# Welcome to AWS Amplify Hosting
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 Amplify Hosting provides a Git-based workflow for hosting full-stack serverless web applications with continuous deployment. Amplify deploys your app to the AWS global content delivery network (CDN). This user guide provides the information you need to get started with Amplify Hosting.

## Supported frameworks
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Amplify Hosting supports many common SSR frameworks, single-page application (SPA) frameworks, and static site generators, including the following.

**SSR frameworks**
+ Next.js
+ Nuxt
+ Astro with a community adapter
+ SvelteKit with a community adapter
+ Any SSR framework with a custom adapter

**SPA frameworks**
+ React
+ Angular
+ Vue.js
+ Ionic
+ Ember

**Static site generators**
+ Eleventy
+ Gatsby
+ Hugo
+ Jekyll
+ VuePress

## Amplify Hosting features
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**[Feature branches](multi-environments.md)**  
Manage production and staging environments for your frontend and backend by connecting new branches.

**[Custom domains](custom-domains.md)**  
Connect your application to a custom domain.

**[Pull request previews](pr-previews.md)**  
Preview changes during code reviews.

**[End-to-end testing](running-tests.md)**  
Improve your app quality with end-to-end tests.

**[Password protected branches](access-control.md)**  
Password protect your web app so you can work on new features without making them publicly accessible.

**[Redirects and rewrites](redirects.md)**  
Set up rewrites and redirects to maintain SEO rankings and route traffic based on your client app requirements.

**Atomic deployments**  
Atomic deployments eliminate maintenance windows by ensuring that your web app is updated only after the entire deployment finishes. This eliminates scenarios where files fail to upload properly.

## Getting started with Amplify Hosting
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To get started with Amplify Hosting, see the [Getting started with deploying an app to Amplify Hosting](getting-started.md) tutorial. After completing the tutorial, you will know how to connect a web app in a Git repository (GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab, or AWS CodeCommit) and deploy it to Amplify Hosting with continuous deployment.

## Building a backend
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AWS Amplify Gen 2 introduces a TypeScript-based, code-first developer experience for defining backends. To learn how to use Amplify Gen 2 to build and connect a backend to your app, see [Build & connect backend](https://docs.amplify.aws/nextjs/build-a-backend) in the *Amplify docs*. 

To better understand Amplify Gen 2's code-first approach, see the [Amplify Gen 2 Workshop](https://catalog.workshops.aws/amplify-core/en-US) on the *AWS Workshop Studio* website. In this comprehensive tutorial, you build a serverless application with React and Next.js and learn how to use Amplify Gen 2 Data and Auth libraries and the Amplify UI library to add functionality to the application.

If you are looking for the documentation for building backends for a Gen 1 app, using the CLI and Amplify Studio, see [Build & connect backend](https://docs.amplify.aws/gen1/react/build-a-backend/) in the *Gen 1 Amplify docs*.

## Amplify Hosting pricing
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AWS Amplify only charges you for what you use. For more information, see [AWS Amplify Pricing](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/).