Is Amazon Q Developer safe for work?
Medium risk · 30Amazon Web Services · Coding · facts (medium-confidence)
Amazon Q Developer is medium-risk for default at-work use (30/100): it trains on your data unless you opt out, though several facts are still unverified.
30
Medium risk
Watch out: On the Pro tier, Amazon Q Developer is not used for training and stores content in the Region where your profile was created (some features US-only). The Free tier can use your code for model training unless you opt out. Per-service SOC 2 and ISO scope and a BAA for ePHI should be confirmed via AWS Artifact.
Data and compliance facts
- Trains on consumer-tier data
- Opt-out
- Trains on business-tier data
- No
- Training opt-out available
- Yes
- SOC 2 Type II
- Unverified
- ISO 27001
- Unverified
- ISO 42001 (AI management)
- Unverified
- GDPR Data Processing Addendum
- Unverified
- HIPAA BAA
- Unverified
- EU data residency
- Yes
- SSO / SAML
- Yes
- Safer tier
- Amazon Q Developer Pro (content not used for training; Region-based residency)
Why it scores 30 out of 100
- +30Trains on your data. Training is on by default on the consumer tier; you must find and set the opt-out.