SAM

Question 1

What commands do you use to package and deploy your SAM code?

Answer 1

aws cloudformation package / sam package
aws cloudformation deploy / sam deploy

Question 2

What does the sam package command do?

Answer 2

Zips and uploads your transformed cloudformation template and application code to an S3 bucket

Question 3

What does the sam deploy command do?

Answer 3

Deploys your application from an S3 bucket to CloudFormation

Question 4

What is a sam template?

Answer 4

A simple yaml template that gets transformed into cloudformation templates by the sam command ‘package’

Question 5

How can you test Lambda functions locally?

Answer 5

Use the SAM CLI + AWS Toolkits to step-through and debug code