AWS Lambda

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 AWS Lambda Developer Guide

AWS Lambda: Developer Guide

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Table of Contents
What is AWS Lambda? ........................................................................................................................ 1
When should I use Lambda? ........................................................................................................ 1
Lambda features ........................................................................................................................ 2
Getting started with Lambda ....................................................................................................... 2
Related services ......................................................................................................................... 3
Accessing Lambda ...................................................................................................................... 3
Pricing for Lambda ..................................................................................................................... 4
Setting up ......................................................................................................................................... 5
AWS Account ............................................................................................................................. 5
AWS CLI .................................................................................................................................... 5
AWS SAM .................................................................................................................................. 5
AWS SAM CLI ............................................................................................................................ 6
Tools for container images .......................................................................................................... 6
Code authoring tools .................................................................................................................. 6
Getting started .................................................................................................................................. 8
Create a function ....................................................................................................................... 9
Create a Lambda function with default function code ............................................................. 9
Create a function defined as a container image .................................................................... 11
Code editor ............................................................................................................................. 17
Working with files and folders ........................................................................................... 17
Working with code ........................................................................................................... 19
Working in fullscreen mode ............................................................................................... 22
Working with preferences .................................................................................................. 22
AWS CLI .................................................................................................................................. 23
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................... 23
Create the execution role .................................................................................................. 23
Create the function .......................................................................................................... 24
List the Lambda functions in your account .......................................................................... 27
Retrieve a Lambda function ............................................................................................... 27
Clean up ......................................................................................................................... 28
Concepts ................................................................................................................................. 29
Function .......................................................................................................................... 29
Trigger ............................................................................................................................ 29
Event .............................................................................................................................. 29
Execution environment ...................................................................................................... 30
Deployment package ........................................................................................................ 30
Runtime .......................................................................................................................... 30
Layer .............................................................................................................................. 30
Extension ........................................................................................................................ 31
Concurrency ..................................................................................................................... 31
Qualifier .......................................................................................................................... 31
Features .................................................................................................................................. 32
Programming model ......................................................................................................... 32
Scaling ............................................................................................................................ 34
Concurrency controls ........................................................................................................ 35
Asynchronous invocation ................................................................................................... 36
Event source mappings ..................................................................................................... 37
Destinations ..................................................................................................................... 38
Function blueprints ........................................................................................................... 39
Testing and deployment tools ............................................................................................ 40
Application templates ....................................................................................................... 40
Deployment packages ............................................................................................................... 41
Container images ............................................................................................................. 41
.zip file archives ............................................................................................................... 41

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Layers ............................................................................................................................. 42
Using other AWS services .................................................................................................. 42
Quotas .................................................................................................................................... 44
Permissions ..................................................................................................................................... 46
Execution role .......................................................................................................................... 47
Creating an execution role in the IAM console ...................................................................... 48
Grant least privilege access to your Lambda execution role .................................................... 48
Managing roles with the IAM API ....................................................................................... 49
AWS managed policies for Lambda features ........................................................................ 50
Resource-based policies ............................................................................................................. 51
Granting function access to AWS services ............................................................................ 52
Granting function access to other accounts .......................................................................... 53
Granting layer access to other accounts .............................................................................. 54
Cleaning up resource-based policies .................................................................................... 55
User policies ............................................................................................................................ 56
Function development ...................................................................................................... 56
Layer development and use ............................................................................................... 59
Cross-account roles ........................................................................................................... 60
Condition keys for VPC settings ........................................................................................ 60
Resources and conditions .......................................................................................................... 61
Function resource names ................................................................................................... 62
Function actions ............................................................................................................... 64
Event source mapping actions ............................................................................................ 66
Layer actions ................................................................................................................... 66
Permissions boundaries ............................................................................................................. 67
Managing functions .......................................................................................................................... 69
Configure console ..................................................................................................................... 70
Functions defined as container images ........................................................................................ 72
Function version $LATEST ................................................................................................. 72
Container image deployment ............................................................................................. 72
Amazon ECR permissions ................................................................................................. 72
Override the container settings .......................................................................................... 73
Creating a function (console) ............................................................................................. 73
Updating the function code (console) ................................................................................. 74
Overriding the image parameters (console) .......................................................................... 74
Using the Lambda API ...................................................................................................... 75
AWS CloudFormation ........................................................................................................ 75
Environment variables ............................................................................................................... 77
Configuring environment variables ..................................................................................... 77
Configuring environment variables with the API ................................................................... 78
Example scenario for environment variables ........................................................................ 78
Retrieve environment variables .......................................................................................... 79
Defined runtime environment variables ............................................................................... 80
Securing environment variables .......................................................................................... 81
Sample code and templates .............................................................................................. 83
Concurrency ............................................................................................................................. 84
Configuring reserved concurrency ....................................................................................... 85
Configuring provisioned concurrency .................................................................................. 87
Configuring concurrency with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 90
Versions .................................................................................................................................. 95
Creating function versions ................................................................................................. 95
Managing versions with the Lambda API ............................................................................. 95
Using versions .................................................................................................................. 96
Granting permissions ........................................................................................................ 96
Aliases .................................................................................................................................... 97
Creating a function alias (Console) ..................................................................................... 97
Managing aliases with the Lambda API ............................................................................... 97

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Using aliases .................................................................................................................... 98

Resource policies .............................................................................................................. 98
Alias routing configuration ................................................................................................ 98
Creating layers ....................................................................................................................... 101
Creating layer content ..................................................................................................... 101
Compiling the .zip file archive for your layer ...................................................................... 101
Including library dependencies in a layer ........................................................................... 102
Creating a layer .............................................................................................................. 103
Deleting a layer version ................................................................................................... 104
Configuring layer permissions .......................................................................................... 104
Using AWS CloudFormation with layers ............................................................................. 105
Using layers ........................................................................................................................... 106
Configuring a function to use layers ................................................................................. 106
Accessing the contents of a layer ...................................................................................... 107
Finding layer information ................................................................................................ 107
Updating a layer version that your function uses ................................................................ 108
Adding layer permissions ................................................................................................. 108
Using AWS SAM to add a layer to a function ...................................................................... 105
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 109
Memory ................................................................................................................................. 110
Configuring function memory .......................................................................................... 110
Accepting function memory recommendations ................................................................... 110
Network ................................................................................................................................ 111
Execution role and user permissions ................................................................................. 111
Configuring VPC access (console) ...................................................................................... 112
Configuring VPC access (API) ............................................................................................ 112
Using IAM condition keys for VPC settings ......................................................................... 113
Internet and service access for VPC-connected functions ..................................................... 116
VPC tutorials .................................................................................................................. 116
Sample VPC configurations .............................................................................................. 116
Interface VPC endpoints .......................................................................................................... 118
Considerations for Lambda interface endpoints .................................................................. 118
Creating an interface endpoint for Lambda ........................................................................ 119
Creating an interface endpoint policy for Lambda .............................................................. 119
Database ............................................................................................................................... 121
Creating a database proxy (console) .................................................................................. 121
Using the function's permissions for authentication ............................................................ 122
Sample application ......................................................................................................... 122
File system ............................................................................................................................ 126
Connecting to a file system (console) ................................................................................ 126
Configuring a file system and access point ......................................................................... 126
Execution role and user permissions ................................................................................. 127
Configuring file system access with the Lambda API ........................................................... 128
AWS CloudFormation and AWS SAM ................................................................................. 128
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 129
Code signing .......................................................................................................................... 130
Signature validation ........................................................................................................ 130
Configuration prerequisites .............................................................................................. 131
Creating code signing configurations ................................................................................. 131
Updating a code signing configuration .............................................................................. 131
Deleting a code signing configuration ............................................................................... 132
Enabling code signing for a function ................................................................................. 132
Configuring IAM policies .................................................................................................. 132
Configuring code signing with the Lambda API .................................................................. 133
Tags ...................................................................................................................................... 134
Adding tags to a function (console) .................................................................................. 134
Using tags to filter functions (console) .............................................................................. 134

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Using Tags with the AWS CLI ........................................................................................... 135

Tag Key and Value Requirements ...................................................................................... 136
Invoking functions .......................................................................................................................... 137
Synchronous invocation ........................................................................................................... 138
Asynchronous invocation ......................................................................................................... 140
Configuring error handling for asynchronous invocation ...................................................... 142
Configuring destinations for asynchronous invocation ......................................................... 142
Asynchronous invocation configuration API ........................................................................ 144
Dead-letter queues ......................................................................................................... 145
Event source mapping ............................................................................................................. 148
Function states ....................................................................................................................... 151
Function scaling ..................................................................................................................... 153
Error handling ........................................................................................................................ 158
Using extensions .................................................................................................................... 160
Execution environment .................................................................................................... 161
Impact on performance and resources ............................................................................... 161
Permissions .................................................................................................................... 161
Configuring extensions (.zip file archive) ............................................................................ 162
Using extensions in container images ................................................................................ 162
Next steps ..................................................................................................................... 162
Invoking functions defined as container images .......................................................................... 164
Function lifecycle ............................................................................................................ 164
Invoking the function ...................................................................................................... 164
Image security ................................................................................................................ 164
Mobile SDK for Android .......................................................................................................... 165
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 165
Sample code .................................................................................................................. 171
Lambda applications ....................................................................................................................... 174
Manage applications ............................................................................................................... 175
Monitoring applications ................................................................................................... 175
Custom monitoring dashboards ........................................................................................ 175
Tutorial – Create an application ................................................................................................ 178
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 179
Create an application ...................................................................................................... 179
Invoke the function ........................................................................................................ 180
Add an AWS resource ...................................................................................................... 181
Update the permissions boundary .................................................................................... 183
Update the function code ................................................................................................ 183
Next steps ..................................................................................................................... 184
Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................. 185
Clean up ........................................................................................................................ 186
Rolling deployments ............................................................................................................... 187
Example AWS SAM Lambda template ............................................................................... 187
Use cases ............................................................................................................................... 189
Example 1: Amazon S3 pushes events and invokes a Lambda function ................................... 189
Example 2: AWS Lambda pulls events from a Kinesis stream and invokes a Lambda function ..... 190
Best practices ......................................................................................................................... 192
Function code ................................................................................................................ 192
Function configuration .................................................................................................... 193
Metrics and alarms ......................................................................................................... 194
Working with streams ..................................................................................................... 194
Lambda runtimes ........................................................................................................................... 195
Runtime support policy ........................................................................................................... 198
Execution environment ............................................................................................................ 200
Runtime lifecycle ............................................................................................................ 200
Container images .................................................................................................................... 203
AWS base images for Lambda ......................................................................................... 203

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Base images for custom runtimes ..................................................................................... 203

Runtime interface clients ................................................................................................. 203
Runtime interface emulator ............................................................................................. 204
Runtime API ........................................................................................................................... 205
Next invocation .............................................................................................................. 205
Invocation response ........................................................................................................ 206
Initialization error ........................................................................................................... 206
Invocation error .............................................................................................................. 207
Extensions API ....................................................................................................................... 209
Lambda execution environment lifecycle ........................................................................... 210
Extensions API reference ................................................................................................. 218
Logs API ................................................................................................................................ 223
Subscribing to receive logs .............................................................................................. 224
Memory usage ............................................................................................................... 224
Destination protocols ...................................................................................................... 224
Buffering configuration ................................................................................................... 224
Example subscription ...................................................................................................... 225
Sample code for Logs API ................................................................................................ 225
Logs API reference .......................................................................................................... 226
Log messages ................................................................................................................ 227
Runtime modifications ............................................................................................................ 231
Language-specific environment variables ........................................................................... 231
Wrapper scripts .............................................................................................................. 233
Custom runtimes .................................................................................................................... 236
Using a custom runtime .................................................................................................. 236
Building a custom runtime ............................................................................................... 236
Tutorial – Custom runtime ....................................................................................................... 239
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 239
Create a function ............................................................................................................ 239
Create a layer ................................................................................................................ 241
Update the function ....................................................................................................... 242
Update the runtime ........................................................................................................ 243
Share the layer ............................................................................................................... 243
Clean up ........................................................................................................................ 243
AVX2 vectorization ................................................................................................................. 245
Compiling from source .................................................................................................... 245
Enabling AVX2 for Intel MKL ............................................................................................ 245
AVX2 support in other languages ..................................................................................... 245
Container images ............................................................................................................................ 247
Creating images ..................................................................................................................... 248
Image types ................................................................................................................... 248
Container tools .............................................................................................................. 248
Lambda requirements for container images ....................................................................... 249
Container image settings ................................................................................................. 249
Create an image from an AWS base image for Lambda ........................................................ 249
Create an image from an alternative base image ................................................................ 251
Create an image using the AWS SAM toolkit ...................................................................... 253
Testing images ....................................................................................................................... 254
Guidelines for using the RIE ............................................................................................. 254
Environment variables ..................................................................................................... 254
Test an image with RIE included in the image .................................................................... 255
Build RIE into your base image ........................................................................................ 255
Test an image without adding RIE to the image ................................................................. 256
Working with other services ............................................................................................................. 257
Alexa ..................................................................................................................................... 260
API Gateway .......................................................................................................................... 261
Permissions .................................................................................................................... 263

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Handling errors with an API Gateway API .......................................................................... 264

Choosing an API type ...................................................................................................... 265
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 267
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 267
Sample code .................................................................................................................. 277
Microservice blueprint ..................................................................................................... 280
Sample template ............................................................................................................ 281
CloudTrail .............................................................................................................................. 283
CloudTrail logs ............................................................................................................... 285
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 288
Sample code .................................................................................................................. 292
CloudWatch Events ................................................................................................................. 295
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 296
Sample template ............................................................................................................ 299
Schedule expressions ...................................................................................................... 300
CloudWatch Logs .................................................................................................................... 302
CloudFormation ...................................................................................................................... 303
CloudFront (Lambda@Edge) ..................................................................................................... 305
CodeCommit .......................................................................................................................... 307
CodePipeline .......................................................................................................................... 308
Permissions .................................................................................................................... 309
Cognito ................................................................................................................................. 310
Config ................................................................................................................................... 311
Connect ................................................................................................................................. 312
DynamoDB ............................................................................................................................. 313
Execution role permissions ............................................................................................... 314
Configuring a stream as an event source ........................................................................... 315
Event source mapping APIs .............................................................................................. 316
Error handling ................................................................................................................ 318
Amazon CloudWatch metrics ............................................................................................ 319
Time windows ................................................................................................................ 319
Reporting batch item failures ........................................................................................... 322
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 324
Sample code .................................................................................................................. 329
Sample template ............................................................................................................ 332
EC2 ....................................................................................................................................... 334
Permissions .................................................................................................................... 334
Tutorial – Spot Instances ................................................................................................. 335
ElastiCache ............................................................................................................................ 345
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 345
Create the execution role ................................................................................................ 345
Create an ElastiCache cluster ........................................................................................... 346
Create a deployment package .......................................................................................... 346
Create the Lambda function ............................................................................................ 347
Test the Lambda function ................................................................................................ 347
Clean up your resources .................................................................................................. 277
Elastic Load Balancing ............................................................................................................. 349
EFS ....................................................................................................................................... 351
Connections ................................................................................................................... 351
Throughput .................................................................................................................... 352
IOPS ............................................................................................................................. 352
IoT ........................................................................................................................................ 353
IoT Events ............................................................................................................................. 354
Apache Kafka ......................................................................................................................... 356
Managing access and permissions ..................................................................................... 357
Kafka authentication ....................................................................................................... 358
Network configuration .................................................................................................... 359

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Adding a Kafka cluster as an event source ......................................................................... 359

Using a Kafka cluster as an event source ........................................................................... 361
Auto scaling of the Kafka event source ............................................................................. 361
Event source API operations ............................................................................................. 361
Event source errors ......................................................................................................... 362
Event source configuration parameters .............................................................................. 362
Kinesis Firehose ...................................................................................................................... 364
Kinesis Streams ...................................................................................................................... 365
Configuring your data stream and function ........................................................................ 366
Execution role permissions ............................................................................................... 367
Configuring a stream as an event source ........................................................................... 367
Event source mapping API ............................................................................................... 368
Error handling ................................................................................................................ 370
Amazon CloudWatch metrics ............................................................................................ 371
Time windows ................................................................................................................ 372
Reporting batch item failures ........................................................................................... 374
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 376
Sample code .................................................................................................................. 380
Sample template ............................................................................................................ 383
Lex ....................................................................................................................................... 386
Roles and permissions ..................................................................................................... 387
MQ ....................................................................................................................................... 389
Lambda consumer group ................................................................................................. 390
Execution role permissions ............................................................................................... 392
Configuring a broker as an event source ............................................................................ 392
Event source mapping API ............................................................................................... 393
Event source mapping errors ............................................................................................ 395
MSK ...................................................................................................................................... 396
Managing access and permissions ..................................................................................... 396
Network configuration .................................................................................................... 359
Adding Amazon MSK as an event source ........................................................................... 398
Auto scaling of the Amazon MSK event source ................................................................... 399
Amazon MSK configuration parameters ............................................................................. 362
RDS ...................................................................................................................................... 401
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 401
Configuring the function ................................................................................................. 405
S3 ......................................................................................................................................... 407
Tutorial: Use an S3 trigger ............................................................................................... 408
Tutorial: Use an S3 trigger to create thumbnails ................................................................. 413
Sample SAM template ..................................................................................................... 426
S3 Batch ................................................................................................................................ 427
Invoking Lambda functions from Amazon S3 batch operations ............................................. 428
Secrets Manager ..................................................................................................................... 429
SES ....................................................................................................................................... 430
SNS ...................................................................................................................................... 432
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 433
Sample code .................................................................................................................. 437
SQS ...................................................................................................................................... 439
Scaling and processing .................................................................................................... 440
Configuring a queue to use with Lambda .......................................................................... 441
Execution role permissions ............................................................................................... 441
Configuring a queue as an event source ............................................................................ 441
Event source mapping APIs .............................................................................................. 316
Tutorial ......................................................................................................................... 443
Sample code .................................................................................................................. 447
Sample template ............................................................................................................ 449
X-Ray .................................................................................................................................... 451

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Execution role permissions ............................................................................................... 453

The AWS X-Ray daemon .................................................................................................. 453
Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 453
Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation .............................................................. 454
Orchestrating functions ................................................................................................................... 455
Application patterns ............................................................................................................... 455
State machine components .............................................................................................. 455
State machine application patterns ................................................................................... 455
Applying patterns to state machines ................................................................................. 456
Example branching application pattern ............................................................................. 456
Manage state machines ........................................................................................................... 458
Viewing state machine details .......................................................................................... 459
Editing a state machine ................................................................................................... 459
Running a state machine ................................................................................................. 459
Orchestration examples ........................................................................................................... 460
Configuring a Lambda function as a task ........................................................................... 460
Configuring a state machine as an event source ................................................................. 460
Handling function and service errors ................................................................................. 461
AWS CloudFormation and AWS SAM ................................................................................. 462
Samples ........................................................................................................................................ 464
Blank function ....................................................................................................................... 466
Architecture and handler code ......................................................................................... 467
Deployment automation with AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CLI .................................... 468
Instrumentation with the AWS X-Ray ................................................................................ 470
Dependency management with layers ............................................................................... 471
Error processor ....................................................................................................................... 473
Architecture and event structure ...................................................................................... 474
Instrumentation with AWS X-Ray ...................................................................................... 475
AWS CloudFormation template and additional resources ..................................................... 475
List manager .......................................................................................................................... 478
Architecture and event structure ...................................................................................... 479
Instrumentation with AWS X-Ray ...................................................................................... 480
AWS CloudFormation templates and additional resources .................................................... 483
Working with Node.js ...................................................................................................................... 484
Handler ................................................................................................................................. 487
Async handlers ............................................................................................................... 487
Non-async handlers ........................................................................................................ 488
Deploy .zip file archives ........................................................................................................... 489
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 489
Updating a function with no dependencies ........................................................................ 489
Updating a function with additional dependencies .............................................................. 490
Deploy container images ......................................................................................................... 492
AWS base images for Node.js ........................................................................................... 492
Using a Node.js base image ............................................................................................. 492
Node.js runtime interface clients ...................................................................................... 492
Context ................................................................................................................................. 494
Logging ................................................................................................................................. 496
Creating a function that returns logs ................................................................................ 496
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 497
Using the CloudWatch console ......................................................................................... 497
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 497
Deleting logs ................................................................................................................. 500
Errors .................................................................................................................................... 501
Syntax ........................................................................................................................... 501
How it works ................................................................................................................. 501
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 502
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 502

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Error handling in other AWS services ................................................................................ 503

What's next? .................................................................................................................. 504
Tracing .................................................................................................................................. 505
Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 507
Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation .............................................................. 508
Storing runtime dependencies in a layer ............................................................................ 508
Working with Python ...................................................................................................................... 510
Handler ................................................................................................................................. 512
Naming ......................................................................................................................... 512
How it works ................................................................................................................. 512
Returning a value ........................................................................................................... 513
Examples ....................................................................................................................... 513
Deploy .zip file archives ........................................................................................................... 515
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 515
What is a runtime dependency? ....................................................................................... 516
Tutorial: Create function .................................................................................................. 516
Update function ............................................................................................................. 525
Deploy container images ......................................................................................................... 529
AWS base images for Python ........................................................................................... 529
Python runtime interface clients ...................................................................................... 530
Deploying Python with an AWS base image ....................................................................... 530
Create a Python image from an alternative base image ....................................................... 531
Context ................................................................................................................................. 532
Logging ................................................................................................................................. 534
Creating a function that returns logs ................................................................................ 534
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 535
Using the CloudWatch console ......................................................................................... 535
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 535
Deleting logs ................................................................................................................. 537
Logging library ............................................................................................................... 537
Errors .................................................................................................................................... 539
How it works ................................................................................................................. 539
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 540
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 540
Error handling in other AWS services ................................................................................ 541
Error examples ............................................................................................................... 541
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 542
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 504
Tracing .................................................................................................................................. 543
Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 545
Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation .............................................................. 545
Storing runtime dependencies in a layer ............................................................................ 546
Working with Ruby ......................................................................................................................... 547
Handler ................................................................................................................................. 550
Deploy .zip file archives ........................................................................................................... 551
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 551
Tools and libraries .......................................................................................................... 551
Updating a function with no dependencies ........................................................................ 552
Updating a function with additional dependencies .............................................................. 552
Deploy container images ......................................................................................................... 554
AWS base images for Ruby .............................................................................................. 554
Using a Ruby base image ................................................................................................ 554
Ruby runtime interface clients ......................................................................................... 554
Context ................................................................................................................................. 556
Logging ................................................................................................................................. 557
Creating a function that returns logs ................................................................................ 557
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 558

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Using the CloudWatch console ......................................................................................... 558

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 559
Deleting logs ................................................................................................................. 561
Errors .................................................................................................................................... 562
Syntax ........................................................................................................................... 562
How it works ................................................................................................................. 562
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 563
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 563
Error handling in other AWS services ................................................................................ 564
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 565
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 565
Tracing .................................................................................................................................. 566
Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 568
Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation .............................................................. 568
Storing runtime dependencies in a layer ............................................................................ 569
Working with Java .......................................................................................................................... 570
Sample apps .......................................................................................................................... 572
Handler ................................................................................................................................. 574
Choosing input and output types ..................................................................................... 575
Handler interfaces .......................................................................................................... 576
Sample handler code ...................................................................................................... 577
Deploy .zip file archives ........................................................................................................... 578
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 578
Tools and libraries .......................................................................................................... 578
Deploy container images ......................................................................................................... 585
AWS base images for Java ............................................................................................... 585
Using a Java base image ................................................................................................. 585
Java runtime interface clients .......................................................................................... 585
Context ................................................................................................................................. 587
Context in sample applications ......................................................................................... 588
Logging ................................................................................................................................. 590
Creating a function that returns logs ................................................................................ 590
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 591
Using the CloudWatch console ......................................................................................... 591
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 592
Deleting logs ................................................................................................................. 594
Advanced logging with Log4j 2 and SLF4J ......................................................................... 594
Sample logging code ...................................................................................................... 596
Errors .................................................................................................................................... 597
Syntax ........................................................................................................................... 597
How it works ................................................................................................................. 598
Creating a function that returns exceptions ....................................................................... 598
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 599
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 600
Error handling in other AWS services ................................................................................ 600
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 601
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 601
Tracing .................................................................................................................................. 602
Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 604
Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation .............................................................. 604
Storing runtime dependencies in a layer ............................................................................ 605
Tracing in sample applications ......................................................................................... 605
Tutorial - Eclipse IDE ............................................................................................................... 607
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 607
Create and build a project ............................................................................................... 607
Working with Go ............................................................................................................................ 610
Handler ................................................................................................................................. 611

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Lambda function handler using structured types ................................................................ 612

Using global state .......................................................................................................... 613
Context ................................................................................................................................. 615
Accessing invoke context information ................................................................................ 615
Deploy .zip file archives ........................................................................................................... 617
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 617
Tools and libraries .......................................................................................................... 617
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 617
Creating a .zip file on macOS and Linux ............................................................................ 618
Creating a .zip file on Windows ........................................................................................ 618
Deploy container images ......................................................................................................... 620
AWS base images for Go ................................................................................................. 620
Go runtime interface clients ............................................................................................. 620
Using the Go:1.x base image ............................................................................................ 621
Deploying Go with the provided.al2 base image ............................................................. 621
Deploying Go with an alternative base image ..................................................................... 622
Logging ................................................................................................................................. 624
Creating a function that returns logs ................................................................................ 624
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 625
Using the CloudWatch console ......................................................................................... 625
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 625
Deleting logs ................................................................................................................. 628
Errors .................................................................................................................................... 629
Creating a function that returns exceptions ....................................................................... 629
How it works ................................................................................................................. 629
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 630
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 630
Error handling in other AWS services ................................................................................ 631
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 632
Tracing .................................................................................................................................. 633
Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 635
Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation .............................................................. 635
Environment variables ............................................................................................................. 637
Working with C# ............................................................................................................................ 638
Handler ................................................................................................................................. 640
Handling streams ........................................................................................................... 640
Handling standard data types .......................................................................................... 641
Handler signatures .......................................................................................................... 642
Serializing Lambda functions ........................................................................................... 642
Lambda function handler restrictions ................................................................................ 643
Using async in C# functions with AWS Lambda .................................................................. 643
Deployment package .............................................................................................................. 645
.NET Core CLI ................................................................................................................. 645
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio .......................................................................................... 648
Deploy container images ......................................................................................................... 651
AWS base images for .NET ............................................................................................... 651
Using a .NET base image ................................................................................................. 651
.NET runtime interface clients .......................................................................................... 651
Context ................................................................................................................................. 652
Logging ................................................................................................................................. 653
Creating a function that returns logs ................................................................................ 653
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 654
Using the CloudWatch console ......................................................................................... 654
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 655
Deleting logs ................................................................................................................. 657
Errors .................................................................................................................................... 658
Syntax ........................................................................................................................... 658

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How it works ................................................................................................................. 660

Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 661
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 661
Error handling in other AWS services ................................................................................ 662
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 662
Tracing .................................................................................................................................. 663
Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API ..................................................................... 665
Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation .............................................................. 665
Working with PowerShell ................................................................................................................. 667
Development Environment ...................................................................................................... 668
Deployment package .............................................................................................................. 669
Tools and libraries .......................................................................................................... 669
Sample applications ........................................................................................................ 669
Creating a Lambda function ............................................................................................. 669
Handler ................................................................................................................................. 672
Returning data ............................................................................................................... 672
Context ................................................................................................................................. 673
Logging ................................................................................................................................. 674
Creating a function that returns logs ................................................................................ 674
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 675
Using the CloudWatch console ......................................................................................... 675
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 675
Deleting logs ................................................................................................................. 678
Errors .................................................................................................................................... 679
Syntax ........................................................................................................................... 679
How it works ................................................................................................................. 680
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 680
Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) ............................................................. 681
Error handling in other AWS services ................................................................................ 681
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 682
Monitoring ..................................................................................................................................... 683
Monitoring console ................................................................................................................. 684
Pricing ........................................................................................................................... 684
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 684
Types of monitoring graphs ............................................................................................. 684
Viewing graphs on the Lambda console ............................................................................ 684
Viewing queries in the CloudWatch Logs console ................................................................ 685
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 685
Function insights .................................................................................................................... 686
How it works ................................................................................................................. 686
Pricing ........................................................................................................................... 686
Supported runtimes ........................................................................................................ 686
Enabling Lambda Insights in the console ........................................................................... 686
Enabling Lambda Insights programmatically ...................................................................... 687
Using the Lambda Insights dashboard ............................................................................... 687
Detecting function anomalies ........................................................................................... 688
Troubleshooting a function .............................................................................................. 690
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 685
Function metrics ..................................................................................................................... 692
Viewing metrics in the CloudWatch console ....................................................................... 692
Types of metrics ............................................................................................................. 692
Function logs ......................................................................................................................... 695
Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 695
Pricing ........................................................................................................................... 695
Using the Lambda console ............................................................................................... 695
Using the AWS CLI .......................................................................................................... 696
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 696

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Example workflows ................................................................................................................. 696

Prerequisites .................................................................................................................. 697
Pricing ........................................................................................................................... 697
Viewing a service map .................................................................................................... 698
Viewing trace details ....................................................................................................... 698
Using Trusted Advisor to view recommendations ................................................................ 699
What's next? .................................................................................................................. 699
Security ......................................................................................................................................... 700
Data protection ...................................................................................................................... 700
Encryption in transit ....................................................................................................... 701
Encryption at rest ........................................................................................................... 701
Identity and access management .............................................................................................. 702
Audience ....................................................................................................................... 702
Authenticating with identities .......................................................................................... 702
Managing access using policies ......................................................................................... 704
How AWS Lambda works with IAM ................................................................................... 706
Identity-based policy examples ........................................................................................ 706
Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................. 707
Compliance validation ............................................................................................................. 710
Resilience .............................................................................................................................. 710
Infrastructure security ............................................................................................................. 711
Configuration and vulnerability analysis .................................................................................... 711
Troubleshooting ............................................................................................................................. 713
Deployment ........................................................................................................................... 713
General: Permission is denied / Cannot load such file .......................................................... 713
General: Error occurs when calling the UpdateFunctionCode ................................................ 713
Amazon S3: Error Code PermanentRedirect. ....................................................................... 714
General: Cannot find, cannot load, unable to import, class not found, no such file or directory ... 714
General: Undefined method handler ................................................................................. 714
Lambda: InvalidParameterValueException or RequestEntityTooLargeException ........................ 715
Lambda: InvalidParameterValueException .......................................................................... 715
Invocation .............................................................................................................................. 715
IAM: lambda:InvokeFunction not authorized ....................................................................... 716
Lambda: Operation cannot be performed ResourceConflictException ..................................... 716
Lambda: Function is stuck in Pending ............................................................................... 716
Lambda: One function is using all concurrency ................................................................... 716
General: Cannot invoke function with other accounts or services ........................................... 717
General: Function invocation is looping ............................................................................. 717
Lambda: Alias routing with provisioned concurrency ........................................................... 717
Lambda: Cold starts with provisioned concurrency .............................................................. 717
Lambda: Latency variability with provisioned concurrency .................................................... 718
Lambda: Cold starts with new versions .............................................................................. 718
EFS: Function could not mount the EFS file system ............................................................. 718
EFS: Function could not connect to the EFS file system ....................................................... 718
EFS: Function could not mount the EFS file system due to timeout ....................................... 719
Lambda: Lambda detected an IO process that was taking too long ........................................ 719
Execution ............................................................................................................................... 719
Lambda: Execution takes too long .................................................................................... 719
Lambda: Logs or traces don't appear ................................................................................ 719
Lambda: The function returns before execution finishes ...................................................... 720
AWS SDK: Versions and updates ....................................................................................... 720
Python: Libraries load incorrectly ...................................................................................... 720
Networking ............................................................................................................................ 721
VPC: Function loses internet access or times out ................................................................. 721
VPC: Function needs access to AWS services without using the internet ................................. 721
VPC: Limit was reached for the function's VPC ................................................................... 721
Container images .................................................................................................................... 721

