[brnkrygs]

We've been heavy users of the Serverless Framework on AWS for the last 2 years.

In short, its a template generator for the resource management system of your cloud provider of choice (supporting AWS, Azure, Google, and a few others), with some deployment management CLI tools mixed in.

In our case, it generates boilerplate CloudFormation (since we're in AWS most of the time) based on the "common cases" of how Lambda and API Gateway work together - including the necessary IAM and CloudWatch templates, and wraps the AWS CLI with with deployment commands, which we leverage in our CI/CD pipelines.

It's a great way to get started on small, or even medium-sized projects. For larger systems you'll probably need more direct control of your CloudFormation templates.