I'd definitely caution people away from Amplify. I use it for small projects -- one offs where I don't particularly care about performance, maintainability, or bundle size. For those sorts of low stakes use cases, it's probably fine.
I'm not sure how much I'm saving over just using the CDK and a lighter weight set of libraries. Maybe nothing.
But for a larger project, it would be an absolutely nightmare to use. Even on my small projects I'm constantly fighting it to play nice with modern JS infrastructure. Want to run Vite + Svelte + Amplify? Get ready for some headaches (or at the very least, tons of compiler warnings and huge bundle sizes.)
The documentation is strongly, strongly geared towards the happy path experience, and if you aren't using React + the blessed service infra, you are going to hit sharp edges and lack of documentation immediately.
I'm not sure how much I'm saving over just using the CDK and a lighter weight set of libraries. Maybe nothing.
But for a larger project, it would be an absolutely nightmare to use. Even on my small projects I'm constantly fighting it to play nice with modern JS infrastructure. Want to run Vite + Svelte + Amplify? Get ready for some headaches (or at the very least, tons of compiler warnings and huge bundle sizes.)
The documentation is strongly, strongly geared towards the happy path experience, and if you aren't using React + the blessed service infra, you are going to hit sharp edges and lack of documentation immediately.