Developing w/ AWS Lamdba is such a terrible experience, I'm going to try Cloud9 in maybe the hopes that I'm doing it wrong. I fully expect it to be much worse.

— Darren Shepherd (@ibuildthecloud) February 27, 2023

Unexpected error 🤮

Error: Unable to locate credentials
Traceback:
  File "click/core.py", line 1055, in main
  File "click/core.py", line 1657, in invoke
  File "click/core.py", line 1404, in invoke
  File "click/core.py", line 760, in invoke
  File "samcli/lib/cli_validation/image_repository_validation.py", line 92, in wrapped
  File "click/decorators.py", line 84, in new_func
  File "click/core.py", line 760, in invoke
  File "samcli/lib/telemetry/metric.py", line 183, in wrapped
  File "samcli/lib/telemetry/metric.py", line 150, in wrapped
  File "samcli/lib/utils/version_checker.py", line 41, in wrapped
  File "samcli/cli/main.py", line 92, in wrapper
  File "samcli/commands/_utils/cdk_support_decorators.py", line 38, in wrapped
  File "samcli/commands/deploy/command.py", line 221, in cli
  File "samcli/commands/deploy/command.py", line 289, in do_cli
  File "samcli/lib/bootstrap/bootstrap.py", line 23, in manage_stack
  File "samcli/lib/utils/managed_cloudformation_stack.py", line 145, in manage_stack
  File "samcli/lib/utils/managed_cloudformation_stack.py", line 156, in _create_or_get_stack
  File "botocore/client.py", line 401, in _api_call
  File "botocore/client.py", line 718, in _make_api_call
  File "botocore/client.py", line 737, in _make_request
  File "botocore/endpoint.py", line 107, in make_request
  File "botocore/endpoint.py", line 180, in _send_request
  File "botocore/endpoint.py", line 121, in create_request
  File "botocore/hooks.py", line 358, in emit
  File "botocore/hooks.py", line 229, in emit
  File "botocore/hooks.py", line 212, in _emit
  File "botocore/signers.py", line 95, in handler
  File "botocore/signers.py", line 167, in sign
  File "botocore/auth.py", line 401, in add_auth

An unexpected error was encountered while executing "sam deploy".
Search for an existing issue:
https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+Bug%3A%20sam%20deploy%20-%20NoCredentialsError
Or create a bug report:
https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/issues/new?template=Bug_report.md&title=Bug%3A%20sam%20deploy%20-%20NoCredentialsError

No way to add retention to default log

https://github.com/aws/serverless-application-model/issues/972

No way to deploy without creating a Cloudformation change

https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/issues/4287

No way to see the CNAME API once deploying

Without using Route53, once needs to see the DNS name outputted to plug into a third party DNS provider!

Fixed in https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/issues/4670 via https://github.com/aws/serverless-application-model/issues/1386

Runtime: provided.al2

The developer experience one has to jump to deploy to arm64 is painful. For example you must name your executable bootstrap.

No static binary

sam cli is non-trivial to install with its Python dependencies. I am not sure how this can be considered a one click install. A static binary would be so much better.

Refactoring the template.yml can cause a UPDATE_FAILED

https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/issues/4670#issuecomment-1437823765

Logging experience is awful

Compare sam logs to up logs. Also the formatting is terrible:

Public roadmap

• https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/discussions/4689
• https://github.com/aws/aws-sam-cli/wiki/AWS-SAM-CLI-Roadmap

My minimal AWS SAM helloworld