AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)

The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open-source framework that extends AWS CloudFormation with simplified shorthand syntax for defining serverless resources like AWS Lambda functions, Amazon API Gateway APIs, and Amazon DynamoDB tables. It enables developers to build, test, and…

Key facts

First appeared: 2016
Category: technology
Problem solved: SAM simplifies the verbose and complex syntax of AWS CloudFormation for defining serverless resources, reducing boilerplate code and errors when modeling Lambda functions, APIs, and event sources, while enabling local testing and faster development lifecycles that CloudFormation alone could not provide efficiently for serverless architectures.[1][4][5]
Platforms: AWS Cloud, Local development environments

Related technologies

AWS Lambda
Amazon API Gateway
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon DynamoDB
AWS SAM CLI

Notable users

Netflix
Large AWS enterprise customers
Finra
Expedia