What is Amazon Honeycode?
Tags: aws, amazon, awshoneycode, honeycode
Published: 2020-06-30 20:27:52

##A “Light-weight” tool to develop web apps and mobile apps without being a developer.
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Though the one-line sub-title may have given you a rough idea of [_“What is Amazon Honeycode”_](https://www.honeycode.aws/), but let us explore this in details. So as the name suggests this tool is developed and maintained by Amazon or more precisely **Amazon Web Service(AWS)**. The ideas behind developing this tool were mainly:
1. It is _very difficult for a small company to get hold of a professional developer_ who would develop a web or mobile application to manage the company’s workflow.
2. All company need to maintain some sort of database in the form of a spreadsheet but it become _very difficult to work collaboratively on such spreadsheet_ and sharing the database among the employees is also a very cumbersome process. This problem can be solved if there exists an application to maintain the database.

[Andy Jassy](https://twitter.com/ajassy), CEO of AWS, stated in a [tweet](https://twitter.com/ajassy/status/1275934257051918336):
>*How many apps never get built b/c people don’t have programming skills or the technology team is too busy to get your app? A lot. This is what our new #AWS service, Amazon Honeycode, intends to address. Makes everybody a #builder.*

Amazon Honeycode is currently in **beta**.

Amazon Honeycode resembles the familiar **interface of spreadsheet** combined with the **data management capability of the database**. Users can use the visual application builder interface to create interactive web and mobile application with the support of AWS-built database which tracks the changes from time to time, notify users of the changes, etc.

Amazon Honeycode is made primarily for the *non-professional developers*, who are the end-users. According to Amazon, it is a very light-weight tool which can be used by anyone without any knowledge in coding.

According to some Honeycode is very light-weight functionally compared to **Microsoft’s Power Apps**, which was released in 2016 and **Google Cloud's AppSheet**.

Amazon Honeycode currently has limited reach in terms of cloud regions, thought AWS assured that they will be expanding to the additional region soon. Currently Honeycode *three* price plans:

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/t89h803m0elifvsxtocb.png)<figcaption>Pricing

For those who are wondering what does **rows** means —
>*A range of data that runs horizontally across a table. In Honeycode, tables hold the data that power apps.*

Sharing of these datasheets has been made easier through the introduction of **iOS** and **Andriod** versions of Amazon Honeycode.

![Alt Text](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/i/ba77u9obmhsjr07ne1eq.png)<figcaption>App made with Honeycode

Amazon also provides [**_great documentation_**](https://honeycodecommunity.aws/c/knowledge-center/5) along with extensive [**_video tutorials_**](https://honeycodecommunity.aws/c/Courses/17) to get started with Honeycode. Honeycode also provides a few [**_pre-built templates_**](https://www.honeycode.aws/templates) that will make the app making the process much easier.

Check out Honeycode official site: https://www.honeycode.aws. Visit the site to build your first Honeycode app. [*Honeycode community*](https://honeycodecommunity.aws/) can be very useful.