Here’s an article I wrote about deploying serverless Django projects on AWS Lambda WITHOUT Zappa or Serverless framework. I was interested in understanding how things work at a lower level with Lambda, API Gateway and Aurora Postgres Serverless, but I could only find resources using these two frameworks. Feedback is very welcome!
https://briancaffey.github.io/2020/08/01/django-and-lambda-with-cdk-and-api-gateway.html