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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