What is AWS AppSync?

In this video, let's explore AWS AppSync, a fully managed AWS service that lets you build GraphQL APIs without managing any infrastructure. You don't even have to run a GraphQL server software yourself, as that is all handled by AppSync. You just have to configure the backend data sources for your API - be it DynamoDB, OpenSearch, or RDS database - or you can use Lambda functions to implement custom business logic.
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[@g0ldhunter]

Beautifully summarised, thank you

[@theburningmonk]

Thank you :-)

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[@SethWeeks]

Thanks for the overview! How do you use AppSync with RDS?

[@AMORPHOFUL]

I assume, if you're not using aurora, there should be an API, that's managing access to RDS, just like any regular micro-service does. And then you put an http request (to that api, that is managing access to your api) as an graphql resolver inside your app-sync configuration

[@nandeitechnologies881]

Good Introduction. Thanks

[@theburningmonk]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it :-)

[@patrickrenschler]

For a small app (and small dev team) when does it make sense to use appsync vs just interacting directly with dynamodb?

[@theburningmonk]

Sorry for the late reply, I haven't been checking YT comments regularly. It depends on your situation, are you talking about a request coming from the frontend (doesn't matter if it's a web or mobile app), or some backend process needing to access some data in DynamoDB?