AWS App Studio FAQs

App Studio uses generative AI throughout the product to make it faster and easier to build an application. For example, App Studio provides a generative AI–powered conversational assistant to accelerate building new apps and modifying existing ones. Simply describe the application you want to build, such as “Build an app to review and approve invoices,” and App Studio will generate the new application, including a user interface for listing and approving invoices, a data model for the approval records, and business logic for routing approval records and notifying owners.

To modify an application, you can describe your desired change in natural language, and then App Studio will propose the suggested changes. After confirming, the App Studio assistant will automatically update your application. Additionally, embedded buttons within the App Studio building experience make it easier to build and test by converting natural language to JavaScript-based business logic, generating sample data, enriching data models, and generating sample service configurations.

Throughout the building journey, you can ask questions such as “How do I hide the table component?” and App Studio will provide a contextual answer based on the product documentation and your application.

App Studio may transfer data across Regions to enable these generative AI features. You can opt out of cross-Region data movement after onboarding. For more information, consult the App Studio documentation.

To get started quickly in App Studio, there are two methods:

Use the generative AI-powered conversational assistant to build new applications or modify existing ones. You can describe the app you want to create in natural language, and App Studio will generate the entire application structure, including the user interface, data models, and business logic tailored to your request. You can also make changes to your app by simply describing the modifications, and the assistant will update the application automatically.

Leverage prebuilt solutions from a diverse collection of applications based on practical use cases. These solutions allow you to quickly start building with a solid foundation, reducing the initial setup time and enabling faster deployment.

App Studio offers built-in components to add generative AI capabilities (like information summarization, content generation, and data analysis) to your apps. Simply describe what you need to the assistant, or drag and drop the component onto your app’s page. Once added, it’s easy to adjust the natural language prompt and configuration settings to customize the output from the large language model (LLM).

Yes, you can invite other users to help you build and edit an application in App Studio, but apps are private by default. You can also share co-owner permission, allowing the other users to publish and share the application.

App Studio offers connectors to over 200 AWS services including HAQM DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, HAQM RDS, HAQM Redshift, and HAQM S3. You can also connect to hundreds of third-party services like Salesforce, Twilio, Zendesk, and Slack using the API and OpenAPI connectors.

Yes. App Studio allows you to add a custom logo and banner image, supports styling with your company’s brand colors, and even allows toggling between light and dark modes for published apps.

No. The ability to select customized domains for published apps is not yet available.

Yes. When using AWS Organizations, you can enable App Studio in each of the child AWS accounts. For example, applications built by the HR department can reside in a different App Studio instance from the apps built by the sales department if they use separate accounts.

Yes, App Studio supports seamless application migration across AWS Regions and accounts through Import and Export capabilities. This enables easy, self-service migration, allowing teams to quickly deploy, scale, and replicate applications across different environments without extensive manual effort.

When connecting to AWS services, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles allow an Admin to define granular permissions for all applications that depend on the specified connector. Users of the published application will only be able to access and modify data specified by the IAM policy. When connecting to third-party systems with OAuth-based flows, end users will have the same data access as they have in the third-party system.

App Studio publishes applications to our fully managed hosting environment. The applications operate as standalone web applications with unique URLs, and we handle the operations, maintenance, and scaling for the underlying cloud services. Applications connect to data within your AWS accounts without needing to modify your VPC configuration.

After an application is published, the builder can share it with user groups within their organization. If the builder configured custom application roles (like Requestors and Approvers), they can specify the role when sharing the application.