Real-Time Machine Learning Predictions with AWS Amplify

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To create a real-time machine learning predictions system with AWS Amplify, you will be leveraging several AWS services and resources. AWS Amplify is a platform that makes it easy for developers to build and deploy full-stack applications that leverage AWS services. The resources we'll be using are mainly within the Amplify framework to build and manage the application, the backend environment, and potentially, Amazon SageMaker resources for the machine learning model deployment.

In this specific setup, we propose the following architecture:
1. An **Amplify App** to serve as the container for our full-stack application.
2. A **Backend Environment** within the Amplify App to handle the backend aspects, such as data storage and APIs for machine learning predictions.
3. A **Branch** which represents a deployable branch of the app served by Amplify.
4. **AWS SageMaker** for training and deploying machine learning models, although this part is not covered here as the Amplify setup is the primary focus and SageMaker integration would be built through Amplify's backend API.

Below is a Pulumi program written in Python which sets up an Amplify App, including a backend environment for the machine learning models:

```python
import pulumi
import pulumi_aws as aws

# Step 1: Setting up the Amplify App
# This resource serves as the container for the frontend and backend of our application.
# We are giving it a name, and it also allows us to define environment variables, custom rules, and more.
amplify_app = aws.amplify.App("myRealTimeMLApp",
    name="real-time-ml-app",
    description="App for real-time ML predictions",
    repository="https://github.com/my-user/my-app-repo.git", # Replace with your actual repository URL
    oauth_token=aws.ssm.Parameter("github-oauth-token", type="String").value, # Replace with your actual method for securing OAuth tokens
    environment_variables={
        "ENV_NAME":"production", # Set your required environment variables here
    }
)

# Step 2: Setting up the Backend Environment
# This resource is used to provision and manage the backend part of the Amplify application, where you can configure
# and connect your cloud services (like databases, authentication, APIs, machine learning, etc).
backend_environment = aws.amplify.BackendEnvironment("myRealTimeMLAppBackend",
    app_id=amplify_app.id,
    environment_name="production",
    stack_name="amplify-backend" # This is the name of the CloudFormation stack that Amplify will manage.
)

# Step 3: Creating a Branch
# We will need to create a branch within our Amplify App. This branch will be automatically built and deployed
# when changes are pushed to it.
branch = aws.amplify.Branch("myRealTimeMLAppBranch",
    app_id=amplify_app.id,
    branch_name="main",
    environment_variables={
        "REACT_APP_API_URL":"https://api.example.com/predict", # Replace this with your actual API URL for ML predictions
    }
)

# Exporting the URL of the Amplify App so it can be easily accessed
pulumi.export('amplify_app_url', branch.default_domain)
```

This Pulumi program will set up an AWS Amplify application composed of a frontend hosting environment with a connected backend. The repository URL should point to your project source code which Amplify will use to build and deploy the application. The `environment_variables` are where you can set any key-value pairs needed by your application at runtime, such as API URLs or configuration parameters.

Remember, for the machine learning predictions part, you would typically have an API that would interface with the SageMaker service where your models are deployed. This API can be set up as part of the backend environment with AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway, and your Amplify front-end would interact with this API to get real-time predictions.

Once the Pulumi program is executed, it will create the necessary AWS resources to get your Amplify app up and running, ready for further configurations, and deployment of your source code from the linked Git repository.