diff --git a/dev-python/aws-sam-translator/Manifest b/dev-python/aws-sam-translator/Manifest
index 82cc310615127..87ad792072a7f 100644
--- a/dev-python/aws-sam-translator/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/aws-sam-translator/Manifest
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 DIST serverless-application-model-1.95.0.gh.tar.gz 5849359 BLAKE2B ad8228e901c8a3a97964808692fbb84b0bfe144536370c9e70c0bccdc30a982456c2099f82b6ea82c5c7f2e19d646c955927c7e4095bea851c67a10fbbd6e573 SHA512 192a3e55940ec61af256279cd54025b062f521284ac2741b6b9f6d0fad73162f75c702dd00db4f176a5abfa6b4e9c2fc2f3c22f85f8eefa122ea02a710a8fa82
 DIST serverless-application-model-1.96.0.gh.tar.gz 5881699 BLAKE2B 913c2feb6b1775413bafa0c4e7be60777480df87c66a5eadda97479935c12f913559efc9ec26e8a7c3d2b665de4e22c5f265ff9bfbe53ba338c8c446aab2b27f SHA512 e32e8f9bc0647a06175f1456dc6e50ab1afabf808fd782d449fc582226e38055ebf08f6699321ec2b3ba8eecfabb5ff125258e2821b1ecd8f32df9f043ba69e7
+DIST serverless-application-model-1.97.0.gh.tar.gz 5891456 BLAKE2B 6a568333110eed9a219d489f7ec566cee595654f0d75b8fb5cf89d4a32b64862549ba6c5d10f195d82a48bd44c0529425eec0150775df16025a33c0135ad9232 SHA512 4489410aa77c831e5b85b0e0f3f25a77b4b9a14947159c2a23f29b241d7e2858922847df41b24a1d784ea412019f2ed5a395773e42925bc1cc479c9ca1c4602c
diff --git a/dev-python/aws-sam-translator/aws-sam-translator-1.97.0.ebuild b/dev-python/aws-sam-translator/aws-sam-translator-1.97.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fbcb2b1525f38
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/aws-sam-translator/aws-sam-translator-1.97.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+DISTUTILS_USE_PEP517=setuptools
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
+
+inherit distutils-r1 multiprocessing
+
+MY_P=serverless-application-model-${PV}
+DESCRIPTION="A library that transform SAM templates into AWS CloudFormation templates"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://github.com/aws/serverless-application-model/
+	https://pypi.org/project/aws-sam-translator/
+"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://github.com/aws/serverless-application-model/archive/v${PV}.tar.gz
+		-> ${MY_P}.gh.tar.gz
+"
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~ppc64 ~riscv ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	<dev-python/boto3-2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/boto3-1.19.5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/jsonschema-3.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/pydantic-3[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pydantic-1.8[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	<dev-python/typing-extensions-5[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/typing-extensions-4.4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/pyyaml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	test? (
+		dev-python/mock[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/parameterized[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		dev-python/pytest-xdist[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	)
+"
+
+distutils_enable_tests pytest
+
+python_prepare_all() {
+	# so much noise...
+	sed -i -e '/log_cli/d' pytest.ini || die
+
+	# deps are installed by ebuild, don't try to reinstall them via pip
+	truncate --size=0 requirements/*.txt || die
+
+	distutils-r1_python_prepare_all
+}
+
+python_test() {
+	local -x PYTEST_DISABLE_PLUGIN_AUTOLOAD=1
+	local -x AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1
+	epytest -o addopts= -o filterwarnings= \
+		-p xdist -n "$(makeopts_jobs)" --dist=worksteal
+}