Amazon launches AWS Mobile Hub to simplify mobile app development

Amazon has launched the new AWS Mobile Hub that simplifies the process of building, testing, and monitoring mobile applications that make use of one or more AWS services. It helps developers skip the heavy lifting of integrating and configuring services by letting you add and configure features to apps, including user authentication, data storage, backend logic, push notifications, content delivery, and analytics—all from a single, integrated console.  The AWS Mobile Hub helps at each stage of development: configuring, building, testing, and usage monitoring. The console is feature-oriented; instead of picking individual services you select higher-level features comprised of combinations of one or more services, SDKs, and client code. The Mobile Hub outlines and assists with each step of the mobile app development process and each feature is backed up by one or more AWS services. For instance, User Sign-In is powered by Amazon Cognito and Push Notification is powered by Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS). Mobile Hub essentially helps developers take advantage of features, scalability of AWS. It automatically provisions the AWS services required to power these features and generates working apps for iOS and Android that use the provisioned services.