A comparison and showcase of the most commonly used serverless frameworks for AWS: Serverless Framework, AWS CDK, AWS SAM & SST

Plamen Ivanov

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Serverless Framework is an open-source tool built specifically to simplify building serverless apps. It's found a carefully balanced way of abstracting away “just enough” of the parts you may not care about while allowing you the flexibility of CloudFormation when you need it.

⚡️Serverless Frameworks for 2023

🥈Honorable mentions - niche & generic options

Hey there, so this article is a good breakdown of some popular frameworks for building serverless apps on AWS. They go over the features, strengths, and weaknesses of each one, and even give an example application to show how they’re used. It’s definitely a helpful read if you’re trying to decide which framework is best for your needs. Just a heads up, the article is a bit on the technical side, but it’s still a good read for any developer looking to work with serverless.

2023：Great Migration to Serverless

We are fully using AWS for all our backend apps on Laravel via Vapor.