Amplify-console: [Feature request] Support default password protection for all new branches

[thedgbrt]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When using amplify preview to deploy code on each pr, it creates a url that is not password protected by default. The only way is to go to access control and add it manually each time.

Describe the solution you'd like
In access control settings, I would like to be able to set a default password for all new / existing branches, except for those I explicitly exclude (namely, the production branch)

[swaminator]

@thedgbrt currently there isn't an easy way to do so. A workaround would be to have 2 Amplify Console apps connected to the same repo - first app is your production app. 2nd app has all your other branches and you can set a global password for all the connected branches.

[ganipcanot]

@thedgbrt Have you tried global password protection in access control?

[thedgbrt]

@ganipcanot the problem is I don’t want my production branch to be password protected. It’s missing a feature where I can exclude it from the global setting.

[allanitis]

Exactly the same use case is required.

[leighkendell]

Weirdly the AWS Amplify documentation seems to say that this is possible: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amplify/latest/userguide/access-control.html

To exclude branches from a global password, turn on Apply a global password, and then choose Publicly viewable for Access setting for any branch that you want to exclude.

But all the branch specific inputs are disabled when setting a global password so this is not achievable.