Nuxt on AWS Amplify
AWS Amplify publishes its own guide for deploying Nuxt.
Vue framework with file-based routing and a choice of static, server-rendered or hybrid output.
What Nuxt needs.
Every host claims to run Nuxt, so the claim on its own decides nothing. These are the things Nuxt actually requires from the platform underneath it, and what AWS Amplify publishes about each. AWS Amplify documents 3 of the 4.
Max request duration
15 minutes (maximum execution time of an SSR compute execution instance)
Nitro server routes and server-side rendering both run per request, bounded by this ceiling.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Using the Amplify Hosting deployment specification to configure build output - AWS Amplify Hosting ↗
“Execution instances are limited to a maximum execution time of 15 minutes, and the only writable path within the execution instance is the /tmp directory.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Edge network
Supported
Nuxt's route rules cache and revalidate at the edge. Without an edge network those rules degrade to origin rendering.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Welcome to AWS Amplify Hosting - AWS Amplify Hosting ↗
“Amplify deploys your app to the AWS global content delivery network (CDN).”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Build allowance
1,000 build minutes per month at no cost with AWS Free Tier; $0.01 per minute for a Standard Instance thereafter
Nuxt prerenders routes at build time when asked to, which moves cost from request time into the build allowance.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- AWS Amplify Pricing ↗
“Build and deploy Standard Instance (8 GB Memory; 4 vCPUs) No cost up to 1,000 build minutes per month $0.01 per minute Large Instance (16 GB Memory; 8 vCPUs) n/a $0.025 per minute”
Read 2026-09-13 · official pricing
Scales to zero
Not documented
Nitro can deploy as functions. Scaling to zero removes the idle bill and adds a cold start to the first request instead.
What AWS Amplify documents.
AWS Amplify publishes its own guide for deploying Nuxt.
You can deploy a Nuxt.js application to Amplify using a preset adapter with zero configuration.
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- Amplify support for Nuxt.js - AWS Amplify Hosting ↗
“You can deploy a Nuxt.js application to Amplify using a preset adapter with zero configuration.”
Read 2026-09-05 · official docs
Nuxt features on AWS Amplify
Capabilities AWS Amplify documents specifically for Nuxt, with the constraint it documents alongside each.
zero_config_deploy
Supported
Nuxt has implemented a preset adapter using the Nitro server. This enables you to deploy a Nuxt project without any additional configuration.
Image optimization
Limited
Amplify Hosting provides a built-in image optimization feature that supports all SSR apps. [...] Currently, you can either use the Next.js Image component to optimize images on-demand or you can implement a custom image loader.
Sources (2) →Sources ↓
- Deploy a Nuxt.js app to Amplify Hosting - AWS Amplify Hosting ↗
“Nuxt has implemented a preset adapter using the Nitro server. This enables you to deploy a Nuxt project without any additional configuration.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs
- SSR supported features - AWS Amplify Hosting ↗
“Amplify Hosting provides a built-in image optimization feature that supports all SSR apps. [...] Currently, you can either use the Next.js Image component to optimize images on-demand or you can implement a custom image loader.”
Read 2026-09-13 · official docs
What it costs to run there.
- 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.
- Pricing model
- Usage-based; pay for what you use, with no monthly minimum
- When you exceed a cap
- Billed automatically: pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimums; storage charges keep recurring until the app is deleted
Sources (1) →Sources ↓
- AWS Amplify Pricing ↗
“$0.01 per minute for a Standard Instance [...] $0.023 per GB per month [...] $0.15 per GB served [...] SSR requests are free up to 500,000 per month”
Read 2026-09-06 · official pricing
Whether it suits you.
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.
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