Amazon Mobile Services

The Amazon mobile services group is one of the newer ones in their offerings.  However, that does not mean it is something you want to skip over.  These solutions are likely to be very valuable to your mobile application development efforts.  They will help you increase productivity and ease your integration with the AWS infrastructure when you use it for the solution platform.

AWS Amplify

This helps you build and deploy mobile and web applications.  Amplify is a development framework (libraries, components, etc.) and the CLI to help you build a mobile backend for your application.  It is compatible with React, iOS, Android, and Web-native applications.  This service frees you up to focus on your front-end and business logic rather than struggle through the integration points with AWS.

Amazon API Gateway

Prior post link is https://develpreneur.com/api-gateway-amazons-service-for-connecting-your-systems/

This service allows you to build, deploy, and manage API's.  Thus, it can be thought of as a layer on top of your API to make it easy to maintain a static interface from the point of client applications and services.

Amazon Pinpoint

We discussed this in the customer engagement tools.  As a reminder, it makes it easy to use Push notifications for mobile applications.  Thus, it is your easy way to communicate with app users.

AWS AppSync

Any mobile application will need to handle the issue of disconnected state.  You may not want the user to be able to access the application unless a network connection is present.  However, that can make it very limited and turn away customers.  The AppSync service provides an easy way to handle data synchronization across app and back-end through a framework and libraries.

AWS Device Farm

This allows you to test android, iOS, and web apps on real devices in a browser.  The devices exist in the AWS cloud and provide a cost-effective way to test a large number of devices.  The pricing is just seventeen cents per minute or $250 per month for unlimited devices/testing.