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By Amazon Web Services (19 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Linters

Including CodeCatalyst, Infrastructure Composer, and support for Lambda, S3, CloudWatch Logs, CloudFormation, and many other services.

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 19, 2026

AWS Toolkit has 5,189,152 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #178 of 2,501 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 2.5 out of 5 from 73 ratings.

PluginStats has 4 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 19, 2026.

Installs
5,189,152
Official API · Oct 19, 2026
7-day growth
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Insufficient history
30-day growth
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Insufficient history
90-day growth
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Insufficient history
Rank
#178
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 2.47 / 5 from 73 ratings

About AWS Toolkit

Amazon Q and CodeWhisperer

Amazon CodeWhisperer is now part of Amazon Q. Try the Amazon Q extension.

Getting Started

1. Open the AWS Toolkit extension 2. Sign in with your AWS credentials

The AWS Toolkit lets you interact with AWS directly from VS Code. Ready to install? See Getting Started.

Features

Threat Composer

Integrate threat modeling practices into your development workflow by creating and version controlling your threat models as code.

Threat Composer for the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code allows you to create, view and edit Threat Composer threat models .tc.json directly within VSCode.

Infrastructure Composer

AWS Infrastructure Composer maintains a real-time visual representation of your application architecture in sync with your IaC. Changes to the architecture—such as adding new resources or changing service configuration—are reflected in the IaC artifacts, and vice versa.

• Visually compose modern applications from 1,000+ AWS CloudFormation resources with little guesswork. • Use the right tool for the task, including visual, code, or generative AI powered code suggestions in your IDE. • Integrate with Workflow Studio to visually orchestrate over 220 AWS services or public http endpoints with Step Functions workflows.

Amazon CodeCatalyst

Unified software development service to quickly build and deliver applications on AWS.

Step Functions

Step Functions Workflow Studio provides a dynamic, visual representation of your state machine definition. Any changes you make, such as adding new resources or adjusting service configurations, are automatically reflected in your state machine definition.

With Workflow Studio integrated with VS Code, you can do the following:

• Design state machines visually from within VS Code • Seamlessly use both text and visual editing • Test and debug your workflow states

Dev Environments - launch VS Code in a cloud development environment, available on-demand in the cloud and automatically created with branch code and consistent project settings, providing faster setup, development, and testing

View, modify, and deploy AWS resources

Multiple AWS accounts and regions - access AWS resources across your accounts and regions

S3 support - view, create, and edit S3 buckets, folders, and files

Lambda - download & upload Lambda functions

Troubleshoot AWS from the IDE

Lambda - step-through AWS Lambda functions using the VS Code debugger

CloudWatch - find logs generated by your AWS resources

ECS - execute commands against running ECS containers (or open a terminal)

More features

• EC2 - Connect VS Code or Open Terminal to EC2 instances • Redshift - view database objects and run SQL queries in a notebook interface • CloudFormation - view CloudFormation stacks • API Gateway - invoke an API gateway endpoint • S3 - view and create S3 folders and buckets, download and upload files, and edit supported files

For a full list of features, visit our documentation.

Troubleshooting

Submit bug reports and feature requests on our Github repository.

Looking for Amazon Q or CodeWhisperer? Try the Amazon Q extension.

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • Amazon
  • Amazon States Language
  • Amazon States Language (YAML)
  • asl
  • asl-yaml
  • AWS Systems Manager Document (JSON)
  • AWS Systems Manager Document (YAML)
  • cloudformation
  • CodeCatalyst
  • Composer
  • csharp
  • debuggers
  • java
  • javascript
  • json
  • keybindings
  • Lambda
  • python
  • S3
  • ssm-json

Where AWS Toolkit sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,501 listings · 126 pages · page 9, #18 (overall #178)
All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order
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Linters252 listings · 13 pages · page 2, #9 (overall #29)
Linters: every listing in installs order
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Debuggers217 listings · 11 pages · page 2, #6 (overall #26)
Debuggers: every listing in installs order
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Visualization76 listings · 4 pages · page 1, #6 (overall #6)
Visualization: every listing in installs order
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Charts

Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark

Adoption over time

AWS Toolkit installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 5,189,152 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.AWS ToolkitInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days5,189,152installs5.2M5.2M5.2M5.2M5.2M5.2M5.2MJul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
AWS Toolkit installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 5,189,152 installs as of Oct 19, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

AWS Toolkit installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.AWS ToolkitInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace5,189,152installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
AWS Toolkit installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

AWS Toolkit VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #178 (by installs).AWS ToolkitVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#178current rank#176#177#178#179#180Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct 19, 2026pluginstats.com
AWS Toolkit VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #178 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

AWS Toolkit ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 73 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.AWS ToolkitRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days73ratings64666870727476788082Jul 21Aug 5Aug 20Sep 4Sep 19Oct 4Oct 19ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 19, 2026 · 4 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
AWS Toolkit ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 73 ratings as of Oct 19, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (4)
Recent installs observations for AWS Toolkit
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
5,189,152+2.8K
5,186,358+710
5,185,648+1.5K
5,184,116—

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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=AmazonWebServices.aws-toolkit-vscode. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 19, 2026. See the methodology.