Amazon Q Developer vs. IONOS AI Model Hub: data protection per plan

yes (AWS Service Terms, section 1.14.1: 'These Service Terms incorporate the AWS Data Processing Addendum ("DPA"), when you use AWS Services to process Customer Data'; no exception for the Free Tier is stated there; section 50.13 additionally governs the use of Free Tier content for service improvement)

yes (according to the GDPR Center, the AWS GDPR DPA, including standard contractual clauses, is part of the AWS Service Terms and applies automatically)

yes (data protection package of IONOS Cloud GmbH as DPA under Art. 28 GDPR, version 7.4, as of 06/2023; according to the documentation part of the contract without separate signature and without a product-specific annex for the AI Model Hub)

FAQ and documentation 'Amazon Q Developer service improvement': in the Free Tier, content (questions, responses, generated code) may be used for service improvement, according to the documentation including 'for model training'. Service Terms 50.13: Amazon Q Content may be used to improve Amazon Q and, for that purpose, stored outside the AWS Region in use; content that does not contain personal data may also be used to train other AWS ML models. Opt-out depending on the environment: IDE/command line via the setting 'Share Amazon Q content with AWS' or 'Amazon Q: Share Content'; console/mobile app/AWS websites/chat applications via an AI services opt-out policy in AWS Organizations. Telemetry (without code) can be switched off separately. Pricing page: 'Opt-out available'.

FAQ: Amazon Q Developer Pro and Amazon Q Business do not use content for service improvement; content from the Pro Tier is not used to train underlying foundation models. Telemetry/usage metrics may be collected (opt-out in the IDE settings). Pricing page: 'Automatically opted out'.

Terms of use for AI services section 2.3: input and output data only for providing the service under the contract, technical security and troubleshooting (improvement of the services only for SaaS); any further use, 'in particular for training, retraining or otherwise developing AI models, is expressly prohibited' (translated). Documentation 'Data Handling': prompts and outputs are 'not used to train, fine-tune or otherwise improve any model' and are not disclosed to the model developers.

Documentation 'Data storage in Amazon Q Developer': in the Free Tier, content is stored in a US Region (console error diagnosis: US West/Oregon, everything else: US East/N. Virginia). Cross-region inference may route requests to other Regions within the geography. Service Terms 50.13.1: content used for service improvement may be stored outside the Region in use. The sub-processor list names Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and the USA as locations of the AWS entities that process Free Tier content for service improvement (only without opt-out).

Documentation 'Amazon Q Developer Pro Region support': the Q Developer console and profile are available in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Frankfurt); Pro via a personal Builder ID only in US East (N. Virginia). Documentation 'Data storage': in the Pro Tier, content is stored in the profile Region only for the following features: Q chat in the AWS console, error diagnosis in the console, Q in Eclipse, JetBrains, VS Code and Visual Studio, and Q on the command line; for all other features 'your content may be stored and processed in a US Region' (can be blocked via a service control policy). Exceptions include: Amazon Q artifacts (visualisations) in a US Region; Console to Code stored in the console Region and processed in a US Region; CloudWatch investigations possibly in other Regions. Not available for profiles in Frankfurt: support chat, troubleshooting resources, .NET transformation in the IDE, Slack integration, Console Mobile App, GitLab Duo with Amazon Q, Amazon Q for GitHub. Cross-region inference stays within the geography (Europe: Frankfurt, Ireland, Paris, Stockholm).

Documentation 'Data Handling': 'All inference is performed in IONOS CLOUD data centers in Germany'; access to operational data only by personnel in the EU, no access from outside the EU for operation, maintenance, support or fault diagnosis. Product page: '100% GDPR-compliant and securely hosted in Germany' (translated; provider statement). The model weights come from third-party developers who, according to the documentation, have no access to customer data.

• Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL / Amazon Web Services, Inc. (contracting party, depending on the account country)
• AWS infrastructure entities per region (e.g. A100 ROW GmbH, region Europe/Frankfurt)
• Amazon Bedrock (LLM inference; cross-region inference within the geography)
• The sub-processor list (section 'AWS entities providing service improvement') names the locations Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, US for 'Amazon Q Developer Free Tier / Kiro Free Tier / Individual Subscriber'; applies provided the customer has not objected to use for service improvement

• Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL / Amazon Web Services, Inc. (contracting party, depending on the account country)
• AWS infrastructure entities per region (e.g. A100 ROW GmbH, region Europe/Frankfurt)
• Amazon Bedrock (LLM inference; cross-region inference within the geography)
• The sub-processor list (section 'AWS entities providing service improvement') names the locations Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, US for 'Amazon Q Developer Free Tier / Kiro Free Tier / Individual Subscriber'; applies provided the customer has not objected to use for service improvement

• IONOS SE (Germany): technical support, support and operation of the AI Model Hub and of data centres (sub-contractor list, as of 10/2026)
• Documentation 'Data Handling': 'No third-party sub-processors are engaged for AI Model Hub'; model developers only supply the model weights and do not process personal data on the customer's behalf

0 USD (pricing page)

19 USD per user per month (pricing page, no indication whether incl. VAT; according to AWS Tax Help, AWS Europe charges VAT on service charges for accounts in the EU)

Usage-based, net prices excl. VAT, offer for businesses only (price list IONOS Cloud GmbH, as of 2026-10-18), per 1 million input/output tokens e.g.: Qwen3.5-9B EUR 0.10/0.15; Llama 3.1 8B Instruct EUR 0.15/0.15; Mistral Nemo Instruct EUR 0.15/0.15; Mistral Small 24B Instruct EUR 0.10/0.30; gpt-oss-120b EUR 0.15/0.65; Llama 3.3 70B Instruct EUR 0.65/0.65; Qwen3.8-27 EUR 0.40/2.70; Qwen3.5-397B-A17B EUR 0.60/3.60; Qwen3-Coder-Next EUR 0.15/0.80; LightOnOCR 2 EUR 0.15/0.30. Images: FLUX.1 [schnell] EUR 0.0288 per image; FLUX.2 [klein] 4B EUR 0.013 per first megapixel. Embeddings from EUR 0.01 per 1 million tokens.

yes (50 agentic requests per month in IDE/CLI; Java upgrade transformation up to 1,000 lines of code per month; console Q&A)

yes (extended limits for agentic requests, according to the FAQ 10,000 inference calls per month or around 1,000 user requests; Java/.NET transformation up to 4,000 lines of code per user in the pool; admin dashboard, IP indemnity)

yes (inference API for language, code, OCR, image, embedding and reranking models from third-party developers, operated on IONOS infrastructure; OpenAI-compatible API, tool calling, RAG)