The following table describes the important changes to the documentation since the last release of AWS Amplify.
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Latest documentation update: March 26, 2025
| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Updated Firewall chapter | Updated the Firewall support for Amplify hosted sites chapter to describe the general availability (GA) of Amplify's integration with AWS WAF, including the GA functionality and pricing structure. | March 26, 2025 |
| New Skew protection chapter | Added the Skew protection for Amplify deployments chapter to describe the skew protection feature that eliminates version skew issues between client and servers in Amplify web applications. | March 10, 2025 |
| Updated Webhooks chapter | Added the Unified webhooks for Git repositories topic to describe the unified webhooks feature that uses one comprehensive webhook for all Amplify applications associated with a single Git repository. | March 10, 2025 |
| New Adding an SSR Compute role to allow access to AWS resources topic | Added the Adding an SSR Compute role to allow access to AWS resources topic to describe how to create and associate an Amplify SSR Compute role with an app to give the Amplify Compute service access to AWS resources. | February 17, 2025 |
| New Using AWS WAF to protect your Amplify apps chapter | Added the Firewall support for Amplify hosted sites chapter to describe Amplify's integration with AWS WAF (in preview) that enables you to protect your web applications with a web access control list (web ACL). | December 18, 2024 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | November 14, 2024 |
| Updated Amplify support for Next.js topic | Updated the Amplify support for Next.js topic to describe Amplify's support for Next.js version 15. | November 6, 2024 |
| New Deploying a static website to Amplify from Amazon S3 chapter | Added the Deploying a static website to Amplify from an Amazon S3 bucket chapter to describe Amplify's new integration with Amazon S3 that enables you to host static website content stored on S3 with just a few clicks. | October 16, 2024 |
| New Managing cache configuration chapter | Added the Managing the cache configuration for an app chapter to describe Amplify's default caching behavior and how it applies managed cache policies to content. | August 13, 2024 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | July 18, 2024 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | May 31, 2024 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | April 17, 2024 |
| Updated getting started chapter | Updated the Getting started with deploying an app to Amplify Hosting chapter to use a Next.js example application in the tutorial. | April 12, 2024 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | April 5, 2024 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | April 4, 2024 |
| New Troubleshooting chapter | Added the Troubleshooting Amplify Hosting chapter to describe how to fix issues that you encounter with applications deployed to Amplify Hosting. | April 2, 2024 |
| New support for custom SSL/TLS certificates | Added the Using SSL/TLS certificates topic to the Setting up custom domains chapter to describe Amplify support for custom SSL/TLS certificates when connecting an app to a custom domain. | February 20, 2024 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | January 2, 2024 |
| New support for SSR frameworks | Updated the Deploying server-side rendered applications with Amplify Hosting topic to describe Amplify support for any Javascript-based SSR framework with an open-source adapter. | November 19, 2023 |
| New support for image optimization feature launch | Added the Image optimization for SSR apps topic to describe the built-in support for image optimization for server-side rendered apps. | November 19, 2023 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | November 17, 2023 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | November 6, 2023 |
| New wildcard subdomains topic | Added the Setting up wildcard subdomains topic to describe support for wildcard subdomains on custom domains. | November 6, 2023 |
| New managed policy | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe the new AmplifyBackendDeployFullAccess AWS managed policy for Amplify. | October 8, 2023 |
| New support for monorepo frameworks feature launch | Updated the Configuring monorepo build settings topic to describe support for deploying apps in monorepos created using npm workspace, pnpm workspace, Yarn workspace, Nx, and Turborepo. | June 19, 2023 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | June 1, 2023 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | February 24, 2023 |
| Updated server-side rendering chapter | Updated the Deploying server-side rendered applications with Amplify Hosting chapter to describe recent changes to Amplify's support for Next.js versions 12 and 13. | November 17, 2022 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | August 30, 2022 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the Building a backend for an application topic to describe how to deploy a backend using Amplify Studio. | August 23, 2022 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | April 27, 2022 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | April 17, 2022 |
