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GitHub Pages VS AWS Amplify
GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that is designed to host your personal, organization, or project pages directly from a GitHub repository. With GitHub Pages, you can create a simple website by committing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files to a repository on GitHub, and GitHub will automatically serve the website from a URL that is based on your GitHub username or the name of your repository.
GitHub Pages is a quick and easy way to create a simple, static website, and it is especially useful for hosting documentation, project pages, and other types of websites that do not require a dynamic back-end. You can also use GitHub Pages to host websites that are generated by static site generators, such as Jekyll, and you can customize the look and feel of your website by creating a custom theme.
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.
GitHub Pages
- directly host static webpages off of a GitHub repository
- enables the use of custom domains
- free
- integrates version control on GitHub as well as other GitHub capabilities
- Suitable for modest projects without server-side coding or straightforward static web pages
- Since GitHub Pages does not contain a build step, building the site before deployment is required
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
| FrameWork | GitHub Pages | AWS Amplify |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Learn more | Learn more |
| Infrastructure | N/A | AWS |
| Continuous deployment | ||
| Automated builds from Git | ||
| Instant rollbacks to any version | ||
| Site previews for every push | ||
| Compatible with all Static Site Generators | Works best with Jekyll | |
| Notifications | Email | |
| Team Management | ||
| Custom domains | ||
| Automatic HTTPS | ||
| Rewrites & Redirects | ||
| Password Protection | ||
| Websites | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Build Minutes | N/A | 1 000 minutes /month for the first 12 months |
| Concurrent builds | N/A | N/A |
| Bandwidth | 100GB /month | 15GB /month for the first 12 months |
| Team Members | N/A | Unlimited |
| Build Time Per Deployment | N/A | 30 minutes Can be increased by setting a custom _BUILD_TIMEOUT env variable. |
| Build Memory Limit (in MiB) | N/A | 2048 MiB Can be increased to 8196 MiB |
| 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 | |
| Edge Functions | ||
| Background Functions | N/A | |
| CRON Jobs | Schedule functions | |
| CLI | amplify | |
| Extensions | ||
| Environment Variables | ||
| Build Logs | N/A | |
| Build Canceling | N/A | |
| Analytics | Integration with AWS Pinpoint | |
| Authentication | Integration with Amazon Cognito | |
| Database | Powered by AWS AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB | |
| Asset Optimizations | ||
| A/B Testing | ||
| Form Handling | ||
| Data Storage | Git LFS | |
| Push Notifications | ||
| Machine Learning | - | |
| Two-factor authentication | ||
| Team Logs | Possible with AWS IAM and CloudTrail | |
| SOC2 | N/A | |
| ISO27001 | N/A | |
| GDPR | ||
| Carbon Neutral | ||
| Carbon-free Energy | Renewable energy by 2025 | AWS promised to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025 |
Deployment Platforms
The Jamstack ecosystem is rapidly evolving, and with it -- we're witnessing a wider usage of static site generators, which are certainly a big part of the Jamstack technology.
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