Amazon hopes to jump start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups
In Brief Posted: 3:55 PM PST · December 3, 2025 Image Credits:izusek / Getty Images Julie Bort Amazon hopes to jump start its AI coding tool Kiro by giving it away to startups Is there any way for another AI coding tool to worm it’s way into the hearts of startup founders — and past Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini Code Assist, GitHub CoPilot, the many other AI-wrapped VSCode forks, and vibe-coding phenoms like Replit and Lovable? Amazon wants to try using the tried-and-true method of giving its tool away for free. The cloud giant says it will grant qualified early-stage startups a free year of credits to its competitor, Kiro Pro+, AWS CEO Matt Garman announced during his keynote speech at the re:Invent 2025 conference. These startups can request free…
