<ul><li>Using AWS SAM to deploy an API simplifies infrastructure management and integrates with services like Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch.</li><li>It allows developers to focus on application logic while AWS handles scaling and maintenance, ideal for modern high-availability APIs.</li><li>The tutorial covers creating a simple API, deploying with SAM CLI, and automating deployments with GitHub Actions.</li><li>Prerequisites include installing AWS CLI, SAM CLI, Node.js, Docker, and having a GitHub account.</li><li>Steps involve initializing SAM, defining the API endpoint, building, testing locally, and deploying the API.</li><li>Deployment includes packaging resources and confirming changes for deployment via SAM CLI.</li><li>CI/CD setup with GitHub Actions involves creating workflows for automated deployments.</li><li>GitHub secrets are used for managing AWS credentials and region to enable the CI/CD pipeline.</li><li>IAM user permissions for Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, and API Gateway are set up for AWS user access.</li><li>Developers can easily update and test changes, triggering automatic deployments with each commit to the main branch.</li></ul>

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