The AWS SAM project and AWS SAM template
After you run the sam init command and complete its subsequent workflow, AWS SAM creates your application project directory, which is your AWS SAM project.
You define your serverless application by adding code to your AWS SAM project. While your AWS SAM project consists of a set of files and folders,
the file you primarily work with is your AWS SAM template (named template.yaml). In this template, you write the code to express resources,
event source mappings, and other properties that define the your serverless application.
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A key element of the AWS SAM template is the AWS SAM template specification. This specification provides the short-hand syntax that, when compared to AWS CloudFormation, allows to you use fewer lines of code to to define the resources, event source mappings, permissions, APIs, and other properties of your serverless application.
This section provides details on how you use sections in the AWS SAM template to define resources types, resource properties, data types, resource attributes, intrinsic functions, and API Gateway extensions.
AWS SAM templates are an extension of AWS CloudFormation templates, with unique syntax types that use shorthand syntax with fewer lines of code than AWS CloudFormation. This speeds up your development when building a serverless application. For more information, refer to AWS SAM resources and properties. For the full reference for AWS CloudFormation templates, see AWS CloudFormation Template Reference in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.
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