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AWS Certified Developer – Associate DVA-C02 · Domain 3: Deployment

AWS SAM: template structure, sam build, sam deploy --guided, sam local invoke / start-api, samconfig.toml

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The AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. It has two parts: a template format that extends CloudFormation with concise serverless resource types, and the SAM CLI, which builds, tests locally and deploys them.

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