The AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThe AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. Built on AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM provides shorthand syntax to declare serverless resources. During deployment, AWS SAM transforms the serverless resources into CloudFormation syntax, enabling you to…

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots Snapshots are an integral part of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). Snapshots allow you to create a block-level, point-in-time copy of your volumes for backup, or disaster-recovery purposes. Snapshots are incremental, only data modified since the last snapshots are copied again. You can…

Liberty IT Adopts Serverless Best Practices Using AWS Cloud Development Kit

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLiberty IT Adopts Serverless Best Practices Using AWS Cloud Development Kit This post was co-written with Matthew Coulter, Lead Technical Architect of Global Risk at Liberty Mutual Liberty IT Solutions, part of Liberty Mutual Group, has been using AWS CloudFormation to deploy serverless applications on AWS for the last four years. These…