Deploying Application to AWS Amplify

Introduction

AWS Amplify provides continuous build, deployment, and hosting of modern applications. We have completed building our application, and we now need to deploy this application. There are several third-party products we can use to host our application and still enjoy backend development using AWS Amplify. The misconception people have is that when they are using AWS Amplify, they have to host their application on AWS. This is not true. We can host our application anywhere and only configure our backend with AWS Amplify. Remember, AWS Amplify simplifies building and configuring your server-less backend.

Deployment through Amplify Console

We will go through the first strategy and deploy our application using the AWS Amplify Console. If you followed the tutorial using a different framework, do not worry. AWS Amplify supports several modern frameworks, e.g., React, Next.js, Angular, etc. To get started, upload our application to either Github, Gitlab, or Bitbucket. After that, log in to the Amplify Console and click on the educativewhatsapp

Author’s Note: This is the application name I used when I created my application using amplify init.

Under “Hosting environments,” we can connect our source code and deploy our application. In our case, we are hosting our code on Github, so we will select “Github.” After we connect the repository service provider, ...