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 on AWS without Terraform deploys or custom DNS for the app under test. Amplify Hosting
AWS Amplify Hosting - builds and hosts front-end apps from a Git repository with branch and PR preview URLs.
Amplify Hosting docs builds from Git. GitHub Actions is the merge gate. Default *.amplifyapp.com URLs are enough.
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”See the promotion flow
feature branch → staging → main, and who builds what.
Run the lab
Scaffold Astro, connect Amplify, prove previews, then tear down.