100%,

I hate their new releases, it makes me feel duped. My team has so much pain working with amplify. The very basics of their API functionality and lambda layers are extremely broken and it seems like it will be impossible to scale beyond a team of 5 people without insane conflicts.

> it seems like it will be impossible to scale beyond a team of 5 people without insane conflicts.

Tell me about it. We have to use different versions of the CLI to push different type of changes to the schema. It is insane.

> There is so much pain with Amplify. They don't listen to anybody.

Indeed. Amplify sounded great on paper and I was really excited to use it in my latest project but it’s simply not living up to its promise.

I spent one month trying to get Sign in with Apple to work with Amplify + Cognito.

Frustrated and annoyed, I gave Firebase a chance. I had it working in 40 minutes.

Now the entire project is using Firebase.

Same here - and I like AWS and am on AWS for the most part. I never figured out Apple / iOS sign in. Their ECS container / S3 etc stuff works totally fine.

Had the exact same experience. Excited about Amplify, but ran into bugs that hadn't been fixed for months blocking AmplifyJS social login from working as documented.

Switched to Firebase, and it all just worked.

This is the Amazon version of the Google Graveyard. They never retire the product, but they never really fix the bugs either.

This sounds much worse, though, as they are clearly still working on it, but only things that make good sounding announcements.

Yep. The Amplify JS still doesn't handle clock skew correctly for API calls after years of people complaining. I am still not sure they understand the problem.

100%. Their existing SDKs are so broken! I don't understand how they can ignore fundamental issues that absolutely make it impossible to use the SDK.

I guess one of the reason is fixing issues won’t get anyone promoted beyond L5

Well until then I'll whine under every Amplify post for bad PR since this might affect promotions.

It's called promotion-driven-development. It's a quite popular methodology on big tech these days ;)