About AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify is a set of Amazon Web Services tools for building and deploying full-stack web and mobile applications. It combines hosting for front-end apps with a way to provision backend resources, connecting both to a continuous deployment workflow driven from a Git repository.
Amplify is generally used to add backend capabilities such as authentication, data storage and APIs to a front-end project, and to publish the front end with builds triggered on every commit. Check AWS documentation for specific current features.
AWS Amplify is a proprietary AWS service with no self-hosted edition, and charges follow AWS's usage-based pricing model. It suits front-end and full-stack developers who want a managed path onto AWS without hand-assembling each underlying service.
Key features
- Web app hosting with Git-based CI/CD
- Backend provisioning on AWS
- Authentication, data and storage building blocks
- Builds triggered on repository commits
- Integration with the wider AWS ecosystem
Good fit for
- →Hosting a front-end app on AWS
- →Adding auth and data to a web project
- Tags
- aws
- hosting
- backend-as-a-service
- ci-cd
- serverless
- web-apps
- cloud
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