We performed a comparison between AWS Amplify and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of AWS Amplify is authentication."
"The link with Figma is very nice. You can create your design in Figma, and then you can import it into AWS Amplify and use it. You can link it to your data source and data bindings."
"Typically, whenever we make changes and need to switch environments (e.g., dev to production), it's easy for our developers to maintain the state of each environment and make customizations as needed. They don't necessarily need to involve the cloud team for basic management."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"GitLab's best features are maintenance, branch integration, and development infrastructure."
"The scalability is good."
"A user friendly solution."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"It's a great toolbox where the CI/CD pipeline is the fundamental component, but there are so many other features that you can pull from, which makes it a very powerful tool. My current client is using AWS, and they can, of course, use AWS CodePipeline, but GitLab is much more mature than that, and it also gives you the freedom to decide to go to another platform or have a multi-cloud strategy and things like that. That freedom for me is also very valuable."
"AWS Amplify could improve in the deployment. It would be beneficial to have more methods, such as automation."
"AWS can implement multiple web applications, and cross-platform applications, like iOS."
"Its capability to handle big projects needs to be improved. If you generate a user interface in Figma and import everything where all components are in one directory, currently, it is complicated. It isn't able to cope with that. For small projects, it is not an issue, but if you have big projects and you want to use AWS Amplify, then it gets more difficult. That is the most important point for me. It should be improved to cope better with bigger projects."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
AWS Amplify is ranked 5th in Release Automation with 3 reviews while GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews. AWS Amplify is rated 8.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS Amplify writes "Amplify CLI acts as a single source of truth". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". AWS Amplify is most compared with AWS CodeDeploy, Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS CodeStar and Ozone, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our AWS Amplify vs. GitLab report.
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