Kite (Discontinued) vs Amazon CodeWhisperer
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Kite (Discontinued)
Former AI code completion assistant for editors like VS Code and PyCharm. The company ended development and support and published a farewell note.
Amazon CodeWhisperer
AWS's free AI coding assistant providing real-time code suggestions, security scanning, and reference tracking across 15+ programming languages with specialized optimization for AWS services and built-in vulnerability detection.
Feature Tags Comparison
Only in Kite (Discontinued)
Shared
Only in Amazon CodeWhisperer
Key Features
Kite (Discontinued)
- • Legacy editor plugins for popular IDEs during active years
- • Local context indexing to improve token suggestions
- • Early language model work for Python and more
- • Documentation lookups and API hinting in editor
- • Telemetry options and privacy settings historically
- • Official shutdown and end of support by the founder
Amazon CodeWhisperer
- • Real-time code suggestions | AWS service optimization | Security vulnerability scanning | Reference tracking | Multi-language support | IDE integration | CLI support | Code refactoring | Unit test generation | Documentation | Admin controls | Customization for enterprise
Use Cases
Kite (Discontinued)
- → Audit machines and remove old plugins to avoid confusion
- → Review legacy repos created during Kite usage periods
- → Educate teams on evolution toward modern copilots
- → Map migration to maintained assistants with security fixes
- → Discuss pricing and PMF lessons in internal tech talks
- → Document editor integration approaches that worked and failed
Amazon CodeWhisperer
- → Cloud development
- → AWS applications
- → secure coding
- → enterprise development
- → DevOps automation
- → serverless applications
Perfect For
Kite (Discontinued)
engineering managers developer advocates and students studying the history of AI coding assistants and planning migrations to supported tools
Amazon CodeWhisperer
AWS developers, cloud engineers, DevOps teams, enterprise developers, security-conscious teams, cloud architects
Capabilities
Kite (Discontinued)
Amazon CodeWhisperer
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