# aws-amplify/amplify-backend — health index 75/100 (Good)

> Inspection of the public repository aws-amplify/amplify-backend by inspect.software. It holds a health index of 75 out of 100, placing it in the Good band. The index is a signal derived from publicly visible practice, not a warranty, a security audit, or an endorsement, and it is independent of payment.

- Repository: https://github.com/aws-amplify/amplify-backend
- Report page: https://inspect.software/software/aws-amplify/amplify-backend
- Full JSON report: https://inspect.software/api/repositories/aws-amplify/amplify-backend/report
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- Inspected: 2026-07-19
- Methodology: metrics 1.13.0, report schema 0.14.0 (https://inspect.software/methodology.md)

## Category summary

| Category | Weight | Index | Band |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vitality | 22% | 92/100 | Excellent |
| Community & Adoption | 18% | 62/100 | Moderate |
| Sustainability & Governance | 24% | 75/100 | Good |
| Engineering Quality | 20% | 68/100 | Moderate |
| Security | 16% | 72/100 | Good |
| AI Readiness | not counted | 52/100 | Moderate |

## Repository facts

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Home to all tools related to Amplify's code-first DX (Gen 2) for building fullstack apps on AWS |
| Primary language | TypeScript |
| License | Apache-2.0 |
| Stars | 255 |
| Forks | 114 |
| Created | 2023-05-12 |
| Last push | 2026-07-18 |
| Latest release | @aws-amplify/sandbox@2.2.1 |
| Commits (last year) | 105 |
| Bus factor | 4 |
| Topics | amplify, aws, backend, fullstack |

## Published packages

| Registry | Package | Latest | Monthly downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | amplify-backend | 0.0.1 | 10 |

## Vitality — 92/100 (Excellent)

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping? Weight: 22% of the overall index.

### Development activity — 87/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Push recency | met | 36 / 36 | last push 0 days ago |
| Commit cadence | partial | 22.8 / 36 | 33/52 weeks with commits |
| Commit volume | met | 18 / 18 | 105 commits in the last year |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained | met | 10 / 10 | 10 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |

### Release discipline — 100/100 (Excellent)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ships releases | met | 27 / 27 | 100 releases published |
| Release recency | met | 36 / 36 | latest release 51 days ago |
| Release cadence | met | 27 / 27 | a release every ~0 days |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 10 | no releases found |

### Abandonment — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Project is still maintained | met | 100 / 100 | maintenance record not established from the collected data |

## Community & Adoption — 62/100 (Moderate)

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors? Weight: 18% of the overall index.

### Popularity & adoption — 64/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | partial | 39 / 60 | 255 stars |
| Forks | partial | 17.1 / 25 | 114 forks |
| Watchers | partial | 8.3 / 15 | 32 watchers |

### Community health — 92/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | — |
| License | met | 22.5 / 22.5 | recognized license (Apache-2.0) |
| CONTRIBUTING guide | met | 18 / 18 | — |
| Code of conduct | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | — |
| Issue template | not met | 0 / 7.2 | — |
| PR template | met | 6.3 / 6.3 | — |

### Ecosystem adoption (downloads) — 17/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly downloads | partial | 13.9 / 80 | 10 downloads/month across npm |
| Registry dependents | excluded | 0 / 20 | not reported by this ecosystem |

## Sustainability & Governance — 75/100 (Good)

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep? Weight: 24% of the overall index.

### Maintainer resilience (bus factor) — 85/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bus factor | partial | 43.2 / 54 | 4 contributor(s) cover half of all commits |
| Commit distribution | partial | 18.1 / 22.5 | top contributor authored 20% of commits |
| Contributor breadth | met | 13.5 / 13.5 | 66 contributors |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors | met | 10 / 10 | project has 10 contributing companies or organizations |

### Issue & PR responsiveness — 82/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Issue resolution | partial | 35.6 / 46.8 | 76% of issues closed |
| PR acceptance | partial | 31.1 / 38.2 | 1614/1982 decided PRs merged |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review | met | 15 / 15 | all changesets reviewed |

### Ownership & stewardship — 75/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ownership backing | met | 30 / 30 | organization-owned |
| Verified domain | not met | 0 / 20 | — |
| Owner reach | partial | 21.6 / 25 | 1,018 followers of aws-amplify |
| Track record | partial | 23.6 / 25 | 38 public repos, account ~8 yr old |

### Package maintenance — 53/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Published & resolvable | met | 25 / 25 | 1 package(s) on npm |
| Publish recency | partial | 4 / 35 | latest publish 808 days ago |
| Version history | partial | 4 / 20 | 1 published versions |
| Not deprecated | met | 20 / 20 | active, not deprecated or yanked |

## Engineering Quality — 68/100 (Moderate)

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place? Weight: 20% of the overall index.

### Engineering practices — 80/100 (Good)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| CI workflows | met | 24 / 24 | 9 workflow(s) |
| Tests present | met | 24 / 24 | — |
| Linter config | met | 16 / 16 | .eslintrc.cjs, .eslintrc.json |
| Pre-commit hooks | not met | 0 / 9.6 | — |
| .editorconfig | not met | 0 / 6.4 | — |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests | partial | 16 / 20 | 26 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8 |

### Documentation — 50/100 (Moderate)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| README | met | 30 / 30 | — |
| Documentation directory | not met | 0 / 25 | — |
| Documentation / homepage site | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Repository description | met | 10 / 10 | — |
| Topics | met | 10 / 10 | 4 topics |
| Wiki | not met | 0 / 10 | — |

## Security — 72/100 (Good)

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, with no malicious dependency and no unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure? Weight: 16% of the overall index.

