This document provides an overview of AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM) which is a framework for building and managing serverless applications. SAM allows defining the architectural components of a serverless application in a SAM template and managing the application lifecycle through the SAM CLI. It describes how SAM transforms CloudFormation templates to deploy serverless resources like AWS Lambda functions, API Gateway APIs, and DynamoDB tables. The document also outlines the various commands of the SAM CLI used for local development and testing as well as deploying serverless applications.