Meet Amazon's Honeycode: a service for creating websites and applications
AWS continues to innovate and has now introduced Amazon Honeycode in beta version on New service that promises to make website and app development much more accessible. If you are thinking about deploy your website to the AWS cloud Or, this new resource can be very useful, whether to develop a site or manage an existing one.
For many companies, this innovative service that uses spreadsheets and formulas as the basis of its operation in a user-friendly and powerful interface, is a resource that will help them create custom applications and with different degrees of complexity in a more efficient way in terms of costs and dependence on the IT team.
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What is Honeycode? AWS?
In this managed service for creating different applications without the need for programming code. Includes application templates that can be used individually or as a team.
To work with Honeycode You can choose to start with an empty table or do a CSV data import. Then, use the various objects and functions to create a user interface that can include input fields, buttons, and lists.
The importance of the Amazon Web Services proposal
This new Amazon service also has built-in actions capable of generating Email and table modification notificationsTherefore, Honeycode is ideal for companies that require IT solutions for tracking, process approvals, events, customer relationship management, to-do list management, inventory tracking and survey sending.
Under this scheme, Honeycode is projected as the tool of indispensable use for many organizations. This may be interesting for multi-site SMEs who do not want to depend on a dedicated development team due to its high cost and need flexible services web development to deliver value to their end customers.
Furthermore, Honeycode is a service gratuitous, It has a free-tier of up to a maximum of 20 users y 2.500 rows of data in a spreadsheet.
Honeycode's Highlighted Features
Among its most notable features are the following:
- Honeycode Builder: very visual and simple, backed by a powerful Amazon database, allowing tracking over long periods of time.
- Notifications to users of address approvals, changes or updates to simplify any business or administrative process in a dynamic and interactive way.
- FindRow Addition, the more powerful version of the Vlookup feature.
- Support for external applications through functions such as GetScreenData, to retrieve data from any screen in a Honeycode app, and InvokeScreenAutomation to invoke an action or automation on a screen.
- Capacity for Updating a finished custom application if the company's objectives and needs change.
- Custom settings to allow each team member to see only certain data.
- Allows you to create applications for browsers or mobile devices as necessary.
Although, for the moment, the service Only available in one region (Western United States), is expected to be rolled out to more regions very soon.
Amazon Web Services gives you the tools you need to deploy applications and websites easily, that's Amazon Honeycode. Let's not forget the benefits that the cloud already offers us: climb resources according to the needs of the company, availability of the data and cost savings thanks to its pay-per-use model.
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