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."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."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of AWS Amplify is authentication."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"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."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"The best thing is that as the developers work on separate tasks, all of the code goes there and the other team members don't have to wait on each other to finish."
"For us, Gitlab's most valuable feature is the integration with Cypress. We're using Cypress as an automation tool, so we're using GitLab as a tool for running in parallel."
"GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."
"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."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
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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