SST Has a Free Infrastructure Framework — Deploy Full-Stack Apps to AWS Without YAML

SST (Serverless Stack) is an infrastructure framework for building full-stack apps on AWS — no CloudFormation YAML, just TypeScript.

What You Get for Free

• TypeScript config — define AWS resources in code
• Live Lambda — test Lambda functions locally against real AWS
• Console — web dashboard for managing your app
• Frontend support — deploy Next.js, Astro, Remix to AWS
• Databases — RDS, DynamoDB, or Drizzle ORM integration
• Auth — built-in auth with session management
• Cron jobs — schedule functions easily
• Queues — SQS integration with type safety
• Containers — deploy Docker containers alongside Lambda

Quick Start

npx sst@latest init

// sst.config.ts
export default $config({
  app(input) { return { name: "my-app", home: "aws" } },
  async run() {
    const api = new sst.aws.Function("MyAPI", {
      handler: "src/api.handler",
      url: true,
    })
    return { url: api.url }
  },
})

Why Developers Switch from Serverless Framework

Serverless Framework uses YAML and has limited local dev:

• TypeScript — no YAML, full type checking
• Live Lambda — test with real AWS services, not emulators
• Full-stack — frontend + backend + infra in one framework
• Modern console — web UI for logs, metrics, debugging

A team maintained 2,000 lines of serverless.yml. After SST: 200 lines of TypeScript, same AWS resources, with autocomplete and type checking.

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