AWS Lambda Guide — AWS Infrastructure Resources

If you are using AWS as a provider for your Service, all Resources are other AWS infrastructure resources which the AWS Lambda functions in your Service depend on, like AWS DynamoDB or AWS S3.

AWS Lambda Guide — Plugins

A Plugin is custom Javascript code that creates new or extends existing commands within the Serverless Framework. The Serverless Framework is merely a group of Plugins that are provided in the core. If you or your organization have a specific workflow, install a pre-written Plugin…

AWS Lambda Guide — Comparison Of Serverless Framework V.1 & V.0

After the 0.5.6 release of Serverless we sat down with many contributors and users of the Framework to discuss the next steps to improve Serverless.

AWS Lambda Guide — Credentials

The Serverless Framework needs access to your cloud provider’s account so that it can create and manage resources on your behalf.

This guide is for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) provider, so we’ll step through the process of setting up credential for…

AWS Lambda Guide — IAM

Every AWS Lambda function needs permission to interact with other AWS infrastructure resources within your account. These permissions are set via an AWS IAM Role which the Serverless Framework automatically creates for each Serverless Service, and is shared by all of your Functions. The…

Serverless Framework Guide — AWS Lambda Guide — Packaging

Using the Serverless CLI tool, you can package your project without deploying it to AWS. This is best used with CI / CD workflows to ensure consistent deployable artifacts.

AWS Lambda Guide — Testing

While the Serverless Architecture introduces a lot of simplicity when it comes to serving business logic, some of its characteristics present challenges for testing. They are:

• The Serverless Architecture is an integration of separate, distributed services…

AWS Lambda Guide — Services

A service is like a project. It's where you define your AWS Lambda Functions, the events that trigger them and any AWS infrastructure resources they require, all in a file called serverless.yml.

AWS Lambda Guide — Events

Simply put, events are the things that trigger your functions to run.

If you are using AWS as your provider, all events in the service are anything in AWS that can trigger an AWS Lambda function, like an S3 bucket upload, an SNS topic, and HTTP endpoints…