Front-End Web & Mobile

How to use Lambda layers with the Amplify CLI

This post was written by Rene Brandel, Senior Product Manager, AWS In this guide you will learn how to create, deploy and leverage Lambda layers & the Amplify CLI to reuse code & assets across serverless functions. AWS Amplify enables mobile & web developers to build full stack serverless apps. The Amplify CLI helps developers […]

Building a Cash Flow App with Amplify DataStore and SwiftUI

This article was written by Kyle Lee, Sr. Developer Advocate, AWS. In May 2020, AWS launched the open-source Amplify Libraries for both iOS and Android, adding to AWS Amplify’s set of tools and services for mobile and front-end web developers. Amplify Libraries make it easy for developers to implement common features like authentication, data synchronization, […]

Automatically create and delete custom sub-domains for your branch deployments with Amplify Console

This article was written by Nikhil Swaminathan, Sr. Product Manager Technical, AWS. Amplify Console launched two new pattern-based branch deployment features that enable teams to automatically create and delete sub-domains every time a new branch or pull-request is added or removed from a Git repository. This allows teams practicing feature branch or GitFlow workflows to […]

Implement AWS AppSync custom authorization with pipeline resolvers

September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. AWS AppSync is a fully managed serverless GraphQL service for application data with integrated real-time data queries, synchronization, communications, and offline programming features. The AppSync endpoints provide built-in fine-grained API security based on four different modes, always requiring authorization before […]

Set up continuous deployment and hosting for a monorepo with AWS Amplify Console

This article was written by Nikhil Swaminathan, Sr. Product Manager Technical, AWS. Amplify Console recently launched monorepo support, providing developers with mono-repositories a better experience connecting apps to the Amplify Console. A mono-repository is a repository that contains more than one logical project, each in it’s own repository. For example, if you have multiple teams […]

AWS AppSync offline reference architecture – powered by the Amplify DataStore

This article was written by Fernando Dingler, Senior Solutions Architect, AWS   Modern mobile and web applications are built to provide delightful and seamless user experiences. As users we have become more demanding and we expect a great user experience for the mobile apps we interact with on a daily basis. For example, if we […]

Creating a Python WebSocket client for AWS AppSync real-time subscriptions

This article was written by Steve Johnson, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS     AWS AppSync is a managed service that uses GraphQL to make it easy for applications to get exactly the data they need on AWS. One of the great things about writing clients for AppSync is that GraphQL queries and mutations can […]

GraphQL API Security with AWS AppSync and Amplify

This article was written by Brice Pellé, Principal Specialist Solutions Architect, AWS September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. AWS AppSync is a fully managed service which allows to deploy and interact with serverless scalable GraphQL backends on AWS. AppSync uses security best practices that AWS has […]

Amplify Framework announces new, rearchitected UI Component and modular JavaScript libraries

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled mobile and web applications, consisting of libraries, UI components, and a CLI toolchain. Today, we are excited to share a new, rearchitected Amplify UI component library that enables JavaScript developers to easily add authentication scenarios to their web apps. You can use the authentication […]

How to schedule recurring Lambda functions using the Amplify CLI

This article was written by Rene Brandel, Senior Product Manager AWS Amplify In this post, you’ll learn to schedule recurring Lambda functions, a new capability released with the newest version of the Amplify CLI. This capability allows customers to schedule Lambda functions to be executed periodically (e.g every minute, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis). […]