Mobile & Cross-Platform Development

Ship full-stack mobile and web apps in days, not months.

4 sessions at the summit4 external resources

Overview

AWS Amplify gives developers a full toolkit — auth (Cognito), data (AppSync GraphQL or REST), storage (S3), functions (Lambda), and hosting — to build and deploy React, Next.js, React Native, Flutter, iOS, and Android apps. Amplify Gen 2 uses TypeScript-first infrastructure as code via AWS CDK. AWS Device Farm tests on real devices in the cloud.

Key concepts

  1. Backend as code with Amplify Gen 2 / CDK
  2. GraphQL with AWS AppSync vs. REST
  3. Mobile auth flows with Amazon Cognito
  4. Push notifications and offline-first sync
  5. Real-device testing with Device Farm

Key AWS services

  • AWS Amplify
  • AWS AppSync
  • Amazon Cognito
  • AWS Device Farm
  • Amazon Pinpoint

Learn more — curated resources

Hand-picked official docs, foundational papers, and the best community guides for going deeper on this topic.

Sessions on this topic

4 sessions from the Summit covered this topic. Each is a self-contained mini-lesson.

  1. PRT301-SAdvanced

    Unite Teams, Tools, and AI to Drive Transformation at Scale

    Today's leaders face pressure to prove AI ROI, yet many struggle to realise value on fragmented foundations. Miro on AWS solves this by uniting teams, tools, and collaborative AI workflows in one workspace — amplifying the way teams actually work with enterprise scale and security. In this fireside chat with Culture Amp, hear how turning AI ambition into real outcomes works in practice.

  2. AIM204Intermediate

    Get to know Amazon Quick, your new agentic teammate

    Most of us spend more time hunting for information than using it. Amazon Quick changes that. It reaches across all your company's data — documents, databases, emails, Slack threads, dashboards, Jira tickets — and lets you search it, ask questions, and take action, all from one place. Available across web, mobile, Slack, and Microsoft tools with multi-model intelligence, Quick delivers consumer-grade AI with enterprise-grade security and governance. No vendor lock-in, no siloed copilots. Just one AI teammate that works wherever you do.

  3. IDE102Foundational

    Power of Possibility: Leading Through Innovation and Connection

    As AI reshapes every industry, professionals across all roles and backgrounds are navigating an unprecedented pace of changebringing new opportunities but also rising burnout, blurred boundaries, and pressure to continuously adapt. This moment of disruption presents a powerful opportunity to not only deliver innovation but to redesign how we lead, build culture, and sustain meaningful careers in more equitable ways. Join accomplished AWS leaders and peers for this immersive session that combines strategic leadership frameworks, emotional intelligence, and interactive roundtable discussion to accelerate your impact in tech. Together, we will explore practical strategies for claiming visible technical leadership, activating professional networks, setting sustainable boundaries in hybrid work, and championing responsible AI adoption without amplifying existing inequalities. Participants will share lived experiences, tactics that worked and lessons learned, and build meaningful connections through guided speed networking in a collaborative, supportive environment. This session empowers professionals from all backgrounds, with particular focus on amplifying diverse voices and fostering inclusive innovation. Leave with actionable strategies to strengthen your leadership presence, leverage emotional intelligence as a career accelerator, build psychologically safe and inclusive team environments, and navigate the challenges shaping your future in tech.

  4. INO203Intermediate

    Behind the curtain: How Amazons AI innovations are powered by AWS

    Discover how Amazon leaders across Zoox, Prime Video, and Amazon Stores are leveraging AI to power their next-generation innovations with AWS and create better experiences for customers. Through three key stories discover how customer needs sparked transformative experiences: fan feedback revolutionising sports broadcasting with AI-powered highlights, shopping patterns evolving Amazons mobile commerce platform, and robotics and automation delivering advances in supply chain optimisation and fulfillment. Learn the best practices Amazon has applied using AWS that can help scale innovation in your organisation.

Non-obvious insights

From the Playbook

One sharp, contrarian insight per session — the things teams don't think of unprompted.

The actual productivity gain in collaborative AI tools is in what they *replace*, not what they add. If a new AI tool doesn't have a clear "this kills X meeting" or "this kills Y handoff" answer, it's just adding cognitive load. Audit before adopting. ---PRT301-S — Unite Teams, Tools, and AI to Drive Transformation a…
Cross-corpus search exposes years of *permission-leak debt* you never knew existed. People had access to channels they should have been removed from; service accounts have read access to everything; old projects retain over-broad permissions. The agent will surface all of it. Plan for cleanup as a *deliberate* phase of rollout — pretending it's not there means it'll show up as a security incident. ---AIM204 — Get to know Amazon Quick, your new agentic teammate
AI's biggest org-design risk is amplifying existing inequalities. The engineers already best at "managing up" benefit most from AI assistance; the ones who could most benefit may be the slowest to adopt. Plan for equity in adoption explicitly — it doesn't happen on its own. ---IDE102 — Power of Possibility: Leading Through Innovation and…
Most "Amazon does X" announcements are AWS feature roadmap leaks in disguise. If Amazon retail is doing it on AWS, AWS will productise the underlying capability for everyone within a year. Track these to anticipate platform direction. ---INO203 — Behind the curtain: How Amazons AI innovations are p…