### [Read this on the main serverless docs site](https://www.serverless.com/framework/docs/providers/aws/cli-reference/deploy) # AWS - deploy The `sls deploy` command deploys your entire service via CloudFormation. Run this command when you have made infrastructure changes (i.e., you edited `serverless.yml`). Use `serverless deploy function -f myFunction` when you have made code changes and you want to quickly upload your updated code to AWS Lambda. ```bash serverless deploy ``` ## Options - `--stage` or `-s` The stage in your service that you want to deploy to. - `--region` or `-r` The region in that stage that you want to deploy to. - `--package` or `-p` path to a pre-packaged directory and skip packaging step. - `--verbose` or `-v` Shows all stack events during deployment, and display any Stack Output. ## Artifacts After the `serverless deploy` command runs, the framework runs `serverless package` in the background first then deploys the generated package. ## Examples ### Deployment without stage and region options ```bash serverless deploy ``` This is the simplest deployment usage possible. With this command Serverless will deploy your service to the defined provider in the default stage (`dev`) to the default region (`us-east-1`). ### Deployment with stage and region options ```bash serverless deploy --stage production --region eu-central-1 ``` With this example we've defined that we want our service to be deployed to the `production` stage in the region `eu-central-1`. ### Deployment from a pre-packaged directory ```bash serverless deploy --package /path/to/package/directory ``` With this example, the packaging step will be skipped and the framework will start deploying the package from the `/path/to/package/directory` directory.