aws-appsync-community VS aws-sdk

For context; the web application is built with React and TypeScript which makes calls to an AppSync API that makes use of the Lambda and DynamoDB datasources. We use Step Functions to orchestrate the flow of events for complex processing like purchasing and renewing policies, and we use S3 and SQS to process document workloads.

AWS AppSync is a serverless GraphQL offering by AWS, previously I authored a blog about AWS AppSync 101 which gets you up to speed with the capabilities of AppSync and how you can leverage them in your serverless applications.

Amplify Studio's Data allows you to define Amazon DynamoDB keeping in mind the properties with the right type and also powered with AWS AppSync where which generates a GraphQL schema under the hood.

AWS AppSync I'm keeping this section a bit shorter for you all, since AppSync is not something I have actually used personally, but have heard great things about. AppSync is another API option AWS has made available specifically for applications that want to take advantage of GraphQL or a Publish/Subscribe model. The GraphQL model may be of interest to front end developers that need to query multiple sources of data from one API endpoint, like databases or microservices. The Pub/Sub model I am more familiar with in the IoT hardware-communicates-with-software aspect, however this is also powerful for frontend developers looking to take advantage of real-time updates with serverless WebSocket connections. With AppSync, you also have caching, offline data synchronization, and real-time updates. You can learn more and check out the developer docs on the AWS Website.

5. Amazon Appsync

Amplify is a set of tools that allows full-stack web and mobile developers to create and build apps. It makes using AWS services, like our Cognito identity and access management service, or our managed GraphQL service AppSync, much simpler and straight forward to use.

This was the top-voted, long-awaited request for AppSync.

Appsync is the AWS service focus on creating flexible APIs, and Amplify is the framework that combines multiple AWS tools to help you build any type of Application.

Check out AppSync (https://aws.amazon.com/appsync/) or Apollo, you can deploy Apollo app to AWS as serverless application.

From this GitHub issue and this one from 2021 it seems like AWS just doesn't care about this - so, asking here if anyone knows of a workaround (other than "just keep using v2"... that's not a long-term solution), or if any AWS devs can shed some light on the situation.

AWS SDKs

Please note that ECS Exec is supported via AWS SDKs, AWS CLI, as well as AWS Copilot. In the future, we will enable this capability in the AWS Console. Also, this feature only supports Linux containers (Windows containers support for ECS Exec is not part of this announcement).

Set up the AWS CLI and AWS SDKs.

One common pattern to integrate with AWS from a workflow job is to call additional services using the AWS CLI. Overall, this works well, but there are a few considerations one should note when doing so. First and foremost, a workflow job needs to know where the AWS CLI installed and how to use it. You can do this by either installing the AWS CLI on the host compute and bind mounting it into the container job, or including the AWS CLI as part of the container image. That said, see my notes above on keeping container images small for associated caveats. Second, while the AWS CLI is great for scripting, for more complex operations direct integration via the AWS SDK is a better fit.

I like how you can imagine what the Python implementation that uses this looks like from this structure. If there are no waiters for what you need, you can create an Issue in the AWS SDK repository because the service teams provide those. I tried that for DynamoDB Streams, and I'm curious to see how long it will take them to add that.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a serverless service for sending emails from your applications. Like other AWS services, you can send emails with SES using the AWS REST API or the AWS SDKs. In this article, I want to look at how to send emails using SES with TypeScript specifically.

In 2002, Jeff Bezos's so-called API Mandate forced all Amazon teams to expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Amazon has built AWS around the same principles: every service is programmatically controllable, from starting a virtual machine to accessing a satellite. While this is an essential property of an effective cloud platform, it is not necessarily developer-friendly. By now, AWS has incrementally and significantly improved in this space. Besides using their APIs, we can control services and infrastructure with a unified Command Line Interface (CLI), Software Development Kits (SDK), CloudFormation, and, since July 2019, the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). The CDK had a massive impact on developer productivity and satisfaction. While teams could already access and control services and infrastructure using the AWS SDK and their favorite programming language, infrastructure was primarily defined using incredible amounts of mostly punctuation marks and whitespace, also known as YAML or JSON. CDK — initially only flavored TypeScript and Python — finally gave developers an AWS-native means to define Infrastructure as actual Code. Since its introduction, AWS has added support for more languages, like Java, C#, and Go.

Yes, no AWS api to create users/groups: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk/issues/25