AWS Amplify
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Jan 12, 2022
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CommentsWhat is AWS Amplify?
A JavaScript library for frontend and mobile developers building cloud-enabled applications. The library is a declarative interface across different categories of operations in order to make common tasks easier to add into your application. The default implementation works with Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources but is designed to be open and pluggable for usage with other cloud services that wish to provide an implementation or custom backends.
AWS Amplify is a tool in the Infrastructure as a Service category of a tech stack.
AWS Amplify Pros & Cons
Pros of AWS Amplify
- ✓GraphQL
- ✓Better with Relations and Security
- ✓Cheaper
- ✓Flexible Auth options
- ✓Backed by Amazon
- ✓Config free environment variables
- ✓Continuous deployment
- ✓Jije
Cons of AWS Amplify
- ✗Free tier is limited
- ✗Steep Learning Curve
AWS Amplify Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to AWS Amplify?
AWS CLI
It is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.
LocalStack
LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications.
Bash-My-AWS
It is a simple but extremely powerful set of CLI commands for managing resources on Amazon Web Services. They harness the power of Amazon's AWSCLI, while abstracting away verbosity. The project implements some innovative patterns but (arguably) remains simple, beautiful and readable.
AWS Shell
The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.
