re:Invent 2024 Front-end Web and Mobile Playlist

The dust has settled after another re:Invent. I once again had the privilege of organizing the Front-end Web and Mobile (FWM) track along with Ali Spittel and countless others. For 2024, the FWM track included 29 sessions. If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand sessions for you below.

FWM202 Fullstack AI with AWS Amplify Generative AI is transforming fullstack development. In this session, learn how AWS Amplify, Amazon Q, and Amazon Bedrock work together to streamline building generative AI apps. See how Amplify enables developers to build AI-driven features like intelligent search, summarization, content generation, and interactive chatbots backed by Amazon Bedrock. The session also demonstrates how Amplify with Amazon Q can accelerate your development process.

FWM203 I didn’t know AWS AppSync could do that!AWS AppSync is a managed service for developers to connect their apps to cloud data, events, and AI models. No longer just a GraphQL API service, with AWS AppSync you can leverage serverless WebSockets to create real-time event APIs, build AI gateways to simplify and secure application access to Amazon Bedrock, and more. Join this session to learn about all the exciting new AWS AppSync features released this year.

FWM204 Optimizing the world’s top apps: How Meta tests using AWS Device Farm In this session, learn how you can improve the quality of your mobile and web apps by running tests on real devices at scale with AWS Device Farm. Hear from Meta, a leading social media company, about how it uses Device Farm to streamline its mobile app testing process, improve the quality of its mobile apps and SDKs, run automated and manual tests on real devices in the cloud, identify and fix issues faster, and release updates more frequently.

FWM205 Startup to enterprise: Build frontend and fullstack apps that scale AWS Amplify offers professional development teams an end-to-end experience and proven patterns to accelerate productivity and build with the speed and reliability of AWS infrastructure. Learn how to use these built-in patterns—along with Amplify’s flexibility to customize your AWS backend with CDK—to build apps that your organization can’t outgrow. This session provides a walkthrough of real-world scenarios and introduces new enterprise-focused capabilities in Amplify that make it easier than ever to build, deploy, and host secure, scalable, cloud-connected applications on AWS.

FWM302 Real-time event patterns with WebSockets and AWS AppSync AWS AppSync makes it easier for developers to build applications that consume real-time data updates and events, like live sports scores and stats, group chat messages, prices, or location and schedule updates. With AWS AppSync managed WebSocket channels, you can easily scale to connect millions of users and deliver billions of messages. In this session, learn how organizations like PGA Tour are using AWS AppSync to deliver real-time event updates to their application users. Additionally, get an overview of new features like enhanced filtering options and native integration with Amazon EventBridge.

FWM310 Build an AI gateway for Amazon Bedrock with AWS AppSync Integrating generative AI into applications can be complex, often requiring developers to deal with complex permissions, exposed credentials, and identity management challenges when accessing AI backends. This session discusses how to use AWS AppSync to simplify integration with AI backends like Amazon Bedrock, implement tailored queries for your use cases, take advantage of security features to deploy a production-ready API, and control access to your generative AI resources. It covers both synchronous and asynchronous use cases.

FWM311 What’s new in AWS for frontend developers AWS Amplify makes it easy for frontend web and mobile developers to build full-stack applications in hours with minimal cloud expertise. This session walks through Amplify’s capabilities, including how you can easily configure a backend with authentication, data, and storage; how you can create a frontend UI; and how you can host server-side rendered web apps with Next.js. Learn about exciting new features that make it even easier for developers and teams to accelerate the pace of their innovation, leverage data to build differentiated application experiences, and give individual engineers the power of a virtual team.