25. Serverless Application Model (SAM)

Question 1

What is SAM?

Answer 1

A framework for developing and deploying serverless applications

Generate complex CloudFormation from a simple SAM YAML file

Question 2

What AWS services can SAM help you to run locally?

Answer 2

Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB

Question 3

What header indicates a SAM template?

Answer 3

Transform: ‘AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31’

Question 4

What template code is used for Lambda?

Answer 4

AWS::Serverless::Function

Question 5

What template code is used for API Gateway?

Answer 5

AWS::Serverless::Api

Question 6

What template code is used for DynamoDB?

Answer 6

AWS::Serverless::SimpleTable

Question 7

What are the CLI commands to package and upload to S3 to generate a CF template?

Answer 7

> aws cloudformation package

OR

> sam package

Question 8

What are the CLI commands to deploy to CloudFormation?

Answer 8

> aws cloudformation deploy

OR

> sam deploy

Question 9

SAM is built on what other service?

Answer 9

CloudFormation

Question 10

SAM requires which two template sections?

Answer 10

Transform and Resources sections

Resources is required for any CloudFormation template

Question 11

What is the CLI command to fetch dependencies and create local deployment artifacts?

Answer 11

> sam build

Question 12

What are the supported SAM resource types?

Answer 12

1. AWS::Serverless::Api
2. AWS::Serverless::Application
3. AWS::Serverless::Function
4. AWS::Serverless::HttpApi
5. AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
6. AWS::Serverless::SimpleTable
7. AWS::Serverless::StateMachine