What is AWS Blocks? How it differs from Amplify and App Studio, and what each one is aiming for (opens in new tab)

On June 16, 2026, AWS announced AWS Blocks as a public preview. It is an open-source framework where the TypeScript you write for your backend becomes the AWS infrastructure that runs it. The first thing many AWS users will think is "another full-stack tool." If you want a tool for frontend developers to build full-stack apps in TypeScript, Amplify Gen2 already exists. For people who don't write code, there is App Studio. I compared those three earlier in a write-up on App Studio, Amplify Gen...