Payam Moghaddam
Aug 23, 2017 · 1 min read

Thank you Chris for that clarification. You are correct. SAM builds on top of CloudFormation. SAM should be considered by teams that are already using CloudFormation; it simply needs to be understood that it is not a complete solution by itself. I’ve updated the post accordingly to be more clear.

I often have to point that out to people when they ask me about it, and clarify that since we’re already using Terraform, it’d be a divergence for us and also not particularly necessary since we can achieve much of the same with Terraform alone.

SAM Local though is a nice concept that came out shortly after I published this article. That may slowly get me to change my mind :)

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