Accelerate serverless application development with new SAM Kiro power

AWS announces the AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) Kiro power, bringing serverless application development expertise to agentic AI development in Kiro. With this power, you can build, deploy, and manage serverless applications with AI agent-assisted development directly in your local environment.

SAM is an open-source framework that simplifies building serverless applications on AWS. SAM Kiro power dynamically loads relevant guidance and development expertise the AI agent needs to build serverless applications. This includes initializing SAM projects, building and deploying applications to AWS, and locally testing Lambda functions. The power supports event-driven patterns with Amazon EventBridge, Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK), Amazon Kinesis, Amazon DynamoDB Streams, and Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), while covering security best practices for IAM policies. Built-in guidance enforces use of SAM resources and Powertools for AWS Lambda for observability and structured logging by default, ensuring best practices from the start. This guidance accelerates your journey from concept to production, whether building static websites with API backends, event-driven microservices, or full-stack applications.

The SAM Kiro Power is available today with one-click installation from the Kiro IDE and the Kiro Powers page. Explore the power on Github or visit the developer guide to learn more about SAM.