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AWS Amplify Admin UI with René Brandel

Original: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-3-aws-amplify-admin-ui-with-rene-brandel

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AWS Amplify Admin UI

The blog: New AWS Amplify Admin UI Helps You Develop App Backends, No Cloud Experience Required | Amazon Web Services

The actual UI: Admin UI basics – Introduction – Amplify Docs

Amplify and René

What got you started with Amplify?

  • Helping frontend developers
  • Personally, always inspired on how to write less code for more

What would you recommend for a person to get started with Amplify?

  • If you’re a frontend web or mobile developer on AWS, then Amplify is the best way to get started
  • Helps developers add cloud-based features to frontend apps
  • Scale out their application as their users grow
  • Focus on the experience instead of worrying about infrastructure setup

Amplify Admin UI

What’s the Amplify Admin UI? Is this something new?

Do you need an AWS account to get started?

What’s so special about the new visual data modeler?

GSI’s are always difficult, does this help? (In relation to the data modeler)

What are some other major features you can have with the Admin UI? (we can talk about auth)

Access outside the AWS Management Console

This is amazing but could we talk a little bit about how it works? Is it running on Java somehow, like Firebase emulator?

Non-technical users – how do they use it?

How does this new Amplify Admin UI work with existing customers?

  • How do they turn it on?
  • CLI users

Video Chapters & Timestamps

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Resources, Links & Official Documentation

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What are the main takeaways from AWS Amplify Admin UI with René Brandel?

Talking with René Brandel about AWS Amplify Admin UI. How you can get started with AWS Amplify without ever writing a line of code. 1.3 - AWS Amplify Admin UI with René Brande: https://codingcat.dev/podcast/1-3-aws-amplify-admin-ui-with-rene-brandel 00:00 - Intro

00:15 - AWS Amplify Admin UI

06:10 - Admin UI Demo

16:00 - Angular CLI Demo

32:00 - Admin UI on AWS

43:20 - CI/CD

44:39 - Purrfect Picks

45:40 - Hot Tip Throughout this podcast, René Brandel breaks down real-world implementation details for AWS, Angular, DevOps so developers can apply these patterns directly in production.

How do you implement AWS best practices in production?

When adopting AWS and Angular in a production stack, start by validating your configuration against the AWS Documentation & Builder Center (Cloud architecture, serverless compute, IAM, and managed services). Focus on incremental adoption, automated testing, and observability so your team can measure performance and developer velocity improvements at each stage.

Where can I watch the full AWS Amplify Admin UI with René Brandel walkthrough and find related code resources?

You can watch the complete video session for AWS Amplify Admin UI with René Brandel on the CodingCat.dev YouTube channel. For a deeper dive into AWS, check out our related guide: AWS Amplify vs. AWS CDK What is the most powerful AWS IaC in 2020?.

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