AWS Amplify

Question 1

Are Amplify environments directly linked to Git branches?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

What are the two advertised features of the Amplify Console?

Answer 2

Static Hosting (CDN)
Continuous Deployment (Frontend and Backend)

Question 3

How to add a new environment to your Amplify Project?

Answer 3

amplify env add ____

Question 4

What does the “amplify env checkout ___” do?

Answer 4

It changes the active environment to the one specified but does not discard local backend edits unlike Git would do

Question 5

Does “git checkout -b dev” automatically sets your project to use the dev Amplify environment?

Answer 5

NO! They are two separate things.

Question 6

How can you pull an Amplify env from the cloud and overwrite your local backend edits?

Answer 6

By using the “amplify env pull –restore”