What is AWS Amplify and How Can It Help Me?

Amplify is a tool that will help you streamline integrating your application with Amazon's web services.

Taken straight from the AWS website, let's break down the tool's official description:

AWS Amplify makes it easy to create, configure, and implement scalable mobile and web apps powered by AWS. Amplify seamlessly provisions and manages your mobile backend and provides a simple framework to easily integrate your backend with your iOS, Android, Web, and React Native frontends. Amplify also automates the application release process of both your frontend and backend allowing you to deliver features faster.

• Amplify makes it easy to create and configure scalable mobile and web apps
• Amplify provides a simple framework to easily integrate your backend with your frontends
• Amplify automates your application release process

Now, if you're like me, then the first time you attempted to use an Amazon web service for your project... it took too much time and too much energy. Thus, AWS created Amplify! And Amplify is definitely worth the time to learn considering it takes almost no time at all and gives our apps access to all of AWS's most powerful services including:

• S3 storage buckets
• DynamoDB NoSQL databases
• Lambda serverless functions
• Cognito authorization
• AppSync and Gateway APIs