Amplify · AWS Amplify Hosting

Outcome

• Hosting & Deployments
  • Created an Amplify app and branch via CLI
  • Deployed a Vite/React SPA via zip upload (manual deploy)
  • Set app-level and branch-level environment variables
  • Experienced the SPA 404 bug on deep links
  • Added the catch-all rewrite rule to fix SPA routing
  • Created a staging branch with isolated environment variables
  • Deployed different builds to main and staging, confirmed isolation
  • Enabled PR preview auto-build for feature/* branches
  • Deployed a feature branch preview and deleted it post-review
  • Enabled Basic Auth on staging and tested with curl
  • Wrote an amplify.yml with preBuild, build, postBuild phases
  • Configured node_modules caching and observed build time improvement
  • Implemented branch-aware env file selection using $AWS_BRANCH
  • Understood the monorepo applications config structure
  • Cleaned up all resources in correct order: Basic Auth off, branches, then app