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Container: Error occurs on runtime InvalidEntrypoint .......................................................... 721

Lambda: System provisioning additonal capacity ................................................................ 721
CloudFormation: ENTRYPOINT is being overridden with a null or empty value ........................ 722
Releases ........................................................................................................................................ 723
Earlier updates ....................................................................................................................... 732
API reference ................................................................................................................................. 737
Actions .................................................................................................................................. 737
AddLayerVersionPermission .............................................................................................. 739
AddPermission ............................................................................................................... 743
CreateAlias ..................................................................................................................... 747
CreateCodeSigningConfig ................................................................................................ 751
CreateEventSourceMapping .............................................................................................. 754
CreateFunction ............................................................................................................... 763
DeleteAlias ..................................................................................................................... 775
DeleteCodeSigningConfig ................................................................................................ 777
DeleteEventSourceMapping .............................................................................................. 779
DeleteFunction ............................................................................................................... 784
DeleteFunctionCodeSigningConfig .................................................................................... 786
DeleteFunctionConcurrency .............................................................................................. 788
DeleteFunctionEventInvokeConfig ..................................................................................... 790
DeleteLayerVersion ......................................................................................................... 792
DeleteProvisionedConcurrencyConfig ................................................................................ 794
GetAccountSettings ......................................................................................................... 796
GetAlias ......................................................................................................................... 798
GetCodeSigningConfig ..................................................................................................... 801
GetEventSourceMapping .................................................................................................. 803
GetFunction ................................................................................................................... 808
GetFunctionCodeSigningConfig ........................................................................................ 812
GetFunctionConcurrency .................................................................................................. 815
GetFunctionConfiguration ................................................................................................ 817
GetFunctionEventInvokeConfig ......................................................................................... 824
GetLayerVersion ............................................................................................................. 827
GetLayerVersionByArn ..................................................................................................... 830
GetLayerVersionPolicy ..................................................................................................... 833
GetPolicy ....................................................................................................................... 835
GetProvisionedConcurrencyConfig ..................................................................................... 837
Invoke ........................................................................................................................... 840
InvokeAsync ................................................................................................................... 846
ListAliases ...................................................................................................................... 848
ListCodeSigningConfigs ................................................................................................... 851
ListEventSourceMappings ................................................................................................ 853
ListFunctionEventInvokeConfigs ........................................................................................ 856
ListFunctions .................................................................................................................. 859
ListFunctionsByCodeSigningConfig .................................................................................... 863
ListLayers ...................................................................................................................... 865
ListLayerVersions ............................................................................................................ 867
ListProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs ................................................................................... 870
ListTags ......................................................................................................................... 873
ListVersionsByFunction .................................................................................................... 875
PublishLayerVersion ........................................................................................................ 879
PublishVersion ................................................................................................................ 883
PutFunctionCodeSigningConfig ......................................................................................... 891
PutFunctionConcurrency .................................................................................................. 894
PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig ......................................................................................... 897
PutProvisionedConcurrencyConfig ..................................................................................... 901
RemoveLayerVersionPermission ........................................................................................ 904
RemovePermission .......................................................................................................... 906

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TagResource ................................................................................................................... 908

UntagResource ............................................................................................................... 910
UpdateAlias ................................................................................................................... 912
UpdateCodeSigningConfig ............................................................................................... 916
UpdateEventSourceMapping ............................................................................................ 919
UpdateFunctionCode ....................................................................................................... 927
UpdateFunctionConfiguration ........................................................................................... 936
UpdateFunctionEventInvokeConfig .................................................................................... 947
Data Types ............................................................................................................................ 950
AccountLimit .................................................................................................................. 952
AccountUsage ................................................................................................................ 953
AliasConfiguration .......................................................................................................... 954
AliasRoutingConfiguration ............................................................................................... 956
AllowedPublishers ........................................................................................................... 957
CodeSigningConfig ......................................................................................................... 958
CodeSigningPolicies ........................................................................................................ 960
Concurrency ................................................................................................................... 961
DeadLetterConfig ........................................................................................................... 962
DestinationConfig ........................................................................................................... 963
Environment .................................................................................................................. 964
EnvironmentError ........................................................................................................... 965
EnvironmentResponse ..................................................................................................... 966
EventSourceMappingConfiguration ................................................................................... 967
FileSystemConfig ............................................................................................................ 971
FunctionCode ................................................................................................................. 972
FunctionCodeLocation ..................................................................................................... 974
FunctionConfiguration ..................................................................................................... 975
FunctionEventInvokeConfig .............................................................................................. 980
ImageConfig .................................................................................................................. 982
ImageConfigError ........................................................................................................... 983
ImageConfigResponse ..................................................................................................... 984
Layer ............................................................................................................................. 985
LayersListItem ................................................................................................................ 986
LayerVersionContentInput ................................................................................................ 987
LayerVersionContentOutput ............................................................................................. 988
LayerVersionsListItem ...................................................................................................... 989
OnFailure ....................................................................................................................... 991
OnSuccess ..................................................................................................................... 992
ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigListItem .............................................................................. 993
SelfManagedEventSource ................................................................................................. 995
SourceAccessConfiguration ............................................................................................... 996
TracingConfig ................................................................................................................. 997
TracingConfigResponse .................................................................................................... 998
VpcConfig ...................................................................................................................... 999
VpcConfigResponse ....................................................................................................... 1000
Certificate errors when using an SDK ...................................................................................... 1000
AWS glossary ............................................................................................................................... 1002

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When should I use Lambda?

What is AWS Lambda?

Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers. Lambda
runs your code on a high-availability compute infrastructure and performs all of the administration of
the compute resources, including server and operating system maintenance, capacity provisioning and
automatic scaling, code monitoring and logging. With Lambda, you can run code for virtually any type
of application or backend service. All you need to do is supply your code in one of the languages that
Lambda supports (p. 195).
Note
In the AWS Lambda Developer Guide, we assume that you have experience with coding,
compiling, and deploying programs using one of the supported languages.

You organize your code into Lambda functions (p. 29). Lambda runs your function only when needed
and scales automatically, from a few requests per day to thousands per second. You pay only for the
compute time that you consume—there is no charge when your code is not running.

You can invoke your Lambda functions using the Lambda API, or Lambda can run your functions in
response to events from other AWS services. For example, you can use Lambda to:

• Build data-processing triggers for AWS services such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
and Amazon DynamoDB.
• Process streaming data stored in Amazon Kinesis.
• Create your own backend that operates at AWS scale, performance, and security.

Lambda is a highly available service. For more information, see the AWS Lambda Service Level
Agreement.

Sections
• When should I use Lambda? (p. 1)
• Lambda features (p. 2)
• Getting started with Lambda (p. 2)
• Related services (p. 3)
• Accessing Lambda (p. 3)
• Pricing for Lambda (p. 4)

When should I use Lambda?

Lambda is an ideal compute service for many application scenarios, as long as you can run your
application code using the Lambda standard runtime environment (p. 200) and within the resources
that Lambda provides.

When using Lambda, you are responsible only for your code. Lambda manages the compute fleet that
offers a balance of memory, CPU, network, and other resources to run your code. Because Lambda
manages these resources, you cannot log in to compute instances or customize the operating system on
provided runtimes (p. 195). Lambda performs operational and administrative activities on your behalf,
including managing capacity, monitoring, and logging your Lambda functions.

If you need to manage your own compute resources, AWS has other compute services to meet your
needs. For example:

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• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) offers a wide range of EC2 instance types to choose
from. It lets you customize operating systems, network and security settings, and the entire software
stack. You are responsible for provisioning capacity, monitoring fleet health and performance, and
using Availability Zones for fault tolerance.
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk enables you to deploy and scale applications onto Amazon EC2. You retain
ownership and full control over the underlying EC2 instances.

Lambda features
The following key features help you develop Lambda applications that are scalable, secure, and easily
extensible:

Concurrency and scaling controls

Concurrency and scaling controls (p. 153) such as concurrency limits and provisioned concurrency
give you fine-grained control over the scaling and responsiveness of your production applications.
Functions defined as container images

Use your preferred container image (p. 247) tooling, workflows, and dependencies to build, test,
and deploy your Lambda functions.
Code signing

Code signing (p. 130) for Lambda provides trust and integrity controls that let you verify that only
unaltered code that approved developers have published is deployed in your Lambda functions.
Lambda extensions

You can use Lambda extensions (p. 209) to augment your Lambda functions. For example, use
extensions to more easily integrate Lambda with your favorite tools for monitoring, observability,
security, and governance.
Function blueprints

A function blueprint provides sample code that shows how to use Lambda with other AWS services
or third-party applications. Blueprints include sample code and function configuration presets for
Node.js and Python runtimes.
Database access

A database proxy (p. 121) manages a pool of database connections and relays queries from a
function. This enables a function to reach high concurrency levels without exhausting database
connections.
File systems access

You can configure a function to mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file
system (p. 126) to a local directory. With Amazon EFS, your function code can access and modify
shared resources safely and at high concurrency.

Getting started with Lambda

To work effectively with Lambda, you need coding experience and expertise in the following domains:

• Linux OS and commands, as well as concepts such as processes, threads, and file permissions.
• Cloud concepts and IP networking concepts (for public and private networks).
• Distributed computing concepts such as HTML as an IPC, queues, messaging, notifications, and
concurrency.

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• Familiarity with security services and concepts: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and access
control principles, and AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) and public key infrastructure.
• Familiarity with key services that interact with Lambda: Amazon API Gateway, Amazon S3, Amazon
Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), and DynamoDB.
• Configuring EC2 instances with Linux.

If you are a first-time user of Lambda, we recommend that you start with the following topics to help
you learn the basics:

1. Read the Lambda product overview and explore the Lambda getting started page.
2. To create and test a Lambda function using the Lambda console, try the console-based getting
started exercise (p. 8). This exercise teaches you about the Lambda programming model and
other concepts.
3. If you are familiar with container image workflows, try the getting started exercise to create a
Lambda function defined as a container image (p. 11).

AWS also provides the following resources for learning about serverless applications and Lambda:

• The AWS Compute Blog includes useful articles about Lambda.

• AWS Serverless provides blogs, videos, and training related to AWS serverless development.
• The AWS Online Tech Talks YouTube channel includes videos about Lambda-related topics. For an
overview of serverless applications and Lambda, see the Introduction to AWS Lambda & Serverless
Applications video.

Related services
Lambda integrates with other AWS services (p. 257) to invoke functions based on events that you
specify. For example:

• Use API Gateway (p. 261) to provide a secure and scalable gateway for web APIs that route HTTP
requests to Lambda functions.
• For services that generate a queue or data stream (such as DynamoDB (p. 313) and Kinesis (p. 365)),
Lambda polls the queue or data stream from the service and invokes your function to process the
received data.
• Define Amazon S3 (p. 407) events that invoke a Lambda function to process Amazon S3 objects, for
example, when an object is created or deleted.
• Use a Lambda function to process Amazon SQS (p. 439) messages or Amazon Simple Notification
Service (Amazon SNS) (p. 432) notifications.
• Use AWS Step Functions (p. 455) to connect Lambda functions together into serverless workflows
called state machines.

Accessing Lambda
You can create, invoke, and manage your Lambda functions using any of the following interfaces:

• AWS Management Console – Provides a web interface for you to access your functions. For more
information, see Configuring functions in the console (p. 70).
• AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) – Provides commands for a broad set of AWS services,
including Lambda, and is supported on Windows, macOS, and Linux. For more information, see Using
AWS Lambda with the AWS Command Line Interface (p. 23).

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• AWS SDKs – Provide language-specific APIs and manage many of the connection details, such as
signature calculation, request retry handling, and error handling. For more information, see AWS SDKs.
• AWS CloudFormation – Enables you to create templates that define your Lambda applications. For
more information, see AWS Lambda applications (p. 174). AWS CloudFormation also supports the
AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK).
• AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) – Provides templates and a CLI to configure and
manage AWS serverless applications. For more information, see AWS SAM (p. 5).

Pricing for Lambda

There is no additional charge for creating Lambda functions. There are charges for running a function
and for data transfer between Lambda and other AWS services. Some optional Lambda features (such as
provisioned concurrency (p. 84)) also incur charges. For more information, see AWS Lambda Pricing.

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AWS Account

Setting up with Lambda

To use AWS Lambda, you need an AWS account. If you plan to configure and use Lambda functions from
the command line, set up the AWS CLI. You can set up other development and build tools as required for
the environment and language that you are planning to use.

Sections
• AWS Account (p. 5)
• AWS CLI (p. 5)
• AWS SAM (p. 5)
• AWS SAM CLI (p. 6)
• Tools for container images (p. 6)
• Code authoring tools (p. 6)

AWS Account
To use Lambda and other AWS services, you need an AWS account. If you do not have an account, visit
aws.amazon.com and choose Create an AWS Account. For instructions, see How do I create and activate
a new AWS account?

As a best practice, create an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user with administrator
permissions, and then use that IAM user for all work that does not require root credentials. Create a
password for console access, and create access keys to use command line tools. For instructions, see
Creating your first IAM admin user and group in the IAM User Guide.

AWS CLI
If you plan to configure and use Lambda functions from the command line, install the AWS Command
Line Interface (AWS CLI). Tutorials in this guide use the AWS CLI, which has commands for all Lambda API
operations. Some functionality is not available in the Lambda console and can be accessed only with the
AWS CLI or the AWS SDKs.

To set up the AWS CLI, see the following topics in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

• Installing, updating, and uninstalling the AWS CLI

• Configuring the AWS CLI

To verify that the AWS CLI is configured correctly, run the list-functions command to see a list of
your Lambda functions in the current AWS Region.

aws lambda list-functions

AWS SAM
The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an extension for the AWS CloudFormation template
language that lets you define serverless applications at a higher level. AWS SAM abstracts away common

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tasks such as function role creation, making it easier to write templates. AWS SAM is supported directly
by AWS CloudFormation, and includes additional functionality through the AWS CLI and AWS SAM CLI.

For more information about AWS SAM templates, see the AWS SAM specification in the AWS Serverless
Application Model Developer Guide.

AWS SAM CLI

The AWS SAM CLI is a separate command line tool that you can use to manage and test AWS SAM
applications. In addition to commands for uploading artifacts and launching AWS CloudFormation stacks
that are also available in the AWS CLI, the AWS SAM CLI provides commands for validating templates
and running applications locally in a Docker container. You can use the AWS SAM CLI to build functions
deployed as .zip file archives or container images.

To set up the AWS SAM CLI, see Installing the AWS SAM CLI in the AWS Serverless Application Model
Developer Guide.

Tools for container images

To create and test functions deployed as container images, you can use native container tools such as the
Docker CLI.

To set up the Docker CLI, see Get Docker on the Docker Docs website. For an introduction to using Docker
with AWS, see Getting started with Amazon ECR using the AWS CLI in the Amazon Elastic Container
Registry User Guide.

Code authoring tools

You can author your Lambda function code in the languages that Lambda supports. For a list of
supported languages, see Lambda runtimes (p. 195). There are tools for authoring code, such as the
Lambda console, Eclipse integrated development environment (IDE), and Visual Studio IDE. But the
available tools and options depend on:

• The language that you use to write your Lambda function code.
• The libraries that you use in your code. The Lambda runtimes provide some of the libraries, and you
must upload any additional libraries that you use.

The following table lists the languages that Lambda supports, and the tools and options that you can
use with them.

Language Tools and options for authoring code

Node.js • Lambda console

• Visual Studio, with IDE plugin (see AWS Lambda Support in Visual
Studio on the AWS Developer Blog)
• Your own authoring environment

Java • Eclipse, with the AWS Toolkit for Eclipse

• IntelliJ, with the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains
• Your own authoring environment

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Language Tools and options for authoring code

C# • Visual Studio, with IDE plugin (see AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio)
• .NET Core (see Download .NET on the Microsoft website)
• Your own authoring environment

Python • Lambda console

• PyCharm, with the AWS Toolkit for JetBrains
• Your own authoring environment

Ruby • Lambda console

• Your own authoring environment

Go • Your own authoring environment

PowerShell • Your own authoring environment

• PowerShell Core 6.0 (see Installing various versions of PowerShell
on the Microsoft Docs website)
• .NET Core 3.1 SDK (see Download .NET on the Microsoft website)
• AWSLambdaPSCore module (see AWSLambdaPSCore on the
PowerShell Gallery website)

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Getting started with Lambda

To get started with Lambda, use the Lambda console to create a function. In a few minutes, you can
create a function, invoke it, and then view logs, metrics, and trace data.
Note
To use Lambda and other AWS services, you need an AWS account. If you don't have an account,
visit aws.amazon.com and choose Create an AWS Account. For instructions, see How do I create
and activate a new AWS account?
As a best practice, create an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user with administrator
permissions, and then use that IAM user for all work that does not require root credentials.
Create a password for console access, and create access keys to use command line tools. For
instructions, see Creating your first IAM admin user and group in the IAM User Guide.

You can author functions in the Lambda console, or with an IDE toolkit, command line tools, or the AWS
SDKs. The Lambda console provides a code editor (p. 17) for non-compiled languages that lets you
modify and test code quickly. The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 23) gives you direct
access to the Lambda API for advanced configuration and automation use cases.

You deploy your function code to Lambda using a deployment package. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages:

• A .zip file archive that contains your function code and its dependencies. For an example tutorial, see
Using AWS Lambda with the AWS Command Line Interface (p. 23).
• A container image that is compatible with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. For an
example tutorial, see Create a function defined as a container image (p. 11).

Topics
• Create a Lambda function with the console (p. 9)
• Creating functions using the AWS Lambda console editor (p. 17)
• Using AWS Lambda with the AWS Command Line Interface (p. 23)
• Lambda concepts (p. 29)
• Lambda features (p. 32)
• Lambda deployment packages (p. 41)
• Lambda quotas (p. 44)

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Create a function

Create a Lambda function with the console

In the following getting started exercises, you create Lambda functions using the console.

In the first exercise, you create a function and use the default code that Lambda creates. The Lambda
console provides a code editor (p. 17) for non-compiled languages that lets you modify and test code
quickly.

In the next exercise, you create a function defined as a container image. First, create a container image
for your function code, and then use the Lambda console to create a function from the container image.

Topics
• Create a Lambda function with default function code (p. 9)
• Create a function defined as a container image (p. 11)

Create a Lambda function with default function code

In this getting started exercise, you create a Node.js Lambda function using the Lambda console. Lambda
automatically creates default code for the function. Next, you manually invoke the Lambda function
using sample event data. Lambda runs the function and returns results. You then verify the results,
including the logs that your Lambda function created and various Amazon CloudWatch metrics.

To create a Lambda function with the console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. Under Basic information, do the following:

a. For Function name, enter my-function.

b. For Runtime, confirm that Node.js 14.x is selected. Note that Lambda provides runtimes
for .NET (PowerShell, C#), Go, Java, Node.js, Python, and Ruby.
4. Choose Create function.

Lambda creates a Node.js function and an execution role (p. 47) that grants the function permission
to upload logs. The Lambda function assumes the execution role when you invoke your function, and
uses the execution role to create credentials for the AWS SDK and to read data from event sources.

Use the function overview

The Function overview shows a visualization of your function, including any triggers, destinations, and
layer that you have configured for the function.

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Create a Lambda function with default function code

Invoke the Lambda function

Invoke your Lambda function using the sample event data provided in the console.

To invoke a function

1. After selecting your function, choose the Test tab.

2. In the Test event section, choose New event. In Template, leave the default hello-world option.
Enter a Name for this test and note the following sample event template:

{
"key1": "value1",
"key2": "value2",
"key3": "value3"
}

3. Choose Save changes, and then choose Test. Each user can create up to 10 test events per function.
Those test events are not available to other users.

Lambda runs your function on your behalf. The function handler receives and then processes the
sample event.
4. Upon successful completion, view the results in the console.

• The Execution result shows the execution status as succeeded. To view the function execution
results, expand Details. Note that the logs link opens the Log groups page in the CloudWatch
console.
• The Summary section shows the key information reported in the Log output section (the REPORT
line in the execution log).
• The Log output section shows the log that Lambda generates for each invocation. The function
writes these logs to CloudWatch. The Lambda console shows these logs for your convenience.
Choose Click here to add logs to the CloudWatch log group and open the Log groups page in the
CloudWatch console.
5. Run the function (choose Test) a few more times to gather some metrics that you can view in the
next step.
6. Choose the Monitor tab. This page shows graphs for the metrics that Lambda sends to CloudWatch.

For more information on these graphs, see Monitoring functions in the AWS Lambda
console (p. 684).

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Clean up
If you are done working with the example function, delete it. You can also delete the log group that
stores the function's logs, and the execution role that the console created.

To delete a Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. In the Delete function dialog box, choose Delete.

To delete the log group

1. Open the Log groups page of the CloudWatch console.

2. Select the function's log group (/aws/lambda/my-function).
3. Choose Actions, Delete log group(s).
4. In the Delete log group(s) dialog box, choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console.
2. Select the function's role (my-function-role-31exxmpl).
3. Choose Delete role.
4. In the Delete role dialog box, choose Yes, delete.

You can automate the creation and cleanup of functions, log groups, and roles with AWS
CloudFormation and the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). For fully functional sample
applications, see Lambda sample applications (p. 464).

Create a function defined as a container image

In this getting started exercise, you use the Docker CLI to create a container image and then use the
Lambda console to create a function from the container image.

Topics
• Prerequisites (p. 11)
• Create the container image (p. 12)
• Upload the image to the Amazon ECR repository (p. 13)
• Update the user permissions (p. 13)
• Create a Lambda function defined as a container image (p. 14)
• Invoke the Lambda function (p. 14)
• Clean up (p. 15)

Prerequisites
To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

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aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

This exercise uses Docker CLI commands to create the container image. To install the Docker CLI, see Get
Docker on the Docker Docs website.

Create the container image

AWS provides a set of base images in the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR). In
this getting started exercise, we use the Node.js base image to create a container image. For more
information about base images, see AWS base images for Lambda (p. 203).

In the following commands, replace 123456789012 with your AWS account ID.

To create an image using the AWS Node.js 12 base image

1. On your local machine, create a project directory for your new function.
2. Create a file named app.js in your project directory. Add the following code to app.js:

exports.handler = async (event) => {

// TODO implement
const response = {
statusCode: 200,
body: JSON.stringify('Hello from Lambda!'),
};
return response;
};

3. Use a text editor to create a new file named Dockerfile in your project directory. Add the
following content to Dockerfile:

FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/nodejs:12

# Copy function code and package.json

COPY app.js package.json /var/task/

# Install NPM dependencies for function

RUN npm install

# Set the CMD to your handler

CMD [ "app.handler" ]

4. Create the package.json file. From your project directory, run the npm init command. Accept all
of the default values:

npm init

5. Build your Docker image. From your project directory, run the following command:

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docker build -t hello-world .

6. (Optional) AWS base images include the Lambda runtime interface emulator, so you can test your
function locally.

a. Run your Docker image. From your project directory, run the docker run command:

docker run -p 9000:8080 hello-world:latest

b. Test your Lambda function. In a new terminal window, run a curl command to invoke your
function:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d

'{}'

Upload the image to the Amazon ECR repository

1. Authenticate the Docker CLI to your Amazon ECR registry.

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-
stdin 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

2. Create a repository in Amazon ECR using the create-repository command.

aws ecr create-repository --repository-name hello-world --image-scanning-configuration

scanOnPush=true --image-tag-mutability MUTABLE

3. Tag your image to match your repository name using the docker tag command.

docker tag hello-world:latest 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-

world:latest

4. Deploy the image to Amazon ECR using the docker push command.

docker push 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-world:latest

Update the user permissions

Make sure that the permissions for the IAM user or role that creates the function contain the AWS
managed policies GetRepositoryPolicy, SetRepositoryPolicy, and InitiateLayerUpload. For
information about access policies, see Access Management in the IAM User Guide

For example, use the IAM console to create a role with the following policy:

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "VisualEditor0",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": ["ecr:SetRepositoryPolicy","ecr:GetRepositoryPolicy",
"ecr:InitiateLayerUpload],
"Resource": "arn:aws:ecr:<region>:<account>:repository/<repo name>/"
}

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]
}

Create a Lambda function defined as a container image

Use the Lambda console to create a function defined as a container image.

To create the function with the console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. Choose the Container image option.
4. Under Basic information, do the following:

a. For Function name, enter my-function.

b. For Container image URI, enter the URI of the Amazon ECR image that you created previously.
5. Choose Create function.

Lambda creates your function and an execution role (p. 47) that grants the function permission to
upload logs. Lambda assumes the execution role when you invoke your function, and uses the execution
role to create credentials for the AWS SDK and to read data from event sources.

Invoke the Lambda function

Invoke your Lambda function using the sample event data provided in the console.

To invoke a function

1. After selecting your function, choose the Test tab.

2. In the Test event section, choose New event. In Template, leave the default hello-world option.
Enter a Name for this test and note the following sample event template:

{
"key1": "value1",
"key2": "value2",
"key3": "value3"
}

3. Choose Save changes, and then choose Test. Each user can create up to 10 test events per function.
Those test events are not available to other users.

Lambda runs your function on your behalf. The function handler receives and then processes the
sample event.
4. Upon successful completion, view the results in the console.

• The Execution result shows the execution status as succeeded. To view the function execution
results, expand Details. Note that the logs link opens the Log groups page in the CloudWatch
console.
• The Summary section shows the key information reported in the Log output section (the REPORT
line in the execution log).
• The Log output section shows the log that Lambda generates for each invocation. The function
writes these logs to CloudWatch. The Lambda console shows these logs for your convenience.
Choose Click here to add logs to the CloudWatch log group and open the Log groups page in the
CloudWatch console.

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5. Run the function (choose Test) a few more times to gather some metrics that you can view in the
next step.
6. Choose the Monitor tab. This page shows graphs for the metrics that Lambda sends to CloudWatch.

For more information on these graphs, see Monitoring functions in the AWS Lambda
console (p. 684).

Clean up
If you are finished with the container image, see Deleting an image in the Amazon Elastic Container
Registry User Guide

If you are done working with your function, delete it. You can also delete the log group that stores the
function's logs and the execution role that the console created.

To delete a Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. In the Delete function dialog box, choose Delete.

To delete the log group

1. Open the Log groups page of the CloudWatch console.

2. Select the function's log group (/aws/lambda/my-function).
3. Choose Actions, Delete log group(s).
4. In the Delete log group(s) dialog box, choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the function's role (my-function-role-31exxmpl).
3. Choose Delete role.
4. In the Delete role dialog box, choose Yes, delete.

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You can automate the creation and cleanup of functions, log groups, and roles with AWS
CloudFormation and the AWS CLI. For fully functional sample applications, see Lambda sample
applications (p. 464).

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Code editor

Creating functions using the AWS Lambda console

editor
The Lambda console provides a code editor for languages that do not require compiling, such as Node.js
or Python. The code editor in the AWS Lambda console enables you to write, test, and view the execution
results of your Lambda function code.

The code editor includes the menu bar, windows, and the editor pane.

For a list of what the commands do, see the Menu commands reference in the AWS Cloud9 User Guide.
Note that some of the commands listed in that reference are not available in the code editor.

Topics
• Working with files and folders (p. 17)
• Working with code (p. 19)
• Working in fullscreen mode (p. 22)
• Working with preferences (p. 22)

Working with files and folders

You can use the Environment window in the code editor to create, open, and manage files for your
function.

To show or hide the Environment window, choose the Environment button. If the Environment button
is not visible, choose Window, Environment on the menu bar.

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To open a single file and show its contents in the editor pane, double-click the file in the Environment
window.

To open multiple files and show their contents in the editor pane, choose the files in the Environment
window. Right-click the selection, and then choose Open.

To create a new file, do one of the following:

• In the Environment window, right-click the folder where you want the new file to go, and then choose
New File. Type the file's name and extension, and then press Enter.
• Choose File, New File on the menu bar. When you're ready to save the file, choose File, Save or File,
Save As on the menu bar. Then use the Save As dialog box that displays to name the file and choose
where to save it.
• In the tab buttons bar in the editor pane, choose the + button, and then choose New File. When you're
ready to save the file, choose File, Save or File, Save As on the menu bar. Then use the Save As dialog
box that displays to name the file and choose where to save it.

To create a new folder, right-click the folder in the Environment window where you want the new
folder to go, and then choose New Folder. Type the folder's name, and then press Enter.

To save a file, with the file open and its contents visible in the editor pane, choose File, Save on the
menu bar.

To rename a file or folder, right-click the file or folder in the Environment window. Type the
replacement name, and then press Enter.

To delete files or folders, choose the files or folders in the Environment window. Right-click the
selection, and then choose Delete. Then confirm the deletion by choosing Yes (for a single selection) or
Yes to All.

To cut, copy, paste, or duplicate files or folders, choose the files or folders in the Environment window.
Right-click the selection, and then choose Cut, Copy, Paste, or Duplicate, respectively.

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To collapse folders, choose the gear icon in the Environment window, and then choose Collapse All
Folders.

To show or hide hidden files, choose the gear icon in the Environment window, and then choose Show
Hidden Files.

Working with code

Use the editor pane in the code editor to view and write code.

Working with tab buttons

Use the tab buttons bar to select, view, and create files.

To display an open file's contents, do one of the following:

• Choose the file's tab.

