Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Cheat Sheet

Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer utilizes program analysis and machine learning to detect potential Java and Python code defects that are typically hard for developers to identify. Available in multiple regions, it offers proactive defect detection, actionable recommendations for resolving issues, and following best practices. By incorporating CodeGuru Reviewer into your code review workflow, you can improve the quality and maintainability of your code from the start.

Features

• Automated Code Reviews: Automatically reviews code in pull requests to detect potential issues.

• Security Best Practices: Provides security recommendations, including finding vulnerabilities like SQL injection, cross-site scripting, and unhandled exceptions.

• Code Quality Improvement: Offers suggestions for code refactoring to improve maintainability and readability.

• Performance Recommendations: Identifies performance bottlenecks and suggests optimizations to enhance the application’s efficiency.

• Integration with Git Repositories: Supports integration with GitHub, Bitbucket, and AWS CodeCommit repositories.

• Customizable Reviews: Customizable review settings to enforce coding standards specific to your team or project.

• Pull Request Feedback: Provides inline feedback in pull requests for immediate developer action.

Use Cases

• Automatically detects vulnerabilities like access control issues and weak cryptography.

• Ensures the codebase remains easy to maintain with code cleanup and refactoring recommendations.

• Identifies inefficient code or algorithms that may lead to performance issues.

• Integrates with CI/CD pipelines to continuously check code quality throughout the development lifecycle.

• Ensures all code adheres to your defined style guidelines and standards.

• Enhances team collaboration by providing consistent code review feedback and enabling proactive identification of issues.

Security

• Automated Security Analysis: CodeGuru performs static analysis on code to detect common security flaws, such as SQL injection, buffer overflows, and insecure deserialization.

• Integration with AWS Secrets Manager: Ensures that secrets management is addressed by reviewing how sensitive information is handled in the code.

• Code Quality and Security Best Practices: Promotes secure coding practices through automated suggestions based on industry standards.

• Compliance with Industry Standards: Helps maintain compliance with security frameworks like OWASP Top 10, PCI-DSS, and others.

• Review of Dependencies: Identifies vulnerabilities in third-party libraries and dependencies included in the project.

Pricing

• Pricing Based on Lines of Code: Pricing is based on the number of lines of code analyzed. The service has an initial free tier and charges for additional lines of code reviewed.

• Free Tier: Includes 100 code reviews per month for free.

• Paid Tier: Charges based on the volume of code reviewed, typically measured in lines of code.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Pricing: CodeGuru integrates with AWS’s pricing structure, so you pay for the services you use (e.g., AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline).

• Additional Costs: While CodeGuru is priced by the amount of code analyzed, integrating it into a wider CI/CD workflow may incur extra costs for other AWS services.

References:

What is Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer? – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer

Automate Code Reviews – Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer – Amazon Web Services

https://aws.amazon.com/codeguru/pricing/