Front-End Web & Mobile

* Written by Josh Kahn, Senior AWS Solutions Architect based in Chicago, IL. September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. AWS AppSync is a managed GraphQL service that enables developers to easily build data-driven mobile and web applications. Using a serverless backend, you can build a GraphQL […]

Written by Kurt Kemple, Sr. Developer Advocate & Gerard Sans, Sr. Developer Advocate The Amplify Framework is an open-source project for building cloud-enabled applications. Today, we’re happy to announce new features in the authentication, storage, and API categories. It’s now possible to configure OAuth 2.0 authorization flows and enable the Amazon Cognito hosted UI from […]

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. Authentication and authorization play a key role in mobile development. The AWS Amplify team has been busy improving on the previous simplified development […]

Written by Robert Zhu, AWS Principal Technical Evangelist September 14, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. We are excited to announce that AWS is now part of the GraphQL Foundation, and we can’t wait to help the Foundation build an open and vibrant GraphQL community. Let me explain […]

*This article was written by Nikhil Swaminathan & Dan Green from the AWS Amplify Console team. The Amplify Console now supports instant cache invalidation, which enables you to deploy updates to your single page or static app instantly—without giving up the performance benefits of content delivery network (CDN) caching. This means that you no longer […]

The Amplify Framework is an open source project for building cloud-enabled applications. Today, we are happy to announce the release of new features in the Amplify Framework. Multiple Environment Support The Amplify CLI now supports multiple development environments. This addition enables you and your team to create and test out features in a sandboxed environment that’s completely separate from your […]

November 2024: The following blog post describes adding Passwordless support to Amazon Cognito using custom auth flows. Amazon Cognito launched native Passwordless support, and using the native functionality should be preferred. However, the blog post below may still be of interest to you, if you want to learn how to implement custom auth flows. June […]

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 is part 2 of a two-part series of walkthroughs on how to build an AWS cloud-enabled Android mobile app with the AWS Amplify toolchain. In this post, we […]

In November 2017, we launched AWS Amplify, initially an open-source JavaScript library that makes it easier to develop cloud-connected mobile and web apps—and AWS AppSync, for creating a real-time and offline-capable data-layer API for your mobile and web apps. In the last 12 months, we’ve introduced significant additional capabilities for both AWS Amplify and AWS […]

AWS AppSync, a Serverless GraphQL backend for providing data to mobile and web applications, has been steadily releasing features over the past year since launching at re:Invent 2017. Today, we’re happy to release several new service and client features for AWS AppSync that can greatly enhance the way you build client applications and provide data […]