Updating firewalls and gateways to allow access

If you filter access to specific AWS domains or URL endpoints by using a web-content filtering solution, the following endpoints must be allow listed in order to access all of the services and features available through the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code and Amazon Q.

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code Endpoints

The following are lists of AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code specific endpoints and references that need to be allow listed.

Endpoint

https://idetoolkits.amazonwebservices.com/endpoints.json
    

Hosted files

https://idetoolkits-hostedfiles.amazonaws.com/Notifications/VSCode/startup/1.x.json
https://idetoolkits-hostedfiles.amazonaws.com/Notifications/VSCode/emergency/1.x.json
    

Schema support

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/serverless-application-model/main/samtranslator/schema/schema.json
https://api.github.com/repos/devfile/api/releases/latest
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/devfile/api/${devfileSchemaVersion}/schemas/latest/devfile.json
    

cSharpSamDebug install script

https://aka.ms/getvsdbgps1
https://aka.ms/getvsdbgsh
    

Amazon Q plugin endpoints

The following is a list of Amazon Q plugin specific endpoints and references that need to be allow listed.

https://idetoolkits-hostedfiles.amazonaws.com/*    (Plugin for configs)
https://idetoolkits.amazonwebservices.com/*   (Plugin for endpoints)
https://aws-toolkit-language-servers.amazonaws.com/*  (Language Server Process)
https://client-telemetry.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ (Telemetry)                
https://cognito-identity.us-east-1.amazonaws.com    (Telemetry)
https://aws-language-servers.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (Language Server Process)
    

Amazon Q Developer endpoints

The following is a list of Amazon Q Developer specific endpoints and references that need to be allow listed.

https://codewhisperer.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (Inline,Chat, QSDA,...)
https://q.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (Inline,Chat, QSDA....)
https://desktop-release.codewhisperer.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ (Download url for CLI.)
https://specs.q.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (Url for autocomplete specs used by CLI)
* aws-language-servers.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (Local Workspace context)
    

Amazon Q Code Transform Endpoints

The following is a list of Amazon Q Code Transform specific endpoints and references that need to be allow listed.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazonq/latest/qdeveloper-ug/security_iam_manage-access-with-policies.html
    

Authentication endpoints

The following is a list of authentication endpoints and references that need to be allow listed.

[Directory ID or alias].awsapps.com 
* oidc.[Region].amazonaws.com
*.sso.[Region].amazonaws.com
*.sso-portal.[Region].amazonaws.com
*.aws.dev
*.awsstatic.com
*.console.aws.a2z.com
*.sso.amazonaws.com

Identity Endpoints

The following lists contain endpoints that are specific to identity, such as AWS IAM Identity Center and AWS Builder ID.

AWS IAM Identity Center

For details on required endpoints for IAM Identity Center, see the Enable IAM Identity Center topic in the AWS IAM Identity Center User Guide.

Enterprise IAM Identity Center

https://[Center director id].awsapps.com/start (should be permitted to initiate auth)
https://us-east-1.signin.aws (for facilitating authentication, assuming IAM Identity Center is in IAD)
https://oidc.(us-east-1).amazonaws.com
https://log.sso-portal.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
https://portal.sso.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com
      

AWS Builder ID

https://view.awsapps.com/start (must be blocked to disable individual tier) 
https://codewhisperer.us-east-1.amazonaws.com and q.us-east-1.amazonaws.com (should be permitted)
      

Telemetry

The following is a Telemetry specific endpoint that needs to be allow listed.

https://client-telemetry.us-east-1.amazonaws.com 
      

References

The following is a list of endpoint references.

idetoolkits-hostedfiles.amazonaws.com.
cognito-identity.us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
amazonwebservices.gallery.vsassets.io.
eu-west-1.prod.pr.analytics.console.aws.a2z.com.
prod.pa.cdn.uis.awsstatic.com.
portal.sso.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
log.sso-portal.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
prod.assets.shortbread.aws.dev.
prod.tools.shortbread.aws.dev.
prod.log.shortbread.aws.dev.
a.b.cdn.console.awsstatic.com.
assets.sso-portal.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
oidc.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com.
aws-toolkit-language-servers.amazonaws.com.
aws-language-servers.us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
idetoolkits.amazonwebservices.com.