# AWS Amplify

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/aws-amplify/

AWS service for hosting full-stack web applications with a Git-based continuous deployment workflow, server-side rendering support, and delivery via the AWS content delivery network.

## Who it suits

Front-end apps deployed from Git onto AWS with usage-based pricing and no monthly minimum, including 1,000 build minutes and 15 GB of transfer under the free tier.

Consider something else if Egress beyond the free allowance is $0.15 per GB, which is the highest of the platforms compared here, and SSR compute is capped at 15 minutes.

## iScore

54 / 100 (80% interval 46–62), rank 6 of 6 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/aws-amplify/alternatives/

- Price: 44 (25–63), weight 25%, 3 of 5 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_card_required, minimum_paid_price
- Capacity and limits: 50 (44–56), weight 20%, 4 of 8 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: cpu_time_limit, file_count_limit, pop_count, regions
- Capabilities: 63 (45–80), weight 20%, 5 of 10 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: autoscaling, connection_pooling, managed_databases, scale_to_zero, scheduled_jobs
- Trust and compliance: 49 (31–67), weight 15%, 3 of 10 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: encryption_at_rest, gdpr_data_residency, hipaa_eligible, iso27001, pci_dss, private_networking, rbac
- Evidence: 86 (86–86), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 47 (2–92), weight 10%, 0 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-13)
- Kind of free offer: Introductory free tier ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-13)
- What the free plan includes: A free plan chosen at sign-up, available for 6 months after the account is created, alongside up to $200 of AWS Free Tier credits for new customers. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-13)
- When the free offer ends: 6 months after account creation; Free Tier credits expire 12 months after that date. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-13)
- Entry paid plan: No monthly minimum — Amplify Hosting is billed per unit. A representative month for one small app, priced at Amplify's published rates: 100 build minutes ($1.00), 5 GB stored ($0.11), 100 GB served ($15.00), with SSR requests inside the free 500,000 — about $16.11. Our arithmetic on Amplify's rates, not a price Amplify quotes, and it moves with traffic: egress is 93% of it. Recorded without a magnitude for that reason. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-06)
- Pricing model: Usage-based; pay for what you use, with no monthly minimum ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-05)
- Egress over allowance: $0.15 per GB served, after the first 15 GB a month. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-13)
- When you exceed a cap: Billed automatically: pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimums; storage charges keep recurring until the app is deleted ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-05)
- Startup credit program: Via AWS Activate (platform-wide, not Amplify-specific): up to $200,000 in AWS credits to offset infrastructure, data services and AI/ML costs. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/startups/), read 2026-09-11)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): Pay-as-you-go: no cost up to 5 GB stored on CDN per month, then $0.023 per GB per month. Separately, build artifact size is capped at 5 GB per app. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-05)
- Sites or apps included: 25 apps per Region by default (adjustable via a quota increase request); 50 branches per app ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/quotas-chapter.html), read 2026-09-14)
- Monthly visits cap: No monthly visit cap, but a per-app rate quota of 20,000 request tokens per second (adjustable). ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/quotas-chapter.html), read 2026-09-13)
- Included bandwidth: 15 GB of data transfer out per month at no cost, then $0.15 per GB served. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-13)
- Build allowance: 1,000 build minutes per month at no cost with AWS Free Tier; $0.01 per minute for a Standard Instance thereafter ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/), read 2026-09-13)
- Concurrent builds: 5 concurrent jobs per Region by default, adjustable via a quota increase request ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/quotas-chapter.html), read 2026-09-05)
- Max request duration: 15 minutes (maximum execution time of an SSR compute execution instance) ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/ssr-deployment-specification.html), read 2026-09-05)

### Execution

- Streaming response limit: Next.js streaming is listed as an unsupported feature of the Amplify Hosting compute SSR provider — i.e. streamed responses are not available at all, rather than bounded by a duration or size. Platform-wide (Amplify Hosting has no plan tiers). ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/ssr-amplify-support.html), read 2026-09-14)

### Deployment

- Git deployment: Supported ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/welcome.html), read 2026-09-05)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent processes: Not supported ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/ssr-deployment-specification.html), read 2026-09-05)
- Persistent storage: Not supported ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/ssr-deployment-specification.html), read 2026-09-05)
- Edge network: Supported ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/welcome.html), read 2026-09-05)
- Uptime SLA: 99.95% monthly uptime per AWS Region for Amplify Console, as a service-credit threshold. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/sla/), read 2026-09-14)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: No support level comes with the service. AWS Support is bought separately as an account-wide plan, and its response times are graded by case severity rather than by product. ([source](https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/plans/), read 2026-09-14)

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