Speaker: Dennis Hills, AWS Level: 200 Developing mobile applications that capture customer attention in today’s marketplace is extremely competitive. Applications must be responsive, real-time, secure, and usable when no network is available.In this session, you’ll learn about the latest features from AWS Mobile to build secure, scalable mobile and web applications. We'll demonstrate the latest techniques for automatic mobile backend provisioning along with new capabilities for advanced querying and connecting to different data sources.

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Dennis Hills, Mobile Developer Advocate
July 12, 2018
Building Secure and Scalable
Modern Apps on AWS

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What is a modern app?
Mobile Browser Phone / Tablet Wearable Embedded (IoT)

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Modern App Commonality
Mobile Browser Phone / Tablet Wearable Embedded (IoT)
2. Each app requires backend architecture (API, data store, analytics, auth,
messaging)
1. They are all mobile

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Backend Commonality
The modern app problem?
Creating a unified, secure, and scalable backend for all
these modern apps

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Traditional Client/Server

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Backend Solution
The solution starts with modern IT
tools to build a unified, secure, and
scalable backend

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Modern Solution
No servers to manage
Scale as the service
needs
Pay for what you use
Focus on your
application

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Cloud services for modern development
App Analytics User EngagementUser Identity
Real-time &
Offline Data
Data Stores
Machine LearningMedia StorageCustom API

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Modern Development on AWS: Philosophy
Start Simply Integrate Easily
Secure by Default Global ScaleIt’s your data
Comprehensive Catalog

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Start Simply: AWS Mobile Hub
• Manage multiple services
as a project
• Configure common services
for best practices
• Download service constants
for iOS, Android and
JavaScript
• Export project for
repeatable deployments

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Start Simply: awsmobile CLI
• Designed for frontend JavaScript developers
• Easily configure your AWS services
• Devops-centric
• Integrates with AWS Mobile Hub
• Ensures front-end assets are always up to date
$ npm install –g awsmobile-cli
$ awsmobile configure
$ cd my-project
$ awsmobile init
$ awsmobile public
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User identity
Security &
Access Control
Customer
Resource
Ownership
Experience

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Amazon Cognito
AWS credentials and
access control
OpenID Connect and
OAUth 2.0
Managed user directory Sign in with existing
identities (federation)
Customizable UI

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App Analytics & User Engagement
Understand Users Segment your Users Engage your Audience
Obtain analytics on user
demographics and behaviors
Define user segmentation
based on analytics
Deliver personalized content
campaigns at the right time
Understand user behavior and engage your users effectively over multiple channels

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Amazon Pinpoint
Direct and targeted mobile push,
email and SMS messages
Scheduled and recurring
campaigns
Campaign and app analytics –
usage, monetization, deliveries,
opens
A/B testing and holdout testing
Quiet time and message caps
Templating, rich (media), data, and
silent notifications
Custom events and custom attributes
Event streams to Kinesis and Kinesis
Firehose for custom analysis
Segment and funnel analytics
User based segmentation

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DATA – STORE CHOICES
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
RDS
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Elasticsearch

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Custom API Approach
AWS cloud
Amazon API
Gateway
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
RDS
Amazon
DynamoDB
REST Handlers Data Sources

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AWS Lambda: Scale with ease
• Focus on business logic, not infrastructure
• Upload your code, AWS Lambda handles:
• Capacity
• Scaling
• Fault Tolerance
• Monitoring
• Logging

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Amazon API Gateway: Control your APIs
• Host multiple versions of your API
• Create and distribute API keys
• Leverage AWS authorization
• Throttle requests to protect your backend
• API monitoring built in
• Developer support – Swagger, API generation, mocks

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Real-time Data
• Banking alerts
• Breaking news
• Multi-player games
• Chat
• Shared whiteboard
• AR/VR
• Document collaboration
Real-time and Offline Data
Offline Availability
• Financial transactions
• News articles
• Social experience
• Games
• Messaging
• Enterprise Productivity

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AWS AppSync: Real-time Offline Data
• UI-driven data access
• Use any data source
• Real-time updates
• Offline data cache
• Enterprise security
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AWS AppSync: GraphQL with benefits
• Rapid prototyping without involving Backend Engr.
• Introspection of the available dataset
• Bandwidth Optimization
For the Frontend Developer
• Less deployments for changing requirements
• Security enforcement at the server
For the Backend Developer
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Media Storage and Processing
• Amazon S3
• Cost effective media storage
• Amazon Cloudfront
• Low latency edge access
• Video streaming with RTMP
• AWS Lambda
• Event-driven media processing
AWS cloud
Amazon S3
Amazon
CloudFront
AWS
Lambda

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Machine Learning
Service Ability
Amazon Comprehend Natural language processing (NLP)
Amazon Lex Conversational interfaces
Amazon Polly Text to life-like speech
Amazon Rekognition Image and Video analysis
Amazon Transcribe Automatic speech recognition (ASR)
Amazon Translate Fluent language translation
Bring your own ML model or use one of ours

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Machine Learning: Powering new app features
Augmented
Reality
Chatbots
Automatic
Translation
Image & Video
Processing

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Integrate Easily: The AWS SDK
• Comprehensive
• Open Source
• Supported by AWS
• Mobile Specific

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Scale Globally: Dynamic Content
Amazon
DynamoDB
region 1
region 2
Amazon
DynamoDB
Lambda
function
Lambda
function
Cross-region
replication
Amazon
Route 53
• Manage traffic globally through a variety of
routing types, including Latency Based Routing,
Geo DNS, Geoproximity, and Weighted Round
Robin
• Combined with DNS Failover in order to enable a
variety of low-latency, fault-tolerant
architectures.
https://myendpoint.com
d-a.execute-api.reagion1.am
azonaws.com
AWS
AppSync
AWS
AppSync

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Modern Backends on AWS: Philosophy
Start Simply Integrate Easily
Secure by Default Global ScaleIt’s your data
Comprehensive Catalog

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https://aws.amazon.com/mobile/

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Thank you
Everything you need to connect
your mobile app to the cloud
Dennis Hills | Twitter: @dmennis
aws.amazon.com/mobile
@AWSforMobile