Front-End Web & Mobile

Category: Announcements

Changes coming to AWS Amplify’s SMS-based authentication workflows

Starting June 1, 2021, US telecom carriers require that you register an origination phone number before you can send SMS messages to US phone numbers. As a consequence of this new requirement, when you use AWS Amplify to enable SMS-based authentication workflows for your U.S. based app users after June 1st, you must now register […]

Host a Next.js SSR app with real-time data on AWS Amplify

UPDATE: Amplify Hosting now supports Next.js 12 and 13. Please visit our new launch blog to learn more. Today, AWS Amplify Hosting announced support for continuously deploying server-side rendering (SSR) apps built with Next.js. With this launch, AWS Amplify CI/CD and Hosting allows you to deploy hybrid Next.js apps that support both static and dynamic […]

Swift Package Manager Support for Amplify

This article was written by Kyle Lee, AWS Senior Developer Advocate Up until now, if you wanted to use AWS Amplify in your iOS app, you would have to install the Amplify Libraries using CocoaPods. Being the most popular dependency manager used for iOS projects written in Objective-C and/or Swift for nearly a decade, it […]

Announcing the general availability of data management capabilities in the Admin UI

Today, AWS Amplify announced the general availability (GA) release of the Data Manager in the Admin UI. Launched at re:Invent 2020, the AWS Amplify Admin UI is an externally hosted console for frontend teams to visually create an app backend and manage their app content and users. Data management enables developers to visually browse app […]

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 […]

Zero-effort Container deployment for GraphQL and REST APIs and Web Hosting with Amplify CLI

AWS Amplify is the fastest and easiest way to build cloud-powered mobile and web apps on AWS. Amplify comprises a set of tools and services that enables front-end web and mobile developers to leverage the power of AWS services to build innovative and feature-rich applications. With today’s Amplify CLI release, we’re enabling front-end web and […]

Use an existing S3 bucket or DynamoDB table for your Amplify project

AWS Amplify is the fastest and easiest way to build cloud-powered mobile and web apps on AWS. Amplify comprises a set of tools and services that enables front-end web and mobile developers to leverage the power of AWS services to build innovative and feature-rich applications. With today’s Amplify CLI release, we’re extending the newly announced […]

AppSync adds support for AWS WAF

This article was written by Brice Pellé, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS   AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that allows you to deploy Serverless GraphQL backends in the AWS cloud. With AppSync, you can have GraphQL backends that connect to multiple data sources, and that scale and grow with your usage. Whether you […]

Introducing Direct Lambda Resolvers: AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs without VTL

This article was written by Ed Lima, Sr. Product Manager, AWS September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. AWS AppSync is a managed serverless GraphQL service that simplifies application development by letting you create a flexible API to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or […]