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AWS Amplify VS Firebase
AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify is a set of tools and services for building and deploying cloud-based applications. It offers a range of features for building and deploying web and mobile applications, including support for continuous deployment, serverless functions, and global CDN distribution.
AWS Amplify also integrates with a variety of other AWS services, making it easy to build and deploy applications on the AWS cloud.
Firebase
Firebase is a mobile and web application development platform developed by Google. It offers a number of services for developing and managing mobile and web applications, including a real-time database, user authentication, hosting, and analytics. Firebase provides developers with a number of tools and APIs for building and managing applications, including a cloud-based NoSQL database, user authentication, and hosting.
You can use Firebase to build and deploy a variety of different types of applications, including mobile apps, web apps, and real-time collaboration apps.
AWS Amplify
- Global CDN-based hosting
- User registration and login, password resets, and multi-factor authentication are all supported natively
- Free tier, with extra use fees
- combines with more AWS services including AppSync, Pinpoint, and SNS
- more adaptable and suitable for feature-rich, complicated web applications
Firebase
- Global CDN-based hosting
- Firebase Authentication is integrated support for authentication and authorisation
- Firebase CLI and Firebase Hosting are used for deployment and hosting respectively, with built-in support for continuous integration and deployment
- features a free tier and fees for more usage and storage
- connects to more Firebase products, including Firestore, Cloud Functions, and Hosting
- More suitable for online and mobile applications that need authentication and authorization features, as well as applications that require hosting or real-time databases
| FrameWork | AWS Amplify | Firebase |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
| Infrastructure | AWS | Google Cloud (GCP) |
| Continuous deployment | ||
| Automated builds from Git | Need to use additional CI/CD service | |
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ||
| Site previews for every push | ||
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | ||
| Notifications | Email | |
| Team Management | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Rewrites & Redirects | ||
| Password Protection | ||
| Websites | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build Minutes | 1 000 minutes /month for the first 12 months | N/A |
| Concurrent builds | N/A | N/A |
| Bandwidth | 15GB /month for the first 12 months | 360 MB /day |
| Team Members | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build Time Per Deployment | 30 minutes Can be increased by setting a custom _BUILD_TIMEOUT env variable. | N/A |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | 2048 MiB Can be increased to 8196 MiB | N/A |
| Max team members before switch to custom pricing | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Git contributors have to be Team Members | ||
| Serverless Functions (API) | Node.js, Java, Go, .NET Core, Python | JavaScript |
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | N/A | |
| CRON Jobs | Schedule functions | Schedule functions |
| CLI | amplify | firebase-tools |
| Extensions | Firebase Extensions | |
| Environment Variables | ||
| Build Logs | ||
| Build Canceling | ||
| Analytics | Integration with AWS Pinpoint | Integration with Google Analytics |
| Authentication | Integration with Amazon Cognito | Firebase Authentication |
| Database | Powered by AWS AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB | Firestore & Realtime |
| Asset Optimizations | ||
| A/B Testing | ||
| Form Handling | ||
| Data Storage | ||
| Push Notifications | ||
| Two-factor authentication | ||
| Team Logs | Possible with AWS IAM and CloudTrail | |
| SOC2 | ||
| ISO27001 | ||
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | ||
| Carbon-free Energy | AWS promised to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025 | |
| Machine Learning | - |
Deployment Platforms
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