# Cohesivity vs AWS Amplify

AWS Amplify: “Fullstack TypeScript. Frontend DX for AWS.”

Amplify is AWS with the sharp edges filed down. It gives you data, auth, storage, functions, and hosting through a friendly TypeScript layer, and underneath it is all real AWS services. The price of admission is the AWS account itself: billing, IAM, and the console, set up before Amplify provisions a thing. If you already run on AWS, that cost is already paid.

Cohesivity skips that entirely. Its coding agent provisions a database, storage, auth, hosting, and AI over one HTTP API, with no AWS account and no cloud console. The project runs for 72 hours, then you claim it. So the comparison is really about the account. Amplify is a nicer way into AWS that still needs an AWS account. Cohesivity needs no account at all.

side by side

## Cohesivity and AWS Amplify, on the points that differ

__Comparison of Cohesivity and AWS Amplify__
|                    | Cohesivity                                                                | AWS Amplify                                                                    |
| ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| account to start   | None. The agent provisions the project, then you claim it.                | A full AWS account (billing, IAM, console) before Amplify provisions anything. |
| what is underneath | Managed services Cohesivity runs and exposes over HTTP.                   | Real AWS services, wrapped in a TypeScript developer layer.                    |
| who sets it up     | Your coding agent, over one HTTP API.                                     | You, via the Amplify CLI and the AWS console.                                  |
| the backend        | Postgres, Redis, a vector store, storage, auth, an AI gateway, a browser. | Data and APIs, auth, storage, functions, and hosting on AWS.                   |
| billing            | Free $0, Plus $20, Pro $100, one shared balance.                          | AWS pay-as-you-go, with new-customer free-tier credits.                        |

where Cohesivity fits

- No AWS account to stand up. The agent provisions the backend with no billing setup, no IAM, and no console, which is the friction Amplify still sits on top of.
- One bill, not AWS metering. Cohesivity's Free, Plus, and Pro plans are a single shared balance, rather than usage spread across AWS line items.
- The agent does the wiring. There is no CLI to configure against a cloud account. The agent provisions the database, auth, storage and hosting over HTTP in the build.

when AWS Amplify is the better call

Pick Amplify if you are already on AWS or plan to be. When the rest of your infrastructure lives there, staying inside the account and using AWS services directly is a real advantage, and Amplify makes that pleasant.

Pick Amplify if you need the depth and breadth of AWS underneath. Almost anything AWS can do is reachable from an Amplify project, which a higher-level backend does not match.

The decision is the ecosystem. Amplify is the friendly door into AWS, and it assumes you want to be in AWS. Cohesivity assumes you would rather not set up a cloud account at all. If AWS is where you are headed, Amplify is built for that path.

questions

### Is Cohesivity an AWS Amplify alternative?

For the case where you want a backend with no AWS account, yes. Cohesivity's agent provisions a database, storage, auth, hosting and AI over one API with no signup. Amplify is a developer layer over AWS that requires a full AWS account before it provisions anything.

### Does Cohesivity run on AWS like Amplify?

Cohesivity runs managed services and exposes them over HTTP; you do not touch a cloud account. Amplify provisions real AWS services under its TypeScript layer, inside your AWS account.

### Do I need an AWS account to start?

No. A Cohesivity project runs 72 hours with no account and no card, then you claim it. Amplify requires an AWS account, with its billing and IAM, before you provision.

### Can my agent provision the backend without a cloud console?

Yes. The agent provisions the database, auth, storage and hosting with HTTP calls, with no AWS console or CLI setup.

related comparisons

AWS Amplify details verified 2026-07-22 from aws.amazon.com/amplify. Cohesivity details from its own docs. AWS pricing and free-tier terms change, so check current specifics.

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