AWS Amplify Hosting

AWS Amplify Hosting — Managed Next.js and static hosting inside AWS, billed per GB with no spend cap. Amplify Hosting is AWS's answer to Vercel: git-connected builds, PR previews, and a managed compute tier supporting Next.js SSR, ISR, middleware and image optimisation. It is the obvious choice when the rest of your stack already lives in AWS and the app needs to sit next to your data in ap-southeast-2. It is also the purest expression of AWS billing — $0.15 per GB served, $0.01 per build minute, and no mechanism anywhere in the account that will stop spending. Built by Amazon Web Services. Founded 2018. Public (NASDAQ: AMZN).

We track it in 1 comparison — Vercel alternatives — so every claim below is a cell in a table you can open and check rather than an impression. Across those rosters it sits against 12 other tools, and what follows is where it visibly separates from them.

Where it wins.

• Next.js parity — most, 2nd of 13.

Each of those is ranked against the whole roster on its category page, not against a hand-picked subset, so a first place here means first of everything we list.

Where it gives ground.

• Pricing clarity — 2, 12th of 13. Coolify records 5.
• Cron jobs — No. Vercel records Yes.
• CLI quality — 2, 9th of 13. Vercel records 5.
• Build minutes incl. — 0 min/mo, the weakest of the 5 here. Netlify records 25,000 min/mo.

None of these disqualify it on their own. They are the fields to check against your own requirements before you commit, because they are the ones where a competitor genuinely does better.

Provenance. 25 of 26 tracked fields carry a value for AWS Amplify Hosting, and 5 of those cite a document you can open. Last verified 2026-06-15. Every figure keeps its own provenance — measured by us, claimed by the vendor, inferred, or community-reported — and we would rather print a dash than a guess.

Its nearest neighbour in our data is Cloudflare Workers & Pages. AWS Amplify Hosting is ahead on Exit friction (3 against 4) and Monorepo support (Yes against Partial). Cloudflare Workers & Pages takes Cron jobs (Yes against No) and Free tier (5 against 2). That pattern repeats across the rest of the roster — see AWS Amplify Hosting alternatives for the other rivals, each compared the same way.

Company

Amazon Web Services

Founded

2018

Funding

Public (NASDAQ: AMZN)

Fields we track

25 of 26

Last verified

2026-06-15

Only worth it when the rest of the stack is already in AWS and the app needs to sit next to your data in ap-southeast-2. Otherwise you are paying Vercel-tier bandwidth prices for worse cold starts, no cron, and CloudWatch as your logging product.

Pricing clarity

212th of 13

Inferred

Cron jobs

○No13th of 13

Inferred

CLI quality

29th of 13

Community-reported

Build minutes incl.

0 min/mo5th of 5

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-06-15source

Fn timeout

30 s2nd of 4

Inferred

Next.js parity

most2nd of 13

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-06-15source

Bandwidth price

$150 /TB6th of 9

Vendor-claimedverified 2026-06-15source

Free tier

210th of 13

Inferred

AWS Amplify Hosting is the right call in these situations, each one drawn from a field we actually record:

• Apps whose data already lives in AWS, especially in Sydney.
• Organisations where procurement will only sign an AWS contract.
• Static sites that need CloudFront and IAM in the same account.
• Next.js parity is your binding constraint. AWS Amplify Hosting records most, 2nd of 13 in the Vercel alternatives roster. We define that field as how much of ISR, PPR, middleware, streaming and next/image works as documented.

Reach for something else when any of the following is a requirement rather than a nice-to-have:

• Pricing clarity. AWS Amplify Hosting records 2, 12th of 13 in the Vercel alternatives roster. Coolify records 5 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Cron jobs. AWS Amplify Hosting records No on the Vercel alternatives table. Vercel records Yes on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• CLI quality. AWS Amplify Hosting records 2, 9th of 13 in the Vercel alternatives roster. Vercel records 5 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Build minutes incl.. AWS Amplify Hosting records 0 min/mo, the weakest of the 5 tools in the Vercel alternatives roster. Netlify records 25,000 min/mo on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.
• Free tier. AWS Amplify Hosting records 2, 10th of 13 in the Vercel alternatives roster. Cloudflare Workers & Pages records 5 on the same field. If that is a hard requirement rather than a preference, start elsewhere.

We publish this block because a comparison that only lists what a tool is good at is marketing. Every figure above sits on the same page as its source, and the field definitions are on the category tables if you want to check how we measured them.

What we don't know. 1 of the 26 fields we track for AWS Amplify Hosting are still blank: Analytics cost. Those render as dashes rather than as zeroes or assumptions, because an empty cell and a bad cell are not the same thing and only one of them is honest. If you know any of these figures and can point at a document, tell us.