Hey, can someone tell me what the correlation is between serverless (SLS) and serverless-stack (SST)? There seems to be a large cross over in discussing the two competing frameworks when you read through the docs. Its even more confusing when i was just looking at seed.run which seems to automatically pick up the SLS configuration files but doesn't mention SST at all?

This is a common question that pops up from time to time. I'll take a stab at clarifying. Serverless Stack (SST) and Serverless Framework(SLS) are two different options for building serverless applications. They are not related to one another as the names may imply. A bit of history about the project from my (probably incomplete) understanding: The Serverless Stack Guide is among the most comprehensive step-by-step tutorials on building a full stack serverless application on AWS. This guide walks readers through building a serverless application using the Serverless Framework. This guide is wildly popular and is responsible for introducing many to serverless applications (myself included). The authors of this guide built Seed.run, a CICD tool built specifically with serverless (little-s) applications in mind. Fast forward a few years, the team that developed The Serverless Stack Guide went onto develop SST. SST provides an alternative approach to developing serverless applications. Seed.run was updated to support SST applications. However, the Serverless Stack Guide still covered building serverless application using the Serverless Framework. This may be the root of your confusion.

awesome thank you! Yes that was mostly my confusion. So seed does natively support SST projects then too?

It does! Looks like the instructions are here

awesome thanks I will take a look into that 👍

Hey Rob, yeah Seed supports SST but it also precedes SST. So its docs are more geared towards SLS in some ways. That said, and Seth covered this, there’s no relationship between SST and SLS. We have a guide on how to migrate over from SLS but that’s about it. Let me know if you have any other questions or feel free to send me a DM!

thanks @Jay! Yeah we are on SLS but moving away to SST. I will take a better look at seed later on this evening 👍