Front-End Web & Mobile
AWS Amplify announces the new GraphQL Transformer v2. More feature-rich, flexible, and extensible.
Today, AWS Amplify announces the GraphQL Transformer version 2, enabling developers to develop more feature-rich, flexible, and extensible GraphQL-based app backends even with minimal cloud expertise. The AWS Amplify CLI is a command line toolchain that helps frontend developers create app backends in the cloud. With the Transformer, developers can configure their backend data model […]
Export Amplify backends to CDK and use with existing deployment pipelines
Today, AWS Amplify announces the ability to export Amplify CLI-generated backends as a Cloud Development Kit (CDK) stack and incorporate into existing CDK deployment pipelines. This new capability allows frontend developers to build their app backend quickly and, each time it is ready to ship, hand it over to DevOps teams to deploy to production. […]
Amplify UI’s new Authenticator component makes it easy to add customizable login pages to your React, Angular, or Vue app
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. This post is written by Nikhil Swaminathan and Eric Clemmons who work at AWS Amplify. AWS Amplify UI recently announced a new version […]
Your AWS re:Invent 2021 guide to Amazon Location Service Sessions
Amazon Location Service, since its general availability release in June of 2021, has been adopted by many customers who need easy and accurate access to location-based data. The service team has been working very hard into supporting these customers and releasing new features that help them even more. In order to present some of the […]
AWS attendee guide for Front-End Web and Mobile Development track at re:Invent 2021
AWS re:Invent is a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community. We are super excited to join you at the 10th annual re:Invent to share the latest from AWS leaders and discover more ways to learn and build. Let’s celebrate this milestone that will be offered in person in […]
Extend Amplify backend with custom AWS resources using AWS CDK or CloudFormation
Today, AWS Amplify announces a new amplify add custom command to add any of the 175+ AWS services to an Amplify-created backend using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) or AWS CloudFormation. The new ability to add custom resources enables developers to add additional resources beyond Amplify’s built-in use cases with a single command. AWS […]
Override Amplify-generated backend resources using CDK
AWS Amplify announces the ability for developers to override Amplify-generated IAM, Cognito, S3, and DynamoDB resource configurations to best meet app requirements. With the new override capability, developers can easily configure their backend with Amplify-provided defaults but still customize fine-grained resource settings. AWS Amplify is the fastest and easiest way to build cloud-powered mobile and […]
Testing web applications hosted in a private network using AWS Device Farm
AWS Device Farm offers an elastic Selenium Grid in the cloud that provides instant access to different versions of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge browsers running on Windows servers. Today, thousands of web developers are leveraging Device Farm’s Grid to verify that their applications function and perform as intended on popular browsers. Recently, […]
Generate human-readable seed data with Amplify Studio
This guide will teach you to build a blog page filled with fake blog posts using the AWS Amplify Admin UI’s new data improvements. We’ve added richer seed data generation using Faker, as well as the ability to download your data as a CSV. This makes development easier, thereby enabling you to create realistic demos, […]
Invoking AWS Step Functions short- and long-running workflows from AWS AppSync
AWS AppSync is a fully managed GraphQL service allowing developers to easily build GraphQL APIs. AWS AppSync lets developers connect their API various data sources, such as Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, Amazon OpenSearch, and HTTP Data Sources. By utilizing HTTP Data Sources, your AWS AppSync API can be connected to other AWS services. You can invoke AWS […]