Provisioning Infrastructure with SAM

Defining AWS serverless infrastructure as code with greater ease

Writing infrastructure as code, there’s a wealth of tools at our disposal to spin up services in quick turnaround time. In the case of Amazon Web Services (AWS), we have AWS CloudFormation — the original AWS offering, launched in February 2011 — more recently complemented by AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM), which was announced five years later in November 2016.