AWS Amplify Pricing

Getting started with AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify vs S3

AWS Amplify offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model. Here are the key components:

1. Hosting

Free Tier:
- 5 GB stored per month
- 1 GB served per month
- 1000 build minutes per month
Beyond Free Tier:
- Storage: $0.023 per GB stored per month
- Data Transfer: $0.15 per GB served
- Build & Deploy: $0.01 per build minute

2. Backend Services

API Requests:
- GraphQL and REST API requests are billed based on the number of requests made.
- Free Tier: 1 million requests per month.
- Beyond Free Tier: $4.00 per million requests.
Storage:
- Charged based on the amount of data stored.
- Free Tier: 1 GB of storage.
- Beyond Free Tier: $0.25 per GB per month.

3. Authentication

Active Users:
- Free Tier: 50,000 monthly active users.
- Beyond Free Tier: $0.0055 per MAU (Monthly Active User) for the first 50,000 users, with decreasing rates for higher tiers.

4. Push Notifications

Messages:
- Free Tier: 1 million push notifications per month.
- Beyond Free Tier: $1.00 per million messages.

Introduction to AWS Amplify

Amazon Web Services are some of the most useful products we have access to. One such service that is becoming increasingly popular as the days go by is AWS Amplify. It was released in 2018, and it runs on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. It is in direct competition with Firebase, but there are features that set them apart.