Serverless Framework vs SAM vs AWS CDK

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on dev.to

Our great sponsors
  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • aws-cdk

    The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

  • When building serverless apps on AWS today there's a couple of different toolkits available that helps you develop, test and deploy your project. Serverless Framework was the king for a long time but both AWS SAM and the CDK have been increasing in popularity lately. But which one is the best to use in a new project and what's the difference between them anyway. After all, they're all just tools to produce Cloudformation templates anyway, right?

  • sst-start-demo

    A simple SST app to demo the new `sst start` command

  • The CDK CLI doesn't bring the same utility around testing and debugging as SAM and Serverless does but it is possible to use the SAM CLI together with the CDK to help bridge the gap. There's also a newcomer on the block, Serverless-Stack, an extension of the CDK, that brings a lot of testing utility and serverless specific constructs.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

    SurveyJS logo
  • Previous Serverless Version 0.5.x

    ⚡ Serverless Framework – Use AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services to build apps that auto-scale, cost nothing when idle, and boast radically low maintenance.

  • When building serverless apps on AWS today there's a couple of different toolkits available that helps you develop, test and deploy your project. Serverless Framework was the king for a long time but both AWS SAM and the CDK have been increasing in popularity lately. But which one is the best to use in a new project and what's the difference between them anyway. After all, they're all just tools to produce Cloudformation templates anyway, right?

  • serverless

    This is intended to be a repo containing all of the official AWS Serverless architecture patterns built with CDK for developers to use. All patterns come in Typescript and Python with the exported CloudFormation also included. (by cdk-patterns)

  • CDK Patterns

  • serverless-application-model

    The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) transform is a AWS CloudFormation macro that transforms SAM templates into CloudFormation templates.

  • When building serverless apps on AWS today there's a couple of different toolkits available that helps you develop, test and deploy your project. Serverless Framework was the king for a long time but both AWS SAM and the CDK have been increasing in popularity lately. But which one is the best to use in a new project and what's the difference between them anyway. After all, they're all just tools to produce Cloudformation templates anyway, right?

  • sls-vs-sam-vs-cdk

    SLS vs SAM vs CDK

  • The application architecture is simple enough to easily comprehend but "complex" enough to resemble an actual app. To keep the code compact and readable, best practices and common sense have sometimes had to be omitted. All configs are complete and fully functional however and if you want to play around with the examples and deploy the apps yourself, you can find the code and the full examples here.

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

Suggest a related project

Related posts