• Choose the drop-down menu button in the tab buttons bar, and then choose the file's name.

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To close an open file, do one of the following:

• Choose the X icon in the file's tab.

• Choose the file's tab. Then choose the drop-down menu button in the tab buttons bar, and choose
Close Pane.

To close multiple open files, choose the drop-down menu in the tab buttons bar, and then choose Close
All Tabs in All Panes or Close All But Current Tab as needed.

To create a new file, choose the + button in the tab buttons bar, and then choose New File. When you're
ready to save the file, choose File, Save or File, Save As on the menu bar. Then use the Save As dialog
box that displays to name the file and choose where to save it.

Working with the status bar

Use the status bar to move quickly to a line in the active file and to change how code is displayed.

To move quickly to a line in the active file, choose the line selector, type the line number to go to, and
then press Enter.

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To change the code color scheme in the active file, choose the code color scheme selector, and then
choose the new code color scheme.

To change in the active file whether soft tabs or spaces are used, the tab size, or whether to convert
to spaces or tabs, choose the spaces and tabs selector, and then choose the new settings.

To change for all files whether to show or hide invisible characters or the gutter, auto-pair brackets
or quotes, wrap lines, or the font size, choose the gear icon, and then choose the new settings.

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Working in fullscreen mode

You can expand the code editor to get more room to work with your code.

To expand the code editor to the edges of the web browser window, choose the Toggle fullscreen
button in the menu bar.

To shrink the code editor to its original size, choose the Toggle fullscreen button again.

In fullscreen mode, additional options are displayed on the menu bar: Save and Test. Choosing Save
saves the function code. Choosing Test or Configure Events enables you to create or edit the function's
test events.

Working with preferences

You can change various code editor settings such as which coding hints and warnings are displayed, code
folding behaviors, code autocompletion behaviors, and much more.

To change code editor settings, choose the Preferences gear icon in the menu bar.

For a list of what the settings do, see the following references in the AWS Cloud9 User Guide.

• Project setting changes you can make

• User setting changes you can make

Note that some of the settings listed in those references are not available in the code editor.

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Using AWS Lambda with the AWS Command Line

Interface
You can use the AWS Command Line Interface to manage functions and other AWS Lambda resources.
The AWS CLI uses the AWS SDK for Python (Boto) to interact with the Lambda API. You can use it to
learn about the API, and apply that knowledge in building applications that use Lambda with the AWS
SDK.

In this tutorial, you manage and invoke Lambda functions with the AWS CLI. For more information, see
What is the AWS CLI? in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in the section called “Create a function” (p. 9).

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

This tutorial uses the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to call service API operations. To install the
AWS CLI, see Installing the AWS CLI in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to access AWS resources. To
create an execution role with the AWS CLI, use the create-role command.

aws iam create-role --role-name lambda-ex --assume-role-policy-document file://trust-

policy.json

You should see the following output:

{
"Role": {
"Path": "/",
"RoleName": "lambda-ex",
"RoleId": "AROAQFOXMPL6TZ6ITKWND",
"Arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex",
"CreateDate": "2020-01-17T23:19:12Z",
"AssumeRolePolicyDocument": {
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{

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"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}
}
}

The trust-policy.json file is a JSON file in the current directory that defines the trust policy for
the role. This trust policy allows Lambda to use the role's permissions by giving the service principal
lambda.amazonaws.com permission to call the AWS Security Token Service AssumeRole action.

Example trust-policy.json

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}

You can also specify the trust policy inline. Requirements for escaping quotes in the JSON string vary
depending on your shell.

aws iam create-role --role-name lambda-ex --assume-role-policy-document '{"Version":

"2012-10-17","Statement": [{ "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": {"Service":
"lambda.amazonaws.com"}, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"}]}'

To add permissions to the role, use the attach-policy-to-role command. Start by adding the
AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole managed policy.

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name lambda-ex --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/

service-role/AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole

The AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to write logs to
CloudWatch Logs.

Create the function

The following example logs the values of environment variables and the event object.

Example index.js

exports.handler = async function(event, context) {

console.log("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\n" + JSON.stringify(process.env, null, 2))
console.log("EVENT\n" + JSON.stringify(event, null, 2))
return context.logStreamName
}

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To create the function

1. Copy the sample code into a file named index.js.

2. Create a deployment package.

zip function.zip index.js

3. Create a Lambda function with the create-function command. Replace the highlighted text in
the role ARN with your account ID.

aws lambda create-function --function-name my-function \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex",
"Handler": "index.handler",
"CodeSha256": "FpFMvUhayLkOoVBpNuNiIVML/tuGv2iJQ7t0yWVTU8c=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "PassThrough"
},
"RevisionId": "88ebe1e1-bfdf-4dc3-84de-3017268fa1ff",
...
}

To get logs for an invocation from the command line, use the --log-type option. The response
includes a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the invocation.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

You can use the base64 utility to decode the logs.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8

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REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed

Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. For macOS, the command is
base64 -D.

To get full log events from the command line, you can include the log stream name in the output of your
function, as shown in the preceding example. The following example script invokes a function named
my-function and downloads the last five log events.

Example get-logs.sh Script

This example requires that my-function returns a log stream ID.

#!/bin/bash
aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --
payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

The script uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for
the logs to be available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-
log-events command.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,

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"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:

26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"
}

List the Lambda functions in your account

Run the following AWS CLI list-functions command to retrieve a list of functions that you have
created.

aws lambda list-functions --max-items 10

You should see the following output:

{
"Functions": [
{
"FunctionName": "cli",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex",
"Handler": "index.handler",
...
},
{
"FunctionName": "random-error",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:random-error",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "index.handler",
...
},
...
],
"NextToken": "eyJNYXJrZXIiOiBudWxsLCAiYm90b190cnVuY2F0ZV9hbW91bnQiOiAxMH0="
}

In response, Lambda returns a list of up to 10 functions. If there are more functions you can retrieve,
NextToken provides a marker you can use in the next list-functions request. The following list-
functions AWS CLI command is an example that shows the --starting-token parameter.

aws lambda list-functions --max-items 10 --starting-

token eyJNYXJrZXIiOiBudWxsLCAiYm90b190cnVuY2F0ZV9hbW91bnQiOiAxMH0=

Retrieve a Lambda function

The Lambda CLI get-function command returns Lambda function metadata and a presigned URL that
you can use to download the function's deployment package.

aws lambda get-function --function-name my-function

You should see the following output:

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{
"Configuration": {
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex",
"CodeSha256": "FpFMvUhayLkOoVBpNuNiIVML/tuGv2iJQ7t0yWVTU8c=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "PassThrough"
},
"RevisionId": "88ebe1e1-bfdf-4dc3-84de-3017268fa1ff",
...
},
"Code": {
"RepositoryType": "S3",
"Location": "https://awslambda-us-east-2-tasks.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
snapshots/123456789012/my-function-4203078a-b7c9-4f35-..."
}
}

For more information, see GetFunction (p. 808).

Clean up
Run the following delete-function command to delete the my-function function.

aws lambda delete-function --function-name my-function

Delete the IAM role you created in the IAM console. For information about deleting a role, see Deleting
roles or instance profiles in the IAM User Guide.

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Concepts

Lambda concepts
With Lambda, you run functions to process events. To send events to your function, you can invoke it
using the Lambda API, or you can configure an AWS service or resource to invoke it.

Concepts
• Function (p. 29)
• Trigger (p. 29)
• Event (p. 29)
• Execution environment (p. 30)
• Deployment package (p. 30)
• Runtime (p. 30)
• Layer (p. 30)
• Extension (p. 31)
• Concurrency (p. 31)
• Qualifier (p. 31)

Function
A function is a resource that you can invoke to run your code in Lambda. A function has code to process
the events (p. 29) that you pass into the function or that other AWS services send to the function.

For more information, see Managing AWS Lambda functions (p. 69).

Trigger
A trigger is a resource or configuration that invokes a Lambda function. This includes AWS services
that you can configure to invoke a function, applications that you develop, and event source
mappings (p. 148). An event source mapping is a resource in Lambda that reads items from a stream or
queue and invokes a function. For more information, see Invoking AWS Lambda functions (p. 137) and
Using AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).

Event
An event is a JSON-formatted document that contains data for a Lambda function to process. The
runtime converts the event to an object and passes it to your function code. When you invoke a function,
you determine the structure and contents of the event.

Example custom event – weather data

{
"TemperatureK": 281,
"WindKmh": -3,
"HumidityPct": 0.55,
"PressureHPa": 1020
}

When an AWS service invokes your function, the service defines the shape of the event.

Example service event – Amazon SNS notification

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"Records": [
{
"Sns": {
"Timestamp": "2019-01-02T12:45:07.000Z",
"Signature": "tcc6faL2yUC6dgZdmrwh1Y4cGa/ebXEkAi6RibDsvpi+tE/1+82j...65r==",
"MessageId": "95df01b4-ee98-5cb9-9903-4c221d41eb5e",
"Message": "Hello from SNS!",
...

For more information about events from AWS services, see Using AWS Lambda with other
services (p. 257).

Execution environment
An execution environment provides a secure and isolated runtime environment for your Lambda function.
An execution environment manages the processes and resources that are required to run the function.
The execution environment provides lifecycle support for the function and for any extensions (p. 31)
associated with your function.

For more information, see AWS Lambda execution environment (p. 200).

Deployment package
You deploy your Lambda function code using a deployment package. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages:

• A .zip file archive that contains your function code and its dependencies. Lambda provides the
operating system and runtime for your function.
• A container image that is compatible with the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. You add
your function code and dependencies to the image. You must also include the operating system and a
Lambda runtime.

For more information, see Lambda deployment packages (p. 41).

Runtime
The runtime provides a language-specific environment that runs in an execution environment. The
runtime relays invocation events, context information, and responses between Lambda and the function.
You can use runtimes that Lambda provides, or build your own. If you package your code as a .zip file
archive, you must configure your function to use a runtime that matches your programming language.
For a container image, you include the runtime when you build the image.

For more information, see Lambda runtimes (p. 195).

Layer
A Lambda layer is a .zip file archive that can contain additional code or other content. A layer can contain
libraries, a custom runtime (p. 236), data, or configuration files.

Layers provide a convenient way to package libraries and other dependencies that you can use with your
Lambda functions. Using layers reduces the size of uploaded deployment archives and makes it faster to
deploy your code. Layers also promote code sharing and separation of responsibilities so that you can
iterate faster on writing business logic.

You can include up to five layers per function. Layers count towards the standard Lambda deployment
size quotas (p. 44). When you include a layer in a function, the contents are extracted to the /opt
directory in the execution environment.

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Extension

By default, the layers that you create are private to your AWS account. You can choose to share a layer
with other accounts or to make the layer public. If your functions consume a layer that a different
account published, your functions can continue to use the layer version after it has been deleted, or after
your permission to access the layer is revoked. However, you cannot create a new function or update
functions using a deleted layer version.

Functions deployed as a container image do not use layers. Instead, you package your preferred runtime,
libraries, and other dependencies into the container image when you build the image.

For more information, see Creating and sharing Lambda layers (p. 101).

Extension
Lambda extensions enable you to augment your functions. For example, you can use extensions to
integrate your functions with your preferred monitoring, observability, security, and governance tools.
You can choose from a broad set of tools that AWS Lambda Partners provides, or you can create your
own Lambda extensions (p. 209).

An internal extension runs in the runtime process and shares the same lifecycle as the runtime. An
external extension runs as a separate process in the execution environment. The external extension is
initialized before the function is invoked, runs in parallel with the function's runtime, and continues to
run after the function invocation is complete.

For more information, see Using Lambda extensions (p. 160).

Concurrency
Concurrency is the number of requests that your function is serving at any given time. When your
function is invoked, Lambda provisions an instance of it to process the event. When the function code
finishes running, it can handle another request. If the function is invoked again while a request is still
being processed, another instance is provisioned, increasing the function's concurrency.

Concurrency is subject to quotas (p. 44) at the AWS Region level. You can configure individual
functions to limit their concurrency, or to enable them to reach a specific level of concurrency. For more
information, see Managing concurrency for a Lambda function (p. 84).

Qualifier
When you invoke or view a function, you can include a qualifier to specify a version or alias. A version
is an immutable snapshot of a function's code and configuration that has a numerical qualifier. For
example, my-function:1. An alias is a pointer to a version that you can update to map to a different
version, or split traffic between two versions. For example, my-function:BLUE. You can use versions
and aliases together to provide a stable interface for clients to invoke your function.

For more information, see Lambda function versions (p. 95).

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Features

Lambda features
Lambda provides a management console and API for managing and invoking functions. It provides
runtimes that support a standard set of features so that you can easily switch between languages and
frameworks, depending on your needs. In addition to functions, you can also create versions, aliases,
layers, and custom runtimes.

Features
• Programming model (p. 32)
• Scaling (p. 34)
• Concurrency controls (p. 35)
• Asynchronous invocation (p. 36)
• Event source mappings (p. 37)
• Destinations (p. 38)
• Function blueprints (p. 39)
• Testing and deployment tools (p. 40)
• Application templates (p. 40)

Programming model
Authoring specifics vary between runtimes, but all runtimes share a common programming model that
defines the interface between your code and the runtime code. You tell the runtime which method to
run by defining a handler in the function configuration, and the runtime runs that method. The runtime
passes in objects to the handler that contain the invocation event and the context, such as the function
name and request ID.

When the handler finishes processing the first event, the runtime sends it another. The function's class
stays in memory, so clients and variables that are declared outside of the handler method in initialization
code can be reused. To save processing time on subsequent events, create reusable resources like AWS
SDK clients during initialization. Once initialized, each instance of your function can process thousands of
requests.

When AWS X-Ray tracing (p. 451) is enabled, the runtime records separate subsegments for
initialization and execution.

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Your function also has access to local storage in the /tmp directory. Instances of your function that are
serving requests remain active for a few hours before being recycled.

The runtime captures logging output from your function and sends it to Amazon CloudWatch Logs. In
addition to logging your function's output, the runtime also logs entries when function invocation starts
and ends. This includes a report log with the request ID, billed duration, initialization duration, and other
details. If your function throws an error, the runtime returns that error to the invoker.
Note
Logging is subject to CloudWatch Logs quotas. Log data can be lost due to throttling or, in some
cases, when an instance of your function is stopped.

For a hands-on introduction to the programming model in your preferred programming language, see
the following chapters.

• Building Lambda functions with Node.js (p. 484)

• Building Lambda functions with Python (p. 510)
• Building Lambda functions with Ruby (p. 547)
• Building Lambda functions with Java (p. 570)
• Building Lambda functions with Go (p. 610)
• Building Lambda functions with C# (p. 638)
• Building Lambda functions with PowerShell (p. 667)

Lambda scales your function by running additional instances of it as demand increases, and by stopping
instances as demand decreases. Unless noted otherwise, incoming requests might be processed out of
order or concurrently. Store your application's state in other services, and don't rely on instances of your
function being long lived. Use local storage and class-level objects to increase performance, but keep

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to a minimum the size of your deployment package and the amount of data that you transfer onto the
execution environment.

Scaling
Lambda manages the infrastructure that runs your code, and scales automatically in response to
incoming requests. When your function is invoked more quickly than a single instance of your function
can process events, Lambda scales up by running additional instances. When traffic subsides, inactive
instances are frozen or stopped. You only pay for the time that your function is initializing or processing
events.

For more information, see AWS Lambda function scaling (p. 153).

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Concurrency controls
Use concurrency settings to ensure that your production applications are highly available and highly
responsive. To prevent a function from using too much concurrency, and to reserve a portion of your
account's available concurrency for a function, use reserved concurrency. Reserved concurrency splits the
pool of available concurrency into subsets. A function with reserved concurrency only uses concurrency
from its dedicated pool.

To enable functions to scale without fluctuations in latency, use provisioned concurrency. For functions
that take a long time to initialize, or that require extremely low latency for all invocations, provisioned
concurrency enables you to pre-initialize instances of your function and keep them running at all times.
Lambda integrates with Application Auto Scaling to support autoscaling for provisioned concurrency
based on utilization.

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Asynchronous invocation

For more information, see Managing concurrency for a Lambda function (p. 84).

Asynchronous invocation
When you invoke a function, you can choose to invoke it synchronously or asynchronously. With
synchronous invocation (p. 138), you wait for the function to process the event and return a response.
With asynchronous invocation, Lambda queues the event for processing and returns a response
immediately.

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Event source mappings

For asynchronous invocations, Lambda handles retries if the function returns an error or is throttled. To
customize this behavior, you can configure error handling settings on a function, version, or alias. You
can also configure Lambda to send events that failed processing to a dead-letter queue, or to send a
record of any invocation to a destination (p. 38).

For more information, see Asynchronous invocation (p. 140).

Event source mappings

To process items from a stream or queue, you can create an event source mapping. An event source
mapping is a resource in Lambda that reads items from an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) queue, an Amazon Kinesis stream, or an Amazon DynamoDB stream, and sends the items to your
function in batches. Each event that your function processes can contain hundreds or thousands of items.

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Event source mappings maintain a local queue of unprocessed items and handle retries if the function
returns an error or is throttled. You can configure an event source mapping to customize batching
behavior and error handling, or to send a record of items that fail processing to a destination.

For more information, see AWS Lambda event source mappings (p. 148).

Destinations
A destination is an AWS resource that receives invocation records for a function. For asynchronous
invocation (p. 36), you can configure Lambda to send invocation records to a queue, topic, function,
or event bus. You can configure separate destinations for successful invocations and events that failed
processing. The invocation record contains details about the event, the function's response, and the
reason that the record was sent.

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For event source mappings (p. 37) that read from streams, you can configure Lambda to send a record
of batches that failed processing to a queue or topic. A failure record for an event source mapping
contains metadata about the batch, and it points to the items in the stream.

For more information, see Configuring destinations for asynchronous invocation (p. 142) and the error
handling sections of Using AWS Lambda with Amazon DynamoDB (p. 313) and Using AWS Lambda
with Amazon Kinesis (p. 365).

Function blueprints
When you create a function in the Lambda console, you can choose to start from scratch, use a
blueprint, use a container image (p. 41), or deploy an application from the AWS Serverless Application
Repository. A blueprint provides sample code that shows how to use Lambda with an AWS service or a
popular third-party application. Blueprints include sample code and function configuration presets for
Node.js and Python runtimes.

Blueprints are provided for use under the Amazon Software License. They are available only in the
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Testing and deployment tools

Testing and deployment tools

Lambda supports deploying code as is or as container images (p. 41). You can use a rich tools
ecosystem for authoring, building, and deploying your Lambda functions using AWS and popular
community tools like the Docker command line interface (CLI).

To set up the Docker CLI, see Get Docker on the Docker Docs website. For an introduction to using Docker
with AWS, see Getting started with Amazon ECR using the AWS CLI in the Amazon Elastic Container
Registry User Guide.

Application templates
You can use the Lambda console to create an application with a continuous delivery pipeline. Application
templates in the Lambda console include code for one or more functions, an application template that
defines functions and supporting AWS resources, and an infrastructure template that defines an AWS
CodePipeline pipeline. The pipeline has build and deploy stages that run every time you push changes to
the included Git repository.

Application templates are provided for use under the MIT No Attribution license. They are available only
in the Lambda console.

For more information, see Creating an application with continuous delivery in the Lambda
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Deployment packages

Lambda deployment packages

Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

Topics
• Container images (p. 41)
• .zip file archives (p. 41)
• Layers (p. 42)
• Using other AWS services to build a deployment package (p. 42)

Container images
A container image includes the base operating system, the runtime, Lambda extensions, your application
code and its dependencies. You can also add static data, such as machine learning models, into the
image.

Lambda provides a set of open-source base images that you can use to build your container image.
To create and test container images, you can use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
command line interface (CLI) or native container tools such as the Docker CLI.

You upload your container images to Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR), a managed AWS
container image registry service. To deploy the image to your function, you specify the Amazon ECR
image URL using the Lambda console, the Lambda API, command line tools, or the AWS SDKs.

For more information about Lambda container images, see Using container images with
Lambda (p. 247).

.zip file archives

A .zip file archive includes your application code and its dependencies. When you author functions using
the Lambda console or a toolkit, Lambda automatically creates a .zip file archive of your code.

When you create functions with the Lambda API, command line tools, or the AWS SDKs, you must create
a deployment package. You also must create a deployment package if your function uses a compiled
language, or to add dependencies to your function. To deploy your function's code, you upload the
deployment package from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or your local machine.

You can upload a .zip file as your deployment package using the Lambda console, AWS Command Line
Interface (AWS CLI), or to an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.

Using the Lambda console

The following steps demonstrate how to upload a .zip file as your deployment package using the
Lambda console.

To upload a .zip file on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Select a function.
3. In the Code Source pane, choose Upload from and then .zip file.
4. Choose Upload to select your local .zip file.

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5. Choose Save.

Using the AWS CLI

You can upload a .zip file as your deployment package using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS
CLI). For language-specific instructions, see the following topics.

• Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 489)
• Deploy Python Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 515)
• Deploy Ruby Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 551)
• Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578)
• Deploy Go Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617)
• Deploy C# Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 645)
• Deploy PowerShell Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 669)

Using Amazon S3
You can upload a .zip file as your deployment package using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon
S3). For more information, see the section called “Using other AWS services”.

Layers
If you deploy your function code using a .zip file archive, you can use Lambda layers as a distribution
mechanism for libraries, custom runtimes, and other function dependencies. Layers enable you to
manage your in-development function code independently from the unchanging code and resources that
it uses. You can configure your function to use layers that you create, layers that AWS provides, or layers
from other AWS customers.

You do not use layers with container images. Instead, you package your preferred runtime, libraries, and
other dependencies into the container image when you build the image.

For more information about layers, see Creating and sharing Lambda layers (p. 101).

Using other AWS services to build a deployment

package
The following section describes other AWS services you can use to package dependencies for your
Lambda function.

Deployment packages with C or C++ libraries

If your deployment package contains native libraries, you can build the deployment package with AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). You can use the AWS SAM CLI sam build command with the
--use-container to create your deployment package. This option builds a deployment package inside
a Docker image that is compatible with the Lambda execution environment.

For more information, see sam build in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

Deployment packages over 50 MB

If your deployment package is larger than 50 MB, we recommend uploading your function code and
dependencies to an Amazon S3 bucket.

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Using other AWS services

You can create a deployment package and upload the .zip file to your Amazon S3 bucket in the AWS
Region where you want to create a Lambda function. When you create your Lambda function, specify the
S3 bucket name and object key name on the Lambda console, or using the AWS CLI.

To create a bucket using the Amazon S3 console, see How do I create an S3 Bucket? in the Amazon
Simple Storage Service Console User Guide.

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Quotas

Lambda quotas
Lambda sets quotas for the amount of compute and storage resources that you can use to run and store
functions. The following quotas apply per AWS Region and can be increased. For more information, see
Requesting a quota increase in the Service Quotas User Guide.

Resource Default quota Can be

increased up
to

Concurrent executions 1,000 Tens of

thousands

Storage for uploaded functions (.zip file archives) 75 GB Terabytes

and layers. Each function version and layer version
consumes storage.

Storage for functions defined as container images. See Amazon ECR service quotas.
These images are stored in Amazon ECR.

Elastic network interfaces per virtual private cloud 250 Hundreds

(VPC) (p. 111)
Note
This quota is shared with other services,
such as Amazon Elastic File System
(Amazon EFS). See Amazon VPC quotas.

For details on concurrency and how Lambda scales your function concurrency in response to traffic, see
AWS Lambda function scaling (p. 153).

The following quotas apply to function configuration, deployments, and execution. They cannot be
changed.

Resource Quota

Function memory allocation (p. 70) 128 MB to 10,240 MB, in 1-MB

increments.

Function timeout (p. 70) 900 seconds (15 minutes)

Function environment variables (p. 77) 4 KB

Function resource-based policy (p. 51) 20 KB

Function layers (p. 101) five layers

Function burst concurrency (p. 153) 500 - 3000 (varies per Region)

Invocation payload (p. 137) (request and response) 6 MB (synchronous)

256 KB (asynchronous)

Deployment package (.zip file archive) (p. 41) size 50 MB (zipped, for direct upload)

250 MB (unzipped, including layers)

3 MB (console editor)

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Resource Quota

Container image (p. 247) code package size 10 GB

Test events (console editor) 10

/tmp directory storage 512 MB

File descriptors 1,024

Execution processes/threads 1,024

The following quotas are associated with Lambda API requests.

Resource Quota

Invocation requests per Region (requests per second) 10 x concurrent executions quota
(synchronous (p. 138), all sources)

10 x concurrent executions quota

(asynchronous (p. 140), non-AWS
sources)

Invocation requests per Region (requests per second) for Unlimited requests accepted. Execution
asynchronous AWS service sources (p. 257) rate is based on concurrency available
to the function. See Asynchronous
invocation (p. 140).

Invocation requests per function version or alias (requests 10 x allocated provisioned

per second) concurrency (p. 84)
Note
This quota applies only to
functions that use provisioned
concurrency.

GetFunction (p. 808) API requests 100 requests per second

GetPolicy (p. 835) API requests 15 requests per second

Remainder of the control plane API requests (excludes 15 requests per second
invocation, GetFunction, and GetPolicy requests)

Quotas for other services, such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon CloudFront
(Lambda@Edge), and Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), can impact your Lambda functions.
For more information, see AWS service quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference, and Using
AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).

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AWS Lambda permissions

You can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to manage access to the Lambda API and
resources like functions and layers. For users and applications in your account that use Lambda, you
manage permissions in a permissions policy that you can apply to IAM users, groups, or roles. To grant
permissions to other accounts or AWS services that use your Lambda resources, you use a policy that
applies to the resource itself.

A Lambda function also has a policy, called an execution role (p. 47), that grants it permission to
access AWS services and resources. At a minimum, your function needs access to Amazon CloudWatch
Logs for log streaming. If you use AWS X-Ray to trace your function (p. 451), or your function accesses
services with the AWS SDK, you grant it permission to call them in the execution role. Lambda also
uses the execution role to get permission to read from event sources when you use an event source
mapping (p. 148) to trigger your function.
Note
If your function needs network access to a resource like a relational database that isn't
accessible through AWS APIs or the internet, configure it to connect to your VPC (p. 111).

Use resource-based policies (p. 51) to give other accounts and AWS services permission to use your
Lambda resources. Lambda resources include functions, versions, aliases, and layer versions. Each of
these resources has a permissions policy that applies when the resource is accessed, in addition to any
policies that apply to the user. When an AWS service like Amazon S3 calls your Lambda function, the
resource-based policy gives it access.

To manage permissions for users and applications in your accounts, use the managed policies that
Lambda provides (p. 56), or write your own. The Lambda console uses multiple services to get
information about your function's configuration and triggers. You can use the managed policies as-is, or
as a starting point for more restrictive policies.

You can restrict user permissions by the resource an action affects and, in some cases, by additional
conditions. For example, you can specify a pattern for the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a function
that requires a user to include their user name in the name of functions that they create. Additionally,
you can add a condition that requires that the user configure functions to use a specific layer to, for
example, pull in logging software. For the resources and conditions that are supported by each action,
see Resources and Conditions (p. 61).

For more information about IAM, see What is IAM? in the IAM User Guide.

For more information about applying security principles to Lambda applications, see Security in the
Lambda operator guide.

Topics
• AWS Lambda execution role (p. 47)
• Using resource-based policies for AWS Lambda (p. 51)
• Identity-based IAM policies for Lambda (p. 56)
• Resources and conditions for Lambda actions (p. 61)
• Using permissions boundaries for AWS Lambda applications (p. 67)

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AWS Lambda execution role

A Lambda function's execution role is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that grants
the function permission to access AWS services and resources. You provide this role when you create a
function, and Lambda assumes the role when your function is invoked. You can create an execution role
for development that has permission to send logs to Amazon CloudWatch and to upload trace data to
AWS X-Ray.

To view a function's execution role

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Permissions.
4. Under Resource summary, view the services and resources that the function can access. The
following example shows the CloudWatch Logs permissions that Lambda adds to an execution role
when you create it in the Lambda console.

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Creating an execution role in the IAM console

You can add or remove permissions from a function's execution role at any time, or configure your
function to use a different role. Add permissions for any services that your function calls with the AWS
SDK, and for services that Lambda uses to enable optional features.

When you add permissions to your function, make an update to its code or configuration as well. This
forces running instances of your function, which have out-of-date credentials, to stop and be replaced.

Topics
• Creating an execution role in the IAM console (p. 48)
• Grant least privilege access to your Lambda execution role (p. 48)
• Managing roles with the IAM API (p. 49)
• AWS managed policies for Lambda features (p. 50)

Creating an execution role in the IAM console

By default, Lambda creates an execution role with minimal permissions when you create a function in the
Lambda console (p. 9). You can also create an execution role in the IAM console.

To create an execution role in the IAM console

1. Open the Roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Under Common use cases, choose Lambda.
4. Choose Next: Permissions.
5. Under Attach permissions policies, choose the AWS managed policies
AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole and AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess.
6. Choose Next: Tags.
7. Choose Next: Review.
8. For Role name, enter lambda-role.
9. Choose Create role.

For detailed instructions, see Creating a role for an AWS service (console) in the IAM User Guide.

Grant least privilege access to your Lambda execution

role
When you first create an IAM role for your Lambda function during the development phase, you might
sometimes grant permissions beyond what is required. Before publishing your function in the production
environment, best practice is to adjust the policy to include only the required permissions. For more
information, see granting least privilege.

Use IAM Access Analyzer to help identify the required permissions for the IAM execution role policy. IAM
Access Analyzer reviews your AWS CloudTrail logs over the date range that you specify and generates
a policy template with only the permissions that the function used during that time. You can use the
template to create a managed policy with fine-grained permissions, and then attach it to the IAM role.
That way, you grant only the permissions that the role needs to interact with AWS resources for your
specific use case.

To learn more, see Generate policies based on access activity in the IAM User Guide.

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Managing roles with the IAM API

To create an execution role with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), use the create-role
command.

aws iam create-role --role-name lambda-ex --assume-role-policy-document file://trust-

policy.json

You should see the following output:

{
"Role": {
"Path": "/",
"RoleName": "lambda-ex",
"RoleId": "AROAQFOXMPL6TZ6ITKWND",
"Arn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex",
"CreateDate": "2020-01-17T23:19:12Z",
"AssumeRolePolicyDocument": {
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}
}
}

The trust-policy.json file is a JSON file in the current directory that defines the trust policy for
the role. This trust policy allows Lambda to use the role's permissions by giving the service principal
lambda.amazonaws.com permission to call the AWS Security Token Service AssumeRole action.

