Chapter 11

1. Yes, by using CloudFormation-specific resource types.
2. sam local start-api starts a local API server.
3. Yes. AWS SAM CLI supports deleting stacks. To delete a stack, you need to run sam delete.
4. It is, but you have to use the CloudFormation-specific type for DynamoDB, since SimpleTable doesn’t have this property.
5. The application’s source code and its dependencies are uploaded to S3 as a ZIP file. The template is altered to point to S3 for the source code and is saved on disk or printed to the terminal output.