AWS Amplify makes it easier for front-end web and mobile developers to produce apps more quickly.
It
consists of a development framework and a web hosting service for creating and delivering secure,
scalable mobile and online apps that use AWS.
What is AWS Amplify?
Front-end web and mobile developers may create apps more quickly thanks to AWS Amplify. For creating
and delivering secure, scalable mobile and internet apps powered by AWS, it consists of a development
framework and a hosting web service.
Any web, iOS, or Android app can have an AWS backend set up in a matter of minutes, replete with
authentication, data, storage, and other features. With the use of Figma’s design-to-code integration, it
quickly connects a frontend UI to a backend.
How does it work?
It is a complete solution that makes it simple for frontend web and mobile developers to create,
release, and host full-stack apps on AWS. Additionally, it enables them to use the full range of AWS
resources as use cases evolve. Competence with cloud technology is not necessary.
Create backend for your app: For any iOS, Android, Flutter, web, or React Native project that
contains real-time and offline functionality, you can quickly create a cross-platform backend.
Create a new user interface: Create a pixel-perfect UI visually and link your frontend UI to a cloud
backend in a few clicks. You may avoid writing hundreds of lines of code by using AWS Amplify.
Host a web page: Easily deploy your web app or website to the AWS content delivery network (CDN),
which has hundreds of points of presence across the world.
AWS Amplify Tools
It is a collection of tools (open source framework, visual development environment, console) and services (web app
and static website hosting) designed to expedite the creation of mobile and web apps on AWS.
The two main AWS Amplify tools are:
•AWS Amplify Studio: AWS Amplify Studio Extend AWS Amplify with a visual interface to accelerate the transition
from design to feature-rich, full-stack solutions.
•AWS Amplify Hosting: AWS Amplify provides fast, safe, and dependable hosting for contemporary web apps.
AWS Amplify Studio
AWS Amplify Studio is a graphical tool that allows programmers to quickly design and release whole web and mobile
apps. You can create an app backend, rich user interface (UI) React components, and link a UI to the backend
quickly with Amplify Studio. Amplify Studio gives you complete control over the look and functionality of your
app by exposing all UI and infrastructure components as code that you would write yourself. Ship more quickly and
scale easily without prior cloud or AWS experience.
Create pixel-perfect user interfaces: Convert Figma designs to reusable React components, saving you
hundreds of lines of code.
Backend infrastructure may be set up in minutes: Create or set up a scalable backend on AWS in a few clicks
to finish a full-stack project.
Easily attach UI to data: Using a point-and-click interface, visually connect your UI components to your
backend data model.
Improve team communication: By using centralized processes to reduce costly rework across design,
development, and product.
AWS Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting is a fully managed CI/CD and hosting solution for fast, safe, and scalable static and server-
side rendered apps. Modern web frameworks such as React, Angular, Vue, Next.js, Gatsby, Hugo, Jekyll, and others
are supported.
• Rapidly deploy web content: On every code commit, publish a static web or server-side rendered app, a mobile
app landing page, or a progressive app.
• Reliable hosting in close proximity to your users: Deploy to Amazon CloudFront’s global content delivery
network (CDN), which has hundreds of points of presence.
• Accelerate with your group: With built-in CI/CD procedures, pull request previews, and testing, you can
accelerate your application release cycle.
• Create dynamic capabilities: Build high-quality, full-stack apps using Amplify Studio or other AWS tools and
services.
Modern Tools and Services
Studio Amplify (Visual Interface): A point-and-click environment for quickly building and deploying a full-stack
project, including frontend UI and backend.
• Increase CLI (Command Line Interface): With only a few commands, you may configure and administer an app
backend locally.
• Libraries that are amplified (Open-Source Client Libraries): Open-source client libraries for developing cloud-
powered mobile and web applications.
• Enhance UI Components (Open-Source Design System): Open-source design framework with cloud-connected
components for quickly developing feature-rich apps.
• Managed CI/CD and Hosting from Amplify: Fully managed CI/CD and hosting for static and server-side
rendered apps that are quick, safe, and dependable.
Features of AWS Amplify
•Build: Configure your app backend using Amplify Studio or Amplify CLI, then link your app to your
backend using Amplify libraries and UI components.
•Authentication: With a fully-managed user directory and pre-built sign-up, sign-in, lost password,
and multi-factor auth processes, you can create smooth on boarding flows. Amplify also allows login
with a social provider such as Facebook, Google Sign-In, or Amazon.
•DataStore: Use a multi-platform (iOS/Android/React Native/Web) on-device persistent storage engine
powered by GraphQL that seamlessly synchronizes data across mobile/web apps and the cloud.
•Analytics: Understand your online, iOS, and Android consumers’ activity. Track user sessions and
web page metrics with auto tracking, or define custom user characteristics and in-app analytics.
