Here’s a rundown on each.
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As most people will know already, application backends are not the simplest of things to work with and are undifferentiated, messy, tedious to work on, hard to manage but critical to the success of whatever relies on them, and generally taken for granted. Signing up for the service is free and 250 “device minutes” are included, after which you’ll have to pay $0.17 per minute. For developers who expect to do a lot of testing, unmetered testing goes for $250 per month.
“Developers can use AWS Device Farm to test real-world customer scenarios, fine-tuning test environments with a broad set of device configurations, including language, location, app data, and app dependencies”, AWS said in a news release today. “The Amazon API Gateway takes this learning and makes it available to customers as a pay-as-you-go service that eliminates the cost and complexity of managing APIs so that developers can focus on building great apps”. “AWS Device Farm automatically identifies and groups identical errors across multiple devices, allowing developers to quickly and efficiently analyze data from potentially hundreds of tests”. Amazon API Gateway handles all of the tasks associated with accepting and processing billions of daily API calls, including traffic management, authorization and access control, monitoring, and API version management.
AWS’s name recognition and quest to offer low-price services will make it hard to compete against. If it’s not going smoothly, developers will simply find an alternative that is. The company also announced the general availability of some services it initially announced last fall at its reinvent show in Las Vegas, including CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, both of which help developers manage the lifecycle of new application development.
“CodePipeline is a continuous delivery service for software”, Barr said.
Self-Service & Highly Usable – Allow you to define, revise, deploy, and monitor APIs with a couple of clicks, without requiring specialized knowledge or skills, including easy SDK generation.
For instance, if your API is getting extremely popular and it’s causing latency, you could have a trigger event that kicks in at a certain amount of API calls to spin up new compute resources. The service is limited to Android and Fire OS devices, and Amazon was careful in its announcement to say that the service will include “all of the most commonly used mobile devices”. Those services range from virtual machine (VM) images and other software to servers and databases.
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It also ties into other Amazon services (naturally) such as Amazon EC2 for storage and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to verify and authenticate API requests.
