AWS Amplify Looks Simple, Until It Is Not

Who This Is For If you are new to AWS and thinking of using Amplify to deploy your app, this blog is for you. Amplify is marketed as an easy, all-in-one deployment platform. And for simple use cases, it is. But once you start pushing it a little : different package managers, larger projects, custom configurations : you start running into walls that are not mentioned anywhere in the getting started guides. I have spent a lot of time deploying different kinds of applications on Amplify. I have hit