AWS Serverless Application Model Integrations

Whether you're looking for compute power, database storage, content delivery, or other functionality, AWS has the services to help you build sophisticated applications with increased flexibility, scalability and reliability. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 175 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster. AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. This makes it faster, easier, and more cost effective to move your existing applications to the cloud.

AWS CloudFormation is a infrastructure provisioning and management tool that provides you the ability to create resource templates that specifies a set of AWS resources to provision. The templates allow you to version control your infrastructure, and also easily replicate your infrastructure stack quickly and with repeatability. Define an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) subnet or provisioning services like AWS OpsWorks or Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) with ease. Run anything from a single Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance to a complex multi-region application. Automate, test, and deploy infrastructure templates with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) automation. AWS CloudFormation lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources by treating infrastructure as code. Speed up cloud provisioning with infrastructure as code.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool that provides a consistent CLI workflow to manage hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files. HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) allows for concise descriptions of resources using blocks, arguments, and expressions. Run terraform plan to check whether the execution plan for a configuration matches your expectations before provisioning or changing infrastructure. Apply changes to hundreds of cloud providers with terraform apply to reach the desired state of the configuration. Define infrastructure as code to manage the full lifecycle — create new resources, manage existing ones, and destroy those no longer needed.

Use the expressive power of familiar programming languages to define your application resources and accelerate development. Simplify your AWS onboarding by using constructs that preconfigure cloud resources with proven defaults. Design and share reusable components that meet your organization's security, compliance, and governance requirements. Build applications, write runtime code, and define resources without leaving your integrated development environment (IDE). Define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) accelerates cloud development using common programming languages to model your applications. Develop applications more efficiently using AWS CDK as the main framework to define cloud infrastructure as code. Migrate complex backend infrastructure more efficiently, while integrating with continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines.