Is SAM itself the end game or does it create some other code (like Cloudformation)? The reason I'd be reluctant to use it without thoroughly being it is that I

Is SAM itself the end game or does it create some other code (like Cloudformation)? The reason I'd be reluctant to use it without thoroughly being it is that I don't like using any 3rd party monster suite of modules. I've been bitten by that a few times. You're at the mercy of the 3rd party to continue updating and supporting the modules. On top of that, it may not support a particular user case you want to implement. And it's almost worse if it does, because that likely means that it's no longer a simple wrapper around raw terraform resources, but a huge complex beast. In this case, I don't think the author necessarily expects the user to directly user his code. It is a set of examples. The modules themselves are very simple (really just one or two raw resources with vars and outputs)