Doing Serverless On AWS With Terraform For Real

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Claim: Terraform can manage real serverless apps end to end using the open source serverless.tf modules. Demonstration shows building and deploying a complete app with Terraform + AWS services (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, ACM), the module library exceeds 50+ modules and the demo plan creates about 40 resources. Workflow uses Terraform to build packages (pip/poetry/pm, Docker options), publish to S3, and update Lambda without stitching ad hoc scripts.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:32About Terraform
3. 3:03What is SES
4. 4:53Available options
5. 6:54Typical problems
6. 8:47Alternatives
7. 10:33Accidental Complexity
8. 11:56Overlapping Infr Structure
9. 16:22Terraform Demo
10. 24:23Conclusion

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