Building and Securing Serverless Apps using AWS Amplify (Part 3)

Here is our final video in the 3-part series Building and Securing Serverless Apps using AWS Amplify.  In case you missed Part 1 you can find it here along with Part 2 here.  Please let us know if you would like to learn more about this series!

The video below is Part 2 of our 3-part series: Building and Securing Serverless Apps using AWS Amplify.  In case you missed Part 1 – take a look at it here.  Be sure to stay tuned for Part 3!

AWS Amplify is a set of tools that promises to make full-stack, cloud-native development quicker and easier. We’ve used it to build and deploy different products without getting bogged down by heavy infrastructure configuration. On one hand, Amplify gives you a rapid head start with services like Lambda functions, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and CloudFormation/IaC templates. On the other hand, you don’t always know what it’s generating and how it’s securing your resources.

If you’re curious about rapid development tools that can get you started on the road to serverless but want to understand what’s being created, check out our series of videos.

We’ll take a front-end web app and incrementally build out authentication, API/function, and storage layers. Along the way, we’ll point out any gotchas or lessons learned from our experience.

Last year, we worked with experts from George Mason University to build a COVID screening and tracing platform called Pass2Play. We used this opportunity to implement a Serverless architecture using the AWS cloud.

This video discusses our experience, including our solution goals, high-level design, lessons learned and product outcomes.

It’s specific to our situation, but we’d love to hear about other experiences with the Serverless tools and services offered by AWS, Azure and Google. There are a lot of opinions on Serverless, but there’s no doubt that it’s pushing product developers to rethink their delivery and maintenance processes.

Feel free to leave a comment if we’re missing anything or to share your own experience.