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Page updated Feb 7, 2025

Set up Amplify Analytics

AWS will end support for Amazon Pinpoint on October 30, 2026,, and is no longer accepting any new users as of May 20 (see the linked doc). The guidance is to use AWS End User Messaging for push notifications and SMS, Amazon Simple Email Service for sending emails, Amazon Connect for campaigns, journeys, endpoints, and engagement analytics. Pinpoint recommends Amazon Kinesis for event collection and mobile analytics.

Amplify enables you to collect analytics data for your app. In order to use Analytics, you will enable Amazon Kinesis or Amazon Pinpoint using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK). The Analytics category uses Amazon Cognito identity pools to identify users in your app. Cognito allows you to receive data from authenticated, and unauthenticated users in your app.

Set up Analytics backend

Use the AWS CDK to create an analytics resource powered by Amazon Pinpoint.

amplify/backend.ts
import { defineBackend } from "@aws-amplify/backend"
import { auth } from "./auth/resource";
import { data } from "./data/resource";
import { Policy, PolicyStatement } from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-iam";
import { CfnApp } from "aws-cdk-lib/aws-pinpoint";
import { Stack } from "aws-cdk-lib/core";
const backend = defineBackend({
auth,
data,
// additional resources
});
const analyticsStack = backend.createStack("analytics-stack");
// create a Pinpoint app
const pinpoint = new CfnApp(analyticsStack, "Pinpoint", {
name: "myPinpointApp",
});
// create an IAM policy to allow interacting with Pinpoint
const pinpointPolicy = new Policy(analyticsStack, "PinpointPolicy", {
policyName: "PinpointPolicy",
statements: [
new PolicyStatement({
actions: ["mobiletargeting:UpdateEndpoint", "mobiletargeting:PutEvents"],
resources: [pinpoint.attrArn + "/*"],
}),
],
});
// apply the policy to the authenticated and unauthenticated roles
backend.auth.resources.authenticatedUserIamRole.attachInlinePolicy(pinpointPolicy);
backend.auth.resources.unauthenticatedUserIamRole.attachInlinePolicy(pinpointPolicy);
// patch the custom Pinpoint resource to the expected output configuration
backend.addOutput({
analytics: {
amazon_pinpoint: {
app_id: pinpoint.ref,
aws_region: Stack.of(pinpoint).region,
}
},
});

Install Amplify Libraries

First, install the aws-amplify library:

Terminal
npm add aws-amplify

Initialize Amplify Analytics

Import and load the configuration file in your app. It's recommended you add the Amplify configuration step to your app's root entry point.

src/index.js
import { Amplify } from 'aws-amplify';
import outputs from '../amplify_outputs.json';
Amplify.configure(outputs);

Next Steps:

Congratulations! Now that you have Analytics' backend provisioned and Analytics library installed. Check out the following links to see Amplify Analytics use cases:

References

Amazon Pinpoint Construct Library