Category: Announcements

Real-time features have become essential in modern applications. Whether you’re building collaborative tools, live dashboards, or interactive games, users have come to expect instant and seamless updates as they interact with apps. AWS AppSync Events, a fully-managed service for serverless WebSocket APIs, has been helping developers add real-time capabilities to their applications, enabling them to […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting is introducing compute roles for AWS Amplify applications, enabling you to extend server-side rendering capabilities with secure access to AWS services from the compute runtime. With compute roles, developers can attach specific permissions to their server-side rendered apps, allowing Amplify to make authorized calls to other AWS services. This new capability […]

As we kick off 2025, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2024. Without further ado, here are the 10 front-end web and mobile blog posts of 2024. Fullstack TypeScript Reintroducing AWS Amplify – This blog post announces the general availability of AWS Amplify Gen 2, a fullstack TypeScript experience […]

Modern application development has shifted to include not just tooling that offers a great developer experience (DX), but a sensible balance between simply getting started and the path to production. It is this very sentiment that inspired the release of Amplify AI kit. This abstraction over common AI tasks like conversing with a large language […]

With the announcement of the Amplify AI kit, we learned how to build custom UI components, conversation history and add external data to the conversation flow. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a travel planner application using React Native. The application will generate responses using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large […]

Frontend developers face significant hurdles when creating persistent conversational AI chat experiences for their apps. They often how to deal with complex APIs, complicated real-time UI updates, and hard to configure permissions. Not to mention having to setup intricate cloud infrastructure. That’s why we are excited to show you AWS Amplify AI kit and it’s […]

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Amplify AI kit, the quickest way for fullstack developers to build web apps with AI capabilities such as chat, conversational search, and summarization. With the Amplify AI kit you can build fullstack generative AI functionality without prior experience in cloud architecture or machine […]

Today, AWS AppSync announced AWS AppSync Events, a feature that lets developers easily broadcast real-time event data to a few or millions of subscribers using secure and performant serverless WebSocket APIs. With AWS AppSync Events, developers no longer have to worry about building WebSocket infrastructure, managing connection state, and implementing fan-out. Developers simply create their […]