Category: Technical How-to

The Amplify Library for Swift is now generally available for macOS. Amplify is an open-source client-side library making it easier to access a cloud backend from your front-end application code. It provides language-specific constructs to abstract low-level details of the cloud API. It helps you to integrate services such as analytics, object storage, REST or […]

Routing optimization for waste bin collection In everyday life, we often use routing services to get directions on how to get from point A (i.e. home) to point B (i.e. work). Behind the scenes of these services, there are algorithms that calculate the best way to reach point B from point A and provide with […]

AWS Amplify makes it possible to add custom AWS resources to an Amplify-created backend using the amplify add custom command and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) or AWS CloudFormation. By doing so, developers can easily add and manage AWS resources beyond Amplify’s built-in use cases to their projects. AWS Amplify makes it fast […]

This post builds on the initial post, Deploy a Next.js 13 app with authentication to AWS Amplify, which initialized our project with AWS Cognito authentication and deployed our project to Amplify Hosting and the previous post, Build a Product Roadmap with Next.js and Amplify, where we built an admin page for product managers to login […]

Branch Insurance is an insurance technology startup that provides simple insurance policies and comprehensive bundles to customers in the United States. The company set out to radically simplify the end-user experience for insurance customers by offering bindable prices based on just a couple simple pieces of information – the customer’s name and address. One of Branch’s […]

In a recent industry survey, over 66.6% (up from 59.7% in 2019) of JavaScript developers have used real-time technologies. Multiplayer apps makes your app more delightful and drives more organic adoption through user collaboration. With today’s launch, AWS Amplify enables developers to configure dynamic multi-group authorization for real-time subscriptions. This is part three of a […]

There are many types of authentication flows for different apps, but using a one-time password (OTP) is one of the more mainstream authentication flows users expect from an app. An OTP flow consist of a user providing either a username or email address and receiving a code (usually 6 digits) via an email or text […]

In this post let’s imagine we are a car company with a public roadmap. We have a global audience, who are regularly checking to see what features we have delivered for our in-car entertainment system. We’ll build an admin page for product managers to login and update the roadmap and have it reflected on the […]

In this blog post, we describe how you can improve end-user customer experience on your User Interfaces (UI) by implementing the Backend for Frontend pattern and providing real-time visual updates when your microservices raise events about mutations in their domain aggregates. The solution proposed combines two patterns: 1) the Backends for Frontends (BFF) pattern, where […]

Amazon Location Service is a fully-managed service that makes it easy for you to add location data and functionality such as maps, search, and routing to your applications. With Amazon Location Service, you can access high-quality data from multiple data providers, giving you the flexibility to choose the provider with the best data for your […]