lift

Lift provides pre-built constructs that plug into your serverless.yml. It's essentially higher-level building blocks for AWS infrastructure alongside your Lambda functions.

MIT license, TypeScript. Lift adds constructs like 'website' (S3 + CloudFront), 'queue' (SQS), 'storage' (S3), 'database' (DynamoDB), and 'webhook' with sensible defaults. Instead of 50 lines of CloudFormation, you write 3 lines of YAML.

Fully free and open source. No paid tier. However, the Serverless Framework itself has gone through licensing changes; Serverless Framework v4 requires a paid subscription for organizations above a certain size. Lift is an MIT plugin, but it only works with the Serverless Framework. Solo developers on Serverless Framework: useful time-saver. Everyone else: look at SST or AWS CDK instead.

The catch: Lift's value is tied entirely to the Serverless Framework ecosystem. If you're not using Serverless Framework, this does nothing for you. And with the Serverless Framework's licensing changes pushing larger teams toward alternatives like SST, CDK, or Terraform, Lift's future relevance is uncertain. The project appears to be in maintenance mode.