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 JAWS V1 (BETA)
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-JAWS is an open-source framework for building serverless applications (web, mobile, IoT) using Amazon Web Services' Lambda, API Gateway, and more.
-Lambda's event-driven model offers tremendous cost savings and colossal horizontal scaling ability.  Now, JAWS helps you
-build and maintain entire applications built on Lambda.
+JAWS is an open-source framework for building serverless applications (web, mobile, IoT) using Amazon Web Services' Lambda, API Gateway, and more.  Lambda's event-driven model offers tremendous cost savings and colossal horizontal scaling ability.  Now, JAWS helps you build and maintain entire applications built on Lambda.
 
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 Check us out at <img src="http://www.vormetric.com/sites/default/files/aws-re-invent-logo_0.png" align="absbottom">.  Our presentation is ["DVO209 - JAWS: The Monstrously Scalable Serverless Framework – AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, and More!"](https://www.portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/sessionDetail.ww?SESSION_ID=5494)