What is AWS Amplify? Pros and Cons?

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Published 2021-09-20
AWS Amplify is a powerful CLI based tool from AWS. It helps you easily run commands that allow for AWS functionality such as APIs, Databases, User Pools, and much much more. In this video, I introduce you to some of the concepts of AWS amplify and walk you through some pros and cons of using it. If you're struggling to decide between Amplify and something else such as SAM, CDK, or Firebase, then this is the video for you.

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All Comments (21)
  • @undercrackers56
    Thank you so much for producing this video. You delivered exactly what I was looking for.
  • @joserosengurtt9777
    This video is great. I wish there were more videos like this. It gives you a good picture of what Amplify really is and what you can do with it, not stupid marketing generic information and step by step tutorials to have a trivial useless hello world app.
  • @bozzistef
    Great video, very informative and well explained! Thank you
  • @__hz__6983
    Enabling Elastic search can indeed give you surprise bills as it creates EC2 instances, but if you don't enable it, the rest of the services won't give you much surprises and are easy to monitor.
  • @Canda-fh4xc
    Thank you for this amazing tutorial. Can you please make a Comparison video about: AWS Amplify vs. AWS CodeStar vs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
  • @chawkichalladia1812
    "going outside the box" can be done with amplify by following amplify folder structure to add resources through cloudformation and defining those resources through the backend file. it's a pain in the ass imma give it that but works and allows for a lot of extensibility with other services but it requires a lot of manual changes and paying attention to changes being overwritten by the amplify CLI at some point.
  • @dzakialwansyah
    Its the best video, Awesome!! Its very helpfull man, thank you ✨
  • @NOCDIB
    I liked this on the strength of the title alone. I work on a GCP cloud stack so I'm curious about the AWS equivalent to Firebase.
  • @yemingluo7809
    Great video. If I used the amplify, do I still get to modify anything it help me achieved? For example I want to change schema directly through the dynamoDB it;s using.
  • @kethansai6904
    Great video. Just a quick point there is a cdk option available which allows us to add services not supported in amplify
  • @saurabrakshit405
    Amazing Video ! But, I want to know how to do the Sign Up, Login & other MFA if I already have a existing backend in AWS Cognito . And have the below details of the existing backend :- aws_cognito_identity_pool_id: aws_cognito_region: aws_user_pools_id: aws_user_pools_web_client_id: I hope this question will generate curiosity in you. Please make a separate vdo on this topic
  • @mostinho7
    Done thanks 2:40 what aws services amplify uses to deliver each of these functions If you want to learn about aws services then use them directly instead of amplify as amplify will hide the details