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."
"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 functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution."
"The solution makes the CI/CD pipelines easy to execute."
"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"GitLab integrates well with other platforms."
"The important feature is the entire process of versioning source code maintenance and easy deployment. It is a necessity for the CI/CD pipeline."
"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 price of GitLab could improve, it is high."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
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, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our AWS Amplify vs. GitLab report.
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