Example trust-policy.json

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}

You can also specify the trust policy inline. Requirements for escaping quotes in the JSON string vary
depending on your shell.

aws iam create-role --role-name lambda-ex --assume-role-policy-document '{"Version":

"2012-10-17","Statement": [{ "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": {"Service":
"lambda.amazonaws.com"}, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"}]}'

To add permissions to the role, use the attach-policy-to-role command. Start by adding the
AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole managed policy.

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AWS managed policies for Lambda features

aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name lambda-ex --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/

service-role/AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole

AWS managed policies for Lambda features

The following AWS managed policies provide permissions that are required to use Lambda features:

• AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole – Permission to upload logs to CloudWatch.

• AWSLambdaDynamoDBExecutionRole – Permission to read records from an Amazon DynamoDB
stream.
• AWSLambdaKinesisExecutionRole – Permission to read events from an Amazon Kinesis data stream
or consumer.
• AWSLambdaMQExecutionRole – Permission to read records from an Amazon MQ broker.
• AWSLambdaMSKExecutionRole – Permission to read records from an Amazon Managed Streaming for
Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) cluster.
• AWSLambdaSQSQueueExecutionRole – Permission to read a message from an Amazon Simple Queue
Service (Amazon SQS) queue.
• AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole – Permission to manage elastic network interfaces to connect
your function to a virtual private cloud (VPC).
• AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess – Permission to upload trace data to X-Ray.
• CloudWatchLambdaInsightsExecutionRolePolicy – Permission to write runtime metrics to
CloudWatch Lambda Insights.

For some features, the Lambda console attempts to add missing permissions to your execution role in a
customer managed policy. These policies can become numerous. To avoid creating extra policies, add the
relevant AWS managed policies to your execution role before enabling features.

When you use an event source mapping (p. 148) to invoke your function, Lambda uses the execution
role to read event data. For example, an event source mapping for Kinesis reads events from a data
stream and sends them to your function in batches. You can use event source mappings with the
following services:

Services that Lambda reads events from

• Amazon DynamoDB (p. 313)

• Amazon Kinesis (p. 365)
• Amazon MQ (p. 389)
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (p. 396)
• self-managed Apache Kafka (p. 356)
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (p. 439)

In addition to the AWS managed policies, the Lambda console provides templates for creating a custom
policy with permissions for additional use cases. When you create a function in the Lambda console,
you can choose to create a new execution role with permissions from one or more templates. These
templates are also applied automatically when you create a function from a blueprint, or when you
configure options that require access to other services. Example templates are available in this guide's
GitHub repository.

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Resource-based policies

Using resource-based policies for AWS Lambda

AWS Lambda supports resource-based permissions policies for Lambda functions and layers. Resource-
based policies let you grant usage permission to other AWS accounts on a per-resource basis. You also
use a resource-based policy to allow an AWS service to invoke your function on your behalf.

For Lambda functions, you can grant an account permission (p. 53) to invoke or manage a function.
You can add multiple statements to grant access to several accounts, or let any account invoke your
function. You can also use the policy to grant invoke permission to an AWS service (p. 52) that invokes
a function in response to activity in your account.

To view a function's resource-based policy

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Permissions.
4. Scroll down to Resource-based policy and then choose View policy document. The resource-based
policy shows the permissions that are applied when another account or AWS service attempts to
access the function. The following example shows a statement that allows Amazon S3 to invoke a
function named my-function for a bucket named my-bucket in account 123456789012.

Example Resource-based policy

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Id": "default",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "lambda-allow-s3-my-function",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "s3.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "lambda:InvokeFunction",
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function”,
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"AWS:SourceAccount": "123456789012"
},
"ArnLike": {
"AWS:SourceArn": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket"
}
}
}
]
}

For Lambda layers, you can only use a resource-based policy on a specific layer version, instead of the
entire layer. In addition to policies that grant permission to a single account or multiple accounts, for
layers, you can also grant permission to all accounts in an organization.
Note
You can only update resource-based policies for Lambda resources within the scope of the
AddPermission (p. 743) and AddLayerVersionPermission (p. 739) API actions. Currently, you
can't author policies for your Lambda resources in JSON, or use conditions that don't map to
parameters for those actions.

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Granting function access to AWS services

Resource-based policies apply to a single function, version, alias, or layer version. They grant permission
to one or more services and accounts. For trusted accounts that you want to have access to multiple
resources, or to use API actions that resource-based policies don't support, you can use cross-account
roles (p. 56).

Topics
• Granting function access to AWS services (p. 52)
• Granting function access to other accounts (p. 53)
• Granting layer access to other accounts (p. 54)
• Cleaning up resource-based policies (p. 55)

Granting function access to AWS services

When you use an AWS service to invoke your function (p. 257), you grant permission in a statement on
a resource-based policy. You can apply the statement to the entire function to be invoked or managed, or
limit the statement to a single version or alias.
Note
When you add a trigger to your function with the Lambda console, the console updates the
function's resource-based policy to allow the service to invoke it. To grant permissions to other
accounts or services that aren't available in the Lambda console, you can use the AWS CLI.

Add a statement with the add-permission command. The simplest resource-based policy statement
allows a service to invoke a function. The following command grants Amazon SNS permission to invoke a
function named my-function.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name my-function --action lambda:InvokeFunction --

statement-id sns \
--principal sns.amazonaws.com --output text

You should see the following output:

{"Sid":"sns","Effect":"Allow","Principal":
{"Service":"sns.amazonaws.com"},"Action":"lambda:InvokeFunction","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-
east-2:123456789012:function:my-function"}

This lets Amazon SNS call the lambda:Invoke API for the function, but it doesn't restrict the Amazon
SNS topic that triggers the invocation. To ensure that your function is only invoked by a specific resource,
specify the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the resource with the source-arn option. The following
command only allows Amazon SNS to invoke the function for subscriptions to a topic named my-topic.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name my-function --action lambda:InvokeFunction --

statement-id sns-my-topic \
--principal sns.amazonaws.com --source-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:my-topic

Some services can invoke functions in other accounts. If you specify a source ARN that has your account
ID in it, that isn't an issue. For Amazon S3, however, the source is a bucket whose ARN doesn't have
an account ID in it. It's possible that you could delete the bucket and another account could create a
bucket with the same name. Use the source-account option with your account ID to ensure that only
resources in your account can invoke the function.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name my-function --action lambda:InvokeFunction --

statement-id s3-account \
--principal s3.amazonaws.com --source-arn arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket-123456 --source-
account 123456789012

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Granting function access to other accounts

Granting function access to other accounts

To grant permissions to another AWS account, specify the account ID as the principal. The following
example grants account 210987654321 permission to invoke my-function with the prod alias.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name my-function:prod --statement-id xaccount --action

lambda:InvokeFunction \
--principal 210987654321 --output text

You should see the following output:

{"Sid":"xaccount","Effect":"Allow","Principal":
{"AWS":"arn:aws:iam::210987654321:root"},"Action":"lambda:InvokeFunction","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us
east-2:123456789012:function:my-function"}

The resource-based policy grants permission for the other account to access the function, but doesn't
allow users in that account to exceed their permissions. Users in the other account must have the
corresponding user permissions (p. 56) to use the Lambda API.

To limit access to a user or role in another account, specify the full ARN of the identity as the principal.
For example, arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/developer.

The alias (p. 97) limits which version the other account can invoke. It requires the other account to
include the alias in the function ARN.

aws lambda invoke --function-name arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-

function:prod out

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "1"
}

The function owner can then update the alias to point to a new version without the caller needing to
change the way they invoke your function. This ensures that the other account doesn't need to change its
code to use the new version, and it only has permission to invoke the version of the function associated
with the alias.

You can grant cross-account access for most API actions that operate on an existing function (p. 64).
For example, you could grant access to lambda:ListAliases to let an account get a list of aliases, or
lambda:GetFunction to let them download your function code. Add each permission separately, or
use lambda:* to grant access to all actions for the specified function.

Cross-account APIs

Currently, Lambda doesn’t currently support cross-account actions for all of its APIs via resource-based
policies. The following APIs are supported:

• Invoke (p. 840)

• GetFunction (p. 808)
• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)
• DeleteFunction (p. 784)

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Granting layer access to other accounts

• PublishVersion (p. 883)

• ListVersionsByFunction (p. 875)
• CreateAlias (p. 747)
• GetAlias (p. 798)
• ListAliases (p. 848)
• UpdateAlias (p. 912)
• DeleteAlias (p. 775)
• GetPolicy (p. 835)
• PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894)
• DeleteFunctionConcurrency (p. 788)
• ListTags (p. 873)
• TagResource (p. 908)
• UntagResource (p. 910)

To grant other accounts permission for multiple functions, or for actions that don't operate on a
function, we recommend that you use IAM roles (p. 56).

Granting layer access to other accounts

To grant layer-usage permission to another account, add a statement to the layer version's permissions
policy using the add-layer-version-permission command. In each statement, you can grant permission
to a single account, all accounts, or an organization.

aws lambda add-layer-version-permission --layer-name xray-sdk-nodejs --statement-id

xaccount \
--action lambda:GetLayerVersion --principal 210987654321 --version-number 1 --output text

You should see output similar to the following:

e210ffdc-e901-43b0-824b-5fcd0dd26d16 {"Sid":"xaccount","Effect":"Allow","Principal":
{"AWS":"arn:aws:iam::210987654321:root"},"Action":"lambda:GetLayerVersion","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:u
east-2:123456789012:layer:xray-sdk-nodejs:1"}

Permissions apply only to a single layer version. Repeat the process each time that you create a new layer
version.

To grant permission to all accounts in an organization, use the organization-id option. The following
example grants all accounts in an organization permission to use version 3 of a layer.

aws lambda add-layer-version-permission --layer-name my-layer \

--statement-id engineering-org --version-number 3 --principal '*' \
--action lambda:GetLayerVersion --organization-id o-t194hfs8cz --output text

You should see the following output:

b0cd9796-d4eb-4564-939f-de7fe0b42236 {"Sid":"engineering-
org","Effect":"Allow","Principal":"*","Action":"lambda:GetLayerVersion","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-
east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:3","Condition":{"StringEquals":{"aws:PrincipalOrgID":"o-
t194hfs8cz"}}}"

To grant permission to all AWS accounts, use * for the principal, and omit the organization ID. For
multiple accounts or organizations, you need to add multiple statements.

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Cleaning up resource-based policies

To view a function's resource-based policy, use the get-policy command.

aws lambda get-policy --function-name my-function --output text

You should see the following output:

{"Version":"2012-10-17","Id":"default","Statement":
[{"Sid":"sns","Effect":"Allow","Principal":
{"Service":"s3.amazonaws.com"},"Action":"lambda:InvokeFunction","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-
east-2:123456789012:function:my-function","Condition":{"ArnLike":
{"AWS:SourceArn":"arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:lambda*"}}}]} 7c681fc9-b791-4e91-
acdf-eb847fdaa0f0

For versions and aliases, append the version number or alias to the function name.

aws lambda get-policy --function-name my-function:PROD

To remove permissions from your function, use remove-permission.

aws lambda remove-permission --function-name example --statement-id sns

Use the get-layer-version-policy command to view the permissions on a layer.

aws lambda get-layer-version-policy --layer-name my-layer --version-number 3 --output text

You should see the following output:

b0cd9796-d4eb-4564-939f-de7fe0b42236 {"Sid":"engineering-
org","Effect":"Allow","Principal":"*","Action":"lambda:GetLayerVersion","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-
west-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:3","Condition":{"StringEquals":{"aws:PrincipalOrgID":"o-
t194hfs8cz"}}}"

Use remove-layer-version-permission to remove statements from the policy.

aws lambda remove-layer-version-permission --layer-name my-layer --version-number 3 --

statement-id engineering-org

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User policies

Identity-based IAM policies for Lambda

You can use identity-based policies in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to grant users in your
account access to Lambda. Identity-based policies can apply to users directly, or to groups and roles that
are associated with a user. You can also grant users in another account permission to assume a role in
your account and access your Lambda resources.

Lambda provides AWS managed policies that grant access to Lambda API actions and, in some cases,
access to other AWS services used to develop and manage Lambda resources. Lambda updates these
managed policies as needed to ensure that your users have access to new features when they're released.
Note
The AWS managed policies AWSLambdaFullAccess and AWSLambdaReadOnlyAccess will be
deprecated on March 1, 2021. After this date, you cannot attach these policies to new IAM users.
For more information, see the related troubleshooting topic (p. 709).

• AWSLambda_FullAccess – Grants full access to Lambda actions and other AWS services used to
develop and maintain Lambda resources. This policy was created by scoping down the previous policy
AWSLambdaFullAccess.
• AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess – Grants read-only access to Lambda resources. This policy was created
by scoping down the previous policy AWSLambdaReadOnlyAccess.
• AWSLambdaRole – Grants permissions to invoke Lambda functions.

AWS managed policies grant permission to API actions without restricting the Lambda functions or layers
that a user can modify. For finer-grained control, you can create your own policies that limit the scope of
a user's permissions.

Sections
• Function development (p. 56)
• Layer development and use (p. 59)
• Cross-account roles (p. 60)
• Condition keys for VPC settings (p. 60)

Function development
The following shows an example of a permissions policy with limited scope. It allows a user to create and
manage Lambda functions named with a designated prefix (intern-), and configured with a designated
execution role.

Example Function development policy

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "ReadOnlyPermissions",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:GetAccountSettings",
"lambda:ListFunctions",
"lambda:ListTags",
"lambda:GetEventSourceMapping",
"lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",
"iam:ListRoles"
],

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"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Sid": "DevelopFunctions",
"Effect": "Allow",
"NotAction": [
"lambda:AddPermission",
"lambda:PutFunctionConcurrency"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:intern-*"
},
{
"Sid": "DevelopEventSourceMappings",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:DeleteEventSourceMapping",
"lambda:UpdateEventSourceMapping",
"lambda:CreateEventSourceMapping"
],
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"StringLike": {
"lambda:FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:intern-*"
}
}
},
{
"Sid": "PassExecutionRole",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"iam:ListRolePolicies",
"iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
"iam:GetRole",
"iam:GetRolePolicy",
"iam:PassRole",
"iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/intern-lambda-execution-role"
},
{
"Sid": "ViewLogs",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"logs:*"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/lambda/intern-*"
}
]
}

The permissions in the policy are organized into statements based on the resources and
conditions (p. 61) that they support.

• ReadOnlyPermissions – The Lambda console uses these permissions when you browse and view
functions. They don't support resource patterns or conditions.

"Action": [
"lambda:GetAccountSettings",
"lambda:ListFunctions",
"lambda:ListTags",
"lambda:GetEventSourceMapping",
"lambda:ListEventSourceMappings",
"iam:ListRoles"

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],
"Resource": "*"

• DevelopFunctions – Use any Lambda action that operates on functions prefixed with intern-,
except AddPermission and PutFunctionConcurrency. AddPermission modifies the resource-
based policy (p. 51) on the function and can have security implications. PutFunctionConcurrency
reserves scaling capacity for a function and can take capacity away from other functions.

"NotAction": [
"lambda:AddPermission",
"lambda:PutFunctionConcurrency"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:intern-*"

• DevelopEventSourceMappings – Manage event source mappings on functions that are prefixed

with intern-. These actions operate on event source mappings, but you can restrict them by function
with a condition.

"Action": [
"lambda:DeleteEventSourceMapping",
"lambda:UpdateEventSourceMapping",
"lambda:CreateEventSourceMapping"
],
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"StringLike": {
"lambda:FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:function:intern-*"
}
}

• PassExecutionRole – View and pass only a role named intern-lambda-execution-role, which

must be created and managed by a user with IAM permissions. PassRole is used when you assign an
execution role to a function.

"Action": [
"iam:ListRolePolicies",
"iam:ListAttachedRolePolicies",
"iam:GetRole",
"iam:GetRolePolicy",
"iam:PassRole",
"iam:SimulatePrincipalPolicy"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:iam::*:role/intern-lambda-execution-role"

• ViewLogs – Use CloudWatch Logs to view logs for functions that are prefixed with intern-.

"Action": [
"logs:*"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:log-group:/aws/lambda/intern-*"

This policy allows a user to get started with Lambda, without putting other users' resources at risk. It
doesn't allow a user to configure a function to be triggered by or call other AWS services, which requires
broader IAM permissions. It also doesn't include permission to services that don't support limited-scope
policies, like CloudWatch and X-Ray. Use the read-only policies for these services to give the user access
to metrics and trace data.

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Layer development and use

When you configure triggers for your function, you need access to use the AWS service that invokes
your function. For example, to configure an Amazon S3 trigger, you need permission to use the
Amazon S3 actions that manage bucket notifications. Many of these permissions are included in the
AWSLambdaFullAccess managed policy. Example policies are available in this guide's GitHub repository.

Layer development and use

The following policy grants a user permission to create layers and use them with functions. The resource
patterns allow the user to work in any AWS Region and with any layer version, as long as the name of the
layer starts with test-.

Example layer development policy

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "PublishLayers",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:PublishLayerVersion"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:layer:test-*"
},
{
"Sid": "ManageLayerVersions",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:GetLayerVersion",
"lambda:DeleteLayerVersion"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:*:*:layer:test-*:*"
}
]
}

You can also enforce layer use during function creation and configuration with the lambda:Layer
condition. For example, you can prevent users from using layers published by other accounts. The
following policy adds a condition to the CreateFunction and UpdateFunctionConfiguration
actions to require that any layers specified come from account 123456789012.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "ConfigureFunctions",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"ForAllValues:StringLike": {
"lambda:Layer": [
"arn:aws:lambda:*:123456789012:layer:*:*"
]
}
}
}
]

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Cross-account roles

To ensure that the condition applies, verify that no other statements grant the user permission to these
actions.

Cross-account roles
You can apply any of the preceding policies and statements to a role, which you can then share with
another account to give it access to your Lambda resources. Unlike an IAM user, a role doesn't have
credentials for authentication. Instead, it has a trust policy that specifies who can assume the role and
use its permissions.

You can use cross-account roles to give accounts that you trust access to Lambda actions and
resources. If you just want to grant permission to invoke a function or use a layer, use resource-based
policies (p. 51) instead.

For more information, see IAM roles in the IAM User Guide.

Condition keys for VPC settings

You can use condition keys for VPC settings to provide additional permission controls for your Lambda
functions. For example, you can enforce that all Lambda functions in your organization are connected to
a VPC. You can also specify the subnets and security groups that the functions are allowed to use, or are
denied from using.

For more information, see the section called “Using IAM condition keys for VPC settings” (p. 113).

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Resources and conditions

Resources and conditions for Lambda actions

You can restrict the scope of a user's permissions by specifying resources and conditions in an IAM policy.
Each API action supports a combination of resource and condition types that varies depending on the
behavior of the action.

Every IAM policy statement grants permission to an action that's performed on a resource. When the
action doesn't act on a named resource, or when you grant permission to perform the action on all
resources, the value of the resource in the policy is a wildcard (*). For many API actions, you can restrict
the resources that a user can modify by specifying the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a resource, or an
ARN pattern that matches multiple resources.

To restrict permissions by resource, specify the resource by ARN.

Lambda resource ARN format

• Function – arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function
• Function version – arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function:1
• Function alias – arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function:TEST
• Event source mapping – arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:event-source-
mapping:fa123456-14a1-4fd2-9fec-83de64ad683de6d47
• Layer – arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer
• Layer version – arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:1

For example, the following policy allows a user in account 123456789012 to invoke a function named
my-function in the US West (Oregon) Region.

Example invoke function policy

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Invoke",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:InvokeFunction"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function"
}
]
}

This is a special case where the action identifier (lambda:InvokeFunction) differs from the API
operation (Invoke (p. 840)). For other actions, the action identifier is the operation name prefixed by
lambda:.

Conditions are an optional policy element that applies additional logic to determine if an action is
allowed. In addition to common conditions supported by all actions, Lambda defines condition types
that you can use to restrict the values of additional parameters on some actions.

For example, the lambda:Principal condition lets you restrict the service or account that a user can
grant invocation access to on a function's resource-based policy. The following policy lets a user grant
permission to SNS topics to invoke a function named test.

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Function resource names

Example manage function policy permissions

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "ManageFunctionPolicy",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:AddPermission",
"lambda:RemovePermission"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:test:*",
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"lambda:Principal": "sns.amazonaws.com"
}
}
}
]
}

The condition requires that the principal is Amazon SNS and not another service or account. The resource
pattern requires that the function name is test and includes a version number or alias. For example,
test:v1.

For more information on resources and conditions for Lambda and other AWS services, see Actions,
resources, and condition keys in the IAM User Guide.

Sections
• Function resource names (p. 62)
• Function actions (p. 64)
• Event source mapping actions (p. 66)
• Layer actions (p. 66)

Function resource names

You reference a Lambda function in a policy statement using an Amazon Resource Names (ARN). The
format of a function ARN depends on whether you are referencing the whole function, a function
version (p. 95), or an alias (p. 97).

When making Lambda API calls, users can specify a version or alias by passing a version ARN or alias ARN
in the FunctionName parameter, or by setting a value in the Qualifier parameter. Lambda makes
authorization decisions by comparing the resource element in the IAM policy with the FunctionName
passed in the API calls.

You must use the correct function ARN types in your policies to achieve the results that you expect,
especially in policies that deny access. We recommend that you follow the best practices for using Deny
statements with functions.

Best practices for using Deny statements with functions

The following table summarizes the resources to use in Deny effects. In the Resource column,
MyFunction is the name of the function, :1 refers to version 1 of the function, and MyAlias is the
name of a function alias.

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Resource best practices

Policy objective Resource

Deny access to all MyFunction*

versions of a function

Deny access to a MyFunction:MyAlias

specific alias and MyFunction

Deny access to a MyFunction:1 and

specific version of a MyFunction
function

The following sections provide example policy statements for each of the policy objectives.
Note
You can use only identity-based policies to deny specific function resources. Currently, Lambda
does not support the Deny effect in resource-based policies.

For the action list in a policy statement, you can add any of the actions defined by Lambda that act on a
function resource.

Deny access to all function versions

The following identity-based policy statement denies access to the
lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration action for all versions of the my-function function. The
wildcard character at the end of the function ARN ensures that this policy applies to all version and alias
ARNs.

Example Example identity-based policy

{
"Version": "2020-07-20",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": [
"lambda:GetFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function*"
}
]
}

Deny access to a specific function alias

To deny access to a specific alias, you must specify both the alias ARN and the unqualified function ARN
in the policy. This prevents users from accessing the specific alias by passing the unqualified ARN as the
FunctionName and the alias as the Qualifier.
Note
If you create this type of policy, API calls need to refer to the unpublished version of the
function by specifying a qualified ARN with the $LATEST suffix in the FunctionName
parameter.

The following identity-based policy statement denies access to the lambda:InvokeFunction action in
the my-alias alias of the my-function function.

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Function actions

Example Example identity-based policy

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "DenySpecificAlias",
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": "lambda:InvokeFunction",
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function:my-alias",
"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function"
]
}
]
}

Deny access to a specific function version

To deny access to a specific version, you must specify both the qualified ARN and the unqualified ARN in
the policy. This prevents users from accessing the specific version by passing the unqualified ARN as the
FunctionName and the version as the Qualifier.
Note
If you create this type of policy, API calls need to refer to the unpublished version of the
function by specifying a qualified ARN with the $LATEST suffix in the FunctionName
parameter.

The following identity-based policy statement denies access to the invoke action in version 1 of the my-
function function.

Example Example identity-based policy

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "DenySpecificFunctionVersion",
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": [
"lambda:InvokeFunction"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function:1",
"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function"
]
}
]
}

Function actions
Actions that operate on a function can be restricted to a specific function by function, version, or alias
ARN, as described in the following table. Actions that don't support resource restrictions can only be
granted for all resources (*).

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Functions

Action Resource Condition

AddPermission (p. 743) Function lambda:Principal

RemovePermission (p. 906) Function version

Function alias

Invoke (p. 840) Function None

Permission: Function version

lambda:InvokeFunction
Function alias

CreateFunction (p. 763) Function lambda:CodeSigningConfigArn

UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936) lambda:Layer

lambda:VpcIds

lambda:SubnetIds

lambda:SecurityGroupIds

CreateAlias (p. 747) Function None

DeleteAlias (p. 775)

DeleteFunction (p. 784)

DeleteFunctionConcurrency (p. 788)

GetAlias (p. 798)

GetFunction (p. 808)

GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)

GetPolicy (p. 835)

ListAliases (p. 848)

ListVersionsByFunction (p. 875)

PublishVersion (p. 883)

PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894)

UpdateAlias (p. 912)

UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)

GetAccountSettings (p. 796) * None

ListFunctions (p. 859)

ListTags (p. 873)

TagResource (p. 908)

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Event source mapping actions

Action Resource Condition

UntagResource (p. 910)

Event source mapping actions

For event source mappings, delete and update permissions can be restricted to a specific event source.
The lambda:FunctionArn condition lets you restrict which functions a user can configure an event
source to invoke.

For these actions, the resource is the event source mapping, so Lambda provides a condition that lets you
restrict permission based on the function that the event source mapping invokes.

Event source mappings

Action Resource Condition

DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779) Event source mapping lambda:FunctionArn

UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)

CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754) * lambda:FunctionArn

GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803) * None

ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)

Layer actions
Layer actions let you restrict the layers that a user can manage or use with a function. Actions related
to layer use and permissions act on a version of a layer, while PublishLayerVersion acts on a layer
name. You can use either with wildcards to restrict the layers that a user can work with by name.
Note
Note: the GetLayerVersion (p. 827) action also covers GetLayerVersionByArn (p. 830).
Lambda does not support GetLayerVersionByArn as an IAM action.

Layers

Action Resource Condition

AddLayerVersionPermission (p. 739) Layer version None

RemoveLayerVersionPermission (p. 904)

GetLayerVersion (p. 827)

GetLayerVersionPolicy (p. 833)

DeleteLayerVersion (p. 792)

ListLayerVersions (p. 867) Layer None

PublishLayerVersion (p. 879)

ListLayers (p. 865) * None

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Using permissions boundaries for AWS Lambda

applications
When you create an application (p. 178) in the AWS Lambda console, Lambda applies a permissions
boundary to the application's IAM roles. The permissions boundary limits the scope of the execution
role (p. 47) that the application's template creates for each of its functions, and any roles that you add
to the template. The permissions boundary prevents users with write access to the application's Git
repository from escalating the application's permissions beyond the scope of its own resources.

The application templates in the Lambda console include a global property that applies a permissions
boundary to all functions that they create.

Globals:
Function:
PermissionsBoundary: !Sub 'arn:${AWS::Partition}:iam::${AWS::AccountId}:policy/
${AppId}-${AWS::Region}-PermissionsBoundary'

The boundary limits the permissions of the functions' roles. You can add permissions to a function's
execution role in the template, but that permission is only effective if it's also allowed by the permissions
boundary. The role that AWS CloudFormation assumes to deploy the application enforces the use of the
permissions boundary. That role only has permission to create and pass roles that have the application's
permissions boundary attached.

By default, an application's permissions boundary enables functions to perform actions on the resources
in the application. For example, if the application includes an Amazon DynamoDB table, the boundary
allows access to any API action that can be restricted to operate on specific tables with resource-level
permissions. You can only use actions that don't support resource-level permissions if they're specifically
permitted in the boundary. These include Amazon CloudWatch Logs and AWS X-Ray API actions for
logging and tracing.

Example permissions boundary

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Action": [
"*"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-app-getAllItemsFunction-
*",
"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-app-getByIdFunction-*",
"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-app-putItemFunction-*",
"arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-1:123456789012:table/my-app-SampleTable-*"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Sid": "StackResources"
},
{
"Action": [
"logs:CreateLogGroup",
"logs:CreateLogStream",
"logs:DescribeLogGroups",
"logs:PutLogEvents",
"xray:Put*"
],
"Resource": "*",

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"Effect": "Allow",
"Sid": "StaticPermissions"
},
...
]
}

To access other resources or API actions, you or an administrator must expand the permissions boundary
to include those resources. You might also need to update the execution role or deployment role of an
application to allow the use of additional actions.

• Permissions boundary – Extend the application's permissions boundary when you add resources to
your application, or the execution role needs access to more actions. In IAM, add resources to the
boundary to allow the use of API actions that support resource-level permissions on that resource's
type. For actions that don't support resource-level permissions, add them in a statement that isn't
scoped to any resource.
• Execution role – Extend a function's execution role when it needs to use additional actions. In the
application template, add policies to the execution role. The intersection of permissions in the
boundary and execution role is granted to the function.
• Deployment role – Extend the application's deployment role when it needs additional permissions
to create or configure resources. In IAM, add policies to the application's deployment role. The
deployment role needs the same user permissions that you need to deploy or update an application in
AWS CloudFormation.

For a tutorial that walks through adding resources to an application and extending its permissions, see
??? (p. 178).

For more information, see Permissions boundaries for IAM entities in the IAM User Guide.

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Managing AWS Lambda functions

You can use the AWS Lambda API or console to create functions and configure function settings. Basic
function settings (p. 70) include the description and the execution role that you specify when you
create a function in the Lambda console. You can configure more settings after you create a function, or
use the API to modify configuration settings such as the handler name, memory allocation, and security
groups during creation.

To keep secrets out of your function code, store them in the function's configuration and read them from
the execution environment during initialization. Environment variables (p. 77) are always encrypted
at rest, and can be encrypted client-side as well. Use environment variables to make your function code
portable by removing connection strings, passwords, and endpoints for external resources.

Versions and aliases (p. 95) are secondary resources that you can create to manage function
deployment and invocation. Publish versions (p. 95) of your function to store its code and
configuration as a separate resource that cannot be changed, and create an alias (p. 97) that points
to a specific version. Then you can configure your clients to invoke a function alias, and update the alias
when you want to point the client to a new version, instead of updating the client.

As you add libraries and other dependencies to your function, creating and uploading a deployment
package can slow down development. Use layers (p. 101) to manage your function's dependencies
independently and keep your deployment package small. You can also use layers to share your own
libraries with other customers and use publicly available layers with your functions.

To use your Lambda function with AWS resources in an Amazon VPC, configure it with security groups
and subnets to create a VPC connection (p. 111). Connecting your function to a VPC lets you access
resources in a private subnet such as relational databases and caches. You can also create a database
proxy (p. 121) for MySQL and Aurora DB instances. A database proxy enables a function to reach high
concurrency levels without exhausting database connections.

To use code signing (p. 130) with your Lambda function, configure it with a code-signing configuration.
When a user attempts to deploy a code package, Lambda checks that the code package has a valid
signature from a trusted publisher. The code-signing configuration includes a set of signing profiles,
which define the trusted publishers for this function.

