Amazon Web Services has just released Kiro, a program that allows developers to write code with help from artificial intelligence. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy launched the service in a post on X last 14 July.
"Introducing Kiro, an all-new agent IDE [Integrated Development Environment] that has a chance to transform how developers build software," Jassy wrote about the service from Amazon's Web Services, which is the leading provider of cloud infrastructure.
Amazon's name doesn't appear in the announcement, Geekwire noted.
AWS launched in 2006 and includes storage and computing power. In 2024, its revenue was US$ 107.6 billion. Overall, Amazon's revenue was US$ 637.9 billion, including retail services, delivery, digital content, devices, Whole Foods, physical stores.
After the free preview ends, free and premium versions of Kiro will be available.
The company plans three pricing tiers: a free version with 50 agent interactions per month; a Pro tier at US$ 19 per user per month with 1,000 interactions; and a Pro+ tier at US$ 39 per user per month with 3,000 interactions.
Jassy noted the advantages of its program, which uses AI models from Amazon-backed Anthropic but there will be alternatives.
"Kiro is really good at 'vibe coding' but goes beyond that," he said. "While other AI coding assistants might help you prototype quickly, Kiro helps you take those prototypes all the way to production by following a mature, structured development process out of the box. This means developers can spend less time on boilerplate coding and more time where it matters most -- innovating and building solutions that customers will love."
Diagrams and tasks are generated to streamline development, AWS said.
Two product developers, Nikhil Swaminathan and Deeak Sing, gave some details on the programming service and provided a tutorial.
"I'm sure you've been there: prompt, prompt, prompt, and you have a working application," they wrote. "It's fun and feels like magic. But getting it to production requires more. ... Requirements are fuzzy and you can't tell if the application meets them."
They said Kir works "like an experience developer catching things you miss or completing boilerplate tasks in the background as you work. These event-driven automation triggers an agent to execute a task in the background when you save, create, delete files, or on a manual trigger."
In one example, they showed how an e-commerce application for selling crafts can add a review section for users' feedback on crafts.
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