Kiro

freemium

Agentic IDE from Amazon with spec-driven development.

Kiro is an agentic IDE from Amazon built on VS Code. It introduces spec-driven development — AI first writes specs and design docs before touching code. Features autonomous agents, hooks for automation, and deep AWS integration.

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PricingFreemium
Price / month$20/mo
Free tierYes
Open sourceNo
Built onVS Code fork
ReleasedJuly 2025

Platforms

MacWindowsLinux

AI Models Supported

claudeamazon-nova

Key Features

  • Spec-driven development
  • Autonomous agents
  • Hooks (event automation)
  • Steering documents
  • AWS integration
  • MCP support

News — Amazon AWS

product updateAmazon AWS

AWS Launches AgentCore Optimization: Automated Performance Loop for Production AI Agents

Amazon Web Services released AgentCore Optimization in preview, introducing an automated performance loop that generates configuration recommendations from production traces, validates them through batch evaluation and A/B testing, and enables continuous agent optimization. The system targets the quality drift problem where AI agents degrade as models evolve and user behavior shifts.

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