Amazon’s internal campaign to prioritize their in-house AI coding assistance, Kiro, has sparked concerns from over 1,500 engineers who claim that it is less successful than competing tools like Claude Code. Employees claim the regulation is stifling creativity and productivity, according to internal conversations that Business Insider highlighted.
Amazon released internal guidelines in December that encourage teams to utilize Kiro and prohibit the use of external tools such as Cursor, OpenAI Codex, and Claude Code unless authorized. Engineers have expressed dissatisfaction about Kiro’s lack of performance compared to Anthropic’s Claude Code.
Teams working on AWS Bedrock, which gives users access to third-party AI models like Claude, have found the problem to be especially delicate. A few engineers questioned how Amazon could legitimately advertise tools that are restricted inside.
Amazon has defended its strategy by claiming that more people are using Kiro. According to a Reuters-reported internal document, Kiro is the company’s preferred AI development platform, but Claude Code is not strictly prohibited.
Employees continue to demand official internal support for Claude Code, citing increasing demand among engineering teams, despite Amazon’s alleged $8 billion investment in Anthropic.
Source – The Daily Jagran
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