Zappa – the serverless framework for Python

The serverless framework started as a way to easily deploy serverless applications in AWS and then expanded to support a large number of cloud vendors. Within each vendor, it also support several languages. Serverless is trying to become the most generic and popular serverless framework by supporting every popular cloud and language combination. Zappa goes against this philosophy and is purpose-built for a smaller set of use cases but does that well.

Zappa is a framework and tool that makes it easy to deploy serverless and event-driven applications written in Python on AWS. It was created by the people behind Gun.io. Zappa can convert existing Python web applications into serverless by integrating them with AWS Lambda and API Gateway. Zappa also supports event-driven serverless applications where your Python code can be executed against events generated in AWS. You can also schedule your Python functions – after Zappa converts...