--- title: AWS AppSync Reviews meta\_title: 'AWS AppSync Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 92 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how AWS AppSync works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 92 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Development url: https://www.g2.com/categories/development --- # AWS AppSync Reviews & Product Details AWS AppSync automatically updates the data in web and mobile applications in real time, and updates data for offline users as soon as they reconnect. AppSync makes it easy to build collaborative mobile and web applications that deliver responsive, collaborative user experiences. * * * Seller [Amazon Web Services (AWS)](https://www.g2.com/sellers/amazon-web-services-aws-3e93cc28-2e9b-4961-b258-c6ce0feec7dd) Discussions [AWS AppSync Community](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-appsync/discuss) Solution Type Best-of-Breed Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 5 months ### Return on Investment 12 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-appsync/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![MuleSoft Anypoint Platform](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "MuleSoft Anypoint Platform") MuleSoft Anypoint Platform 4.5/5(775) ](https://www.g2.com/products/mulesoft-anypoint-platform/reviews) [ ![Postman](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Postman") Postman 4.6/5(1,800) ](https://www.g2.com/products/postman/reviews) [ ![Boomi](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Boomi") Boomi 4.4/5(506) ](https://www.g2.com/products/boomi/reviews) [ View All Alternatives ](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-appsync/competitors/alternatives) ## User Insights Average based on 92 real user reviews. Implementation Time 5 months Perceived Cost $$$$$ [Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ## AWS AppSync Integrations (4) What do users say about integrations? Integration information sourced from real user reviews. 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KB Krishna Kumar B. Project Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/10/2025 "Essential for Serverless APIs and Multi-Source Data Access" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? Useful in creating serverless api and accessing data from multiple data sources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? Limited use of GraphQL and Lambda services Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? As it is server-less and allowing on demand scaling as and when needed. More all the environment is securely operated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Automotive](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Automotive") TA Verified User in Automotive Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 1/20/2026 "User-Friendly and Easy to Navigate" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? This is my first time using this software and system, its user friendly and easy to navigate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? Sometimes it’s difficult to get ahold of customer service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? It connects our apps so they work together and keep the data in sync, which is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite B Bishal . Chief Technical Officer Computer Software Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 7/5/2023 "Best Cloud Storage Service" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? AWS Cloud Storage is highly durable, scalable and secure to handle files for your production apps and website. It offers different encryption technics to for better security. It stores files in different zones ensuring high availability Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? Managing expenses is my biggest dislike, as I need to keep checking all the resources for different regions and it can be pretty challenging for beginners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? I store JSON files containing user data in AWS s3 and handle files using AWS Lambda, which greatly helps me. AWS Cloud Storage is pretty affordable for me and is easily scalable. Moreover, I don't need to configure or do much for the security of the files as it comes with built-in encryption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![ROHITH C.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "ROHITH C.") RC ROHITH C. Software Developer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 5/18/2023 "Review on aws cloud storage" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? AWS cloud storage services are highly durable, and it is maintained well, which is helping me with all my projects. They are storing multiple copies of data across different availability zones, ensuring high availability It offers the best security features for data protection, including encryption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? I know AWS provides cost optimization tools, but managing costs in a cloud environment can still be challenging. It is important to monitor resource usage, select appropriate storage classes, and set up proper cost controls to avoid unexpected expenses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? I am able to store the csv file in aws s3 and able to read that data from aws lambda,which is helping me a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Abhinav J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhinav J.") AJ Abhinav J. Software Developer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/8/2022 "Aws AppSync powerful graphql based service" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? AWS AppSync is good in no. of ways such as 1. It saves Time 2. It is Highly Scalable 3. It can support Realtime applications 4. It supports for Offline Access Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? Aws AppSync tho is super useful but has a big learning curve to get started with also debugging is bit tricky here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? I am personally using it for my mobile application backend api where we are calling 100s of APIs and AppSync is a very useful tool as it supports graphql. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Harsh M.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Harsh M.") HM Harsh M. Technical Writer Intern Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/28/2021 "Brings the comfort of GraphQL development" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? I like how AppSync helps decompose big building blocks into smaller primitives and removes my need of having a GraphQL server up and running. I can also link a DynamoDB table as a data source directly, without having to write custom resolvers, which is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? The lack of a centralised data access layer is my single biggest issue about using generic index attributes in my data model while using AppSync. The frontend for AppSync is a clunky mess and makes the development process harder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? We are using AppSync as our data interface where no service talks directly, not even internal services. This helps maintain a consistent interface at the expense of being careful about your VTL resolvers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Shwetank D.