# Managing your costs using generative AI with Amazon Q Developer Amazon Q Developer is a generative artificial intelligence (AI) powered conversational assistant that can help you understand, build, extend, and operate Amazon applications. Amazon Q Developer provides powerful capabilities to help you manage your Amazon costs through natural conversation. You can analyze your historical and forecasted costs from Cost Explorer, discover cost-saving recommendations from Cost Optimization Hub and Amazon Compute Optimizer, understand Savings Plans and reservation opportunities, and get instant answers about Amazon product attributes or service pricing. Amazon Q Developer can both answer specific questions (e.g., "What were net unblended costs for EC2 instances last month?") or perform complex or open-ended analysis (e.g., "What were the biggest drivers of last week's cost decrease?"). You can also visualize your cost data in charts and graphs using Amazon Q Developer with prompts like "Show me an area chart of costs by service over the last 6 months" or "Show me a bar chart of daily spending last week". Amazon Q Developer simplifies how you interact with Amazon cost data by letting you ask questions in your own words instead of learning query syntax or navigating multiple console pages, while providing precise answers backed by real data from your Amazon account, showing exactly which APIs were called, and showing you where to find the information in the console. For more information about Amazon Q Developer, see [What is Amazon Q Developer](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/what-is.html) in the *Amazon Q Developer User Guide*. **Topics** + [Overview of cost management capabilities in Amazon Q Developer](ce-q-overview.md) + [How the cost management capabilities in Amazon Q Developer work](ce-q-how-it-works.md) + [Security for cost management capabilities in Amazon Q Developer](ce-q-security.md)