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Building a CI/CD pipeline for cross-account deployment of an AWS Lambda API

Modern-day applications that reside on AWS have several distinct environments and accounts, such as dev, test, and staging. An application has to go through an elaborate process of deployment and testing in these environments before reaching its final destination.

This role has permissions to create your API resources, such as a Lambda function and Amazon API Gateway, in the target account. You then build a CI/CD pipeline in the tools account using AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and AWS CodeCommit.

In this post, we showed how to integrate AWS developer tools such as CodeCommit, CodePipeline, and CodeBuild with the Serverless framework to create a CI/CD pipeline that can deploy a Lambda-based REST API from a centralized tools account to any number of target AWS accounts.