Many developers use Firebase as their backend services when it comes to a Flutter project. We have a new option now, AWS Amplify. This tutorial will be covering AWS Cognito.
AWS Amplify announces its support for the Flutter framework a few days ago. Previously it only supports React, React Native, Angular, iOS, Android, and Ionic. It is now in developer preview for Flutter, but it is exciting news to those who are not using Firebase or choose not to.
So what exactly is AWS Amplify?
AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services that enables mobile and front-end web developers to build secure, scalable full stack applications, powered by AWS. With Amplify, it’s easy to create custom onboarding flows, develop voice-enabled experiences, build AI-powered real-time feeds, launch targeted campaigns, and more. No matter the use case, AWS Amplify helps you develop and release great apps your customers will love. AWS Amplify includes an open-source framework with use-case centric libraries and a powerful toolchain to create and add cloud-based features to your app, and a web hosting service to deploy static web applications.
TLDR; It helps to develop the application’s backend in a much faster way, just like Firebase.
AWS Amplify offers a variety of services such as Authentication, including third party/social media log in, push notifications, storage, GraphQL, Datastore, REST API, Analytics, PubSub, and more.
What’s the difference between AWS Amplify and Firebase?
Both of them offer similar services, but Firebase is a service that comes from Google, whereas Amplify provided by AWS. As for the developer preview, we will be open to using a series of AWS services now:
- AWS Cognito, for social-media log in, OAuth, etc.
- AWS S3 for storage media files such as video, audio, images, etc.
- AWS Analytics to collect analytical data for your app.
I’m pretty confident that AWS will release more features to have more services available soon.
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