AWS Toolkit

The AWS Toolkit lets you interact with AWS directly from VS Code. Ready to install? See Getting Started.

Amazon CodeWhisperer

Build applications faster and more securely with your AI coding companion

• Real-time code suggestions - accelerate application development with automatic code recommendations based on your code and comments
• Optimized for use with AWS services - code suggestions are optimized for AWS APIs including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), AWS Lambda, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
• Built-in security scans - Scan your code to detect hard-to-find vulnerabilities, and get code suggestions to remediate them immediately

Amazon CodeCatalyst

Unified software development service to quickly build and deliver applications on AWS.

Dev Environments - launch VS Code in a cloud development environment, available on-demand in the cloud and automatically created with branch code and consistent project settings, providing faster setup, development, and testing

View, modify, and deploy AWS resources

Multiple AWS accounts and regions - access AWS resources across your accounts and regions

S3 support - view, create, and edit S3 buckets, folders, and files

Lambda - download & upload Lambda functions

Troubleshoot AWS from the IDE

Lambda - step-through AWS Lambda functions using the VS Code debugger

CloudWatch - find logs generated by your AWS resources

ECS - execute commands against running ECS containers (or open a terminal)

More features

• Step Functions - work with asl files and render state machine visuals
• CloudFormation - view CloudFormation stacks
• API Gateway - invoke an API gateway endpoint
• S3 - view and create S3 folders and buckets, download and upload files, and edit supported files

For a full list of features, visit our documentation.

Getting Started

1. Open the AWS Toolkit extension
2. Add AWS credentials
   1. AWS resources - connect using IAM credentials or IAM Identity Center (formerly SSO)
   2. CodeWhisperer - connect using AWS Builder ID or IAM Identity Center (formerly SSO)
   3. CodeCatalyst - connect using AWS Builder ID

Troubleshooting

Submit bug reports and feature requests on our Github repository.