AWS announced the launch of Amazon Honeycode yesterday. This will allow the customers to build quick apps and customize them according to their convenience. Anyone can build an application using Amazon Honeycode without any prior coding knowledge. So, it is time to stop waiting for the developers to make you a customized application and do it on your own. The beta version of the service is available currently to the users.
Demand for Amazon Honeycode
For a long time now, the customers have demanded a viable solution for developing customized web and mobile applications. Because according to them the need for making the average number of such customized applications outruns the number of developers. So, it causes a big inconvenience for the users. But, now with the launch of Honeycode, they can build apps easily with no or minimal coding.
For applications of most common purposes such as surveying, customer tracking, schedule, creating a to-do list, customer relationship management, etc, Amazon Honeycode is providing templates. Using the tools and templates of Honeycode, customers can build simple tracking applications to complex applications using a deep complex network. But, whatever might be the degree of complexity it is claimed to be better than using spreadsheets.
Amazon Honeycode over spreadsheets
The company also mentioned that it is better to build applications on your own than using spreadsheets and emailing them back and forth. It is because emailing documents or spreadsheets consumes a lot of extra time and accumulation of inefficiency takes place. Moreover, it also gives rise to data syncing and other forms of error slowing down the entire workflow.
This is the main reason customers would want service so that they can create applications on their own. They just need to get used to the user interface and don’t need to worry much about the AWS database or the infrastructural backbone. This way they can also stop hiring expensive developers to build the applications.
How Amazon Honeycode works?
Every user who wants to develop their applications is used to the way how spreadsheets work. This is the most important reason why Amazon Honeycode is also using spreadsheets as a part of its data interface. They can use the spreadsheet-style formulas to build the application and at the same time not worry about the AWS backend database.
The main reason AWS launched Amazon Honeycode service to keep things easier and simpler for the users or the “builders”. And, to maintain the smooth working of the service AWS is not allowing users to add any external data sources as it can complicate matters. But, the company’s plan for Honeycode is still uncertain. So, maybe if everything goes well, it might change the decision and allow outside data sources afterward.
Currently, Amazon Honeycode is only available in the US West region in Oregon. But eventually, AWS will expand its Honeycode services to other regions as well. You can create your application and it is free for twenty users, and then you have to pay for users as the application becomes larger.
The motivation behind building Amazon Honeycode
In an interview, Larry Augustin, AWS VP, and Meera Vaidyanathan, General Manager at AWS elaborately discussed the reason behind building Amazon Honeycode. They said that the services and products of AWS mainly concerned the developers around the world. But, this time they are shifting the audience base and focusing on non-coders. AWS is expanding its services and extending its helping hand to solve the shortcoming of non-coders as well. They said that they often received feedback from customers that they want the IT teams to better solve a problem by creating applications. But they lacked the number of developers needed to reach every customer and solve their problem. Hence, AWS came up with Amazon Honeycode to help build applications easily that concerns the basic line of business.
The no-code strategy of Amazon Honeycode will attract a lot
of new users around the world. AWS is mainly targeting audiences like project
managers, data analysts, etc who can easily create an application on their own
and solve some of their problems. On top of that, the spreadsheet-like
interface is the most common one so the users won’t face problems getting used
to it.
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