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At re:Invent in 2023, AWS announced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support for Amazon CodeWhisperer. CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered productivity tool for the IDE and command line that helps software developers to quickly and efficiently create cloud applications to run on AWS. Languages currently supported for IaC are YAML and JSON for AWS CloudFormation, Typescript and Python for AWS CDK, and HCL for HashiCorp Terraform. In addition to providing code recommendations in the editor, CodeWhisperer also features a security scanner that alerts the developer to potentially insecure infrastructure code, and offers suggested fixes than can be applied with a single click.
In this post, we will walk you through some common scenarios and show you how to get the most out of CodeWhisperer in the IDE. CodeWhisperer is supported by several IDEs, such as Visual Studio Code and JetBrains. For the purposes of this post, we’ll focus on Visual Studio Code. There are a few things that you need to follow along with the examples, listed in the prerequisites section below.