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Extend your Amplify Gen 2 app with AWS Blocks — self-contained backend capabilities you compose into your existing backend.

Composable backend capabilities

Add the Blocks you need — PostgreSQL databases, realtime messaging, metrics, logging, and more — alongside your existing Amplify resources.

Local-first, built on the AWS CDK

Run your whole app locally with no AWS account, then deploy the same code to AWS with the AWS CDK.

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API (REST)

Configure REST API

Use Amplify CLI's simple guided workflow to add REST APIs to cloud-based web and mobile apps.

Set up Amplify REST API

The API category provides a solution for making HTTP requests to REST and GraphQL endpoints. The REST API category can be used for creating signed requests against Amazon API Gateway when the API Gateway Authorization is set to AWS_IAM.

Fetch data

Using the GET API REST in Amplify

Update data

Using Post, Put, etc. in Amplify

Delete data

Using the Delete API REST in Amplify

Define authorization rules

Learn more about how to define authorization rules for Amplify's REST API capabilities

Test the REST API

Learn how you can test the REST API from the terminal, with Amplify Mock, or with the API Gateway console.

Build a generative AI sandbox with Amplify and Amazon Bedrock

How to build a generative AI sandbox with Amazon Bedrock and AWS Amplify

Use existing AWS resources

Configure the Amplify Libraries to use existing Amazon API Gateway resources by referencing them in your configuration.

Override Amplify-generated API Gateway resources

The 'amplify override api' command generates a developer-configurable 'overrides' TypeScript file which provides Amplify-generated API Gateway resources as CDK constructs. For example, developers can configure a custom description or the minimum compression size of their REST API.

Migrate from v5 to v6

Learn more about the migration steps to upgrade API(REST) APIs from Amplify JavaScript v5 to v6
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