Streamline Your Cloud Native Application Deployment Using AWS SAM

This conference talk from Conf42 Cloud 2025 by Urmila Raju explores how to automate and scale cloud native application deployments using AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM). Learn the fundamentals of AWS SAM, understand modern cloud native application architectures, and discover solutions to common serverless application challenges. Follow along with practical demonstrations covering application building, event-driven architecture implementation, local testing with SAM CLI, API Gateway integration, Step Functions deployment, and setting up CI/CD pipelines. The 50-minute presentation provides comprehensive guidance from basic concepts to advanced deployment strategies, complete with code examples and best practices for efficient cloud native development.

Syllabus

00:00 Introduction and Overview
00:20 Understanding AWS SAM
00:36 Modern Cloud Native Apps
01:36 Operational Model Frameworks
02:57 Challenges in Serverless Apps
03:49 AWS Native and Open Source Tools
05:58 Practical Guide to Using SAM
06:39 Building the Application
09:12 Event-Driven Architecture
11:41 Using SAM for Integration Services
11:56 SAM Templates and Policies
20:01 Local Testing with SAM CLI
24:45 Integrating External APIs with AWS API Gateway
25:21 Customizing API Gateway Credentials and URI
26:04 Using OpenAPI YAML in SAM Templates
26:19 Defining REST API Resources in SAM
27:43 Building and Deploying with SAM
28:04 Handling Errors and Validating Templates
28:34 Deploying and Testing the API
30:28 Introduction to SAM Build and SAM Sync
31:23 Using SAM Sync for Step Functions
32:37 Creating and Deploying Step Functions
36:10 Invoking Step Functions Locally
38:22 Managing Deployments with SAM Pipeline
41:04 Setting Up CI/CD with SAM Pipeline
43:01 Demonstration of SAM Pipeline Setup
48:53 Final Thoughts and Resources