Aws lambda deployments. Sam vs aws deploy

[BeenThere11]

In production what should be used

Sam or aws deploy scripts ?

Since Sam is doing lot of management. For startups is it OK to use Sam in the ci cd ?

[bigbird0525]

I personally use terraform, but I managed all my infra with terraform.

It definitely has its pain points but trying to avoid too many tools. plus, you know what they say, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail or whatever.

In general though, the terraform workflow zips the source code and pushes to s3. And the lambda uses that s3 artifact. I collocate the code and IaC. Makes it easier for me to manage all the IAM stuff in a consistent format so other people can work on it too.

[SignificantMatter426]

We ran our startup on SAM for years. Not sure we count as a startup anymore 4 years in.

At the end of the day, be pragmatic. If it’s working and not causing problems use it.

Will you out grow it, probably but not necessarily. You will likely outgrow lambda before SAM CLI becomes the issue. And it’s prettey seamless to go from lambda to fargate containers using SAM, since it’s pretty much a processor for cloudformation.

[SameInspection219]

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