Hi folks, nice to meet you all. I came across serverless when researching app generation. Wondering if there's any cross over between sst and aws amplify? Is sst a generic version of a cloud providers solution?

SST it’s focused on AWS, because it works with CDK.

Amplify may appear similar to SST on the surface (stages, most of the same infrastructure behind them), but the interface could not be more different. Amplify is heavily focused on using a CLI and completely abstracting infrastructure, making it a better fit for absolute beginners, but will scale poorly as you transition to the CDK. SST has a steeper learning curve, but can take you as far as you want to go, and is an easy swap / feature parity between it and the CDK.

Amplify looks to be like Firebase?

A generic or agnostic solution to these issues is something like Pulumi, which comes with downsides inherent to that.

The entry point to the cloud, for small companies or teams.

That would be a good Google-based comparison, but Firebase has massive differences to AWS in general when it comes to handling infrastructure.

Yes, agreed.

Wow! I wasn't expecting that level or response in such a short space of time. Thanks very much folks. Any one know if the various conference talks are going to be made available online afterwards?

if cross-cloud is a real concern… it would be good to look into containers and Pulumi. There are also major benefits of just choosing the best cloud out there (AWS) and using it to its full potential and taking advantage of serverless and SST for rapid development.

In my company, a new devops joined, and he wants to start using terraform 🤦‍♂️ .

@Mark Gargan the talks will be recorded. They will be shared after the event 🤞