### Security posture — 72/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Packaging, Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Binary-Artifacts | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | no binaries found in the repo |
| Branch-Protection | partial | 6 / 7.5 | branch protection is not maximal on development and all release branches |
| CI-Tests | partial | 2 / 2.5 | 26 out of 30 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 8 |
| CII-Best-Practices | not met | 0 / 2.5 | no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected |
| Code-Review | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | all changesets reviewed |
| Contributors | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | project has 10 contributing companies or organizations |
| Dangerous-Workflow | met | 10 / 10 | no dangerous workflow patterns detected |
| Dependency-Update-Tool | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | update tool detected |
| Fuzzing | not met | 0 / 5 | project is not fuzzed |
| License | met | 2.5 / 2.5 | license file detected |
| Maintained | met | 7.5 / 7.5 | 10 commit(s) and 2 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10 |
| Packaging | excluded | 0 / 5 | packaging workflow not detected |
| Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 3.5 / 5 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |
| SAST | met | 5 / 5 | SAST tool is run on all commits |
| Security-Policy | met | 5 / 5 | security policy file detected |
| Signed-Releases | excluded | 0 / 7.5 | no releases found |
| Token-Permissions | not met | 0 / 7.5 | detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions |
| Vulnerabilities | not met | 0 / 7.5 | 50 existing vulnerabilities detected |

### High-Risk Jurisdiction Exposure — 100/100 (Excellent)

Only high-confidence self-published location evidence affects this multiplier. Ambiguous matches are review-only; country evidence is not proof of nationality, citizenship, legal registration, malicious intent, or sanctions status.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Policy exposure multiplier | met | 100 / 100 | no confirmed policy-scope location match |

## AI Readiness — 52/100 (Moderate)

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? An independent, experimental badge — weight 0.0, so it is surfaced on its own and does not affect the overall health score.

### Agent context & guidance — 1/100 (Critical)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Legible commit history. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent instructions | not met | 0 / 45 | no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules |
| Machine-readable docs (llms.txt) | not met | 0 / 15 | — |
| Legible commit history | excluded | 0 / 40 | no data |

### Verify loop (build / test / typecheck) — 73/100 (Good)

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Demonstrated agent practice. Remaining weights renormalized.

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-command bootstrap | not met | 0 / 18 | — |
| Automated tests | met | 22 / 22 | — |
| Lint / format config | met | 11 / 11 | .eslintrc.cjs, .eslintrc.json |
| Static type checking | met | 11 / 11 | packages/ai-constructs/tsconfig.json, packages/ampx/tsconfig.json, packages/auth-construct/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-ai/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-auth/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-data/src/assets/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-data/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-deployer/src/test-assets/ts-error-app/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-deployer/src/test-assets/valid-app/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-deployer/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-function/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-output-schemas/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-output-storage/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-platform-test-stubs/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-secret/tsconfig.json, packages/backend-storage/tsconfig.json, packages/backend/tsconfig.json, packages/cli-core/tsconfig.json, packages/cli/tsconfig.json, packages/client-config/tsconfig.json, packages/create-amplify/tsconfig.json, packages/deployed-backend-client/tsconfig.json, packages/eslint-rules/tsconfig.json, packages/form-generator/tsconfig.json, packages/integration-tests/src/test-projects/data-storage-auth-with-triggers-ts/tsconfig.json, packages/integration-tests/tsconfig.json, packages/model-generator/tsconfig.json, packages/platform-core/tsconfig.json, packages/plugin-types/tsconfig.json, packages/sandbox/tsconfig.json, packages/schema-generator/tsconfig.json, packages/seed/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/class-break-constructor/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/class-break-inheritance/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/class-break-properties/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/enum-break-remove-enum-member/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/function-break-change-return-type/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/function-break-make-parameter-mandatory/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/function-break-remove-optional-parameter/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/with-breaks/type-break-make-property-mandatory/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/without-breaks/project-with-namespace/tsconfig.json, scripts/components/api-changes-validator/test-resources/test-projects/without-breaks/project-without-breaks/tsconfig.json, scripts/tsconfig.json, templates/construct/tsconfig.json, templates/empty-package/tsconfig.json, tsconfig.json |
| Reproducible environment | met | 10 / 10 | lockfile |
| Demonstrated agent practice | excluded | 0 / 10 | no data |
| Automated maintenance | partial | 5 / 8 | dependency automation configured, none observed in the sampled commits |
| OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies | partial | 7 / 10 | dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7 |

### Code legibility for models — 100/100 (Excellent)

| Criterion | Status | Points | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type-checkable code | met | 45 / 45 | TypeScript (statically typed) |
| Manageable file sizes | partial | 54.5 / 55 | 8/943 source files over 60KB |

## Collection warnings

- Resolved dependency list truncated to 2000 of 2054 packages (counts remain complete)

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