RISE Conference 2018 - Hong Kong Developer Workshop: Introduction to AWS for Mobile Developers - Adrian Hall

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Adrian Hall
Sr. Developer Advocate
AWS Mobile
Introduction to AWS
for Mobile Developers

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What is a mobile app?
Mobile Connectivity Limited Resources Front End Language
Browser Phone / Tablet Wearable Embedded

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Mobile 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 publish
New
for2018

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

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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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User identity
Security &
Access
Customer
Resource
Ownership
Experience Customer
Relationships

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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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Amazon Cognito: Advanced Security
Compromised Credentials
Bots
Anomalous Sign-in Attempts
Advanced Security Reporting
New
for2018
Better user experience for security in an insecure world

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DATA – STORE CHOICES
Am azon
Dynam oDB
Am azon
RDS
Am azon
S3
• Serverless – Start small & simply dial up request capacity as your requirements scale
• Fully managed – automatic replication & failover
• Multi-region replication built-in
• DAX in-memory cache offered; delivers up to 10x performance improvement
• But – not a relational database. Does not support complex relational queries or joins.
Am azon
Elasticsearch

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DATA – STORE CHOICES
Am azon
Dynam oDB
Am azon
RDS
Am azon
S3
• Support for complex relational queries and complex transactions
• Support for many database engines
• Only one engine (Amazon Aurora) is serverless – scaling databases is complex
Am azon
Elasticsearch

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DATA – STORE CHOICES
Am azon
Dynam oDB
Am azon
RDS
Am azon
Elasticsearch
Am azon
S3
• Complementary to your primary database
• Full text search, faceted search, fuzzy matching
• No serverless options
• Use for log analytics, catalogs, geospatial search

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DATA – STORE CHOICES
Am azon
Dynam oDB
Am azon
RDS
Am azon
Elasticsearch
Am azon
S3
Secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a
simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from
anywhere on the web.

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Custom API Architecture
AWS cloud
Am azon API
G atew ay
Am azon
Cognito
Am azon
RDS
Am azon
Dynam oDB
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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awsmobile support for Cloud Logic
• Build a custom API with ease
• Store the Custom API code with your project
• Test locally and in the cloud
• CLI tools for one-click publish
New
for2018
Devops for custom API

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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
New
for2018

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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
New
for2018

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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
Am azon S3
Am azon
CloudFront
AW S
Lam bda

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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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Integrate Easily: AWS Amplify
• Declarative Javascript Library
• Use AWS Services Easily
• Works with awsmobile
• Framework Bindings
• React & React Native
New
for2018

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It’s your data: Data Privacy
We do not access
your data without
permission*
Data stays in the
region you select*
* Subject to applicable laws or binding requests by government body
You are responsible
for securing access
to the data

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Secure by default
Identity and Access Control
Keep your data safe
Data Encryption
Compliance Requirements

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Scale Globally
• Write your app
• Pay for what you use
• Scale effortlessly
• Resilience built-in
SERVERLESS GLOBAL REDUNDANCY
• Plan for failure
• Think multi-region
• Data Replication
• Global Tables
• Geoproximity

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Scale Globally: Dynamic Content
Am azon
Dynam oDB
region 1
region 2
Am azon
Dynam oDB
Lam bda
function
Lam bda
function
Cross-region
replication
Am azon
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.amazonaws.com
AW S
AppSync
AW S
AppSync

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

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Thank you
Everything you need to connect
your mobile app to the cloud
aws.amazon.com/mobile
@AWSforMobile