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Configure console

Configuring functions in the console

You can use the Lambda console to configure function settings, add triggers and destinations, and
update and test your code.

To manage a function, open the Lambda console Functions page and choose a function.

The function overview shows a visualization of your function and its upstream and downstream
resources.

You can use it to configure triggers, layers, and destinations.

• Triggers – Triggers are services and resources that you have configured to invoke your function.
Choose Add trigger to create a Lambda event source mapping (p. 148) or to configure a trigger in
another service that the Lambda console integrates with. For details about these services and others,
see Using AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).
• Layers – Choose the Layers node to add layers (p. 101) to your application. A layer is a .zip file
archive that contains libraries, a custom runtime, or other dependencies.
• Destinations – Add a destination to your function to send details about invocation results to another
service. You can send invocation records when your function is invoked asynchronously (p. 140), or by
an event source mapping (p. 148) that reads from a stream.

By default you are working with the Latest function version. You can modify the following settings in
this version:

Function settings

• Code – The code and dependencies of your function. For scripting languages, you can edit your
function code in the embedded editor (p. 17). To add libraries, or for languages that the editor doesn't
support, or to create a function deployed as a container image, upload a deployment package (p. 41).
If your deployment package is larger than 50 MB, choose Upload a file from Amazon S3.
• Runtime – The Lambda runtime (p. 195) that runs your function.
• Handler – The method that the runtime runs when your function is invoked, such as index.handler.
The first value is the name of the file or module. The second value is the name of the method.
• Environment variables – Key-value pairs that Lambda sets in the execution environment. To extend
your function's configuration outside of code, use environment variables (p. 77).
• Tags – Key-value pairs that Lambda attaches to your function resource. Use tags (p. 134) to organize
Lambda functions into groups for cost reporting and filtering in the Lambda console.

Tags apply to the entire function, including all versions and aliases.
• Execution role – The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role (p. 47) that Lambda assumes
when it runs your function.

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• Description – A description of the function.

• Memory– The amount of memory available to the function at runtime. To set the memory for your
function, enter a value between 128 MB and 10,240 MB in 1-MB increments.
• Timeout – The amount of time that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it. The default is
three seconds. The maximum allowed value is 900 seconds.
• Virtual private cloud (VPC) – If your function needs network access to resources that are not available
over the internet, configure it to connect to a virtual private cloud (VPC) (p. 111).
• Database proxies – Create a database proxy (p. 121) for functions that use an Amazon RDS DB
instance or cluster.
• Active tracing – Sample incoming requests and trace sampled requests with AWS X-Ray (p. 451).
• Concurrency – Reserve concurrency for a function (p. 84) to set the maximum number of
simultaneous executions for a function. Provision concurrency to ensure that a function can scale
without fluctuations in latency.

Reserved concurrency applies to the entire function, including all versions and aliases.
• Asynchronous invocation – Configure error handling behavior (p. 140) to reduce the number of
retries that Lambda attempts, or the amount of time that unprocessed events stay queued before
Lambda discards them. Configure a dead-letter queue (p. 145) to retain discarded events.

You can configure error handling settings on a function, version, or alias.

Except as noted in the preceding list, you can only change function settings on the unpublished version
of a function. When you publish a version, code and most settings are locked to ensure a consistent
experience for users of that version. Use aliases (p. 97) to propagate configuration changes in a
controlled manner.

To configure functions with the Lambda API, use the following actions:

• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927) – Update the function's code.

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936) – Update version-specific settings.
• TagResource (p. 908) – Tag a function.
• AddPermission (p. 743) – Modify the resource-based policy (p. 51) of a function, version, or alias.
• PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894) – Configure a function's reserved concurrency.
• PublishVersion (p. 883) – Create an immutable version with the current code and configuration.
• CreateAlias (p. 747) – Create aliases for function versions.
• PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig – Configure error handling for asynchronous invocation.

For example, to update a function's memory setting with the AWS CLI, use the update-function-
configuration command.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function --memory-size 256

For function configuration best practices, see Function configuration (p. 193).

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Functions defined as container images

Configuring functions defined as container images

You can use the Lambda console and the Lambda API to create a function defined as a container image,
update and test the image code, and configure other function settings.
Note
You cannot convert an existing .zip file archive function to use a container image. You must
create a new function.

When you select an image using an image tag, Lambda translates the tag to the underlying image digest.
To retrieve the digest for your image, use the GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817) API operation. To
update the function to a newer image version, you must use the Lambda console to update the function
code (p. 74), or use the UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927) API operation. Configuration operations such
as UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936) do not update the function's container image.
Note
In Amazon ECR, if you reassign the image tag to another image, Lambda does not update the
image version.

Topics
• Function version $LATEST (p. 72)
• Container image deployment (p. 72)
• Amazon ECR permissions (p. 72)
• Override the container settings (p. 73)
• Creating a function (console) (p. 73)
• Updating the function code (console) (p. 74)
• Overriding the image parameters (console) (p. 74)
• Using the Lambda API (p. 75)
• AWS CloudFormation (p. 75)

Function version $LATEST

When you publish a function version, the code and most of the configuration settings are locked
to maintain a consistent experience for users of that version. You can change the code and many
configuration settings only on the unpublished version of the function. By default, the console displays
configuration information for the unpublished version of the function. To view the versions of a function,
choose Qualifiers. The unpublished version is named $LATEST.

Note that Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) also uses a latest tag to denote the latest
version of the container image. Be careful not to confuse this tag with the $LATEST function version.

For more information about managing versions, see Lambda function versions (p. 95).

Container image deployment

When you deploy code as a container image to a Lambda function, the image undergoes an optimization
process for running on Lambda. This process can take a few seconds, during which the function is in
pending state. When the optimization process completes, the function enters the active state.

Amazon ECR permissions

For your function to access the container image in Amazon ECR, you can add ecr:BatchGetImage and
ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer permissions to your Amazon ECR repository. The following example
shows the minumum policy:

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{
"Sid": "LambdaECRImageRetrievalPolicy",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": [
"ecr:BatchGetImage",
"ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer"
]
}

For more information about Amazon ECR repository permissions, see Repository policies in the Amazon
Elastic Container Registry User Guide.

If the Amazon ECR repository does not include these permissions, Lambda adds ecr:BatchGetImage
and ecr:GetDownloadUrlForLayer to the container image repository permissions. Lambda can
add these permissions only if the Principal calling Lambda has ecr:getRepositoryPolicy and
ecr:setRepositoryPolicy permissions.

To view or edit your Amazon ECR repository permissions, follow the directions in Setting a repository
policy statement in the Amazon Elastic Container Registry User Guide.

Override the container settings

You can use the Lambda console or the Lambda API to override the following container image settings:

• ENTRYPOINT – Specifies the absolute path of the entry point to the application.
• CMD – Specifies parameters that you want to pass in with ENTRYPOINT.
• WORKDIR – Specifies the absolute path of the working directory.
• ENV – Specifies an environment variable for the Lambda function.

Any values that you provide in the Lambda console or the Lambda API override the values in the
Dockerfile (p. 249).

Creating a function (console)

To create a function defined as a container image, you must first create the image (p. 248) and then
store the image in the Amazon ECR repository.

To create the function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. Choose the Container image option.
4. Under Basic information, do the following:

a. For Function name, enter the function name.

b. For Container image URI, enter the Amazon ECR image URI.
• Or, to browse an Amazon ECR repository for the image, choose Browse images. Select the
Amazon ECR repository from the dropdown list, and then select the image.
c. (Optional) To override configuration settings that are included in the Dockerfile, expand
Container image overrides. You can override any of the following settings:

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Updating the function code (console)

• For Entrypoint, enter the full path of the runtime executable. The following example shows
an entrypoint for a Node.js function:

"/usr/bin/npx", "aws-lambda-ric"

• For Command, enter additional parameters to pass in to the image with Entrypoint. The
following example shows a command for a Node.js function:

"app.handler"

• For Working directory, enter the full path of the working directory for the function. The
following example shows the working directory for an AWS base image for Lambda:

"/var/task"

Note
For the override settings, make sure that you enclose each string in quotation marks ("
").
5. (Optional) Under Permissions, expand Change default execution role. Then, choose to create a new
Execution role, or to use an existing role.
6. Choose Create function.

Updating the function code (console)

After you deploy a container image to a function, the image is read-only. To update the function code,
you must first deploy a new image version. Create a new image version (p. 248), and then store the
image in the Amazon ECR repository.

To configure the function to use an updated container image

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose the function to update.
3. Under Image, choose Deploy new image.
4. Choose Browse images.
5. In the Select container image dialog box, select the Amazon ECR repository from the dropdown list,
and then select the new image version.
6. Choose Save.

Overriding the image parameters (console)

You can use the Lambda console to override the configuration values in the container image.

To override the configuration values in the container image

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose the function to update.
3. Under Image configuration, choose Edit.
4. Enter new values for any of the override settings, and then choose Save.
5. (Optional) To add or override environment variables, under Environment variables, choose Edit.

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For more information, see the section called “Environment variables” (p. 77).

Using the Lambda API

To manage functions defined as container images, use the following API operations:

• CreateFunction (p. 763)

• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)
• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

To create a function defined as container image, use the create-function command. Set the
package-type to Image and specify your container image URI using the code parameter. Note that
you must create the function from the same account as the container registry in Amazon EFS.

aws lambda create-function --region sa-east-1 --function-name my-function \

--package-type Image \
--code ImageUri=<ECR Image URI> \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex

To update the function code, use the update-function-code command. Specify the container image
location using the image-uri parameter.
Note
You cannot change the package-type of a function.

aws lambda update-function-code --region sa-east-1 --function-name my-function \

--image-uri <ECR Image URI> \

To update the function parameters, use the update-function-configuration operation. Specify

EntryPoint and Command as arrays of strings, and WorkingDirectory as a string.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--image-config '{"EntryPoint": ["/usr/bin/npx", "aws-lambda-ric"], \
"Command": ["app.handler"] , \
"WorkingDirectory": "/var/task"}'

AWS CloudFormation
You can use AWS CloudFormation to create Lambda functions defined as container images. In your AWS
CloudFormation template, the AWS::Lambda::Function resource specifies the Lambda function. For
descriptions of the properties in the AWS::Lambda::Function resource, see AWS::Lambda::Function in
the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

In the AWS::Lambda::Function resource, set the following properties to create a function defined as a
container image:

• AWS::Lambda::Function
• PackageType – Set to Image.
• Code – Enter your container image URI in the ImageUri field.
• ImageConfig – (Optional) Override the container image configuration properties.

The ImageConfig property in AWS::Lambda::Function contains the following fields:

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• Command – Specifies parameters that you want to pass in with EntryPoint.

• EntryPoint – Specifies the entry point to the application.
• WorkingDirectory – Specifies the working directory.

Note
If you declare an ImageConfig property in your AWS CloudFormation template, you must
provide values for all three of the ImageConfig properties.

For more information, see ImageConfig in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

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Environment variables

Using AWS Lambda environment variables

You can use environment variables to adjust your function's behavior without updating code. An
environment variable is a pair of strings that are stored in a function's version-specific configuration. The
Lambda runtime makes environment variables available to your code and sets additional environment
variables that contain information about the function and invocation request.
Note
To increase database security, we recommend that you use AWS Secrets Manager instead of
environment variables to store database credentials. For more information, see Configuring
database access for a Lambda function.

Environment variables are not evaluated prior to the function invocation. Any value you define is
considered a literal string and not expanded. Perform the variable evaluation in your function code.

Sections
• Configuring environment variables (p. 77)
• Configuring environment variables with the API (p. 78)
• Example scenario for environment variables (p. 78)
• Retrieve environment variables (p. 79)
• Defined runtime environment variables (p. 80)
• Securing environment variables (p. 81)
• Sample code and templates (p. 83)

Configuring environment variables

You define environment variables on the unpublished version of your function. When you publish
a version, the environment variables are locked for that version along with other version-specific
configuration (p. 70).

You create an environment variable on your function by defining a key and a value. Your function uses
the name of the key to retrieve the value of environment variable.

To set environment variables in the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration, then choose Environment variables.
4. Under Environment variables, choose Edit.
5. Choose Add environment variable.
6. Enter a key and value.

Requirements

• Keys start with a letter and are at least two characters.

• Keys only contain letters, numbers, and the underscore character (_).
• Keys aren't reserved by Lambda (p. 80).
• The total size of all environment variables doesn't exceed 4 KB.
7. Choose Save.

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Configuring environment variables with the API

Configuring environment variables with the API

To manage environment variables with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations.

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example sets two environment variables on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--environment "Variables={BUCKET=my-bucket,KEY=file.txt}"

When you apply environment variables with the update-function-configuration command, the
entire contents of the Variables structure is replaced. To retain existing environment variables when
you add a new one, include all existing values in your request.

To get the current configuration, use the get-function-configuration command.

aws lambda get-function-configuration --function-name my-function

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Environment": {
"Variables": {
"BUCKET": "my-bucket",
"KEY": "file.txt"
}
},
"RevisionId": "0894d3c1-2a3d-4d48-bf7f-abade99f3c15",
...
}

To ensure that the values don't change between when you read the configuration and when you update
it, you can pass the revision ID from the output of get-function-configuration as a parameter to
update-function-configuration.

To configure a function's encryption key, set the KMSKeyARN option.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--kms-key-arn arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:123456789012:key/055efbb4-xmpl-4336-
ba9c-538c7d31f599

Example scenario for environment variables

You can use environment variables to customize function behavior in your test environment and
production environment. For example, you can create two functions with the same code but different
configurations. One function connects to a test database, and the other connects to a production
database. In this situation, you use environment variables to tell the function the hostname and other
connection details for the database.

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The following example shows how to define the database host and database name as environment
variables.

If you want your test environment to generate more debug information than the production
environment, you could set an environment variable to configure your test environment to use more
verbose logging or more detailed tracing.

Retrieve environment variables

To retrieve environment variables in your function code, use the standard method for your programming
language.

Node.js

let region = process.env.AWS_REGION

Python

import os
region = os.environ['AWS_REGION']

Note
In some cases, you may need to use the following format:

region = os.environ.get('AWS_REGION')

Ruby

region = ENV["AWS_REGION"]

Java

String region = System.getenv("AWS_REGION");

Go

var region = os.Getenv("AWS_REGION")

C#

string region = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AWS_REGION");

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PowerShell

$region = $env:AWS_REGION

Lambda stores environment variables securely by encrypting them at rest. You can configure Lambda to
use a different encryption key (p. 81), encrypt environment variable values on the client side, or set
environment variables in an AWS CloudFormation template with AWS Secrets Manager.

Defined runtime environment variables

Lambda runtimes (p. 195) set several environment variables during initialization. Most of the
environment variables provide information about the function or runtime. The keys for these
environment variables are reserved and cannot be set in your function configuration.

Reserved environment variables

• _HANDLER – The handler location configured on the function.

• _X_AMZN_TRACE_ID – The X-Ray tracing header (p. 451).
• AWS_REGION – The AWS Region where the Lambda function is executed.
• AWS_EXECUTION_ENV – The runtime identifier (p. 195), prefixed by AWS_Lambda_—for example,
AWS_Lambda_java8.
• AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME – The name of the function.
• AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE – The amount of memory available to the function in MB.
• AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION – The version of the function being executed.

AWS_LAMBDA_INITIALIZATION_TYPE – The initialization type of the function, which is either

on-demand or provisioned-concurrency. For information, see Configuring provisioned
concurrency (p. 87).
• AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME, AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME – The name of the Amazon
CloudWatch Logs group and stream for the function.
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN – The access keys obtained
from the function's execution role (p. 47).
• AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API – (Custom runtime (p. 236)) The host and port of the runtime
API (p. 205).
• LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT – The path to your Lambda function code.
• LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR – The path to runtime libraries.
• TZ – The environment's time zone (UTC). The execution environment uses NTP to synchronize the
system clock.

The following additional environment variables aren't reserved and can be extended in your function
configuration.

Unreserved environment variables

• LANG – The locale of the runtime (en_US.UTF-8).

• PATH – The execution path (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/bin:/opt/bin).
• LD_LIBRARY_PATH – The system library path (/lib64:/usr/lib64:$LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR:
$LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR/lib:$LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT:$LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT/lib:/opt/lib).
• NODE_PATH – (Node.js (p. 484)) The Node.js library path (/opt/nodejs/node12/
node_modules/:/opt/nodejs/node_modules:$LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR/node_modules).
• PYTHONPATH – (Python 2.7, 3.6, 3.8 (p. 510)) The Python library path ($LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR).

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• GEM_PATH – (Ruby (p. 547)) The Ruby library path ($LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT/vendor/bundle/

ruby/2.5.0:/opt/ruby/gems/2.5.0).
• AWS_XRAY_CONTEXT_MISSING – For X-Ray tracing, Lambda sets this to LOG_ERROR to avoid throwing
runtime errors from the X-Ray SDK.
• AWS_XRAY_DAEMON_ADDRESS – For X-Ray tracing, the IP address and port of the X-Ray daemon.
• AWS_LAMBDA_DOTNET_PREJIT – For the .NET 3.1 runtime, set this variable to enable or disable .NET
3.1 specific runtime optimizations. Values include always, never, and provisioned-concurrency.
For information, see Configuring provisioned concurrency (p. 87).

The sample values shown reflect the latest runtimes. The presence of specific variables or their values
can vary on earlier runtimes.

Securing environment variables

Lambda encrypts environment variables with a key that it creates in your account (an AWS managed
customer master key (CMK)). Use of this key is free. You can also choose to provide your own key for
Lambda to use instead of the default key.

When you provide the key, only users in your account with access to the key can view or manage
environment variables on the function. Your organization might also have internal or external
requirements to manage keys that are used for encryption and to control when they're rotated.

To use a customer managed CMK

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration, then choose Environment variables.
4. Under Environment variables, choose Edit.
5. Expand Encryption configuration.
6. Choose Use a customer master key.
7. Choose your customer managed CMK.
8. Choose Save.

Customer managed CMKs incur standard AWS KMS charges.

No AWS KMS permissions are required for your user or the function's execution role to use the default
encryption key. To use a customer managed CMK, you need permission to use the key. Lambda uses your
permissions to create a grant on the key. This allows Lambda to use it for encryption.

• kms:ListAliases – To view keys in the Lambda console.

• kms:CreateGrant, kms:Encrypt – To configure a customer managed CMK on a function.
• kms:Decrypt – To view and manage environment variables that are encrypted with a customer
managed CMK.

You can get these permissions from your user account or from a key's resource-based permissions policy.
ListAliases is provided by the managed policies for Lambda (p. 56). Key policies grant the remaining
permissions to users in the Key users group.

Users without Decrypt permissions can still manage functions, but they can't view environment
variables or manage them in the Lambda console. To prevent a user from viewing environment variables,
add a statement to the user's permissions that denies access to the default key, a customer managed key,
or all keys.

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Example IAM policy – Deny access by key ARN

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "VisualEditor0",
"Effect": "Deny",
"Action": [
"kms:Decrypt"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:kms:us-east-2:123456789012:key/3be10e2d-xmpl-4be4-
bc9d-0405a71945cc"
}
]
}

For details on managing key permissions, see Using key policies in AWS KMS.

You can also encrypt environment variable values on the client side before sending them to Lambda, and
decrypt them in your function code. This obscures secret values in the Lambda console and API output,
even for users who have permission to use the key. In your code, you retrieve the encrypted value from
the environment and decrypt it by using the AWS KMS API.

To encrypt environment variables on the client side

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration, then choose Environment variables.
4. Under Environment variables, choose Edit.
5. Expand Encryption configuration.
6. Choose Enable helpers for encryption in transit.
7. Choose Encrypt next to a variable to encrypt its value.
8. Choose Save.

Note
When you use the console encryption helpers, your function needs permission to call the
kms:Decrypt API operation in its execution role (p. 47).

To view sample code for your function's language, choose Code next to an environment variable. The
sample code shows how to retrieve an environment variable in a function and decrypt its value.

Another option is to store passwords in AWS Secrets Manager secrets. You can reference the secret in
your AWS CloudFormation templates to set passwords on databases. You can also set the value of an
environment variable on the Lambda function. For an example, see the next section.

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Sample code and templates

Sample applications in this guide's GitHub repository demonstrate the use of environment variables in
function code and AWS CloudFormation templates.

Sample applications

• Blank function (p. 466) – Create a function and an Amazon SNS topic in the same template. Pass
the name of the topic to the function in an environment variable. Read environment variables in code
(multiple languages).
• RDS MySQL – Create a VPC and an Amazon RDS DB instance in one template, with a password stored
in Secrets Manager. In the application template, import database details from the VPC stack, read the
password from Secrets Manager, and pass all connection configuration to the function in environment
variables.

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Concurrency

Managing concurrency for a Lambda function

Concurrency is the number of requests that your function is serving at any given time. When your
function is invoked, Lambda allocates an instance of it to process the event. When the function code
finishes running, it can handle another request. If the function is invoked again while a request is still
being processed, another instance is allocated, which increases the function's concurrency. Concurrency is
subject to a Regional quota (p. 44) that is shared by all functions in a Region.

There are two types of concurrency controls available:

• Reserved concurrency – Reserved concurrency guarantees the maximum number of concurrent

instances for the function. When a function has reserved concurrency, no other function can use that
concurrency. There is no charge for configuring reserved concurrency for a function.
• Provisioned concurrency – Provisioned concurrency initializes a requested number of execution
environments so that they are prepared to respond immediately to your function's invocations. Note
that configuring provisioned concurrency incurs charges to your AWS account.

This topic details how to manage and configure reserved and provisioned concurrency. To learn about
how concurrency interacts with scaling, see Lambda function scaling.

To ensure that a function can always reach a certain level of concurrency, configure the function with
reserved concurrency (p. 85). When a function has reserved concurrency, no other function can use
that concurrency. Reserved concurrency also limits the maximum concurrency for the function, and
applies to the function as a whole, including versions and aliases.

When Lambda allocates an instance of your function, the runtime (p. 195) loads your function's code
and runs initialization code that you define outside of the handler. If your code and dependencies are
large, or you create SDK clients during initialization, this process can take some time. As your function
scales up (p. 153), this causes the portion of requests that are served by new instances to have higher
latency than the rest.

To enable your function to scale without fluctuations in latency, use provisioned concurrency (p. 87).
By allocating provisioned concurrency before an increase in invocations, you can ensure that all requests
are served by initialized instances with very low latency. You can configure provisioned concurrency on a
version of a function, or on an alias.

Lambda also integrates with Application Auto Scaling. You can configure Application Auto Scaling
to manage provisioned concurrency on a schedule or based on utilization. Use scheduled scaling to
increase provisioned concurrency in anticipation of peak traffic. To increase provisioned concurrency
automatically as needed, use the Application Auto Scaling API (p. 90) to register a target and create a
scaling policy.

Provisioned concurrency counts towards a function's reserved concurrency and Regional quotas. If
the amount of provisioned concurrency on a function's versions and aliases adds up to the function's
reserved concurrency, all invocations run on provisioned concurrency. This configuration also has the
effect of throttling the unpublished version of the function ($LATEST), which prevents it from executing.
Note
You can't allocate more provisioned concurrency than reserved concurrency for a function.

Sections
• Configuring reserved concurrency (p. 85)
• Configuring provisioned concurrency (p. 87)
• Configuring concurrency with the Lambda API (p. 90)

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Configuring reserved concurrency

To manage reserved concurrency settings for a function, use the Lambda console.

To reserve concurrency for a function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Concurrency.
4. Under Concurrency, choose Edit.
5. Choose Reserve concurrency. Enter the amount of concurrency to reserve for the function.
6. Choose Save.

You can reserve up to the Unreserved account concurrency value that is shown, minus 100 for functions
that don't have reserved concurrency. To throttle a function, set the reserved concurrency to zero. This
stops any events from being processed until you remove the limit.

The following example shows two functions with pools of reserved concurrency, and the unreserved
concurrency pool used by other functions. Throttling errors occur when all of the concurrency in a pool is
in use.

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Legend

• Function concurrency
• Reserved concurrency
• Unreserved concurrency
• Throttling

Reserving concurrency has the following effects.

• Other functions can't prevent your function from scaling – All of your account's functions in the
same Region without reserved concurrency share the pool of unreserved concurrency. Without
reserved concurrency, other functions can use up all of the available concurrency. This prevents your
function from scaling up when needed.
• Your function can't scale out of control – Reserved concurrency also limits your function from
using concurrency from the unreserved pool, which caps its maximum concurrency. You can reserve

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concurrency to prevent your function from using all the available concurrency in the Region, or from
overloading downstream resources.

Setting per-function concurrency can impact the concurrency pool that is available to other functions.
To avoid issues, limit the number of users who can use the PutFunctionConcurrency and
DeleteFunctionConcurrency API operations.

Configuring provisioned concurrency

To manage provisioned concurrency settings for a version or alias, use the Lambda console.

To provision concurrency for an alias

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Concurrency.
4. Under Provisioned concurrency configurations, choose Add configuration.
5. Choose an alias or version.
6. Enter the amount of provisioned concurrency to allocate.
7. Choose Save.

You can manage provisioned concurrency for all aliases and versions from the function configuration
page. The list of provisioned concurrency configurations shows the allocation progress of each
configuration. Provisioned concurrency settings are also available on the configuration page for each
version and alias.

In the following example, the my-function-DEV and my-function-PROD functions are configured
with both reserved and provisioned concurrency. For my-function-DEV, the full pool of reserved
concurrency is also provisioned concurrency. In this case, all invocations either run on provisioned
concurrency or are throttled. For my-function-PROD, a portion of the reserved concurrency pool
is standard concurrency. When all provisioned concurrency is in use, the function scales on standard
concurrency to serve any additional requests.

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Legend

• Function concurrency
• Reserved concurrency
• Provisioned concurrency
• Unreserved concurrency
• Throttling

Provisioned concurrency does not come online immediately after you configure it. Lambda starts
allocating provisioned concurrency after a minute or two of preparation. Similar to how functions scale
under load (p. 153), up to 3000 instances of the function can be initialized at once, depending on the
Region. After the initial burst, instances are allocated at a steady rate of 500 per minute until the request
is fulfilled. When you request provisioned concurrency for multiple functions or versions of a function in
the same Region, scaling quotas apply across all requests.

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Legend

• Function instances
• Open requests
• Provisioned concurrency
• Standard concurrency

To optimize latency, you can customize the initialization behavior for functions that use provisioned
concurrency . You can run initialization code for provisioned concurrency instances without impacting
latency, because the initialization code runs at allocation time. However, the initialization code for an
on-demand instance directly impacts the latency of the first invocation. For an on-demand instance, you
may choose to defer initialization for a specific capability until the function needs that capability.

To determine the type of initialization, check the value of AWS_LAMBDA_INITIALIZATION_TYPE.

Lambda sets this environment variable to provisioned-concurrency or on-demand. The value

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of AWS_LAMBDA_INITIALIZATION_TYPE is immutable and does not change over the lifetime of the
execution environment.

If you use the .NET 3.1 runtime, you can configure the AWS_LAMBDA_DOTNET_PREJIT environment
variable to improve the latency for functions that use provisioned concurrency. The .NET runtime
lazily compiles and initializes each library that your code calls for the first time. As a result, the
first invocation of a Lambda function can take longer than subsequent invocations. When you set
AWS_LAMBDA_DOTNET_PREJIT to ProvisionedConcurrency, Lambda performs ahead-of-time JIT
compilation for common system dependencies. Lambda performs this initialization optimization for
provisioned concurrency instances only, which results in faster performance for the first invocation. If
you set the environment variable to Always, Lambda performs ahead-of-time JIT compilation for every
initialization. If you set the environment variable to Never, ahead-of-time JIT compilation is disabled.
The default value for AWS_LAMBDA_DOTNET_PREJIT is ProvisionedConcurrency.

For provisioned concurrency instances, your function's initialization code (p. 32) runs during allocation
and every few hours, as running instances of your function are recycled. You can see the initialization
time in logs and traces (p. 451) after an instance processes a request. However, initialization is billed
even if the instance never processes a request. Provisioned concurrency runs continually and is billed
separately from initialization and invocation costs. For details, see AWS Lambda pricing.

Each version of a function can only have one provisioned concurrency configuration. This can be directly
on the version itself, or on an alias that points to the version. Two aliases can't allocate provisioned
concurrency for the same version. Also, you can't allocate provisioned concurrency on an alias that points
to the unpublished version ($LATEST).

When you change the version that an alias points to, provisioned concurrency is deallocated from the old
version and then allocated to the new version. You can add a routing configuration to an alias that has
provisioned concurrency. However, you can't manage provisioned concurrency settings on the alias while
the routing configuration is in place.

Lambda emits the following metrics for provisioned concurrency:

Provisioned concurrency metrics

• ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions
• ProvisionedConcurrencyInvocations
• ProvisionedConcurrencySpilloverInvocations
• ProvisionedConcurrencyUtilization

For details, see Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692).

Configuring concurrency with the Lambda API

To manage concurrency settings and autoscaling with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API
operations.

• PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894)

• GetFunctionConcurrency
• DeleteFunctionConcurrency (p. 788)
• PutProvisionedConcurrencyConfig
• GetProvisionedConcurrencyConfig
• ListProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs
• DeleteProvisionedConcurrencyConfig

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• GetAccountSettings (p. 796)

• (Application Auto Scaling) RegisterScalableTarget
• (Application Auto Scaling) PutScalingPolicy

To configure reserved concurrency with the AWS CLI, use the put-function-concurrency command.
The following command reserves a concurrency of 100 for a function named my-function:

aws lambda put-function-concurrency --function-name my-function --reserved-concurrent-

executions 100

You should see the following output:

{
"ReservedConcurrentExecutions": 100
}

To allocate provisioned concurrency for a function, use put-provisioned-concurrency-config.