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Shwetank D.") SD Shwetank D. Lead Software Engineer - AVP Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/31/2021 "Brilliant way to work with multiple data resources in real time using a single GraphQL endpoint" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? The request and response validation is in built-in the Graph QL endpoint call which makes the API very secure at an outer layer even though the API is supposed to be publicly accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? The pricing is competitive but still feels a touch expensive as compared to API gateway and to provide enough incentive to move big projects from API gateway to API appsync. Since Real-time updates are the catchy feature of this product, its pricing could be a little more competitive to give good market exposure to its best marketable quality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS AppSync: It is a brilliant product if you deal with multiple data resources while authorizing numerous requests for a single task. AWS Appsync can be of enormous help if the organizations using it can find a cost-effective way to move to this product . It can wrap your calls to a single secure Graph QL call and can let you keep all the data sources for different purposes without breaking a sweat while extracting information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? I worked with a Fintech startup that were using both SQL for transactions , No SQL databases for quick client profile query resolutions , numerous REST endpoints for payment gateways and regulatory checks and maintaining logs in Elasticsearch. For their business analysis we were fetching data from all these sources and creating dashboards . AWS AppSync was more than handful in fetching data from these diverse datasources in a secure manner and feed it to the live dashboards which were really the life of the management meetings to realize he overall progress of the roduct and the drawn insights to drive actionables for future growth. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Vithushan S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Vithushan S.") VS Vithushan S. Co-Founder Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 9/23/2021 "Best GraphQL platform for working with various data source." 5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? AWS AppSync comes with well-optimized solutions for data aggregation from various sources and exposure it as a GraphQL API. In that row, my favorite part of AppSync is it gives a massive jump on the performance increment compares to any other similar solution. When it comes to the AWS ecosystem it works much more effectively especially with lambda, DocumentDb, RDS, & Dynamodb. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? I don't see any major drawbacks or blockers when using AppSync, So I don't have many complaints about it. Anyhow, I feel like usage of this might hold our solutions more into the AWS ecosystem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering AWS AppSync: We have tried few open-source ETL solutions with the rest APIs as well as some middleware technologies at our organization. But when we started using it we got tremendous benefits on performance. Also, we were able to reduce timelines to set up. So definitely AWS AppSync is recommended. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? As a software vendor, we have in-house middleware consulting & data pipeline management teams, Where we deal with a lot of source systems and a lot of storage solutions within AWS. That's where AWS AppSync helps our teams to make this task simple by utilizing GraphQL APIs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![JJ J.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "JJ J.") JJ JJ J. Cloud Solution Architect Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/28/2021 Business partner of the seller or seller's competitor, not included in G2 scores. "A fantastic tool for GraphQL api development" 5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? The ease of development and testing that AWS provides is spectacular. One can get a prototype out the door quickly and efficiently and then move onto testing in rapid order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? Long-running queries force one to go down the session workaround in order to get everything to work as expected. However, that is a pretty simple task and an understandable limitation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? Cloud native GraphQL api development is what AWS AppSync provides with an emphasis upon security at ground zero. Rapid prototyping and allowing frontend devs to access multiple services or dbs only makes everything better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Naga Kiran K.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Naga Kiran K.") NK Naga Kiran K. Master Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 11/9/2021 "Create flexible API connecting multiple backends" 4.5/5 What do you like best about AWS AppSync? AWS AppSync makes creating a GraphQL API server (using an existing schema/creating one through the wizard) such a breeze that it can be in a couple of mins. It provides a single pane of glass (API server) abstracting the data from multiple AWS Products like ElasticSearch, DynamoDB. It gives the flexibility to change the backends without impacting the API contract. Any application (iOS/Android/Javascript) can be integrated with AppSync easily using AWS Amplify CLI The editor it provides is a good playground for trying out the queries and supports good auto-completion, and can browse through the GraphQL schema for reference. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about AWS AppSync? Haven't seen any down sides yet but feel the learning curve is more considering it requires to be familar with other AWS database services for integrating with AppSync. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is AWS AppSync solving and how is that benefiting you? To Provide a single API endpoint for web application abstracting the multiple backends Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 11/10/2021 Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about AWS AppSync? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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