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Discussion on: Five reasons you should consider AppSync over API Gateway

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Saurabh Sharma

We have started to move to amplify. Im still learning it.

If Im not wrong all the appsync stuff also applies to amplify

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Yan Cui

Amplify is a set of related tools (there's the amplify-js client-side library, there's the Amplify CLI, and then the Amplify service which lets you host SPAs, etc.).

You can use the Amplify CLI to help you provision a lot of resources, like Cognito pool, an AppSync API, etc. But you can use AppSync completely separate from Amplify. In fact, I don't use the Amplify CLI at all, and instead use the Serverless framework with the serverless-appsync-plugin to configure and provision all the resources.