Yes. In my impression Chalice is designed to be a microframework (emphasis on micro) with the bare minimum of glue necessary to make deploying Lambda apps easy.

Yes. In my impression Chalice is designed to be a microframework (emphasis on micro) with the bare minimum of glue necessary to make deploying Lambda apps easy. Zappa is designed around an ill-fitting API (while WSGI is widespread, it's clunky and a layering violation of sorts when put in the Lambda runtime environment) and has a development philosophy that I don't agree with.