Works with · Amazon Q Developer · AWS
Does an Amazon Q Developer review count for SOC 2 or PCI DSS?
No. Amazon Q Developer posts review and security findings from a bot account. They are good evidence of secure-coding checks; they are not an approval by a qualified person other than the author. PSCO adds the Officer and reads the findings first.
How Amazon Q Developer reviews
Amazon Q Developer reviews pull requests for code quality and security issues and posts findings with remediation guidance.
What it cannot do
Amazon Q Developer cannot be the independent human approver an auditor is looking for. SOC 2 CC8.1, ISO 27001 A.5.3, PCI DSS 6.2.3.1 and SOX program-change controls all assume a qualified person other than the author approved the change and understood it. A bot account posting "Approve" is a review record, not an accountable person, and as of mid-2026 no auditor reports accepting it as standard practice.
How PSCO reads its output
Review and security findings are parsed into the Officer’s packet, mapped to the model’s forbidden patterns where they overlap.
Two-step setup
Keep Amazon Q Developer.
Keep Amazon Q Developer on.
Add PSCO.
Install the PSCO GitHub App, pick the repos in scope, and add psco/approved and one approval from @psco-officers to branch protection.
The shared-model tip
Point it at the same model the Officer uses.
Point Amazon Q at the same rulebook the Officer uses. Reference psco.model.yaml from your project rules so Q’s findings cite the same clauses. Keep the sensitive paths, required checks and forbidden patterns identical in both places so the robot and the human check the same rules, and so the Officer's packet shows the AI's findings next to the clause they map to.
frameworks: [soc2, iso27001] sensitive_paths: auth/**: deep infra/**: deep required_checks: [ci, tests, sast, secrets] forbidden: [hardcoded_secret, tls_verify_off]
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Keep Amazon Q Developer. Add the human who signs.
Connect GitHub and PSCO detects the reviewers already on your repos. Your price comes from your real PR history.