, and best practices around using AWS services. The tool offers both a free individual‑developer tier and paid/enterprise plans, with enhanced privileges, higher usage limits, specialized support, and potentially private access or advanced integrations for larger organizations. Amazon regularly updates CodeWhisperer with improvements including expanded language support (recently adding Go, Kotlin, Rust, PHP, SQL), better multi‑line and full‑function completions, filtering of suggestions by security concerns, and tighter suggestions for AWS services. Users appreciate its deep integration with AWS cloud services, the trust and security posture, and its capability to reduce development friction when working with AWS. On the downside, CodeWhisperer’s suggestions sometimes require manual adjustment (especially for non‑AWS contexts or less common frameworks), the free tier has quota and limit constraints, latency can vary depending on context especially when dealing with large project bases, and AWS‑centric suggestions may bias toward AWS SDKs or patterns which may be less ideal in non‑AWS or cross‑platform environments. For teams, enterprise usage can become costly, especially when large volumes of code suggestion or scanning are needed. Overall, Amazon CodeWhisperer is well suited for developers embedded in AWS ecosystems or those who want security and compliance in code assist, and offers compelling value for individuals and teams, particularly when using AWS services heavily.
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Write a Lambda function in Python that gets triggered by S3 object creation.Generate a REST API endpoint in Node.js using AWS SDK to query DynamoDB.Suggest secure IAM policy for this AWS service request.Convert this existing Java class comment into full method implementation.