Startup to enterprise: Build frontend and fullstack apps that scale (FWM205)

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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

  1. Data: Powered by AWS AppSync, a managed GraphQL service, allowing you to define your data models and relationships.
  2. Authentication: Provides a pre-built UI component library and client libraries to handle authentication, including federated logins and multi-factor authentication.
  3. Functions: Enables you to easily set up AWS Lambda functions and integrate them into your application.
  4. Storage: Allows you to create and manage S3 buckets, with a new feature called Storage Browser providing a visual interface for file management.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.

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