Appendix C. Setting up AWS CodeWhisperer

This appendix will show you how to install the CodeWhisperer extension into Visual Studio Code and PyCharm.

Note At the time of this writing, CodeWhisperer is available at no cost “during the preview period.” However, Amazon has neither given a timeline for the preview period nor discussed pricing once the preview period has ended.

C.1 Installing the CodeWhisperer extension into VS Code

Installing the CodeWhisperer Extension into VS Code is similar to installing the Copilot extension. This approach is uniform, which is the nature of extensions. Here are the steps:

   1.  Click the Extension tab, and search for AWS Toolkit. Once you have located the correct extension, click Install (see figure C.1).

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