BaaS (Firebase, AWS Amplify) and alternatives

• amplify-cli

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  The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.

  

Hi all, for a new project I need to create a web app and mobile app and would like to hear your opinion on what would be the right architecture. The architecture has two peculiarities, it needs: - a service for crawling/scraping and writing into a (document) DB - full search text support for the crawled/scraped data Since the budget for running is low and time is tight, I was looking into serverless and BaaS architectures. I like the idea of using a BaaS architecture so I was I thinking if Firebase or AWS Amplify are a good fit. Regarding the full search text, Firestore does not support full text search out of the box, but it is possible to use Elastic, Algolia, Typesense (https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/solutions/search). With AWS Amplify it's apparently even more easier - it appears that it can be directly connected to AWS ElasticSearch. Regarding the crawling/scraping, I could use e.g. EC2 instances. Now from the time perspective looks good, but not from the budget perspective. As I found here: https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-cli/issues/3860 an ElasticSearch Instance on AWS can cost 70$ for 2 hours!!! This is around the budget for a whole month... So what you guys would advice me? Are there any alternatives? How can I move fast with a minimal cost?

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