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24 alternatives to SST

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. SST launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Build full stack apps better and faster than everyone else

    2022 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, we are Frank and Jay and we are working on a better way to deploy Next.js apps to AWS: https://serverless-stack.com/examples/how-to-create-a-nextjs-app-with-serverless.html We are the founders of SST, an open source framework that makes it easy to build serverless apps on AWS: https://github.com/serverless-stack/serverless-stack We found that many people in the community were looking for a better way to deploy Next.js apps to their own infrastructure and they were unhappy with the options. These were not easy to customize (Amplify Next.js) or…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    ⚡ Serverless Framework – Effortlessly build apps that auto-scale, incur zero costs when idle, and require minimal maintenance using AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services. - serverless/serverless

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Toolkit for building serverless applications

    2019 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    An easier way to build applications with cloud services

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN! I'd love to seek your insights on a fullstack web framework that employs a different approach: no build. It's not a new concept. The folks as Preact mentioned it: https://preactjs.com/guide/v10/no-build-workflows/ However, in the Web Framework market, I've yet to find many that support both "no build" and "SSR". There's always some sorts of "client mount" and "server mount" and either has (or both have) to go through a build (bundling) process. With the build process, there comes additional maintenance efforts and cognitive load. I've enjoyed wrestling…

    2025 · jsr.io · its alternatives →

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    Build auto-scaling, pay per execution apps on AWS Lambda

    2016 · serverless.com · its alternatives →

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    Up▲334

    Deploy serverless apps and APIs in seconds to AWS Lambda

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TypeScript headless CMS + app framework

    2023 · payloadcms.com · its alternatives →

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    Easily deploy a fullstack serverless app

    2019 · madskills.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi all, I'm one of the authors of Serverless-Stack.com — an open source guide to building full-stack apps with AWS Lambda and React. Since it's launch in 2017, it's become one of the most widely read guides for building Serverless apps. Today we are adding a new section to the guide that walks you through the best practices of building large Serverless applications. It tries to address some of the most common questions that teams have: - How should my project be structured when I have dozens of interdependent services? - How should I manage my environments? - What are the best practice for…

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Now 2.0▲176

    Now makes serverless application deployment easy.

    2018 · vercel.com · its alternatives →

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    Developer tools for the serverless world

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Movestax▲277

    The serverless cloud platform for modern builders

    2025 · app.movestax.com · its alternatives →

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    High performance secure & portable Rust functions in Node.js

    2020 · secondstate.io · its alternatives →

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    I'm building Kedge, a globally distributed platform for stateful serverless apps. Here's how you make a simple static site: `echo '# Hello world!' | ssh kedge.dev` I helped build Fly.io for 4 years and shared enthusiasm for the founders' vision of a 'global Heroku'. While there, I wrote "The Serverless Server" (https://fly.io/blog/the-serverless-server/) as a study of Lambda and a sketch of a modern serverless product built around lightweight VMs. That essay was the initial inspiration for Kedge. Kedge has a fast VM orchestrator that can create code sandboxes or…

    Jul 2026 · kedge.dev · its alternatives →

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    A command-line utility for deploying serverless applications to AWS. Complete with custom domains, deploy previews, TypeScript support, and more. - JakePartusch/serverlessui

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    StackHut▲106

    StackHut turns code into live APIs, powered by containers

    2015 · stackhut.com · its alternatives →

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    An easier way to build and share Serverless Applications!

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build serverless applications and websites in minutes

    2021 · webiny.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello, Stacktape CEO here. As a full-stack developer, I was looking for an easy way to deploy and host my applications for years. I could go with Kubernetes and Terraform. But the complexity of running this in production can be overwhelming even for a team of dedicated DevOps specialists. Or I could go with Heroku. But I’m not willing to pay 5-10 times more for my infrastructure just because my app was easier to deploy. I could also choose Serverless framework. But If my use case requires more than Lambda functions, I need to read through 100s of pages of AWS documentation figuring out how…

    2022 · stacktape.com · its alternatives →

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