beginner~2.5h
AWS SAM & Elastic Beanstalk
Two higher-level deployment abstractions that trade some CloudFormation/CDK flexibility for a much faster path to a running application — SAM for serverless, Beanstalk for traditional web apps.
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🎓 Learning objectives
- •Explain what SAM adds on top of raw CloudFormation for serverless applications
- •Explain what Elastic Beanstalk automates on your behalf for a traditional web application
- •Describe the tradeoff both services make between simplicity and infrastructure control
- •Identify when to reach for SAM/Beanstalk versus CloudFormation/CDK directly
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cloudformation-iaccdk-iaclambda-serverless