Building Real-Time Applications with AWS AppSync Events

AWS AppSync Events just changed how I build real-time apps on AWS — and in this video, I'm showing you everything: how it works, when to use it, when NOT to, and a live coding demo you can follow along with. By the end of this video you'll know: ✅ What AppSync Events is and how WebSocket sessions are managed serverlessly ✅ AppSync Events vs API Gateway WebSocket vs self-managed — honest comparison ✅ How to design channels and configure auth (API Key → Cognito → IAM) ✅ Live coding: browser subscriber + publisher Lambda from scratch ✅ EventBridge integration for a fully event-driven pipeline ✅ Multi-channel fan-out patterns for production use cases ✅ The Architect's Take: real cost breakdown + production gotchas ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔗 RESOURCES & LINKS 📌 AWS AppSync Events Deep Dive:   / aws-appsync-events-api-deep-dive   📌 System Design: Serverless Chat Application   / system-design-serverless-chat-application   📌 GitHub Code: https://github.com/JoudAwad97/aws-app... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📬 CONNECT WITH ME 🔵 LinkedIn →   / joud-awad   🐦 X → https://x.com/TheJoud97 ✍️ Medium →   / joudwawad   #AWS #AppSync #SystemDesign #WebSocket #ServerlessArchitecture #BackendEngineering #DistributedSystems #CloudArchitecture #AWSLambda