How to tell Amplify I need to use different backend from different AWS account?

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Hi, I started a web-app, with the backend first, using the CDK. I set-up a pipeline following best-practices, that is:

  • dev account: deploy backend to own account;
  • gamma account: deploy backend to a gamma specific account;
  • prod account: deploy backend to a prod specific account;
  • pipeline is actually in gamma account, and deploy the CDK to gamma, then to prod

Then I started working on the frontend with Amplify. I did not realized that Amplify could generated backend as well. My bad. But anyway, I was able to have amplify set-up in the prod account, that is connected to a prod backend environment (that only contains the auth imported Cognito pooled that is created by the CDK backend in the Prod account).

For deployment purpose, I would like the following:

  1. developers checkout the frontend code, specifies to amplify the backend should be the one generated by the CDK in their own dev account, so they can test in full;
  2. when developer commit and push to gitlab (could be in a gamma git branch), some integration tests are run in gamma account (that means some setup are done for the frontend/amplify to use the CDK generated gamma backend).
  3. at some point, the frontend code is merged (automatically or manually) to git/main, and flows such that amplify deploy this frontend connected to the CDK generated prod backend.

The backend continues to live on its own, and is deployed according to commit/push made on the backend branch, with the CDK pipeline deploying to the different accounts accordingly.

I'm not sure how to tune Amplify for such a thing.

How to tell amplify, at least locally, that the backend to use is the one from another AWS account (the dev one for now)?

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Hi, I think that this article "Challenges in deploying Amplify on multiple AWS accounts" may be very helpful for what you're trying to achiveve.

Article: https://medium.com/@themis.n.beris/challenges-in-deploying-amplify-on-multiple-aws-accounts-829c608290aa

Best, Didier

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