Front-End Web & Mobile
Author: Matt Auerbach
Matt Auerbach is a NYC-based Solution Architect on the AWS Amplify Team. The Solution Architecture team educates developers regarding products and offerings, and acts as the primary point of contact for assistance and feedback. Matt is a mild-mannered programmer who enjoys using technology to solve problems and making people's lives easier. by night, however...well he does pretty much the same thing. you can find Matt streaming on Twitch at /aws or on Twitter @mauerbac. He previously worked in Developer Relations at Twitch, Optimizely, Twilio.
Introducing Upgraded Build Instances on Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting has built web applications using a fixed instance environment. As applications grow more complex and require intensive build processes for dependency management, asset optimization, and comprehensive testing, developers need more powerful build environments to maintain productivity and deployment speed. Today, we’re excited to introduce customizable build instances for Amplify Hosting. This update […]
Amplify Hosting Announces Skew Protection Support
A common challenge in web application development and deployment is version skew between client and server resources. Today, we’re excited to announce deployment skew protection for applications deployed to AWS Amplify Hosting. This feature helps verifies end users have a seamless experience during application deployments. The Challenge Modern web applications are complex systems comprising numerous […]
Simplifying Multi-App Management in AWS Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting has now made it possible to connect many more Amplify apps to a single repository. This change improves the way developers can integrate with Git providers which is especially beneficial for monorepo architectures. Amplify now uses a single webhook per repository for all associated apps, streamlining the development workflow. For specific limit […]
CDN Caching Improvements for Better App Performance with AWS Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting is excited to announce significant improvements to caching efficiency, offering customers optimized caching rules and an increased cache hit ratio by excluding cookies from the cache key. We are also providing access to additional headers which unlocks use cases like the Next.js localization (i18n) support. These changes allow end users to receive […]
Deploy Next.js 14 SSR apps with AWS Amplify Hosting’s Amazon Linux 2023 Support
Introduction Today, on AWS Amplify Hosting, the build image will default to Amazon Linux 2023 for newly deployed applications. Amazon Linux 2023 enables using newer versions of Node.js, Ruby, and Python to build applications on Amplify Hosting. Amplify Hosting manages a default build image with a collection of pre-installed packages that you can use to […]
Bring your own SSL certificate to AWS Amplify Hosting
Introduction Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of Custom SSL Certificates on AWS Amplify Hosting. This feature introduces new capabilities for you to configure your Amplify domain to use your own SSL certificates from AWS Certificate Manager (ACM). Amplify manages SSL/TLS certificates on your behalf to securely serve traffic to your domain over […]
Major League Hacking Fellows: Recap of Winter 2020 Program
Last September we welcomed our second cohort of students from MLH Fellowship powered by Major League Hacking. AWS Amplify was part of the inaugural MLH cohort last Summer and it was a great experience — you can read about it here. In this cohort, we welcomed five students to our JavaScript team and CLI team […]
Meet our MLH Fellows
Building Amplify as Open Source Software has given us many advantages — for one, it’s enabled us to accelerate development and work alongside our developers. We are always on the lookout for initiatives to grow our open source community. As COVID started to affect student internships Worldwide, the folks at Major League Hacking (MLH) started […]