November 2023
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
6h 9m
English
CloudFormation is a powerful instrument. However, as new technologies and ways of working emerge, new requirements appear for Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools. After the release of Lambda and its integration with other AWS services, including S3, SNS, SQS, and DynamoDB, it appeared that most of CloudFormation’s capabilities were not required for serverless development.
So, a Serverless Application Model (SAM) was developed. AWS SAM introduces a different and more simplified way of developing, building, testing, deploying, and operating serverless applications. In this chapter, we are going to learn about AWS SAM and how to use it to facilitate the development of serverless applications.
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