The following command allocates a concurrency of 100 for the BLUE alias of a function named my-
function:

aws lambda put-provisioned-concurrency-config --function-name my-function \

--qualifier BLUE --provisioned-concurrent-executions 100

You should see the following output:

{
"Requested ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": 100,
"Allocated ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": 0,
"Status": "IN_PROGRESS",
"LastModified": "2019-11-21T19:32:12+0000"
}

To configure Application Auto Scaling to manage provisioned concurrency, use the Application Auto
Scaling to configure target tracking scaling. First, register a function's alias as a scaling target. The
following example registers the BLUE alias of a function named my-function:

aws application-autoscaling register-scalable-target --service-namespace lambda \

--resource-id function:my-function:BLUE --min-capacity 1 --max-capacity 100 \
--scalable-dimension lambda:function:ProvisionedConcurrency

Next, apply a scaling policy to the target. The following example configures Application Auto Scaling to
adjust the provisioned concurrency configuration for an alias to keep utilization near 70 percent:

aws application-autoscaling put-scaling-policy --service-namespace lambda \

--scalable-dimension lambda:function:ProvisionedConcurrency --resource-id function:my-
function:BLUE \
--policy-name my-policy --policy-type TargetTrackingScaling \
--target-tracking-scaling-policy-configuration '{ "TargetValue":
0.7, "PredefinedMetricSpecification": { "PredefinedMetricType":
"LambdaProvisionedConcurrencyUtilization" }}'

You should see the following output:

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"PolicyARN": "arn:aws:autoscaling:us-east-2:123456789012:scalingPolicy:12266dbb-1524-
xmpl-a64e-9a0a34b996fa:resource/lambda/function:my-function:BLUE:policyName/my-policy",
"Alarms": [
{
"AlarmName": "TargetTracking-function:my-function:BLUE-AlarmHigh-aed0e274-
xmpl-40fe-8cba-2e78f000c0a7",
"AlarmARN": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-2:123456789012:alarm:TargetTracking-
function:my-function:BLUE-AlarmHigh-aed0e274-xmpl-40fe-8cba-2e78f000c0a7"
},
{
"AlarmName": "TargetTracking-function:my-function:BLUE-AlarmLow-7e1a928e-
xmpl-4d2b-8c01-782321bc6f66",
"AlarmARN": "arn:aws:cloudwatch:us-east-2:123456789012:alarm:TargetTracking-
function:my-function:BLUE-AlarmLow-7e1a928e-xmpl-4d2b-8c01-782321bc6f66"
}
]
}

Application Auto Scaling creates two alarms in CloudWatch. The first alarm triggers when the utilization
of provisioned concurrency consistently exceeds 70 percent. When this happens, Application Auto
Scaling allocates more provisioned concurrency to reduce utilization. The second alarm triggers when
utilization is consistently less than 63 percent (90 percent of the 70 percent target). When this happens,
Application Auto Scaling reduces the alias's provisioned concurrency.

In the following example, a function scales between a minimum and maximum amount of provisioned
concurrency based on utilization. When the number of open requests increases, Application Auto
Scaling increases provisioned concurrency in large steps until it reaches the configured maximum. The
function continues to scale on standard concurrency until utilization starts to drop. When utilization is
consistently low, Application Auto Scaling decreases provisioned concurrency in smaller periodic steps.

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Legend

• Function instances
• Open requests
• Provisioned concurrency
• Standard concurrency

To view your account's concurrency quotas in a Region, use get-account-settings.

aws lambda get-account-settings

You should see the following output:

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{
"AccountLimit": {
"TotalCodeSize": 80530636800,
"CodeSizeUnzipped": 262144000,
"CodeSizeZipped": 52428800,
"ConcurrentExecutions": 1000,
"UnreservedConcurrentExecutions": 900
},
"AccountUsage": {
"TotalCodeSize": 174913095,
"FunctionCount": 52
}
}

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Versions

Lambda function versions

You can use versions to manage the deployment of your functions. For example, you can publish a new
version of a function for beta testing without affecting users of the stable production version. Lambda
creates a new version of your function each time that you publish the function. The new version is a copy
of the unpublished version of the function.

A function version includes the following information:

• The function code and all associated dependencies.

• The Lambda runtime that invokes the function.
• All of the function settings, including the environment variables.
• A unique Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to identify the specific version of the function.

Sections
• Creating function versions (p. 95)
• Managing versions with the Lambda API (p. 95)
• Using versions (p. 96)
• Granting permissions (p. 96)

Creating function versions

You can change the function code and settings only on the unpublished version of a function. When
you publish a version, the code and most of the settings are locked to maintain a consistent experience
for users of that version. For more information about configuring function settings, see Configuring
functions in the console (p. 70).

You can create a function version using the Lambda console.

To create a new function version

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function and then choose Versions.
3. On the versions configuration page, choose Publish new version.
4. (Optional) Enter a version description.
5. Choose Publish.

Managing versions with the Lambda API

To publish a version of a function, use the PublishVersion (p. 883) API operation.

The following example publishes a new version of a function. The response returns configuration
information about the new version, including the version number and the function ARN with the version
suffix.

aws lambda publish-version --function-name my-function

You should see the following output:

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"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function:1",
"Version": "1",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "function.handler",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
...
}

Using versions
You can reference your Lambda function using either a qualified ARN or an unqualified ARN.

• Qualified ARN – The function ARN with a version suffix. The following example refers to version 42 of
the helloworld function.

arn:aws:lambda:aws-region:acct-id:function:helloworld:42

• Unqualified ARN – The function ARN without a version suffix.

arn:aws:lambda:aws-region:acct-id:function:helloworld

You can use a qualified or an unqualified ARN in all relevant API operations. However, you can't use an
unqualified ARN to create an alias.

If you decide not to publish function versions, you can invoke the function using either the qualified
or unqualified ARN in your event source mapping (p. 148). When you invoke a function using an
unqualified ARN, Lambda implicitly invokes $LATEST.

Lambda publishes a new function version only if the code has never been published or if the code has
changed from the last published version. If there is no change, the function version remains at the last
published version.

The qualified ARN for each Lambda function version is unique. After you publish a version, you can't
change the ARN or the function code.

Granting permissions
You can use a resource-based policy (p. 51) or an identity-based policy (p. 56) to grant access to your
function. The scope of the permission depends on whether you apply the policy to a function or to one
version of a function. For more information about function resource names in policies, see Resources and
conditions for Lambda actions (p. 61).

You can simplify the management of event sources and AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
policies by using function aliases. For more information, see Lambda function aliases (p. 97).

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Lambda function aliases

You can create one or more aliases for your Lambda function. A Lambda alias is like a pointer to a
specific function version. Users can access the function version using the alias Amazon Resource Name
(ARN).

Sections
• Creating a function alias (Console) (p. 97)
• Managing aliases with the Lambda API (p. 97)
• Using aliases (p. 98)
• Resource policies (p. 98)
• Alias routing configuration (p. 98)

Creating a function alias (Console)

You can create a function alias using the Lambda console.

To create an alias

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Aliases and then choose Create alias.
4. On the Create alias page, do the following:

a. Enter a Name for the alias.

b. (Optional) Enter a Description for the alias.
c. For Version, choose a function version that you want the alias to point to.
d. (Optional) To configure routing on the alias, expand Weighted alias. For more information, see
Alias routing configuration (p. 98).
e. Choose Save.

Managing aliases with the Lambda API

To create an alias using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), use the create-alias command.

aws lambda create-alias --function-name my-function --name alias-name --function-

version version-number --description " "

To change an alias to point a new version of the function, use the update-alias command.

aws lambda update-alias --function-name my-function --name alias-name --function-

version version-number

To delete an alias, use the delete-alias command.

aws lambda delete-alias --function-name my-function --name alias-name

The AWS CLI commands in the preceding steps correspond to the following Lambda API operations:

• CreateAlias (p. 747)

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• UpdateAlias (p. 912)

• DeleteAlias (p. 775)

Using aliases
Each alias has a unique ARN. An alias can point only to a function version, not to another alias. You can
update an alias to point to a new version of the function.

Event sources such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) invoke your Lambda function. These
event sources maintain a mapping that identifies the function to invoke when events occur. If you specify
a Lambda function alias in the mapping configuration, you don't need to update the mapping when the
function version changes. For more information, see AWS Lambda event source mappings (p. 148).

In a resource policy, you can grant permissions for event sources to use your Lambda function. If you
specify an alias ARN in the policy, you don't need to update the policy when the function version
changes.

Resource policies
You can use a resource-based policy (p. 51) to give a service, resource, or account access to your function.
The scope of that permission depends on whether you apply it to an alias, a version, or the entire
function. For example, if you use an alias name (such as helloworld:PROD), the permission allows you
to invoke the helloworld function using the alias ARN (helloworld:PROD).

If you attempt to invoke the function without an alias or a specific version, then you get a permission
error. This permission error still occurs even if you attempt to directly invoke the function version
associated with the alias.

For example, the following AWS CLI command grants Amazon S3 permissions to invoke the PROD alias
of the helloworld function when Amazon S3 is acting on behalf of examplebucket.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name helloworld \

--qualifier PROD --statement-id 1 --principal s3.amazonaws.com --action
lambda:InvokeFunction \
--source-arn arn:aws:s3:::examplebucket --source-account 123456789012

For more information about using resource names in policies, see Resources and conditions for Lambda
actions (p. 61).

Alias routing configuration

Use routing configuration on an alias to send a portion of traffic to a second function version. For
example, you can reduce the risk of deploying a new version by configuring the alias to send most of the
traffic to the existing version, and only a small percentage of traffic to the new version.

Note that Lambda uses a simple probabilistic model to distribute the traffic between the two function
versions. At low traffic levels, you might see a high variance between the configured and actual
percentage of traffic on each version. If your function uses provisioned concurrency, you can avoid
spillover invocations (p. 692) by configuring a higher number of provisioned concurrency instances
during the time that alias routing is active.

You can point an alias to a maximum of two Lambda function versions. The versions must meet the
following criteria:

• Both versions must have the same execution role (p. 47).

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• Both versions must have the same dead-letter queue configuration, or no dead-letter queue
configuration.
• Both versions must be published. The alias cannot point to $LATEST.

To configure routing on an alias

Note
Verify that the function has at least two published versions. To create additional versions, follow
the instructions in Lambda function versions (p. 95).

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Aliases and then choose Create alias.
4. On the Create alias page, do the following:

a. Enter a Name for the alias.

b. (Optional) Enter a Description for the alias.
c. For Version, choose the first function version that you want the alias to point to.
d. Expand Weighted alias.
e. For Additional version, choose the second function version that you want the alias to point to.
f. For Weight (%), enter a weight value for the function. Weight is the percentage of traffic that is
assigned to that version when the alias is invoked. The first version receives the residual weight.
For example, if you specify 10 percent to Additional version, the first version is assigned 90
percent automatically.
g. Choose Save.

Configuring alias routing using CLI

Use the create-alias and update-alias AWS CLI commands to configure the traffic weights
between two function versions. When you create or update the alias, you specify the traffic weight in the
routing-config parameter.

The following example creates a Lambda function alias named routing-alias that points to version 1
of the function. Version 2 of the function receives 3 percent of the traffic. The remaining 97 percent of
traffic is routed to version 1.

aws lambda create-alias --name routing-alias --function-name my-function --function-version

1 \
--routing-config AdditionalVersionWeights={"2"=0.03}

Use the update-alias command to increase the percentage of incoming traffic to version 2. In the
following example, you increase the traffic to 5 percent.

aws lambda update-alias --name routing-alias --function-name my-function \

--routing-config AdditionalVersionWeights={"2"=0.05}

To route all traffic to version 2, use the update-alias command to change the function-version
property to point the alias to version 2. The command also resets the routing configuration.

aws lambda update-alias --name routing-alias --function-name my-function \

--function-version 2 --routing-config AdditionalVersionWeights={}

The AWS CLI commands in the preceding steps correspond to the following Lambda API operations:

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• CreateAlias (p. 747)

• UpdateAlias (p. 912)

Determining which version has been invoked

When you configure traffic weights between two function versions, there are two ways to determine the
Lambda function version that has been invoked:

• CloudWatch Logs – Lambda automatically emits a START log entry that contains the invoked version
ID to Amazon CloudWatch Logs for every function invocation. The following is an example:

19:44:37 START RequestId: request id Version: $version

For alias invocations, Lambda uses the Executed Version dimension to filter the metric data by the
invoked version. For more information, see Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692).
• Response payload (synchronous invocations) – Responses to synchronous function invocations
include an x-amz-executed-version header to indicate which function version has been invoked.

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Creating layers

Creating and sharing Lambda layers

A Lambda layer is a .zip file archive that can contain additional code or data. A layer can contain libraries,
a custom runtime (p. 236), data, or configuration files. Layers promote code sharing and separation of
responsibilities so that you can iterate faster on writing business logic.

You can use layers only with Lambda functions deployed as a .zip file archive (p. 41). For functions
defined as a container image (p. 247), you package your preferred runtime and all code dependencies
when you create the container image. For more information, see Working with Lambda layers and
extensions in container images on the AWS Compute Blog.

You can create layers using the Lambda console, the Lambda API, AWS CloudFormation, or the AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). For more information about creating layers with AWS SAM, see
Working with layers in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

Sections
• Creating layer content (p. 101)
• Compiling the .zip file archive for your layer (p. 101)
• Including library dependencies in a layer (p. 102)
• Creating a layer (p. 103)
• Deleting a layer version (p. 104)
• Configuring layer permissions (p. 104)
• Using AWS CloudFormation with layers (p. 105)

Creating layer content

When you create a layer, you must bundle all its content into a .zip file archive. You upload the .zip file
archive to your layer from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) or your local machine. Lambda
extracts the layer contents into the /opt directory when setting up the execution environment for the
function.

Using the AWS CLI

You can create and upload a .zip file for your layer using the Lambda console or the AWS Command Line
Interface (AWS CLI). For language-specific instructions, see the following topics.

• Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 489)
• Deploy Python Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 515)
• Deploy Ruby Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 551)
• Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578)
• Deploy Go Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617)
• Deploy C# Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 645)
• Deploy PowerShell Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 669)

Compiling the .zip file archive for your layer

You build your layer code into a .zip file archive using the same procedure as you would for a function.
If your layer includes any native code libraries, you must compile and build these libraries using a Linux
development machine so that the binaries are compatible with Amazon Linux (p. 195).

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Including library dependencies in a layer

One way to ensure that you package libraries correctly for Lambda is to use AWS Cloud9. For more
information, see Using Lambda layers to simplify your development process on the AWS Compute Blog.

Including library dependencies in a layer

For each Lambda runtime (p. 195), the PATH variable includes specific folders in the /opt directory. If
you define the same folder structure in your layer .zip file archive, your function code can access the layer
content without the need to specify the path.

The following table lists the folder paths that each runtime supports.

Layer paths for each Lambda runtime

Runtime Path

Node.js nodejs/node_modules

nodejs/node14/node_modules (NODE_PATH)

Python python

python/lib/python3.8/site-packages(site
directories)

Java java/lib (CLASSPATH)

Ruby ruby/gems/2.5.0 (GEM_PATH)

ruby/lib (RUBYLIB)

All runtimes bin (PATH)

lib (LD_LIBRARY_PATH)

The following examples show how you can structure the folders in your layer .zip archive.

Node.js

Example file structure for the AWS X-Ray SDK for Node.js

xray-sdk.zip
# nodejs/node_modules/aws-xray-sdk

Python

Example file structure for the Pillow library

pillow.zip
# python/PIL
# python/Pillow-5.3.0.dist-info

Ruby

Example file structure for the JSON gem

json.zip

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# ruby/gems/2.5.0/
| build_info
| cache
| doc
| extensions
| gems
| # json-2.1.0
# specifications
# json-2.1.0.gemspec

Java

Example file structure for the Jackson JAR file

jackson.zip
# java/lib/jackson-core-2.2.3.jar

All

Example file structure for the jq library

jq.zip
# bin/jq

For more information about path settings in the Lambda execution environment, see Defined runtime
environment variables (p. 80).

Creating a layer
You can create new layers using the Lambda console or the Lambda API.

Layers can have one or more version. When you create a layer, Lambda sets the layer version to version
1. You can configure permissions on an existing layer version, but to update the code or make other
configuration changes, you must create a new version of the layer.

To create a layer (console)

1. Open the Layers page of the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create layer.
3. Under Layer configuration, for Name, enter a name for your layer.
4. (Optional) For Description, enter a description for your layer.
5. To upload your layer code, do one of the following:
• To upload a .zip file from your computer, choose Upload a .zip file. Then, choose Upload to
select your local .zip file.
• To upload a file from Amazon S3, choose Upload a file from Amazon S3. Then, for Amazon S3
link URL, enter a link to the file.
6. (Optional) For Compatible runtimes, choose up to 15 runtimes.
7. (Optional) For License, enter any necessary license information.
8. Choose Create.

To create a layer (API)

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Deleting a layer version

To create a layer, use the publish-layer-version command with a name, description, .zip file archive, and
list of runtimes (p. 195) that are compatible with the layer. The list of runtimes is optional.

aws lambda publish-layer-version --layer-name my-layer --description "My layer" \

--license-info "MIT" --content S3Bucket=lambda-layers-us-
east-2-123456789012,S3Key=layer.zip \
--compatible-runtimes python3.6 python3.7 python3.8

You should see output similar to the following:

{
"Content": {
"Location": "https://awslambda-us-east-2-layers.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
snapshots/123456789012/my-layer-4aaa2fbb-ff77-4b0a-ad92-5b78a716a96a?
versionId=27iWyA73cCAYqyH...",
"CodeSha256": "tv9jJO+rPbXUUXuRKi7CwHzKtLDkDRJLB3cC3Z/ouXo=",
"CodeSize": 169
},
"LayerArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer",
"LayerVersionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:1",
"Description": "My layer",
"CreatedDate": "2018-11-14T23:03:52.894+0000",
"Version": 1,
"LicenseInfo": "MIT",
"CompatibleRuntimes": [
"python3.6",
"python3.7",
"python3.8"
]
}

Note
Each time that you call publish-layer-version, you create a new version of the layer.

Deleting a layer version

To delete a layer version, use the delete-layer-version command.

aws lambda delete-layer-version --layer-name my-layer --version-number 1

When you delete a layer version, you can no longer configure a Lambda function to use it. However, any
function that already uses the version continues to have access to it. Version numbers are never reused
for a layer name.

Configuring layer permissions

By default, a layer that you create is private to your AWS account. However, you can optionally share the
layer with other accounts or make it public.

To grant layer-usage permission to another account, add a statement to the layer version's permissions
policy using the add-layer-version-permission command. In each statement, you can grant permission
to a single account, all accounts, or an organization.

aws lambda add-layer-version-permission --layer-name xray-sdk-nodejs --statement-id

xaccount \
--action lambda:GetLayerVersion --principal 210987654321 --version-number 1 --output text

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You should see output similar to the following:

e210ffdc-e901-43b0-824b-5fcd0dd26d16 {"Sid":"xaccount","Effect":"Allow","Principal":
{"AWS":"arn:aws:iam::210987654321:root"},"Action":"lambda:GetLayerVersion","Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:u
east-2:123456789012:layer:xray-sdk-nodejs:1"}

Permissions apply only to a single layer version. Repeat the process each time that you create a new layer
version.

For more examples, see Granting layer access to other accounts (p. 54).

Using AWS CloudFormation with layers

You can use AWS CloudFormation to create a layer and associate the layer with your Lambda function.
The following example template creates a layer named blank-nodejs-lib and attaches the layer to the
Lambda function using the Layers property.

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: A Lambda application that calls the Lambda API.
Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
CodeUri: function/.
Description: Call the Lambda API
Timeout: 10
# Function's execution role
Policies:
- AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
- AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess
- AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-nodejs-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank sample app.
ContentUri: lib/.
CompatibleRuntimes:
- nodejs12.x

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Using layers with your Lambda function

A Lambda layer is a .zip file archive that can contain additional code or other content. A layer can contain
libraries, a custom runtime, data, or configuration files. Use layers to reduce deployment package size
and to promote code sharing and separation of responsibilities so that you can iterate faster on writing
business logic.

You can use layers only with Lambda functions deployed as a .zip file archive (p. 41). For a function
defined as a container image (p. 247), you can package your preferred runtime and all code
dependencies when you create the container image. For more information, see Working with Lambda
layers and extensions in container images on the AWS Compute Blog.

Sections
• Configuring a function to use layers (p. 106)
• Accessing the contents of a layer (p. 107)
• Finding layer information (p. 107)
• Updating a layer version that your function uses (p. 108)
• Adding layer permissions (p. 108)
• Using AWS SAM to add a layer to a function (p. 105)
• Sample applications (p. 109)

Configuring a function to use layers

A Lambda function can use up to five layers at a time. The total unzipped size of the function and all
layers cannot exceed the unzipped deployment package size quota of 250 MB. For more information, see
Lambda quotas (p. 44).

If your functions consume a layer that a different AWS account publishes, your functions can continue
to use the layer version after it has been deleted, or after your permission to access the layer is revoked.
However, you cannot create a new function that uses a deleted layer version.

To add layers to your function, use the update-function-configuration command. The following
example adds two layers: one from the same AWS account as the function, and one from a different
account.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--layers arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:3
\
arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:210987654321:layer:their-layer:2

You should see output similar to the following:

{
"FunctionName": "test-layers",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/service-role/lambda-role",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:3",
"CodeSize": 169
},
{
"Arn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:210987654321:layer:their-layer:2",

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"CodeSize": 169
}
],
"RevisionId": "81cc64f5-5772-449a-b63e-12330476bcc4",
...
}

To specify the layer versions to use, you must provide the full Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of each
layer version. When you add layers to a function that already has layers, you overwrite the previous list of
layers. Be sure to include all layers every time that you update the layer configuration. Or, to remove all
layers, specify an empty list.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function --layers []

The creator of a layer can delete a version of the layer. If you're using that layer version in a function,
your function continues to run as though the layer version still exists. However, when you update the
layer configuration, you must remove the reference to the deleted version.

Accessing the contents of a layer

When you include a layer in a Lambda function, Lambda extracts the layer's contents into the /opt
directory in the function execution environment. Lambda extracts layers in the order that you specified
them, merging any folders with the same name. If the same file appears in multiple layers, the function
uses the version in the last extracted layer.

Each Lambda runtime (p. 195) adds specific /opt directory folders to the PATH variable. Your function
code can access the layer content without the need to specify the path. For more information about path
settings in the Lambda execution environment, see Defined runtime environment variables (p. 80).

Finding layer information

To find layers in your AWS account that are compatible with your Lambda function's runtime, use the
list-layers command.

aws lambda list-layers --compatible-runtime python3.8

You should see output similar to the following:

{
"Layers": [
{
"LayerName": "my-layer",
"LayerArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer",
"LatestMatchingVersion": {
"LayerVersionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-
layer:2",
"Version": 2,
"Description": "My layer",
"CreatedDate": "2018-11-15T00:37:46.592+0000",
"CompatibleRuntimes": [
"python3.6",
"python3.7",
"python3.8",
]
}
}
]

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Updating a layer version that your function uses

To list all layers in your account, you can omit the --compatible-runtime option. The details in the
response reflect the latest version of the layer.

You can also get the latest version of a layer using the list-layer-versions command.

aws lambda list-layer-versions --layer-name my-layer --query

'LayerVersions[0].LayerVersionArn

Updating a layer version that your function uses

Layers are versioned, and the content of each layer version is immutable. The layer owner can release a
new layer version to provide updated content.

To add an updated layer version to your function, use the update-function-configuration command.
Use the --layers option with this command to list all of the layer versions that you want to add. If the
function already has layers, the new list overwrites the previous list.

To update only one of the layer versions, you must include the ARNs of the existing layer versions with
the --layers option.

The following procedure assumes that you have packaged the updated layer code into a local file named
layer.zip.

Add an updated layer version to your function

1. (Optional) If the new layer version is not published yet, publish the new version.

aws lambda publish-layer-version --layer-name my-layer --description "My layer" --

license-info "MIT" \
--zip-file "fileb://layer.zip" --compatible-runtimes python3.6 python3.7

2. (Optional) If the function has more than one layer, get the current layer versions associated with the
function.

aws lambda get-function-config --function-name my-function --query 'Layers[*].Arn' --

output yaml

3. Add the new layer version to the function. In the following example command, the function also has
a layer version named other-layer:5:

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--layers arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:my-layer:2 \
arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:layer:other-layer:5

Adding layer permissions

To use a Lambda function with a layer, you need permission to call the GetLayerVersion (p. 827) API
operation on the layer version. For functions in your AWS account, you can add this permission from your
user policy (p. 56).

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Using AWS SAM to add a layer to a function

To use a layer in another account, the owner of that account must grant your account permission in a
resource-based policy (p. 51).

For examples, see Granting layer access to other accounts (p. 54).

Using AWS SAM to add a layer to a function

To automate the creation and mapping of layers in your application, use the AWS Serverless Application
Model (AWS SAM). The AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion resource type creates a layer version that
you can reference from your Lambda function configuration.

Example blank-nodejs/template.yml – Serverless resources

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: An AWS Lambda application that calls the Lambda API.
Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
CodeUri: function/.
Description: Call the AWS Lambda API
Timeout: 10
# Function's execution role
Policies:
- AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
- AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess
- AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-nodejs-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank sample app.
ContentUri: lib/.
CompatibleRuntimes:
- nodejs12.x

When you update your dependencies and deploy, AWS SAM creates a new version of the layer and
updates the mapping.

Sample applications
The GitHub repository for this guide provides blank sample applications that demonstrate the use of
layers for dependency management.

• Node.js – blank-nodejs
• Python – blank-python
• Ruby – blank-ruby
• Java – blank-java

For more information about the blank sample app, see Blank function sample application for AWS
Lambda (p. 466). For other samples, see Samples (p. 464).

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Memory

Configuring Lambda function memory

Lambda allocates CPU power in proportion to the amount of memory configured. Memory is the amount
of memory available to your Lambda function at runtime. You can increase or decrease the memory and
CPU power allocated to your function using the Memory (MB) setting. To configure the memory for your
function, set a value between 128 MB and 10,240 MB in 1-MB increments. At 1,769 MB, a function has
the equivalent of one vCPU (one vCPU-second of credits per second).

This page describes how to update the memory allotted to your function in the Lambda console.

Sections
• Configuring function memory (console) (p. 110)
• Accepting function memory recommendations (console) (p. 110)

Configuring function memory (console)

You can configure the memory of your function in the Lambda console.

To update the memory of a function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose General configuration
4. Under General configuration, choose Edit.
5. For Memory (MB), set a value from 128 MB to 10,240 MB.
6. Choose Save.

Accepting function memory recommendations

(console)
If you have administrator permissions in AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), you can opt in
to receive Lambda function memory setting recommendations from AWS Compute Optimizer. For
instructions on opting in to memory recommendations for your account or organization, see Opting in
your account in the AWS Compute Optimizer User Guide.

When you've opted in and your Lambda function meets Compute Optimizer requirements, you can view
and accept function memory recommendations from Compute Optimizer in the Lambda console.

To accept a function memory recommendation

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose General configuration
4. Under General configuration, choose Edit.
5. Under Memory (MB), in the memory alert, choose Update.
6. Choose Save.

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Configuring a Lambda function to access resources

in a VPC
You can configure a Lambda function to connect to private subnets in a virtual private cloud (VPC) in
your AWS account. Use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to create a private network for
resources such as databases, cache instances, or internal services. Connect your function to the VPC to
access private resources while the function is running.

When you connect a function to a VPC, Lambda creates an elastic network interface for each subnet in
your function's VPC configuration. This process can take several minutes.

While Lambda creates a network interface, you can't perform additional operations that target the
function, such as creating versions (p. 95) or updating the function's code. For new functions, you can't
invoke the function until its state changes from Pending to Active. For existing functions, you can still
invoke an earlier version while the update is in progress. For more information about function states, see
Monitoring the state of a function with the Lambda API (p. 151).

Multiple functions can share a network interface, if the functions share the same subnet and security
group. Connecting additional functions to a subnet that has an existing Lambda-managed network
interface is much quicker than having Lambda create additional network interfaces. However, if you have
many functions or functions with high network usage, Lambda might still create additional network
interfaces.

If your functions aren't active for a long period of time, Lambda reclaims its network interfaces, and the
functions become Idle. To reactivate an idle function, invoke it. This invocation fails, and the function
enters a Pending state again until a network interface is available.

Lambda functions can't connect directly to a VPC with dedicated instance tenancy. To connect to
resources in a dedicated VPC, peer it to a second VPC with default tenancy.

Sections
• Execution role and user permissions (p. 111)
• Configuring VPC access (console) (p. 112)
• Configuring VPC access (API) (p. 112)
• Using IAM condition keys for VPC settings (p. 113)
• Internet and service access for VPC-connected functions (p. 116)
• VPC tutorials (p. 116)
• Sample VPC configurations (p. 116)

Execution role and user permissions

Lambda uses your function's permissions to create and manage network interfaces. To connect to a VPC,
your function's execution role (p. 47) must have the following permissions:

Execution role permissions

• ec2:CreateNetworkInterface
• ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces
• ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface

These permissions are included in the AWS managed policy AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole.

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Configuring VPC access (console)

When you configure VPC connectivity, Lambda uses your permissions to verify network resources. To
configure a function to connect to a VPC, your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user needs
the following permissions:

User permissions

• ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups
• ec2:DescribeSubnets
• ec2:DescribeVpcs

Configuring VPC access (console)

If your IAM permissions (p. 113) allow you only to create Lambda functions that connect to your VPC,
you must configure the VPC when you create the function. If your IAM permissions allow you to create
functions that aren't connected to your VPC, you can add the VPC configuration after you create the
function.

To configure a VPC when you create a function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. Under Basic information, for Function name, enter a name for your function.
4. Expand Advanced settings.
5. Under Network, choose a VPC for your function to access.
6. Choose subnets and security groups. When you choose a security group, the console displays the
inbound and outbound rules for that security group.
Note
To access private resources, connect your function to private subnets. If your function needs
internet access, use network address translation (NAT) (p. 116). Connecting a function to a
public subnet doesn't give it internet access or a public IP address.
7. Choose Create function.

To configure a VPC for an existing function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose VPC.
4. Under VPC, choose Edit.
5. Choose a VPC, subnets, and security groups.
Note
To access private resources, connect your function to private subnets. If your function needs
internet access, use network address translation (NAT) (p. 116). Connecting a function to a
public subnet doesn't give it internet access or a public IP address.
6. Choose Save.

Configuring VPC access (API)

To connect a Lambda function to a VPC, you can use the following API operations:

• CreateFunction (p. 763)

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• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

To create a function and connect it to a VPC using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), you can
use the create-function command with the vpc-config option. The following example creates a
function with a connection to a VPC with two subnets and one security group.

aws lambda create-function --function-name my-function \

--runtime nodejs12.x --handler index.js --zip-file fileb://function.zip \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role \
--vpc-config
SubnetIds=subnet-071f712345678e7c8,subnet-07fd123456788a036,SecurityGroupIds=sg-085912345678492fb

To connect an existing function to a VPC, use the update-function-configuration command with

the vpc-config option.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--vpc-config
SubnetIds=subnet-071f712345678e7c8,subnet-07fd123456788a036,SecurityGroupIds=sg-085912345678492fb

To disconnect your function from a VPC, update the function configuration with an empty list of subnets
and security groups.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--vpc-config SubnetIds=[],SecurityGroupIds=[]

Using IAM condition keys for VPC settings

You can use Lambda-specific condition keys for VPC settings to provide additional permission controls
for your Lambda functions. For example, you can require that all functions in your organization are
connected to a VPC. You can also specify the subnets and security groups that the function's users can
and can't use.

