AWS

For my day job, I’ve been working on a project that utilizes Amazon’s services for serverless applications. Here I hope to share some of my helpful takeaways. Serverless vs. Alternatives Serverless is a Node package that enables configuration of serverless cloud services by means of a single YAML file. When researching how to automate creation of AWS resources, I briefly tried using Ansible, but found that I would have to detail each resource I needed. Similarly, writing a CloudFormation template manually would require the same detailed knowledge of each required AWS resource. The developers on the project already had experience with Node JS development, so having another Node package that would automatically package code for AWS Lambda functions and create a CloudFormation stack was rather convenient. ...