What is AWS Amplify? Pros and Cons?

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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[joserosengurtt]

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.

[hughesadam]

Perfect delivery and amount of info, thanks!

[dragusincristian]

This clip is an eye opener!! Thank you very much for posting!

[mostinho]

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

[chawkichalladia]

"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.

[__hz__]

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-fhxc]

Thank you for this amazing tutorial.
Can you please make a Comparison video about:

AWS Amplify vs. AWS CodeStar vs. AWS Elastic Beanstalk?

[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.

[bozzistef]

Great video, very informative and well explained! Thank you

[undercrackers]

Thank you so much for producing this video. You delivered exactly what I was looking for.

[pragyavashishtha]

Thank you so much! This helps me a lot, being very new to Amplify. :)

[srinivaskv]

With my developer account, I am getting below error while trying to host existing app or creating new app:
"Houston, there's a problem
We are unable to process your request. Please reach out to your support representative."
I wont be able to log service ticket with developer account. Let me know if you have any suggestions

[yemingluo]

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.

[jorgesisco]

IS NOT CLEAR IN THE DOCS.

I am trying to use a secretkey I have in system manager, but I get error: CredentialsError: Missing credentials in config, if using AWS_CONFIG_FILE, set AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1

Even after hardcoding the credentials just to see if it works, I still get the same error, my CLI is set all fine, including the respective policies.

[kethansai]

Great video. Just a quick point there is a cdk option available which allows us to add services not supported in amplify

[alexmattyou]

Great video! I'll learn it for sure. But I don't think I need to learn this now. SInce I really need to learn about AWS services

[node-]

I started out with Amplify I built a pretty decent scale (to me) webapp it has so much functionality relying on Amplify that I am pretty much locked in to the point where I don't even know how to migrate it to something else like beanstalk without just remaking the project so I am pretty much locked in

[JasonJYS]

You can go outside the box with Amplify and Aws CDK but I agree that it’s hard for people who are new aws ecosystem.

[oluwafeminasiru]

this is a really great video ! thank you.