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How to configure AWS amplify datastore?

Basically, amplify DataStore provides a persistent on-device storage repository for you to write, read, and observe changes to data if you are online or offline, and seamlessly sync to the cloud as well as across devices.

Data modeling for your application is using GraphQL and convert to Models that are used in JavaScript, iOS, or Android applications.

You can use DataStore for your offline use cases in a “local only” mode without an AWS account or provision an entire backend using AWS AppSync and Amazon DynamoDB.

DataStore includes Delta Sync using your GraphQL backend and several conflict resolution strategies.

Amplify DataStore is an on device persistent repository for interacting with your local data while it synchronizes with the cloud.

The core idea is to focus on your data modeling in your application with GraphQL.

Adding any authorization rules or business logic into your application when need.

You can do this by using Amplify CLI project functionality as well as the GraphQL Transformer.

Today, let us see the features discussed by our Support techs:

Visual data modeling

Amplify Studio offers a visual interface for defining backend models, fields, and the relationship between the objects.

Offline data access

DataStore offers on-device storage, enabling the app to access data even when offline.

All requests to fetch or update data are made to the local DataStore first, and the changes sync to the cloud when a network is available.

Fine-grained authorization

Authorization rules are built in to the data model, providing fine-grained access control to backend resources for authenticate users and groups.

Content management

Developers can give content editors and testers access to update the app data via Amplify Studio.

Also, admins can save content as markdown to render rich text.

Web and mobile front-end libraries

DataStore client libraries provide a simple API interface for querying, updating, sorting, and filtering data in your app.

It automatically handles conflict detection and resolution by converging different object versions.

The infrastructure deployment and management are a function of these developer inputs.

It is automatically deploy, monitor, and manage by the Amplify Framework including code generation, command line interface (CLI) rollouts, and runtime logic.

Then, all DataStore operations are local first.

This means that when you run a query, it returns results from the local system, which can sort and filtered.

The same is true for mutations or observations to data. So, no network latencies or constraints on the backend are present.

Operations are run for your developers to integrate into your application.

Syncing takes place without any needed effort, including real-time updates when the device is online.

These updates are immediately present in any of your queries running locally or on data observ.

Similarly, devices transitioning from offline to online states perform delta synchronization on your behalf.

This gives you control to perform logical actions if your mutations conflict with writes that took place to the backend.

Also, amplify DataStore supports iOS, Android, Flutter, and client JavaScript frameworks.

From that schema, the Amplify CLI can generate models that fit solutions built in all these platforms.

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Conclusion

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