# SvelteKit on AWS Amplify

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/stacks/sveltekit-on-aws-amplify/

AWS Amplify documents a generic path that covers SvelteKit, rather than a dedicated guide.

Svelte application framework that targets different deployment platforms through adapters.

## What SvelteKit needs

Every host claims to run SvelteKit, so the claim on its own decides nothing. These are the things SvelteKit requires from the platform underneath it, and what AWS Amplify publishes about each. AWS Amplify documents 3 of the 4.

| Requirement | AWS Amplify | Why it matters |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Max request duration | 15 minutes (maximum execution time of an SSR compute execution instance) | SvelteKit load functions and form actions run on the server per request, bounded by this ceiling. |
| Edge network | Supported | The adapter decides where handlers run. An edge network is what makes the edge adapters worth choosing. |
| Build allowance | 1,000 build minutes per month at no cost with AWS Free Tier; $0.01 per minute for a Standard Instance thereafter | Prerenderable routes are resolved at build time, so build allowance scales with the size of the site. |
| Scales to zero | Not documented | Adapter output is usually a function per route. Scaling to zero removes idle cost at the price of a cold start. |

- Max request duration source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/ssr-deployment-specification.html
- Edge network source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/welcome.html
- Build allowance source: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/

## What AWS Amplify documents

> You can deploy a SvelteKit application to Amplify using a community adapter. We do not maintain an Amplify owned adapter for the SvelteKit framework. Limited: support is documented only via a third-party community adapter that AWS links to but does not maintain.

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/sveltekit-support.html

### SvelteKit features on AWS Amplify

- **platform_adapter**: Not supported — You can deploy a SvelteKit application to Amplify using a community adapter. We do not maintain an Amplify owned adapter for the SvelteKit framework. However, an adapter is available at github.com/gzimbron/amplify-adapter on the GitHub website. This adapter was created by a member of the community and is not maintained by AWS. ([source](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/sveltekit-support.html))

## What it costs to run there

|  | AWS Amplify |
| --- | --- |
| 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 |

- Entry paid plan source: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/
- Pricing model source: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/pricing/
- When you exceed a cap source: https://aws.amazon.com/amplify/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.

Written by Palash Bagchi on 2026-09-05. This is a recommendation, not a sourced fact — it carries no citation because it is an opinion.

## Related

- Best hosting for SvelteKit: https://inetgeek.com/stacks/sveltekit/
- AWS Amplify: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/aws-amplify/