AWS Chatbot Amazon Q Developer in chat applications
Interactive ChatOps integration for monitoring AWS events, receiving Amazon SNS notifications, running AWS CLI commands, and querying Amazon Q Developer from Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Amazon Chime.
Naming timeline
- AWS Chatbot
Launched in beta in July 2019 and reached general availability on April 22, 2020 for ChatOps workflows in Slack, Amazon Chime, and Microsoft Teams.
- Amazon Q Developer in chat applicationsCurrent name
Renamed from AWS Chatbot to Amazon Q Developer in chat applications across the AWS Management Console, documentation, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
What is AWS Chatbot called now?
AWS Chatbot is now called Amazon Q Developer in chat applications, with the latest change on 19 February 2025 (Service Rebrand). Interactive ChatOps integration for monitoring AWS events, receiving Amazon SNS notifications, running AWS CLI commands, and querying Amazon Q Developer from Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Amazon Chime. Only the customer-facing name changed; the underlying technical identifiers remain backward compatible.
Also known as
- Amazon Q Developer for Slack and Microsoft Teams
- AWS Chatbot for Slack
- AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams
Technical identifiers
Technical identifiers unchanged. Only the customer-facing product name changed; the APIs, CLI commands, IAM roles and Terraform resources below keep their legacy identifiers for backward compatibility.
| AWS Service APIs / SDKs | chatbot |
|---|---|
| AWS CLI Commands | aws chatbot |
| IAM Actions & Policies | chatbot:* AWSChatbotServiceLinkedRolePolicy |
| Terraform Resources (aws_*) | aws_chatbot_slack_channel_configuration aws_chatbot_teams_channel_configuration |
Service principals, IAM permissions (chatbot:*), console URLs, AWS CLI (aws chatbot), and Terraform resources (aws_chatbot_*) remain unchanged for backward compatibility.
Notes & disambiguation
- On February 19, 2025, AWS officially renamed AWS Chatbot to Amazon Q Developer in chat applications (and updated the Slack and Microsoft Teams app display names from AWS Chatbot to Amazon Q Developer, changing @aws mentions to @Amazon Q or @Q).
- Underlying technical primitives remain 100% unchanged: the console URL (console.aws.amazon.com/chatbot/), service principal, IAM action prefix (chatbot:*), AWS CLI command group (aws chatbot), CloudFormation resource types (AWS::Chatbot::*), and Terraform resources (aws_chatbot_*) all retain the chatbot namespace.
- Existing non-generative AI ChatOps features (SNS notifications and CLI execution) remain available at no additional cost without requiring an Amazon Q Developer Pro subscription.
Sources & official documentation
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