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Dennis HillsMobile Developer Advocate, Amazon Web Services

April 20, 2017

Building Secure and Scalable Mobile Apps on AWS

v State of Mobile Appsv Serverless/Microservices (functions)v Overview of AWS Mobile Servicesv Artificial Intelligencev Build and test your Mobile App on AWSv Questions?

Agenda

Leading mobile apps run on AWS

State of Mobile – but also challenges

4 MM + AppsPublished to global app stores that you need to compete with mindshare

18 WeeksAverage time to build a mobile app

25%Apps abandoned after first use

Save development time; Host logic shared across apps in the cloud

Focus on building features; minimize operations efforts

Deliver a reliable app experience with high availability and low latency

Pay as you scale; Infrastructure costs proportional to your growth

The benefits of a serverless approach

Evolution…

Web/API Server

Cloud identity Cloud logic Cloud storage and messaging

THE ANATOMY OF “SERVERLESS”The anatomy of serverless

“AWS has what we need, but…it’s complex”1. Which services should I use? 2. How do I connect them?

Identity provider SDKs+

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Example:

Login screen & integration code+

SDK

UserIdentity

PushNotifications

ContentData, Media, Files

Analytics

Mobile Backend

ApplicationLogic On-Device

Testing

AWS for Mobile App Development

User AuthN and AuthZ

Analyze user behavior

Store and share media

Synchronize data

Deliver media

Amazon Cognito (Sync)

Amazon CognitoAmazon IAM

(access control)

Amazon S3

Amazon CloudFront

Store dataAmazon DynamoDBAmazon RDS

Track retentionAmazon Pinpoint

Send push notifications

Amazon SNS Mobile Push

Run server-side logicAWS LambdaAmazon API Gateway

Amazon Lex

Accept conversational input

Amazon Pinpoint

AWS Mobile SDKs

AWS Mobile Hub

Your Mobile App

AWS Mobile Hub

Mobile Hub Auto-Provisions Mobile Services

AMAZONIDENTITY & ACCESS

MANAGEMENT

AMAZONS3

AMAZONCLOUDFRONT

AMAZONCOGNITO

AMAZONPINPOINT

AMAZONSNS

AWSDEVICE FARM

AMAZONDYNAMODB

AWS LAMBDA

UnitySwift Xamarin React Native(preview)

Objective-C Android Java

AWS Mobile SDKs

AWS Mobile Hub features

Working Mobile App project includes:ü Xcode or Android Studio Projectü Uses your AWS Resourcesü Example Application Codeü Helper “Glue” Codeü Software Development Kitsü Developer Integration InstructionsSwift

Obj-C

Java

AWS Mobile Hub Quickstart App

Cloud Identity

AWS Mobile Hub follows best practices

AWS Mobile HubDemo

Introducing AWS Artificial Intelligence Services

Amazon Lex

Amazon Rekognition

Amazon Polly

Amazon Machine Learning

Build conversational interfaces using voice and text, powered by the same deep learning technologies as Alexa

A scalable machine learning service for developers

Turn text into lifelike speech using deep learning

Deep learning-based image recognition

Sources: The Economist, KPCB Internet Trends 2016, Accenture – Why AI is the future

33% of all customer support interactions still need human interaction

2.5 billion messaging app users

Over a thousand Alexa skills developed

The exploding market for voice and chat bots

Simplify complex UX flows

Understand user intents better and personalize experiences

Automate complex business processes

How bots can make your apps more engaging

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Automated testing Remote access

Gesture, swipe, and interact with devices in real time, directly from

your web browser

Test your app in parallel against a large collection of physical devices

in the AWS Cloud

AWS Device Farm – test on real devices

InstrumentationUI AutomationUI Automator

Your App

Improve the quality of your apps by testing against real devices in the AWS Cloud

Automated Testing

(native, hybrid, web)XCTest

XCTest UI

Select a device View historical sessionsInteract with the device

Remote Access

AWS Device Farm

• Android and iOS (Native, hybrid, web)

• Scale: Over 300 of unique devices, many instances

• Pay for what you use• Integration: Jenkins, Android Studio, SDKs, CLI

• Reports: Results, screenshots, logs, performance, video

• Flexibility: Support for many popular frameworks

• Security: Full HW and SW isolation

Pricing

$0.17 / device minute(First 250 minutes free)

or

$250 / device slot / month(Differentiated on Android and iOS)

AWS Device FarmDemo

Questions?

Get started at

aws.amazon.com/mobile