FaaS deployment is simplified by serverless frameworks, enabling rapid deployment of serverless architectures. But a variety of frameworks are now available, each with its own special advantages and disadvantages. Here is a list of various well-known serverless frameworks with information on their capabilities and use cases to assist you in making the appropriate choice.

1. Serverless Frameworks for Deploying
Serverless Applications

2. Helps you quickly develop, deploy, and manage serverless applications with Lambda and
other FaaS platforms.
Supports Azure Functions, Google Cloud Functions, Apache OpenWhisk, Kubeless, and
more.
Automatically creates the infrastructure needed for your configured functions and events.
Also provider-agnostic, allowing you to package and deploy applications across multiple
clouds, for example, Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, etc.
Serverless Framework

3. Free and open-source, supported by a large community
Simple, abstract syntax in YAML
Supports multiple languages such as Node.js, Python, Java, Go, C#, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, PHP, and more
CLI (command-line interface) for structure, automation, and out-of-the-box practices
Dashboard for a centralized view of infrastructure, performance, logs, errors, etc
Numerous useful built-in commands and monitoring tools
Allows Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Extensible via plugins
Event streaming pipelines
Image and video manipulation
IoT applications
Processing events and SaaS
Multi-language apps
CI/CD deployment
Unique features:
Use cases of Serverless Framework
Serverless Framework

4. AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)
As the official serverless deployment framework from AWS, it facilitates the development,
deployment, and debugging of serverless applications in the AWS ecosystem.
SAM’s shorthand syntax allows developers to define resources in just a few lines, which
may take a hundred lines in AWS CloudFormation.
Moreover, it supports image-based Lambda functions using Docker, further simplifying
serverless development.

5. Single deployment configuration, as all related resources are versioned together as a single entity
Seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines
SAM CLI that provides a Lambda-like execution environment facilitating local building, testing, and debugging of
applications
SAM Accelerate for cloud based development,
Integrates with a suite of other AWS serverless tools
Has numerous useful in-built SAM CLI commands
Inherent AWS security best practices
Integrates with CDK
Access to a list of policy templates to scope permissions for Lambda functions
For deploying multiple Lambda as a part of a larger application
If you want to use CloudFormation as IaC tools
If there is no creation of resources outside of AWS
Unique features:
Use cases of Serverless Framework
AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM)

6. Terraform
Terraform is an automation scripting tool similar to AWS CloudFormation.
It is used to create, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud
providers and services.
It also allows you to scale and monitor multi-tier app architectures seamlessly.
Moreover, Terraform lets you spin up parallel environments rapidly for development, QA,
testing, and production.

7. An open-source tool with a large community
Human-readable configuration files with friendly, declarative syntax
Features such as visible planning, graphing, and more
Automates provisioning of serverless application resources and infrastructure deployments
Safely and efficiently manages and provisions for infrastructure throughout the lifecycle
Manages low-level components as well as high-level components (SaaS features, DNS entries)
Allows you to create templates to break configurations into smaller chunks for better organization, maintainability,
and reusability
Build self-service clusters
Enforce policy compliance and management
Platform as a Service (PaaS) application setup
Software-Defined Networking
Create software demos
Unique features:
Use cases of Serverless Framework
Terraform

8. AWS Chalice
AWS Chalice is a framework for building serverless applications in Python.
It provides a microframework that allows you to quickly write and deploy applications
using AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
Chalice automatically provisions for the necessary resources, letting you run and deploy
web apps and serverless microservices quickly.

9. Built-in support for python packaging tools
Familiar decorator-based syntax which shortens the learning curve
Integrates with AWS SAM, Terraform, CloudFormation, and more such tools
Saves development time on defining resources separately
Unique features:
AWS Chalice

10. Claudia.js
Claudia.js is an open-source tool that allows developers to deploy Node projects into
AWS Lambda and API Gateway with just one or two lines of code.
It automates deployment tasks and configuration and sets up the JavaScript environment
automatically.
Moreover, it can be run both as client-side code or serverless functions without worrying
about hosting, scalability, etc.

11. Lightweight JavaScript framework
Short and easy commands that enable deploying nodes with a single command line
Works seamlessly with NPM packages
Automates deployment and configuration of your Node applications with ease
Allows plugins with extension libraries
Easy version management
Small learning curve
Event processing
Event-driven microservices
Lambda microservices
Automating development-related tasks
Unique features:
Use cases of Serverless Framework
Claudia.js

12. Zappa
It lets you seamlessly build and deploy event-driven serverless Python-based applications
to AWS Lambda.
It works with almost any WSGI-compatible framework, including Pyramid, Bottle, or even
Django.
Moreover, when combined with Flask, Zappa is great for serverless hosting of complex
web applications, image processing, text-processing, or number-crunching.

13. Automating deployment and updating applications on AWS servers
Seamless integration with other Python frameworks
Integration with CI/CD system
Default IAM (identity and access management) policies for security
Support for rollbacks, scheduling, logs tailing, remote function invocation, SSL certificates for custom domains,
etc.
Allows setting environment variables such as remote AWS environment or local environment
Unique features:
Zappa

14. Jets
It is a serverless framework that allows you to easily create apps in Ruby and deploy
them, seamlessly gluing together with AWS services.
Thus, it features all the necessary tooling to deploy applications using AWS Lambda.
You can build various architecture patterns with Jets, including web API applications,
event-driven apps or IoT architecture, and more.

15. Focus on the dynamic language Ruby
Extensive technical documentation with numerous examples
More time for writing functional code
Support for writing separate functions that you can use to join together different AWS resources and services
Unique features:
Jets

16. Architect
It allows developers to define the serverless architecture concisely with low code, zero
ceremonies, and clear and terse config.
Thus, they can focus on just business logic. Moreover, you pay only for services while in
use, on-demand, or it scales to zero.

17. Open-source and open governance
Flexible Infrastructure as Code
Allows local and offline development, testing, debugging, and previewing of code before deployment
Secured (IAM roles) with least privilege access to only the resources defined
Event-driven cloud applications
Functional Web apps on AWS
Ultra-scalable, database-backed web apps
Unique features:
Use cases of Serverless Framework
Architect

18. AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
AWS CDK is a software development framework where you define your cloud
infrastructure using modern programming languages and deploy it using AWS
CloudFormation.
Thus, CDK is a good fit if you want to build serverless architectures on AWS using a
language familiar to your developers.

19. Supports TypeScript, Python, Java, C#, and other programming languages
Offers coverage across all AWS services and features
Has a developer-friendly CLI
Enables you to write runtime code and define AWS resources
Allows you to design reusable components to cater to the organization’s security, compliance, and governance
requirements and even easily share the components across the organization
Allows you to embrace DevOps by involving more developers with IaC
Integrates with continuous delivery pipelines using the AWS CDK CLI
Unique features:
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)

20. Flogo
It is an open-source ecosystem with event-driven capabilities that simplifies building
resource-efficient and modern serverless applications.
Written in Golang language, it provides a customized framework to easily create, deploy
and manage apps on AWS Lambda using only Docker images.

21. Ultra-light design that is 20 to 50 times lighter than Node.js or Java
Provides a visual web UI to design applications with the efficiency of Golang
The small-footprint design provides an ultra-fast way to make your code live
Offers the flexibility to deploy apps in containers, as serverless functions, or static binaries on IoT edge devices
Unique features:
Flogo

22. Contact Us
Email Address
contactus@simform.com
Website
www.simform.com
Social Presence
twitter.com/simform
facebook.com/simform
linkedin.com/company/simform/