| New GitHub App feature launch | Added the Setting up Amplify access to GitHub repositories topic to describe the new GitHub App for authorizing Amplify access to your GitHub repository. | April 5, 2022 |
| New Amplify Studio feature launch | Updated the Welcome to AWS Amplify Hosting topic to describe the updates to Amplify Studio that provide a visual designer to create UI components that you can connect to your backend data. | December 2, 2021 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify to support Amplify Studio. | December 2, 2021 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | November 8, 2021 |
| Updated managed policies topic | Updated the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe recent changes to the AWS managed policies for Amplify. | September 27, 2021 |
| New managed policies topic | Added the AWS managed policies for AWS Amplify topic to describe the AWS managed policies for Amplify and recent changes to those policies. | July 28, 2021 |
| Updated Server side rendering chapter | Updated the Deploying server-side rendered applications with Amplify Hosting chapter to describe new support for Next.js version 10.x.x and Next.js version 11. | July 22, 2021 |
| Updated Configuring build settings chapter | Added the Configuring monorepo build settings topic to describe how to configure the build settings and the new
AMPLIFY_MONOREPO_APP_ROOT environment variable when deploying a monorepo app
with Amplify. |
July 20, 2021 |
| Updated Feature branch deployments chapter | Added the Automatic build-time generation of
Amplify config (Gen 1 apps only) topic to describe how to autogenerate the
aws-exports.js file at build-time. Added the Conditional backend builds (Gen 1 apps only) topic to describe how
to enable conditional backend builds. Added the Use Amplify backends across apps (Gen 1 apps
only) topic to describe how to reuse existing backends when you
create a new app, connect a new branch to an existing app, or update an existing frontend to
point to a different backend environment. |
June 30, 2021 |
| Updated Security chapter | Added the Data Protection in Amplify topic to describe how to apply the shared responsibility model and how Amplify uses encryption to protect your data at rest and in transit. | June 3, 2021 |
| New support for SSR feature launch | Added the Deploying server-side rendered applications with Amplify Hosting chapter to describe Amplify support for web apps that use server-side rendering (SSR) and are created with Next.js. | May 18, 2021 |
| New security chapter | Added the Security in Amplify chapter to describe how to apply the shared responsibility model when using Amplify and how to configure Amplify to meet your security and compliance objectives. | March 26, 2021 |
| Updated custom builds topic | Updated the Custom build images and live package updates topic to describe how to configure a custom build image hosted in Amazon Elastic Container Registry Public. | March 12, 2021 |
| Updated monitoring topic | Updated the Monitoring topic to describe how to access Amazon CloudWatch metrics data and set alarms. | February 2, 2021 |
| New CloudTrail logging topic | Added the Logging Amplify API calls using AWS CloudTrail topic to describe how AWS CloudTrail captures and logs all of the API actions for the AWS Amplify Console API Reference and the AWS Amplify Admin UI API Reference. | February 2, 2021 |
| New Admin UI feature launch | Updated the Welcome to AWS Amplify Hosting topic to describe the new Admin UI that provides a visual interface for frontend web and mobile developers to create and manage app backends outside the AWS Management Console. | December 1, 2020 |
| New performance mode feature launch | Updated the Managing app performance topic to describe how to enable performance mode to optimize for faster hosting performance. | November 4, 2020 |
| Updated the custom headers topic | Updated the Custom headers topic to describe how to define custom headers for an Amplify app using the console or by editing a YML file. | October 28, 2020 |
| New auto subdomains feature launch | Added the Set up automatic subdomains for a Route 53 custom domain topic to describe how to use pattern-based feature branch deployments for an app connected to an Amazon Route 53 custom domain. Added the Web preview access with subdomains topic to describe how to set up web previews from pull requests to be accessible with subdomains. | June 20, 2020 |
| New notifications topic | Added the Notifications topic to describe how to set up email notifications for an Amplify app to alert stakeholders or team members when a build succeeds or fails. | June 20, 2020 |
| Updated the custom domains topic | Updated the Setting up custom domains topic to improve the procedures for adding custom domains in Amazon Route 53, GoDaddy, and Google Domains. This update also includes new troubleshooting information for setting up custom domains. | May 12, 2020 |
| AWS Amplify release | This release introduces Amplify. | November 26, 2018 |
