AWS SAM - Serverless Application Model

• It is framework for developing and deploying serverless applications in AWS
• All the configuration for SAM is stored in YAML code. The configurations can contain settings for:
  • Lambda Functions
  • DynamoDB tables
  • API Gateway
  • Cognito User Pools
• SAM can deploy the services above automatically (similar to CloudFormation)
• SAM can also help to run Lambda, API Gateway and DynamoDB locally
• SAM integrates with CodeDeploy for quick deployments and pipelines