Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What exactly is happening and when As of 15 May 2026, Amazon has closed the sign-up door on Q Developer. No new individual, Pro, or Pro+ accounts can be created. Existing subscribers retain full access to their current plan until the service reaches end-of-life on 30 April 2027 — roughly eleven months from today. After that date, Q Developer will no longer operate, and any CI/CD pipelines, IDE plugins, or security scanning workflows that depend on it will stop functioning. The sign-up block is not a soft deprecation signal — it is the first hard gate of a structured wind-down. Amazon typically follows a consistent pattern when sunsetting developer tools: access freeze, feature freeze, then service termination. Teams relying on Q Developer should treat the April 2027 date as a firm…