Lambda supports the following condition keys in IAM policies:

• lambda:VpcIds – Allow or deny one or more VPCs.

• lambda:SubnetIds – Allow or deny one or more subnets.
• lambda:SecurityGroupIds – Allow or deny one or more security groups.

The Lambda API operations CreateFunction (p. 763) and UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)
support these condition keys. For more information about using condition keys in IAM policies, see IAM
JSON Policy Elements: Condition in the IAM User Guide.
Tip
If your function already includes a VPC configuration from a previous API request, you can send
an UpdateFunctionConfiguration request without the VPC configuration.

Example policies with condition keys for VPC settings

The following examples demonstrate how to use condition keys for VPC settings. After you create a
policy statement with the desired restrictions, append the policy statement for the target IAM user or
role.

Ensure that users deploy only VPC-connected functions

To ensure that all users deploy only VPC-connected functions, you can deny function create and update
operations that don't include a valid VPC ID.

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Note that VPC ID is not an input parameter to the CreateFunction or

UpdateFunctionConfiguration request. Lambda retrieves the VPC ID value based on the subnet and
security group parameters.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "EnforceVPCFunction",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Effect": "Deny",
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"Null": {
"lambda:VpcIds": "true"
}
}
}
]
}

Deny users access to specific VPCs, subnets, or security groups

To deny users access to specific VPCs, use StringEquals to check the value of the lambda:VpcIds
condition. The following example denies users access to vpc-1 and vpc-2.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "EnforceOutOfVPC",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Effect": "Deny",
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"lambda:VpcIds": ["vpc-1", "vpc-2"]
}
}
}

To deny users access to specific subnets, use StringEquals to check the value of the
lambda:SubnetIds condition. The following example denies users access to subnet-1 and subnet-2.

{
"Sid": "EnforceOutOfSubnet",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Effect": "Deny",
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {

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"lambda:SubnetIds": ["subnet-1", "subnet-2"]

}
}
}

To deny users access to specific security groups, use StringEquals to check the value of the
lambda:SecurityGroupIds condition. The following example denies users access to sg-1 and sg-2.

{
"Sid": "EnforceOutOfSecurityGroups",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Effect": "Deny",
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"ForAnyValue:StringEquals": {
"lambda:SecurityGroupIds": ["sg-1", "sg-2"]
}
}
}
]
}

Allow users to create and update functions with specific VPC settings
To allow users to access specific VPCs, use StringEquals to check the value of the lambda:VpcIds
condition. The following example allows users to access vpc-1 and vpc-2.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "EnforceStayInSpecificVpc",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"lambda:VpcIds": ["vpc-1", "vpc-2"]
}
}
}

To allow users to access specific subnets, use StringEquals to check the value of the
lambda:SubnetIds condition. The following example allows users to access subnet-1 and subnet-2.

{
"Sid": "EnforceStayInSpecificSubnets",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Effect": "Allow",

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"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
"lambda:SubnetIds": ["subnet-1", "subnet-2"]
}
}
}

To allow users to access specific security groups, use StringEquals to check the value of the
lambda:SecurityGroupIds condition. The following example allows users to access sg-1 and sg-2.

{
"Sid": "EnforceStayInSpecificSecurityGroup",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
"lambda:UpdateFunctionConfiguration"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"ForAllValues:StringEquals": {
"lambda:SecurityGroupIds": ["sg-1", "sg-2"]
}
}
}
]
}

Internet and service access for VPC-connected

functions
By default, Lambda runs your functions in a secure VPC with access to AWS services and the internet.
Lambda owns this VPC, which isn't connected to your account's default VPC. When you connect a
function to a VPC in your account, the function can't access the internet unless your VPC provides access.
Note
Several AWS services offer VPC endpoints. You can use VPC endpoints to connect to AWS
services from within a VPC without internet access.

Internet access from a private subnet requires network address translation (NAT). To give your function
access to the internet, route outbound traffic to a NAT gateway in a public subnet. The NAT gateway
has a public IP address and can connect to the internet through the VPC's internet gateway. For more
information, see How do I give internet access to my Lambda function in a VPC?

VPC tutorials
In the following tutorials, you connect a Lambda function to resources in your VPC.

• Tutorial: Configuring a Lambda function to access Amazon RDS in an Amazon VPC (p. 401)
• Tutorial: Configuring a Lambda function to access Amazon ElastiCache in an Amazon VPC (p. 345)

Sample VPC configurations

You can use the following sample AWS CloudFormation templates to create VPC configurations to use
with Lambda functions. There are two templates available in this guide's GitHub repository:

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• vpc-private.yaml – A VPC with two private subnets and VPC endpoints for Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon DynamoDB. Use this template to create a VPC for functions that
don't need internet access. This configuration supports use of Amazon S3 and DynamoDB with the
AWS SDKs, and access to database resources in the same VPC over a local network connection.
• vpc-privatepublic.yaml – A VPC with two private subnets, VPC endpoints, a public subnet with a NAT
gateway, and an internet gateway. Internet-bound traffic from functions in the private subnets is
routed to the NAT gateway using a route table.

To create a VPC using a template, on the AWS CloudFormation console Stacks page, choose Create stack,
and then follow the instructions in the Create stack wizard.

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Configuring interface VPC endpoints for Lambda

If you use Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) to host your AWS resources, you can establish a
connection between your VPC and Lambda. You can use this connection to invoke your Lambda function
without crossing the public internet.

To establish a private connection between your VPC and Lambda, create an interface VPC endpoint.
Interface endpoints are powered by AWS PrivateLink, which enables you to privately access Lambda APIs
without an internet gateway, NAT device, VPN connection, or AWS Direct Connect connection. Instances
in your VPC don't need public IP addresses to communicate with Lambda APIs. Traffic between your VPC
and Lambda does not leave the AWS network.

Each interface endpoint is represented by one or more elastic network interfaces in your subnets. A
network interface provides a private IP address that serves as an entry point for traffic to Lambda.

Sections
• Considerations for Lambda interface endpoints (p. 118)
• Creating an interface endpoint for Lambda (p. 119)
• Creating an interface endpoint policy for Lambda (p. 119)

Considerations for Lambda interface endpoints

Before you set up an interface endpoint for Lambda, be sure to review Interface endpoint properties and
limitations in the Amazon VPC User Guide.

You can call any of the Lambda API operations from your VPC. For example, you can invoke the Lambda
function by calling the Invoke API from within your VPC. For the full list of Lambda APIs, see Actions in
the Lambda API reference.

Keep-alive for persistent connections

Lambda purges idle connections over time, so you must use a keep-alive directive to maintain persistent
connections. Attempting to reuse an idle connection when invoking a function results in a connection
error. To maintain your persistent connection, use the keep-alive directive associated with your runtime.
For an example, see Reusing Connections with Keep-Alive in Node.js in the AWS SDK for JavaScript
Developer Guide.

Billing Considerations
There is no additional cost to access a Lambda function through an interface endpoint. For more Lambda
pricing information, see AWS Lambda Pricing.

Standard pricing for AWS PrivateLink applies to interface endpoints for Lambda. Your AWS account
is billed for every hour an interface endpoint is provisioned in each Availability Zone and for data
processed through the interface endpoint. For more interface endpoint pricing information, see AWS
PrivateLink pricing.

VPC Peering Considerations

You can connect other VPCs to the VPC with interface endpoints using VPC peering. VPC peering is
a networking connection between two VPCs. You can establish a VPC peering connection between
your own two VPCs, or with a VPC in another AWS account. The VPCs can also be in two different AWS
Regions.

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Traffic between peered VPCs stays on the AWS network and does not traverse the public internet.
Once VPCs are peered, resources like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, Amazon
Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances, or VPC-enabled Lambda functions in both VPCs can
access the Lambda API through interface endpoints created in the one of the VPCs.

Creating an interface endpoint for Lambda

You can create an interface endpoint for Lambda using either the Amazon VPC console or the AWS
Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). For more information, see Creating an interface endpoint in the
Amazon VPC User Guide.

To create an interface endpoint for Lambda (console)

1. Open the Endpoints page of the Amazon VPC console.

2. Choose Create Endpoint.
3. For Service category, verify that AWS services is selected.
4. For Service Name, choose com.amazonaws.region.lambda. Verify that the Type is Interface.
5. Choose a VPC and subnets.
6. To enable private DNS for the interface endpoint, select the Enable DNS Name check box.
7. For Security group, choose one or more security groups.
8. Choose Create endpoint.

To use the private DNS option, you must set the enableDnsHostnames and
enableDnsSupportattributes of your VPC. For more information, see Viewing and updating
DNS support for your VPC in the Amazon VPC User Guide. If you enable private DNS for the interface
endpoint, you can make API requests to Lambda using its default DNS name for the Region, for example,
lambda.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. For more service endpoints, see Service endpoints and quotas in
the AWS General Reference.

For more information, see Accessing a service through an interface endpoint in the Amazon VPC User
Guide.

For information about creating and configuring an endpoint using AWS CloudFormation, see the
AWS::EC2::VPCEndpoint resource in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

To create an interface endpoint for Lambda (AWS CLI)

Use the create-vpc-endpoint command and specify the VPC ID, VPC endpoint type (interface),
service name, subnets that will use the endpoint, and security groups to associate with the endpoint's
network interfaces. For example:

aws ec2 create-vpc-endpoint --vpc-id vpc-ec43eb89 --vpc-endpoint-type Interface --service-

name \
com.amazonaws.us-east-1.lambda --subnet-id subnet-abababab --security-group-id
sg-1a2b3c4d

Creating an interface endpoint policy for Lambda

To control who can use your interface endpoint and which Lambda functions the user can access, you can
attach an endpoint policy to your endpoint. The policy specifies the following information:

• The principal that can perform actions.

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• The actions that the principal can perform.

• The resources on which the principal can perform actions.

For more information, see Controlling access to services with VPC endpoints in the Amazon VPC User
Guide.

Example: Interface endpoint policy for Lambda actions

The following is an example of an endpoint policy for Lambda. When attached to an endpoint, this policy
allows user MyUser to invoke the function my-function.

{
"Statement":[
{
"Principal":
{
"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::123412341234:user/MyUser"
},
"Effect":"Allow",
"Action":[
"lambda:InvokeFunction"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function”
]
}
]
}

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Configuring database access for a Lambda

function
You can create an Amazon RDS Proxy database proxy for your function. A database proxy manages a
pool of database connections and relays queries from a function. This enables a function to reach high
concurrency (p. 31) levels without exhausting database connections.

Sections
• Creating a database proxy (console) (p. 121)
• Using the function's permissions for authentication (p. 122)
• Sample application (p. 122)

Creating a database proxy (console)

You can use the Lambda console to create an Amazon RDS Proxy database proxy.

To create a database proxy

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Database proxies.
4. Choose Add database proxy.
5. Configure the following options.

• Proxy identifier – The name of the proxy.

• RDS DB instance – A supported MySQL or PostgreSQL DB instance or cluster.
• Secret – A Secrets Manager secret with the database user name and password.

Example secret

{
"username": "admin",
"password": "e2abcecxmpldc897"
}

• IAM role – An IAM role with permission to use the secret, and a trust policy that allows Amazon
RDS to assume the role.
• Authentication – The authentication and authorization method for connecting to the proxy from
your function code.
6. Choose Add.

Pricing
Amazon RDS charges a hourly price for proxies that is determined by the instance size of your
database. For details, see RDS Proxy pricing.

Proxy creation takes a few minutes. When the proxy is available, configure your function to connect to
the proxy endpoint instead of the database endpoint.

Standard Amazon RDS Proxy pricing applies. For more information, see Managing connections with the
Amazon RDS Proxy in the Amazon Aurora User Guide.

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Using the function's permissions for authentication

By default, you can connect to a proxy with the same username and password that it uses to connect to
the database. The only difference in your function code is the endpoint that the database client connects
to. The drawback of this method is that you must expose the password to your function code, either by
configuring it in a secure environment variable or by retrieving it from Secrets Manager.

You can create a database proxy that uses the function's IAM credentials for authentication and
authorization instead of a password. To use the function's permissions to connect to the proxy, set
Authentication to Execution role.

The Lambda console adds the required permission (rds-db:connect) to the execution role. You can
then use the AWS SDK to generate a token that allows it to connect to the proxy. The following example
shows how to configure a database connection with the mysql2 library in Node.js.

Example dbadmin/index-iam.js – AWS SDK signer

const signer = new AWS.RDS.Signer({

region: region,
hostname: host,
port: sqlport,
username: username
})

exports.handler = async (event) => {

let connectionConfig = {
host : host,
user : username,
database : database,
ssl: 'Amazon RDS',
authPlugins: { mysql_clear_password: () => () => signer.getAuthToken() }
}
var connection = mysql.createConnection(connectionConfig)
var query = event.query
var result
connection.connect()
}

For more information, see IAM database authentication in the Amazon RDS User Guide.

Sample application
Sample applications that demonstrate the use of Lambda with an Amazon RDS database are available in
this guide's GitHub repository. There are two applications:

• RDS MySQL – The AWS CloudFormation template template-vpcrds.yml creates a MySQL 5.7
database in a private VPC. In the sample application, a Lambda function proxies queries to the
database. The function and database templates both use Secrets Manager to access database
credentials.

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• List Manager – A processor function reads events from a Kinesis stream. It uses the data from the
events to update DynamoDB tables, and stores a copy of the event in a MySQL database.

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To use the sample applications, follow the instructions in the GitHub repository: RDS MySQL, List
Manager.

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Configuring file system access for Lambda

functions
You can configure a function to mount an Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file system to a local
directory. With Amazon EFS, your function code can access and modify shared resources safely and at
high concurrency.

Sections
• Connecting to a file system (console) (p. 126)
• Configuring a file system and access point (p. 126)
• Execution role and user permissions (p. 127)
• Configuring file system access with the Lambda API (p. 128)
• AWS CloudFormation and AWS SAM (p. 128)
• Sample applications (p. 129)

Connecting to a file system (console)

A function connects to a file system over the local network in a VPC. The subnets that your function
connects to can be the same subnets that contain mount points for your file system, or subnets in the
same Availability Zone that can route NFS traffic (port 2049) to the file system.
Note
If your function is not already connected to a VPC, see Configuring a Lambda function to access
resources in a VPC (p. 111).

To configure file system access

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose File systems.
4. Under File system, choose Add file system.
5. Configure the following properties:

• EFS file system – The access point for a file system in the same VPC.
• Local mount path – The location where the file system is mounted on the Lambda function,
starting with /mnt/.

Pricing
Amazon EFS charges for storage and throughput, with rates that vary by storage class. For
details, see Amazon EFS pricing.
Lambda charges for data transfer between VPCs. This only applies if your function's VPC is
peered to another VPC with a file system. The rates are the same as for Amazon EC2 data
transfer between VPCs in the same Region. For details, see Lambda pricing.

For more information about Lambda's integration with Amazon EFS, see Using Amazon EFS with
Lambda (p. 351).

Configuring a file system and access point

Create a file system in Amazon EFS with a mount target in every Availability Zone that your function
connects to. For performance and resilience, use at least two Availability Zones. For example, in a simple

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configuration you could have a VPC with two private subnets in separate Availability Zones. The function
connects to both subnets and a mount target is available in each. Ensure that NFS traffic (port 2049) is
allowed by the security groups used by the function and mount targets.
Note
When you create a file system, you choose a performance mode that can't be changed later.
General purpose mode has lower latency, and Max I/O mode supports a higher maximum
throughput and IOPS. For help choosing, see Amazon EFS performance in the Amazon Elastic
File System User Guide.

An access point connects each instance of the function to the right mount target for the Availability Zone
it connects to. For best performance, create an access point with a non-root path, and limit the number
of files that you create in each directory. User and owner IDs are required, but they don't need to have a
specific value. The following example creates a directory named my-function on the file system and
sets the owner ID to 1001 with standard directory permissions (755).

Example access point configuration

• Name – files
• User ID – 1001
• Group ID – 1001
• Path – /my-function
• Permissions – 755
• Owner user ID – 1001
• Group user ID – 1001

When a function uses the access point, it is given user ID 1001 and has full access to the directory.

For more information, see the following topics in the Amazon Elastic File System User Guide:

• Creating resources for Amazon EFS

• Working with users, groups, and permissions

Execution role and user permissions

Lambda uses your function's permissions to mount file systems. To connect to a file system, your
function's execution role must have the following permissions in addition to the permissions required to
connect to the file system's VPC (p. 111):

Execution role permissions

• elasticfilesystem:ClientMount
• elasticfilesystem:ClientWrite (not required for read-only connections)

These permissions are included in the AmazonElasticFileSystemClientReadWriteAccess managed policy.

When you configure a file system, Lambda uses your permissions to verify mount targets. To configure a
function to connect to a file system, your IAM user needs the following permissions:

User permissions

• elasticfilesystem:DescribeMountTargets

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Configuring file system access with the Lambda API

Use the following API operations to connect your Lambda function to a file system:

• CreateFunction (p. 763)

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

To connect a function to a file system, use the update-function-configuration command. The

following example connects a function named my-function to a file system with ARN of an access
point.

ARN=arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:us-east-2:123456789012:access-point/fsap-015cxmplb72b405fd
aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \
--fs-config FileSystemArn=$ARN,LocalMountPath=/mnt/efs0

You can get the ARN of a file system's access point with the describe-access-points command.

aws efs describe-access-points

You should see the following output:

{
"AccessPoints": [
{
"ClientToken": "console-aa50c1fd-xmpl-48b5-91ce-57b27a3b1017",
"Name": "lambda-ap",
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": "lambda-ap"
}
],
"AccessPointId": "fsap-015cxmplb72b405fd",
"AccessPointArn": "arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:us-east-2:123456789012:access-
point/fsap-015cxmplb72b405fd",
"FileSystemId": "fs-aea3xmpl",
"RootDirectory": {
"Path": "/"
},
"OwnerId": "123456789012",
"LifeCycleState": "available"
}
]
}

AWS CloudFormation and AWS SAM

You can use AWS CloudFormation and the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) to
automate the creation of Lambda applications. To enable a file system connection on an AWS SAM
AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the FileSystemConfigs property.

Example template.yml – File system configuration

Resources:
VPC:
Type: AWS::EC2::VPC
Properties:

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CidrBlock: 10.0.0.0/16
Subnet1:
Type: AWS::EC2::Subnet
Properties:
VpcId:
Ref: VPC
CidrBlock: 10.0.1.0/24
AvailabilityZone: "eu-central-1a"
EfsSecurityGroup:
Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
Properties:
VpcId:
Ref: VPC
GroupDescription: "mnt target sg"
SecurityGroupEgress:
- IpProtocol: -1
CidrIp: "0.0.0.0/0"
FileSystem:
Type: AWS::EFS::FileSystem
Properties:
PerformanceMode: generalPurpose
MountTarget1:
Type: AWS::EFS::MountTarget
Properties:
FileSystemId:
Ref: FileSystem
SubnetId:
Ref: Subnet1
SecurityGroups:
- Ref: EfsSecurityGroup
MyFunctionWithEfs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: function/.
Description: Use a file system.
FileSystemConfigs:
-
Arn: !Sub
- "arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:eu-central-1:123456789101:access-point/
fsap-015cxmplb72b405fd"
LocalMountPath: "/mnt/efs0"
DependsOn: "MountTarget1"

You must add the DependsOn to ensure that the mount targets are fully created before the Lambda runs
for the first time.

For the AWS CloudFormation AWS::Lambda::Function type, the property name and fields are the
same. For more information, see Using AWS Lambda with AWS CloudFormation (p. 303).

Sample applications
The GitHub repository for this guide includes a sample application that demonstrates the use of Amazon
EFS with a Lambda function.

• efs-nodejs – A function that uses an Amazon EFS file system in a Amazon VPC. This sample includes a
VPC, file system, mount targets, and access point configured for use with Lambda.

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Configuring code signing for AWS Lambda

Code signing for AWS Lambda helps to ensure that only trusted code runs in your Lambda functions.
When you enable code signing for a function, Lambda checks every code deployment and verifies that
the code package is signed by a trusted source.
Note
Functions defined as container images do not support code signing.

To verify code integrity, use AWS Signer to create digitally signed code packages for functions and
layers. When a user attempts to deploy a code package, Lambda performs validation checks on the code
package before accepting the deployment. Because code signing validation checks run at deployment
time, there is no performance impact on function execution.

You also use AWS Signer to create signing profiles. You use a signing profile to create the signed code
package. Use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) to control who can sign code packages and
create signing profiles. For more information, see Authentication and Access Control in the AWS Signer
Developer Guide.

To enable code signing for a function, you create a code signing configuration and attach it to the
function. A code signing configuration defines a list of allowed signing profiles and the policy action to
take if any of the validation checks fail.

Lambda layers follow the same signed code package format as function code packages. When you add a
layer to a function that has code signing enabled, Lambda checks that the layer is signed by an allowed
signing profile. When you enable code signing for a function, all layers that are added to the function
must also be signed by one of the allowed signing profiles.

Use IAM to control who can create code signing configurations. Typically, you allow only specific
administrative users to have this ability. Additionally, you can set up IAM policies to enforce that
developers only create functions that have code signing enabled.

You can configure code signing to log changes to AWS CloudTrail. Successful and blocked deployments
to functions are logged to CloudTrail with information about the signature and validation checks.

You can configure code signing for your functions using the Lambda console, the AWS Command Line
Interface (AWS CLI), AWS CloudFormation, and the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM).

There is no additional charge for using AWS Signer or code signing for AWS Lambda.

Sections
• Signature validation (p. 130)
• Configuration prerequisites (p. 131)
• Creating code signing configurations (p. 131)
• Updating a code signing configuration (p. 131)
• Deleting a code signing configuration (p. 132)
• Enabling code signing for a function (p. 132)
• Configuring IAM policies (p. 132)
• Configuring code signing with the Lambda API (p. 133)

Signature validation
Lambda performs the following validation checks when you deploy a signed code package to your
function:

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1. Integrity – Validates that the code package has not been modified since it was signed. Lambda
compares the hash of the package with the hash from the signature.
2. Expiry – Validates that the signature of the code package has not expired.
3. Mismatch – Validates that the code package is signed with one of the allowed signing profiles for the
Lambda function. A mismatch also occurs if a signature is not present.
4. Revocation – Validates that the signature of the code package has not been revoked.

The signature validation policy defined in the code signing configuration determines which of the
following actions Lambda takes if any of the validation checks fail:

• Warn – Lambda allows the deployment of the code package, but issues a warning. Lambda issues a
new Amazon CloudWatch metric and also stores the warning in the CloudTrail log.
• Enforce – Lambda issues a warning (the same as for the Warn action) and blocks the deployment of
the code package.

You can configure the policy for the expiry, mismatch, and revocation validation checks. Note that you
cannot configure a policy for the integrity check. If the integrity check fails, Lambda blocks deployment.

Configuration prerequisites
Before you can configure code signing for a Lambda function, use AWS Signer to do the following:

• Create one or more signing profiles.

• Use a signing profile to create a signed code package for your function.

For more information, see Creating Signing Profiles (Console) in the AWS Signer Developer Guide.

Creating code signing configurations

A code signing configuration defines a list of allowed signing profiles and the signature validation policy.

To create a code signing configuration (console)

1. Open the Code signing configurations page of the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create configuration.
3. For Description, enter a descriptive name for the configuration.
4. Under Signing profiles, add up to 20 signing profiles to the configuration.

a. For Signing profile version ARN, choose a profile version's Amazon Resource Name (ARN), or
enter the ARN.
b. To add an additional signing profile, choose Add signing profiles.
5. Under Signature validation policy, choose Warn or Enforce.
6. Choose Create configuration.

Updating a code signing configuration

When you update a code signing configuration, the changes impact the future deployments of functions
that have the code signing configuration attached.

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To update a code signing configuration (console)

1. Open the Code signing configurations page of the Lambda console.

2. Select a code signing configuration to update, and then choose Edit.
3. For Description, enter a descriptive name for the configuration.
4. Under Signing profiles, add up to 20 signing profiles to the configuration.

a. For Signing profile version ARN, choose a profile version's Amazon Resource Name (ARN), or
enter the ARN.
b. To add an additional signing profile, choose Add signing profiles.
5. Under Signature validation policy, choose Warn or Enforce.
6. Choose Save changes.

Deleting a code signing configuration

You can delete a code signing configuration only if no functions are using it.

To delete a code signing configuration (console)

1. Open the Code signing configurations page of the Lambda console.

2. Select a code signing configuration to delete, and then choose Delete.
3. To confirm, choose Delete again.

Enabling code signing for a function

To enable code signing for a function, you associate a code signing configuration with the function.

To associate a code signing configuration with a function (console)

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose the function for which you want to enable code signing.
3. Under Code signing configuration, choose Edit.
4. In Edit code signing, choose a code signing configuration for this function.
5. Choose Save.

Configuring IAM policies

To grant permission for a user to access the code signing API operations (p. 133), attach one or more
policy statements to the user policy. For more information about user policies, see Identity-based IAM
policies for Lambda (p. 56).

The following example policy statement grants permission to create, update, and retrieve code signing
configurations.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateCodeSigningConfig",

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"lambda:UpdateCodeSigningConfig",
"lambda:GetCodeSigningConfig"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}

Administrators can use the CodeSigningConfigArn condition key to specify the code signing
configurations that developers must use to create or update your functions.

The following example policy statement grants permission to create a function. The policy statement
includes a lambda:CodeSigningConfigArn condition to specify the allowed code signing
configuration. Lambda blocks any CreateFunction API request if its CodeSigningConfigArn
parameter is missing or does not match the value in the condition.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "AllowReferencingCodeSigningConfig",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:CreateFunction",
],
"Resource": "*",
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"lambda:CodeSigningConfigArn":
“arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:code-signing-
config:csc-0d4518bd353a0a7c6”
}
}
}
]
}

Configuring code signing with the Lambda API

To manage code signing configurations with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• ListCodeSigningConfigs
• CreateCodeSigningConfig
• GetCodeSigningConfig
• UpdateCodeSigningConfig
• DeleteCodeSigningConfig

To manage the code signing configuration for a function, use the following API operations:

• CreateFunction (p. 763)

• GetFunctionCodeSigningConfig
• PutFunctionCodeSigningConfig
• DeleteFunctionCodeSigningConfig
• ListFunctionsByCodeSigningConfig

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Tagging Lambda Functions

You can tag Lambda functions to organize them by owner, project or department. Tags are freeform
key-value pairs that are supported across AWS services for use in filtering resources and adding detail to
billing reports.

Sections
• Adding tags to a function (console) (p. 134)
• Using tags to filter functions (console) (p. 134)
• Using Tags with the AWS CLI (p. 135)
• Tag Key and Value Requirements (p. 136)

Adding tags to a function (console)

To add tags to a function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Tags.
4. Under Tags, choose Manage tags.
5. Enter a key and value. To add additional tags, choose Add new tag.

6. Choose Save.

Using tags to filter functions (console)

You can filter functions based on the presence or value of a tag with the Lambda console or with the
AWS Resource Groups API. Tags apply at the function level, not to versions or aliases. Tags are not part of
the version-specific configuration that is snapshotted when you publish a version.

To filter functions with tags

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Click within the search bar to see a list of function attributes and tag keys.

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3. Choose a tag key to see a list of values that are in-use in the current region.
4. Choose a value to see functions with that value, or choose (all values) to see all functions that have
a tag with that key.

The search bar also supports searching for tag keys. Type tag to see just a list of tag keys, or start typing
the name of a key to find it in the list.

With AWS Billing and Cost Management, you can use tags to customize billing reports and create
cost-allocation reports. For more information, see see Monthly Cost Allocation Report and Using Cost
Allocation Tags in the AWS Billing and Cost Management User Guide.

Using Tags with the AWS CLI

When you create a new Lambda function, you can include tags with the --tags option.

aws lambda create-function --function-name my-function

--handler index.js --runtime nodejs12.x \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role \
--tags Department=Marketing,CostCenter=1234ABCD

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To add tags to an existing function, use the tag-resource command.

aws lambda tag-resource \

--resource arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function \
--tags Department=Marketing,CostCenter=1234ABCD

To remove tags, use the untag-resource command.

aws lambda untag-resource --resource function arn \

--tag-keys Department

If you want to view the tags that are applied to a specific Lambda function, you can use either of the
following Lambda API commands:

• ListTags (p. 873) – You supply your Lambda function ARN (Amazon Resource Name) to view a list of
the tags associated with this function:

aws lambda list-tags --resource function arn

• GetFunction (p. 808) – You supply your Lambda function name to a view a list of the tags associated
with this function:

aws lambda get-function --function-name my-function

You can also use the AWS Tagging Service’s GetResources API to filter your resources by tags. The
GetResources API receives up to 10 filters, with each filter containing a tag key and up to 10 tag values.
You provide GetResources with a ‘ResourceType’ to filter by specific resource types. For more information
about the AWS Tagging Service, see Working with Resource Groups.

Tag Key and Value Requirements

The following requirements apply to tags:

• Maximum number of tags per resource—50

• Maximum key length—128 Unicode characters in UTF-8
• Maximum value length—256 Unicode characters in UTF-8
• Tag keys and values are case sensitive.
• Do not use the aws: prefix in your tag names or values because it is reserved for AWS use. You can't
edit or delete tag names or values with this prefix. Tags with this prefix do not count against your tags
per resource limit.
• If your tagging schema will be used across multiple services and resources, remember that other
services may have restrictions on allowed characters. Generally allowed characters are: letters, spaces,
and numbers representable in UTF-8, plus the following special characters: + - = . _ : / @.

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Invoking AWS Lambda functions

You can invoke Lambda functions directly with the Lambda console (p. 10), the Lambda API, the AWS
SDK, the AWS CLI, and AWS toolkits. You can also configure other AWS services to invoke your function,
or you can configure Lambda to read from a stream or queue and invoke your function.

When you invoke a function, you can choose to invoke it synchronously or asynchronously. With
synchronous invocation (p. 138), you wait for the function to process the event and return a response.
With asynchronous (p. 140) invocation, Lambda queues the event for processing and returns a response
immediately. For asynchronous invocation, Lambda handles retries and can send invocation records to a
destination (p. 142).

