# Amazon Serverless Application Model (Amazon SAM) Documentation

The Amazon Serverless Application Model (Amazon SAM) is an open-source framework that enables you to build serverless applications on Amazon. It provides you with a template specification to define your serverless application, and a command line interface (CLI) tool.

- [/en_us/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/](/en_us/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/)
- [Template Specification](/en_us/serverless-application-model/latest/developerguide/sam-specification.html): Describes the open-source specification that you use to define serverless applications.

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