AWS SAM vs. 
Stacktape
AWS SAMServerless Application Model is a simple and handy framework for building lambda function-based application on AWS.
Sadly, the simplicity disappears when your application needs more than just functions, and you're left with the responsibility for configuring, managing and integrating other infrastructure components.
Stacktape's Advantages
More power
Besides lambda functions, Stacktape allows you to deploy container workloads, batch jobs, SQL and NoSQL databases, API Gateways, Load balancers and much more.
Optimized build process
Stacktape supports zero-config, heavily optimized parallel builds with advanced caching.
Programmatic SDK
Stacktape includes both CLI and SDK (currently supported for Javascript and Typescript). It allows you to easily build complicated deployment pipelines.
Editor extension
Stacktape comes with a VS code editor extension to further improve developer experience with validation, autocompletion and built-in documentation.
Development studio (coming soon)
Stacktape development studio is a graphical user interface. It's a convenient way to manage and test your applications and infrastructure.
Stacktape's Disadvantages
Not open-source
Stacktape is a premium product. For smaller applications, it offers a forever-free tier. For large applications and teams, it's still 10-20 times cheaper than hiring DevOps experts or consultants.
Smaller community
Being a new product, Stacktape doesn't have a large community yet.
