Front-End Web & Mobile
Category: Amazon Cognito
GraphQL API Security with AWS AppSync and Amplify
This article was written by Brice Pellé, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS June 27, 2024: This blog post covers Amplify Gen 1. For new Amplify apps, we recommend using Amplify Gen 2. You can learn more about Gen 2 in our launch blog post. September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon […]
How to Use Cognito Pre-Token Generation trigger to Customize Claims In ID Tokens
This article was written by Matt Noyce, Cloud Application Architect at AWS, & Srihari Prabaharan, Cloud Application Architect at AWS Amazon Cognito is a fully managed AWS service which lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily. Amazon Cognito scales to millions of users and supports sign-in […]
Simplify access to multiple microservices with AWS AppSync and AWS Amplify
This article was written by Faraz Masood, Cloud Architect, AWS Modern applications and architectures are created with microservices in mind, and the ever evolving nature of each service makes it difficult to build and maintain a single API for multiple clients. Rapid iteration in the development cycle can benefit from an unified API interface […]
Introducing the AWS Amplify Libraries for iOS and Android (Preview)
Amplify iOS and Amplify Android are now generally available (GA). Read the GA post to get started with the new libraries. Until today, building iOS and Android apps powered by AWS involved using the AWS service-centric handwritten or low level generated SDKs. To set up the backend, you would go to the AWS service console […]
Building progressive web apps with the Amplify Framework and AWS AppSync
This article was written by Rob Costello, Solutions Architect, AWS September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Many organizations regularly collect valuable data about employees’ or customers’ experiences or concerns using polls or surveys. For this scenario, a client application should perform the following tasks: Present different […]
Supporting backend and internal processes with AWS AppSync multiple authorization types
Imagine a scenario where you created a mobile or web application that uses a GraphQL API built on top of AWS AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB tables. Another backend or internal process such as an AWS Lambda function now needs to update data in the backend tables. A new feature in AWS AppSync lets you grant […]
Amplify Framework adds support for AWS Lambda Triggers in Auth and Storage categories
June 27, 2024: This blog post covers Amplify Gen 1. For new Amplify apps, we recommend using Amplify Gen 2. You can learn more about Gen 2 in our launch blog post. The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications. Today, we’re happy to announce that you can […]
Using multiple authorization types with AWS AppSync GraphQL APIs
Written by Ionut Trestian, Min Bi, Vasuki Balasubramaniam, Karthikeyan, Manuel Iglesias, BG Yathi Raj, and Nader Dabit Today, AWS announced that AWS AppSync now supports configuring more than one authorization type for GraphQL APIs. You can now configure a single GraphQL API to deliver private and public data. Private data requires authenticated access using authorization […]
Implementing passwordless email authentication with Amazon Cognito
June 27, 2024: This blog post covers Amplify Gen 1. For new Amplify apps, we recommend using Amplify Gen 2. You can learn more about Gen 2 in our launch blog post. Having to remember passwords can be a pain, especially for passwords that you don’t use often. Like most people, you too are probably […]
Building an Android app with AWS Amplify – Part 1
This post has been deprecated. Instead, please see the new Amplify Android Getting Started tutorial to learn how to build Android mobile applications using AWS Amplify. This walkthrough is part 1 of a two-part series on how to build an AWS cloud-enabled Android mobile app with the AWS Amplify toolchain. Suppose that you want to […]