AWS Mobile Blog

Introduction In April, we launched the beta version of a new Amazon Cognito feature called Your User Pools. Among other functionality, the User Pools feature makes it easy for developers to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to web apps. AWS Mobile SDKs for Android, JavaScript, and iOS are available with this beta launch. In this […]

Introduction Last month AWS launched the beta version of  Amazon Cognito User Pools. With this feature, you can easily add sign-up and sign-in functionality to your mobile and web applications. You get a simple to use, fully managed service for creating and maintaining a user directory which can scale to hundreds of millions of users. You […]

Introduction Today, AWS launched the Beta release of a new Amazon Cognito feature, Cognito Identity User Pools, that makes it easy for you to add sign-up and sign-in functionality to your mobile and web apps. This feature provides a simple way to create and maintain your own user directory that can scale to hundreds of […]

Predictive maintenance is one of many appealing use cases for the Internet of Things (IoT). Using sensors to predict the health of a fleet of machines in the field can prevent down time without conducting unnecessary maintenance. Further, predictive maintenance allows for maintenance to be conducted at the most cost effective time. Allowing you to […]

Introduction Earlier this week, AWS IoT released support for customers who need to use their own device certificates signed by their preferred Certificate Authority (CA). This is in addition to the support for AWS IoT generated certificates. The CA certificate is used to sign and issue device certificates, while the device certificates are used to […]

As you may already know, Parse announced it will retire its operations by January 28, 2017. We recently published a step-by-step guide on how to migrate to the Parse Server using AWS Elastic Beanstalk with MongoLab (now mLab). In this blog we cover how to deploy both Parse Server (using Elastic Beanstalk) and a MongoDB instance (with Amazon EC2) […]

As you may already know, Parse announced that it will retire its operations by January 28, 2017. To help customers transition their Parse Core resources to another hosted provider like AWS, Parse open-sourced the Parse Server and published a migration guide. The guide, however, does not have a migration path for Parse Push and suggests […]

Sending device-generated data from AWS IoT to Amazon Elasticsearch Service enables several analytics and monitoring use cases such as performing full-text search for device error codes and visualizing device metrics in near real-time with Kibana. This blog post walks you through an end-to-end process of sending data to AWS IoT, indexing it in Amazon Elasticsearch, […]

Last month, we announced that the AWS SDK for Unity will be part of the AWS SDK for .NET with preview support for the AWS SDK for Unity. With today’s release, we are ready to label the AWS SDK for Unity as production ready. You can now upgrade the SDK simply by deleting the version […]

With AWS Device Farm, you can quickly get started testing your Android, iOS, and FireOS apps on real devices in the AWS cloud. Simply upload your app, choose your test framework and the devices you want to test your app on, and start your test run. AWS Device Farm will provide the results of your […]