Manage Data with Amplify console

The Data manager page in the Amplify Console offers a user-friendly interface for managing the backend GraphQL API data of an application. It enables real-time creation and updates of application data, eliminating the need to build separate admin views.

If you have not yet created a data resource, visit the Data setup guide.

Access Data manager

After you've deployed your data resource, you can access the manager on Amplify console.

1. Log in to the Amplify console and choose your app.
2. Select the branch you would like to access.
3. Select Data from the left navigation bar.
4. Then, select Data manager.

To create a record

1. On the Data manager page, select a table from the Select table dropdown. For this example, we are using a Todo table.
2. Select Create Todo.
3. In the Add Todo pane, specify your custom values for the fields in the table. For example, enter my first todo for the Content field and toggle the Is done field.
4. Select Submit.

To update a record

1. On the Data manager page, select a table from the Select table dropdown.
2. From the list of records, select a record you want to update.
3. In the Edit Todo pane, make any changes to your record, and then select Submit.

To delete a record(s)

1. On the Data manager page, select a table from the Select table dropdown.
2. From the list of records, select the checkbox to the left of the record(s) you want to delete.
3. Select the Actions dropdown, and then select delete item(s) .

To Seed records

1. On the Data manager page, select a table from the Select table dropdown.
2. Select the Actions dropdown and then select Auto-generate data.
3. In the Auto-generate data pane, specify how many rows of data you want to generate and constraints for the generated data.
4. Then select Generate data

You can generate up to 100 records at a time.

To download records

1. On the Data manager page, select a table from the Select table dropdown.
2. Select the Actions dropdown.
3. Here you have two options for downloading data.
   • Choose Download selected items (.csv) to download only the selected rows of data.
   • Choose Download all items (.csv) to download all rows of records on the currently selected table.
4. Once you have selected a download option, your data should immediately start downloading as a CSV file.