Best practices for accelerating development with serverless blueprints

This article presents best practices for building serverless blueprints that promote standardization, scalability, and repeatable deployment patterns. It uses a fully working, serverless blueprint from the AWS Lambda Handler Cookbook as an example.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Project and folder structure for organizing IaC files and Lambda function handlers
• Unified observability using CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and SNS for monitoring
• Lambda function patterns like hexagonal architecture and observability for modularity and insights
• CI/CD pipeline with security scanning and testing for standardization and quality assurance
• Testing approaches including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests
• Conclusion emphasizing the benefits of following these best practices