aws-best-practices

name	aws-best-practices
description	AWS service-specific best practices and configuration rules. Use when making decisions about SSM Parameter Store, SQS consumer types, Lambda function structure, or SAM template conventions.

AWS Best Practices

Service-specific configuration and lifecycle rules. Each reference covers one AWS service in depth.

• SSM.md — Parameter Store: when to create parameters, runtime vs deploy-time fetching, the bootstrap pattern, and the decision tree for secrets vs config
• SQS.md — SQS consumer types, using shared layer TypedDict types in Lambda handlers
• LAMBDA.md — Lambda handler structure: SQS consumption pattern, batchItemFailures, process_record() separation, event logging, CloudWatch alarms, and Lambda/SQS naming
• SAM.md — SAM template conventions: no explicit physical resource names (auto-generate to keep deploys safe), resource grouping by topic, Fn::ToJsonString, LAMBDA_ENV_VARS pattern