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Startup to Enterprise: Building Front-end and Full-stack Apps That Scale with AWS Amplify
Introduction
- The session covers what AWS Amplify is and the new features and announcements.
- A customer story will be shared, and the speaker will introduce Amplify Gen 2 and its various categories, including authentication, storage, data, functions, and AI.
- The session will also cover hosting and how to host your website with AWS Amplify.
The Journey from Startup to Enterprise
- Builders often start with a technology stack they are familiar with, using open-source frameworks and building one or two apps.
- As the business grows, they add more services, UI libraries, and new types of engineers and developers.
- The journey typically involves increasing complexity, with multiple apps, developers, and engineering teams, as well as separate needs for a platform team and other roles.
- However, the landscape has changed, with front-end developers becoming full-stack developers.
- Full-stack development now involves using technologies like GraphQL to build the API, serverless applications for the backend and business logic, and communicating with the database using the GraphQL layer.
- This shift has led to front-end developers driving cloud decisions, and AWS Amplify was built to make it easier for front-end developers to build full-stack applications.
Customer Story: Kiara Anoui, CEO and Founder of Abit
- Kiara was a consultant in the food industry and discovered a significant challenge in the agricultural sector related to soil degradation and declining soil biodiversity.
- Abit is an agtech solution that uses soil biodiversity as a key performance indicator to help farmers analyze soil health and develop strategies to improve productivity and sustainability.
- Abit chose to use AWS Amplify to build their full-stack application, which enabled them to develop and launch their MVP in just 6 months, with a 70% reduction in development costs and a 68% faster time to market.
- Abit's future plans include responding to regulatory changes, anticipating market trends, and leveraging technology like artificial intelligence and satellite data to enhance their platform.
Introducing AWS Amplify Gen 2
- AWS Amplify Gen 2 was recently released and focuses on TypeScript and the developer experience.
- Key features of Amplify Gen 2 include:
- End-to-end type safety
- Git-based full-stack CI/CD
- File-based convention
- Redesigned management console
- Built on AWS CDK
Amplify Gen 2 Services
- Data: Powered by AWS AppSync, a managed GraphQL service, allowing you to define your data models and relationships.
- Authentication: Provides a pre-built UI component library and client libraries to handle authentication, including federated logins and multi-factor authentication.
- Functions: Enables you to easily set up AWS Lambda functions and integrate them into your application.
- Storage: Allows you to create and manage S3 buckets, with a new feature called Storage Browser providing a visual interface for file management.
- Generative AI: The new Amplify AI Kit makes it straightforward to connect to large language models powered by Amazon Bedrock, including features like a chat UI component.
- Amplify Hosting: A managed web hosting platform that supports various frontend frameworks and can be integrated with your CI/CD workflows.
Amplify Hosting and the Full-stack Approach
- Amplify Hosting allows you to host your website, leveraging the other Amplify services for the backend and functionality.
- This full-stack approach enables you to build your frontend using your preferred framework, while Amplify handles the backend infrastructure and hosting.
Conclusion
- The session showcased the latest features and capabilities of AWS Amplify Gen 2, highlighting its focus on developer experience, type safety, and the ability to build full-stack applications with ease.
- The customer story of Abit demonstrated how Amplify can help startups quickly develop and scale their applications, leveraging the various Amplify services.
- The speaker also introduced the new Amplify AI Kit, making it simpler for developers to integrate large language models into their applications.