Learn the pieces
Amplify Hosting, the GitHub App, staging vs PR previews, private or public repos.
Amplify Astro CI/CD Walkthrough
Ship a static Astro site from GitHub to Amplify - staging first, then main, with PR previews and a clean teardown.
Why this lab
Section titled “Why this lab”You want a real front-end CI/CD path. Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting - managed CDN hosting for front-end web apps. Git-connected continuous deployment is one option; this lab uses that path for branch and PR preview URLs.
Amplify Hosting docs builds from Git. GitHub Actions is the merge gate.
This walkthrough is the guide. The companion sample repo jajera/amplify-astro-cicd is what you build (or clone) while following the steps.
What you will do
Section titled “What you will do”Staging and previews
feature branch to staging to main, and who builds what.
Run the lab
Scaffold Astro, connect Amplify, prove previews, then tear down.