Front-End Web & Mobile
Category: AWS Amplify
Introducing Upgraded Build Instances on Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting has built web applications using a fixed instance environment. As applications grow more complex and require intensive build processes for dependency management, asset optimization, and comprehensive testing, developers need more powerful build environments to maintain productivity and deployment speed. Today, we’re excited to introduce customizable build instances for Amplify Hosting. This update […]
From Build to Embed: Creating and Embedding GenAI Apps with AWS Amplify, CDK, and Amazon Q Business
In a enterprise landscape, custom applications play a critical role in improving operations, enhancing productivity, and centralizing knowledge within the organization. However, these tools often lack intelligent, conversational interfaces that help users access relevant information faster and more intuitively. Traditional dashboards and search bars fall short when it comes to interpreting complex queries or surfacing […]
Amplify Hosting Announces Skew Protection Support
A common challenge in web application development and deployment is version skew between client and server resources. Today, we’re excited to announce deployment skew protection for applications deployed to AWS Amplify Hosting. This feature helps verifies end users have a seamless experience during application deployments. The Challenge Modern web applications are complex systems comprising numerous […]
Simplifying Multi-App Management in AWS Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting has now made it possible to connect many more Amplify apps to a single repository. This change improves the way developers can integrate with Git providers which is especially beneficial for monorepo architectures. Amplify now uses a single webhook per repository for all associated apps, streamlining the development workflow. For specific limit […]
IAM Compute Roles for Server-Side Rendering with AWS Amplify Hosting
Today, AWS Amplify Hosting is introducing compute roles for AWS Amplify applications, enabling you to extend server-side rendering capabilities with secure access to AWS services from the compute runtime. With compute roles, developers can attach specific permissions to their server-side rendered apps, allowing Amplify to make authorized calls to other AWS services. This new capability […]
Build a Scalable Search Solution with AWS Amplify and OpenSearch Serverless
Introduction In today’s data-driven digital ecosystem, building scalable search solutions has become essential for organizations managing large, complex datasets across industries. Whether it’s a streaming platform, an e-commerce marketplace, or a research database, the ability to efficiently search through structured and unstructured data is key to delivering a seamless user experience. Traditional search solutions often […]
Building a Gen AI-Powered Manufacturing Search Engine with AWS Amplify Gen 2
AWS Amplify, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon OpenSearch can be combined to create an AI-powered search engine for manufacturing that breaks down data silos, enabling faster and more accurate access to critical information across defect logs, operational data, and cost analyses, improving decision-making and operational efficiency.
The most visited Front-end Web and Mobile blog posts in 2024
As we kick off 2025, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2024. Without further ado, here are the 10 front-end web and mobile blog posts of 2024. Fullstack TypeScript Reintroducing AWS Amplify – This blog post announces the general availability of AWS Amplify Gen 2, a fullstack TypeScript experience […]
Building RAG-based applications with AWS Amplify AI Kit and Neon Postgres
Modern application development has shifted to include not just tooling that offers a great developer experience (DX), but a sensible balance between simply getting started and the path to production. It is this very sentiment that inspired the release of Amplify AI kit. This abstraction over common AI tasks like conversing with a large language […]
Build a Travel Planner with React Native, AWS Amplify, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base
With the announcement of the Amplify AI kit, we learned how to build custom UI components, conversation history and add external data to the conversation flow. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a travel planner application using React Native. The application will generate responses using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large […]