Front-End Web & Mobile

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AWS Amplify Hosting Adds Web Application Firewall Protection – Public Preview

Today, AWS Amplify Hosting is launching new Firewall capabilities that will allow developers to protect and further secure their web applications. This is a direct integration with AWS WAF, allowing Amplify developers to connect a Web ACL directly to their Amplify hosted application. A web firewall is essential for professional developers to protect their applications […]

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Working with AWS AppSync Events: Real-time Web Games with Chat

In this post, we’ll look at the core concepts needed to create an online version of a game where players try to match four of their tokens in a row. We’ll also see how AWS Amplify Gen 2 enables us to quickly connect to an AWS backend, and how AWS AppSync events allows players to […]

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Working with AWS AppSync Events: Serverless WebSockets for Pub/Sub

AWS AppSync simplifies and manages connecting applications to events, data, and AI models. Now, with the new addition of AWS AppSync events, developers can create real-time experiences by publishing updates from any event source to subscribed clients over serverless WebSockets. AWS AppSync events offers a standalone Pub/Sub service that is not bound to GraphQL. In […]

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Building RAG-based applications with AWS Amplify AI Kit and Neon Postgres

Modern application development has shifted to include not just tooling that offers a great developer experience (DX), but a sensible balance between simply getting started and the path to production. It is this very sentiment that inspired the release of Amplify AI kit. This abstraction over common AI tasks like conversing with a large language […]

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Build a Travel Planner with React Native, AWS Amplify, and Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base

With the announcement of the Amplify AI kit, we learned how to build custom UI components, conversation history and add external data to the conversation flow. In this blog post, we will learn how to build a travel planner application using React Native. The application will generate responses using Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large […]

Add a conversational interface to any data source

Add a Conversational Interface to any Data Source

When building generative AI applications using Amazon Bedrock, it’s often necessary to enhance the capabilities of the models by giving them access to external data or functionality. The way to do that is with tools (sometimes referred to as function calling). These tools act as bridges, allowing models to retrieve application-specific, real-time or dynamic information […]

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Create a Customized AI-Based Chat Interface With Your Application Data

Frontend developers face significant hurdles when creating persistent conversational AI chat experiences for their apps. They often how to deal with complex APIs, complicated real-time UI updates, and hard to configure permissions. Not to mention having to setup intricate cloud infrastructure. That’s why we are excited to show you AWS Amplify AI kit and it’s […]

Announcing the AWS Amplify AI kit

Build fullstack AI apps in minutes with the new Amplify AI Kit

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of the AWS Amplify AI kit, the quickest way for fullstack developers to build web apps with AI capabilities such as chat, conversational search, and summarization. With the Amplify AI kit you can build fullstack generative AI functionality without prior experience in cloud architecture or machine […]

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The frontend web and mobile app developer’s guide to AWS re:Invent 2024

In this blog post, we’re highlighting the most exciting sessions for technology leaders and frontend, full-stack, and backend developers. Sessions span intermediate (200) through expert (400) levels of content in a mix of interactive chalk talks, hands-on workshops, code talks, and lecture-style breakout sessions. We’ll cover the latest AWS tools, services, and features that help […]

Announcing AWS AppSync Events: serverless WebSocket APIs to power real-time web and mobile experiences at any scale

Today, AWS AppSync announced AWS AppSync Events, a feature that lets developers easily broadcast real-time event data to a few or millions of subscribers using secure and performant serverless WebSocket APIs. With AWS AppSync Events, developers no longer have to worry about building WebSocket infrastructure, managing connection state, and implementing fan-out. Developers simply create their […]