To use your function to process data automatically, add one or more triggers. A trigger is a Lambda
resource or a resource in another service that you configure to invoke your function in response to
lifecycle events, external requests, or on a schedule. Your function can have multiple triggers. Each
trigger acts as a client invoking your function independently. Each event that Lambda passes to your
function only has data from one client or trigger.

To process items from a stream or queue, you can create an event source mapping (p. 148). An event
source mapping is a resource in Lambda that reads items from an Amazon SQS queue, an Amazon
Kinesis stream, or an Amazon DynamoDB stream, and sends them to your function in batches. Each
event that your function processes can contain hundreds or thousands of items.

Other AWS services and resources invoke your function directly. For example, you can configure
CloudWatch Events to invoke your function on a timer, or you can configure Amazon S3 to invoke your
function when an object is created. Each service varies in the method it uses to invoke your function,
the structure of the event, and how you configure it. For more information, see Using AWS Lambda with
other services (p. 257).

Depending on who invokes your function and how it's invoked, scaling behavior and the types of errors
that occur can vary. When you invoke a function synchronously, you receive errors in the response and
can retry. When you invoke asynchronously, use an event source mapping, or configure another service
to invoke your function, the retry requirements and the way that your function scales to handle large
numbers of events can vary. For details, see AWS Lambda function scaling (p. 153) and Error handling
and automatic retries in AWS Lambda (p. 158).

Topics
• Synchronous invocation (p. 138)
• Asynchronous invocation (p. 140)
• AWS Lambda event source mappings (p. 148)
• Monitoring the state of a function with the Lambda API (p. 151)
• AWS Lambda function scaling (p. 153)
• Error handling and automatic retries in AWS Lambda (p. 158)
• Using Lambda extensions (p. 160)
• Invoking functions defined as container images (p. 164)
• Invoking Lambda functions with the AWS Mobile SDK for Android (p. 165)

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Synchronous invocation
When you invoke a function synchronously, Lambda runs the function and waits for a response. When
the function completes, Lambda returns the response from the function's code with additional data, such
as the version of the function that was invoked. To invoke a function synchronously with the AWS CLI,
use the invoke command.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --payload '{ "key": "value" }' response.json

You should see the following output:

{
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST",
"StatusCode": 200
}

The following diagram shows clients invoking a Lambda function synchronously. Lambda sends the
events directly to the function and sends the function's response back to the invoker.

The payload is a string that contains an event in JSON format. The name of the file where the AWS CLI
writes the response from the function is response.json. If the function returns an object or error, the
response is the object or error in JSON format. If the function exits without error, the response is null.

The output from the command, which is displayed in the terminal, includes information from headers
in the response from Lambda. This includes the version that processed the event (useful when you use
aliases (p. 97)), and the status code returned by Lambda. If Lambda was able to run the function, the
status code is 200, even if the function returned an error.
Note
For functions with a long timeout, your client might be disconnected during synchronous
invocation while it waits for a response. Configure your HTTP client, SDK, firewall, proxy, or
operating system to allow for long connections with timeout or keep-alive settings.

If Lambda isn't able to run the function, the error is displayed in the output.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --payload value response.json

You should see the following output:

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An error occurred (InvalidRequestContentException) when calling the Invoke operation: Could

not parse request body into json: Unrecognized token 'value': was expecting ('true',
'false' or 'null')
at [Source: (byte[])"value"; line: 1, column: 11]

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

For more information about the Invoke API, including a full list of parameters, headers, and errors, see
Invoke (p. 840).

When you invoke a function directly, you can check the response for errors and retry. The AWS CLI
and AWS SDK also automatically retry on client timeouts, throttling, and service errors. For more
information, see Error handling and automatic retries in AWS Lambda (p. 158).

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Asynchronous invocation
Several AWS services, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon Simple
Notification Service (Amazon SNS), invoke functions asynchronously to process events. When you invoke
a function asynchronously, you don't wait for a response from the function code. You hand off the event
to Lambda and Lambda handles the rest. You can configure how Lambda handles errors, and can send
invocation records to a downstream resource to chain together components of your application.

The following diagram shows clients invoking a Lambda function asynchronously. Lambda queues the
events before sending them to the function.

For asynchronous invocation, Lambda places the event in a queue and returns a success response
without additional information. A separate process reads events from the queue and sends them to your
function. To invoke a function asynchronously, set the invocation type parameter to Event.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--invocation-type Event \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{ "key": "value" }' response.json

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 202
}

The output file (response.json) doesn't contain any information, but is still created when you run
this command. If Lambda isn't able to add the event to the queue, the error message appears in the
command output.

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Lambda manages the function's asynchronous event queue and attempts to retry on errors. If the
function returns an error, Lambda attempts to run it two more times, with a one-minute wait between
the first two attempts, and two minutes between the second and third attempts. Function errors include
errors returned by the function's code and errors returned by the function's runtime, such as timeouts.

If the function doesn't have enough concurrency available to process all events, additional requests
are throttled. For throttling errors (429) and system errors (500-series), Lambda returns the event
to the queue and attempts to run the function again for up to 6 hours. The retry interval increases
exponentially from 1 second after the first attempt to a maximum of 5 minutes. However, it might be
longer if the queue is backed up. Lambda also reduces the rate at which it reads events from the queue.

The following example shows an event that was successfully added to the queue, but is still pending one
hour later due to throttling.

Even if your function doesn't return an error, it's possible for it to receive the same event from Lambda
multiple times because the queue itself is eventually consistent. If the function can't keep up with
incoming events, events might also be deleted from the queue without being sent to the function.
Ensure that your function code gracefully handles duplicate events, and that you have enough
concurrency available to handle all invocations.

When the queue is backed up, new events might age out before Lambda has a chance to send them
to your function. When an event expires or fails all processing attempts, Lambda discards it. You can
configure error handling (p. 142) for a function to reduce the number of retries that Lambda performs,
or to discard unprocessed events more quickly.

You can also configure Lambda to send an invocation record to another service. Lambda supports the
following destinations (p. 142) for asynchronous invocation.

• Amazon SQS – A standard SQS queue.

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• Amazon SNS – An SNS topic.

• AWS Lambda – A Lambda function.
• Amazon EventBridge – An EventBridge event bus.

The invocation record contains details about the request and response in JSON format. You can configure
separate destinations for events that are processed successfully, and events that fail all processing
attempts. Alternatively, you can configure an SQS queue or SNS topic as a dead-letter queue (p. 145)
for discarded events. For dead-letter queues, Lambda only sends the content of the event, without
details about the response.

Sections
• Configuring error handling for asynchronous invocation (p. 142)
• Configuring destinations for asynchronous invocation (p. 142)
• Asynchronous invocation configuration API (p. 144)
• AWS Lambda function dead-letter queues (p. 145)

Configuring error handling for asynchronous

invocation
Use the Lambda console to configure error handling settings on a function, a version, or an alias.

To configure error handling

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Asynchronous invocation.
4. Under Asynchronous invocation, choose Edit.
5. Configure the following settings.

• Maximum age of event – The maximum amount of time Lambda retains an event in the
asynchronous event queue, up to 6 hours.
• Retry attempts – The number of times Lambda retries when the function returns an error,
between 0 and 2.
6. Choose Save.

When an invocation event exceeds the maximum age or fails all retry attempts, Lambda discards it. To
retain a copy of discarded events, configure a failed-event destination.

Configuring destinations for asynchronous invocation

To send records of asynchronous invocations to another service, add a destination to your function.
You can configure separate destinations for events that fail processing and events that are successfully
processed. Like error handling settings, you can configure destinations on a function, a version, or an
alias.

The following example shows a function that is processing asynchronous invocations. When the function
returns a success response or exits without throwing an error, Lambda sends a record of the invocation
to an EventBridge event bus. When an event fails all processing attempts, Lambda sends an invocation
record to an Amazon SQS queue.

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Configuring destinations for asynchronous invocation

To send events to a destination, your function needs additional permissions. Add a policy with the
required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47). Each destination service requires a
different permission, as follows:

• Amazon SQS – sqs:SendMessage

• Amazon SNS – sns:Publish
• Lambda – lambda:InvokeFunction
• EventBridge – events:PutEvents

Add destinations to your function in the Lambda console's function visualization.

To configure a destination for asynchronous invocation records

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add destination.

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4. For Source, choose Asynchronous invocation.

5. For Condition, choose from the following options:

• On failure – Send a record when the event fails all processing attempts or exceeds the maximum
age.
• On success – Send a record when the function successfully processes an asynchronous invocation.
6. For Destination type, choose the type of resource that receives the invocation record.
7. For Destination, choose a resource.
8. Choose Save.

When an invocation matches the condition, Lambda sends a JSON document with details about the
invocation to the destination. The following example shows an invocation record for an event that failed
three processing attempts due to a function error.

Example invocation record

{
"version": "1.0",
"timestamp": "2019-11-14T18:16:05.568Z",
"requestContext": {
"requestId": "e4b46cbf-b738-xmpl-8880-a18cdf61200e",
"functionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function:
$LATEST",
"condition": "RetriesExhausted",
"approximateInvokeCount": 3
},
"requestPayload": {
"ORDER_IDS": [
"9e07af03-ce31-4ff3-xmpl-36dce652cb4f",
"637de236-e7b2-464e-xmpl-baf57f86bb53",
"a81ddca6-2c35-45c7-xmpl-c3a03a31ed15"
]
},
"responseContext": {
"statusCode": 200,
"executedVersion": "$LATEST",
"functionError": "Unhandled"
},
"responsePayload": {
"errorMessage": "RequestId: e4b46cbf-b738-xmpl-8880-a18cdf61200e Process exited
before completing request"
}
}

The invocation record contains details about the event, the response, and the reason that the record was
sent.

Asynchronous invocation configuration API

To manage asynchronous invocation settings with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API
operations.

• PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig
• GetFunctionEventInvokeConfig
• UpdateFunctionEventInvokeConfig
• ListFunctionEventInvokeConfigs

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• DeleteFunctionEventInvokeConfig

To configure asynchronous invocation with the AWS CLI, use the put-function-event-invoke-
config command. The following example configures a function with a maximum event age of 1 hour
and no retries.

aws lambda put-function-event-invoke-config --function-name error \

--maximum-event-age-in-seconds 3600 --maximum-retry-attempts 0

You should see the following output:

{
"LastModified": 1573686021.479,
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:error:$LATEST",
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 0,
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": 3600,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnSuccess": {},
"OnFailure": {}
}
}

The put-function-event-invoke-config command overwrites any existing configuration on the

function, version, or alias. To configure an option without resetting others, use update-function-
event-invoke-config. The following example configures Lambda to send a record to an SQS queue
named destination when an event can't be processed.

aws lambda update-function-event-invoke-config --function-name error \

--destination-config '{"OnFailure":{"Destination": "arn:aws:sqs:us-
east-2:123456789012:destination"}}'

You should see the following output:

{
"LastModified": 1573687896.493,
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:error:$LATEST",
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 0,
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": 3600,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnSuccess": {},
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:destination"
}
}
}

AWS Lambda function dead-letter queues

As an alternative to an on-failure destination (p. 142), you can configure your function with a dead-
letter queue to save discarded events for further processing. A dead-letter queue acts the same as an
on-failure destination in that it is used when an event fails all processing attempts or expires without
being processed. However, a dead-letter queue is part of a function's version-specific configuration, so
it is locked in when you publish a version. On-failure destinations also support additional targets and
include details about the function's response in the invocation record.

If you don't have a queue or topic, create one. Choose the target type that matches your use case.

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• Amazon SQS queue – A queue holds failed events until they're retrieved. You can retrieve events
manually, or you can configure Lambda to read from the queue (p. 439) and invoke a function.

Create a queue in the Amazon SQS console.

• Amazon SNS topic – A topic relays failed events to one or more destinations. You can configure a topic
to send events to an email address, a Lambda function, or an HTTP endpoint.

Create a topic in the Amazon SNS console.

To send events to a queue or topic, your function needs additional permissions. Add a policy with the
required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).

• Amazon SQS – sqs:SendMessage

• Amazon SNS – sns:Publish

If the target queue or topic is encrypted with a customer managed key, the execution role must also be a
user in the key's resource-based policy.

After creating the target and updating your function's execution role, add the dead-letter queue to your
function. You can configure multiple functions to send events to the same target.

To configure a dead-letter queue

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Asynchronous invocation.
4. Under Asynchronous invocation, choose Edit.
5. Set DLQ resource to Amazon SQS or Amazon SNS.
6. Choose the target queue or topic.
7. Choose Save.

To configure a dead-letter queue with the AWS CLI, use the update-function-configuration
command.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--dead-letter-config TargetArn=arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:my-topic

Lambda sends the event to the dead-letter queue as-is, with additional information in attributes. You
can use this information to identify the error that the function returned, or to correlate the event with
logs or an AWS X-Ray trace.

Dead-letter queue message attributes

• RequestID (String) – The ID of the invocation request. Request IDs appear in function logs. You can
also use the X-Ray SDK to record the request ID on an attribute in the trace. You can then search for
traces by request ID in the X-Ray console. For an example, see the error processor sample (p. 473).
• ErrorCode (Number) – The HTTP status code.
• ErrorMessage (String) – The first 1 KB of the error message.

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If Lambda can't send a message to the dead-letter queue, it deletes the event and emits the
DeadLetterErrors (p. 692) metric. This can happen because of lack of permissions, or if the total size of
the message exceeds the limit for the target queue or topic. For example, if an Amazon SNS notification
with a body close to 256 KB triggers a function that results in an error, the additional event data added
by Amazon SNS, combined with the attributes added by Lambda, can cause the message to exceed the
maximum size allowed in the dead-letter queue.

If you're using Amazon SQS as an event source, configure a dead-letter queue on the Amazon SQS queue
itself and not on the Lambda function. For more information, see Using AWS Lambda with Amazon
SQS (p. 439).

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AWS Lambda event source mappings

An event source mapping is an AWS Lambda resource that reads from an event source and invokes
a Lambda function. You can use event source mappings to process items from a stream or queue in
services that don't invoke Lambda functions directly. Lambda provides event source mappings for the
following services.

Services that Lambda reads events from

• Amazon DynamoDB (p. 313)

• Amazon Kinesis (p. 365)
• Amazon MQ (p. 389)
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (p. 396)
• self-managed Apache Kafka (p. 356)
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (p. 439)

An event source mapping uses permissions in the function's execution role (p. 47) to read and manage
items in the event source. Permissions, event structure, settings, and polling behavior vary by event
source. For more information, see the linked topic for the service that you use as an event source.

To manage an event source with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, you can use the following API operations:

• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)

• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)
• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)

The following example uses the AWS CLI to map a function named my-function to a DynamoDB
stream that is specified by its Amazon Resource Name (ARN), with a batch size of 500.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --function-name my-function --batch-size 500 --

starting-position LATEST \
--event-source-arn arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:123456789012:table/my-table/
stream/2019-06-10T19:26:16.525

You should see the following output:

{
"UUID": "14e0db71-5d35-4eb5-b481-8945cf9d10c2",
"BatchSize": 500,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 0,
"ParallelizationFactor": 1,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:123456789012:table/my-table/
stream/2019-06-10T19:26:16.525",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1560209851.963,
"LastProcessingResult": "No records processed",
"State": "Creating",
"StateTransitionReason": "User action",
"DestinationConfig": {},
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": 604800,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": false,

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"MaximumRetryAttempts": 10000
}

Event source mappings read items from a stream or queue in batches. They include multiple items in the
event that your function receives. You can configure the size of the batch that the event source mapping
sends to your function, up to a maximum that varies by service. The number of items in the event can be
smaller than the batch size if there aren't enough items available, or if the batch is too large to send in
one event and has to be split up.

The following example shows an event source mapping that reads from a Kinesis stream. If a batch of
events fails all processing attempts, the event source mapping sends details about the batch to an SQS
queue.

The event batch is the event that Lambda sends to the function. It is a batch of records or messages
compiled from the items that the event source mapping reads from a stream or queue. Batch size and
other settings only apply to the event batch.

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For streams, an event source mapping creates an iterator for each shard in the stream and processes
items in each shard in order. You can configure the event source mapping to read only new items that
appear in the stream, or to start with older items. Processed items aren't removed from the stream and
can be processed by other functions or consumers.

By default, if your function returns an error, the entire batch is reprocessed until the function succeeds,
or the items in the batch expire. To ensure in-order processing, processing for the affected shard is
paused until the error is resolved. You can configure the event source mapping to discard old events,
restrict the number of retries, or process multiple batches in parallel. If you process multiple batches in
parallel, in-order processing is still guaranteed for each partition key, but multiple partition keys in the
same shard are processed simultaneously.

You can also configure the event source mapping to send an invocation record to another service when it
discards an event batch. Lambda supports the following destinations (p. 142) for event source mappings.

• Amazon SQS – An SQS queue.

• Amazon SNS – An SNS topic.

The invocation record contains details about the failed event batch in JSON format.

The following example shows an invocation record for a Kinesis stream.

Example invocation Record

{
"requestContext": {
"requestId": "c9b8fa9f-5a7f-xmpl-af9c-0c604cde93a5",
"functionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:myfunction",
"condition": "RetryAttemptsExhausted",
"approximateInvokeCount": 1
},
"responseContext": {
"statusCode": 200,
"executedVersion": "$LATEST",
"functionError": "Unhandled"
},
"version": "1.0",
"timestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:06.021Z",
"KinesisBatchInfo": {
"shardId": "shardId-000000000001",
"startSequenceNumber": "49601189658422359378836298521827638475320189012309704722",
"endSequenceNumber": "49601189658422359378836298522902373528957594348623495186",
"approximateArrivalOfFirstRecord": "2019-11-14T00:38:04.835Z",
"approximateArrivalOfLastRecord": "2019-11-14T00:38:05.580Z",
"batchSize": 500,
"streamArn": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/mystream"
}
}

Lambda also supports in-order processing for FIFO (first-in, first-out) queues (p. 439), scaling up to
the number of active message groups. For standard queues, items aren't necessarily processed in order.
Lambda scales up to process a standard queue as quickly as possible. When an error occurs, batches
are returned to the queue as individual items and might be processed in a different grouping than the
original batch. Occasionally, the event source mapping might receive the same item from the queue
twice, even if no function error occurred. Lambda deletes items from the queue after they're processed
successfully. You can configure the source queue to send items to a dead-letter queue if they can't be
processed.

For information about services that invoke Lambda functions directly, see Using AWS Lambda with other
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Function states

Monitoring the state of a function with the

Lambda API
When you create or update a function, Lambda provisions the compute and networking resources that
enable it to run. In most cases, this process is very fast, and your function is ready to be invoked or
modified right away.

If you configure your function to connect to a virtual private cloud (VPC), the process can take longer.
When you first connect a function to a VPC, Lambda provisions network interfaces, which takes about
a minute. To communicate the current state of your function, Lambda includes additional fields in the
function configuration (p. 975) document that is returned by several Lambda API actions.

When you create a function, the function is initially in the Pending state. When the function is ready to
be invoked, the state changes from Pending to Active. While the state is Pending, invocations and
other API actions that operate on the function return an error. If you build automation around creating
and updating functions, wait for the function to become active before performing additional actions that
operate on the function.

You can use the Lambda API to get information about a function's state. State information is included in
the FunctionConfiguration (p. 975) document returned by several API actions. To view the function's
state with the AWS CLI, use the get-function-configuration command.

aws lambda get-function-configuration --function-name my-function

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "Active"
},
"State": "Pending",
"StateReason": "The function is being created.",
"StateReasonCode": "Creating",
...
}

The StateReason and StateReasonCode contain additional information about the state when it is not
Active. The following operations fail while function creation is pending:

• Invoke (p. 840)

• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)
• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)
• PublishVersion (p. 883)

When you update a function's configuration, the update can trigger an asynchronous operation to
provision resources. While this is in progress, you can invoke the function, but other operations on
the function fail. Invocations that occur while the update is in progress run against the previous
configuration. The function's state is Active, but its LastUpdateStatus is InProgress.

Example Function configuration – Connecting to a VPC

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"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"VpcConfig": {
"SubnetIds": [
"subnet-071f712345678e7c8",
"subnet-07fd123456788a036",
"subnet-0804f77612345cacf"
],
"SecurityGroupIds": [
"sg-085912345678492fb"
],
"VpcId": "vpc-08e1234569e011e83"
},
"State": "Active",
"LastUpdateStatus": "InProgress",
...
}

The following operations fail while an asynchronous update is in progress:

• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)
• PublishVersion (p. 883)

Other operations, including invocation, work while updates are in progress.

For example, when you connect your function to a virtual private cloud (VPC), Lambda provisions an
elastic network interface for each subnet. This process can leave your function in a pending state for a
minute or so. Lambda also reclaims network interfaces that are not in use, placing your function in an
Inactive state. When the function is inactive, an invocation causes it to enter the Pending state while
network access is restored. The invocation that triggers restoration, and further invocations while the
operation is pending, fail with ResourceNotReadyException.

If Lambda encounters an error when restoring a function's network interface, the function goes back to
the Inactive state. The next invocation can trigger another attempt. For some configuration errors,
Lambda waits at least 5 minutes before attempting to create another network interface. These errors
have the following LastUpdateStatusReasonCode values:

• InsufficientRolePermission – Role doesn't exist or is missing permissions.

• SubnetOutOfIPAddresses – All IP addresses in a subnet are in use.

For more information on how states work with VPC connectivity, see Configuring a Lambda function to
access resources in a VPC (p. 111).

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AWS Lambda function scaling

The first time you invoke your function, AWS Lambda creates an instance of the function and runs its
handler method to process the event. When the function returns a response, it stays active and waits
to process additional events. If you invoke the function again while the first event is being processed,
Lambda initializes another instance, and the function processes the two events concurrently. As more
events come in, Lambda routes them to available instances and creates new instances as needed. When
the number of requests decreases, Lambda stops unused instances to free up scaling capacity for other
functions.

Your functions' concurrency is the number of instances that serve requests at a given time. For an initial
burst of traffic, your functions' cumulative concurrency in a Region can reach an initial level of between
500 and 3000, which varies per Region. Note that the burst concurrency quota is not per-function; it
applies to all of your functions in the Region.

Burst concurrency quotas

• 3000 – US West (Oregon), US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland)

• 1000 – Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), US East (Ohio)
• 500 – Other Regions

After the initial burst, your functions' concurrency can scale by an additional 500 instances each
minute. This continues until there are enough instances to serve all requests, or until a concurrency
limit is reached. When requests come in faster than your function can scale, or when your function is at
maximum concurrency, additional requests fail with a throttling error (429 status code).

The following example shows a function processing a spike in traffic. As invocations increase
exponentially, the function scales up. It initializes a new instance for any request that can't be routed to
an available instance. When the burst concurrency limit is reached, the function starts to scale linearly.
If this isn't enough concurrency to serve all requests, additional requests are throttled and should be
retried.

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Legend

• Function instances
• Open requests
• Throttling possible

The function continues to scale until the account's concurrency limit for the function's Region is reached.
The function catches up to demand, requests subside, and unused instances of the function are stopped
after being idle for some time. Unused instances are frozen while they're waiting for requests and don't
incur any charges.

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The regional concurrency limit starts at 1,000. You can increase the limit by submitting a request in the
Support Center console. To allocate capacity on a per-function basis, you can configure functions with
reserved concurrency (p. 84). Reserved concurrency creates a pool that can only be used by its function,
and also prevents its function from using unreserved concurrency.

When your function scales up, the first request served by each instance is impacted by the time it
takes to load and initialize your code. If your initialization code (p. 32) takes a long time, the impact on
average and percentile latency can be significant. To enable your function to scale without fluctuations
in latency, use provisioned concurrency (p. 84). The following example shows a function with provisioned
concurrency processing a spike in traffic.

Legend

• Function instances
• Open requests
• Provisioned concurrency
• Standard concurrency

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When you allocate provisioned concurrency, your function is ready to serve a burst of incoming requests
with very low latency. When all provisioned concurrency is in use, the function scales up normally to
handle any additional requests.

Application Auto Scaling takes this a step further by providing autoscaling for provisioned concurrency.
With Application Auto Scaling, you can create a target tracking scaling policy that adjusts provisioned
concurrency levels automatically, based on the utilization metric that Lambda emits. Use the Application
Auto Scaling API (p. 90) to register an alias as a scalable target and create a scaling policy.

In the following example, a function scales between a minimum and maximum amount of provisioned
concurrency based on utilization. When the number of open requests increases, Application Auto
Scaling increases provisioned concurrency in large steps until it reaches the configured maximum. The
function continues to scale on standard concurrency until utilization starts to drop. When utilization is
consistently low, Application Auto Scaling decreases provisioned concurrency in smaller periodic steps.

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Legend

• Function instances
• Open requests
• Provisioned concurrency
• Standard concurrency

When you invoke your function asynchronously, by using an event source mapping or another AWS
service, scaling behavior varies. For example, event source mappings that read from a stream are limited
by the number of shards in the stream. Scaling capacity that is unused by an event source is available for
use by other clients and event sources. For more information, see the following topics.

• Asynchronous invocation (p. 140)

• AWS Lambda event source mappings (p. 148)
• Error handling and automatic retries in AWS Lambda (p. 158)
• Using AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257)

You can monitor concurrency levels in your account by using the following metrics:

Concurrency metrics

• ConcurrentExecutions
• UnreservedConcurrentExecutions
• ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions
• ProvisionedConcurrencyInvocations
• ProvisionedConcurrencySpilloverInvocations
• ProvisionedConcurrencyUtilization

For more information, see Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692).

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Error handling and automatic retries in AWS

Lambda
When you invoke a function, two types of error can occur. Invocation errors occur when the invocation
request is rejected before your function receives it. Function errors occur when your function's code or
runtime (p. 195) returns an error. Depending on the type of error, the type of invocation, and the client
or service that invokes the function, the retry behavior and the strategy for managing errors varies.

Issues with the request, caller, or account can cause invocation errors. Invocation errors include an error
type and status code in the response that indicate the cause of the error.

Common invocation errors

• Request – The request event is too large or isn't valid JSON, the function doesn't exist, or a parameter
value is the wrong type.
• Caller – The user or service doesn't have permission to invoke the function.
• Account – The maximum number of function instances are already running, or requests are being
made too quickly.

Clients such as the AWS CLI and the AWS SDK retry on client timeouts, throttling errors (429), and other
errors that aren't caused by a bad request. For a full list of invocation errors, see Invoke (p. 840).

Function errors occur when your function code or the runtime that it uses return an error.

Common function errors

• Function – Your function's code throws an exception or returns an error object.

• Runtime – The runtime terminated your function because it ran out of time, detected a syntax error, or
failed to marshal the response object into JSON. The function exited with an error code.

Unlike invocation errors, function errors don't cause Lambda to return a 400-series or 500-series status
code. If the function returns an error, Lambda indicates this by including a header named X-Amz-
Function-Error, and a JSON-formatted response with the error message and other details. For
examples of function errors in each language, see the following topics.

• AWS Lambda function errors in Node.js (p. 501)

• AWS Lambda function errors in Python (p. 539)
• AWS Lambda function errors in Ruby (p. 562)
• AWS Lambda function errors in Java (p. 597)
• AWS Lambda function errors in Go (p. 629)
• AWS Lambda function errors in C# (p. 658)
• AWS Lambda function errors in PowerShell (p. 679)

When you invoke a function directly, you determine the strategy for handling errors. You can retry, send
the event to a queue for debugging, or ignore the error. Your function's code might have run completely,
partially, or not at all. If you retry, ensure that your function's code can handle the same event multiple
times without causing duplicate transactions or other unwanted side effects.

When you invoke a function indirectly, you need to be aware of the retry behavior of the invoker and any
service that the request encounters along the way. This includes the following scenarios.

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• Asynchronous invocation – Lambda retries function errors twice. If the function doesn't have enough
capacity to handle all incoming requests, events might wait in the queue for hours or days to be sent
to the function. You can configure a dead-letter queue on the function to capture events that weren't
successfully processed. For more information, see Asynchronous invocation (p. 140).
• Event source mappings – Event source mappings that read from streams retry the entire batch of
items. Repeated errors block processing of the affected shard until the error is resolved or the items
expire. To detect stalled shards, you can monitor the Iterator Age (p. 692) metric.

For event source mappings that read from a queue, you determine the length of time between retries
and destination for failed events by configuring the visibility timeout and redrive policy on the source
queue. For more information, see AWS Lambda event source mappings (p. 148) and the service-
specific topics under Using AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).
• AWS services – AWS services can invoke your function synchronously (p. 138) or asynchronously.
For synchronous invocation, the service decides whether to retry. For example, Amazon S3 batch
operations retries the operation if the Lambda function returns a TemporaryFailure response code.
Services that proxy requests from an upstream user or client may have a retry strategy or may relay
the error response back to the requestor. For example, API Gateway always relays the error response
back to the requestor.

For asynchronous invocation, the behavior is the same as when you invoke the function synchronously.
For more information, see the service-specific topics under Using AWS Lambda with other
services (p. 257) and the invoking service's documentation.
• Other accounts and clients – When you grant access to other accounts, you can use resource-based
policies (p. 51) to restrict the services or resources they can configure to invoke your function. To
protect your function from being overloaded, consider putting an API layer in front of your function
with Amazon API Gateway (p. 261).

To help you deal with errors in Lambda applications, Lambda integrates with services like Amazon
CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray. You can use a combination of logs, metrics, alarms, and tracing to quickly
detect and identify issues in your function code, API, or other resources that support your application.
For more information, see Monitoring and troubleshooting Lambda applications (p. 683).

For a sample application that uses a CloudWatch Logs subscription, X-Ray tracing, and a Lambda
function to detect and process errors, see Error processor sample application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

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Using extensions

Using Lambda extensions

You can use Lambda extensions to augment your Lambda functions. For example, use Lambda
extensions to integrate functions with your preferred monitoring, observability, security, and governance
tools. You can choose from a broad set of tools that AWS Lambda Partners provides, or you can create
your own Lambda extensions (p. 209).

Lambda supports external and internal extensions. An external extension runs as an independent process
in the execution environment and continues to run after the function invocation is fully processed.
Because extensions run as separate processes, you can write them in a different language than the
function.

An internal extension runs as part of the runtime process. Your function accesses internal extensions by
using wrapper scripts or in-process mechanisms such as JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS. For more information,
see Modifying the runtime environment (p. 231).

You can add extensions to a function using the Lambda console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS
CLI), or infrastructure as code (IaC) services and tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS Serverless
Application Model (AWS SAM), and Terraform.

The following Lambda runtimes (p. 195) support extensions:

• .NET Core 3.1 (C#/PowerShell) (dotnetcore3.1)

• Custom runtime (provided)
• Custom runtime on Amazon Linux 2 (provided.al2)
• Java 11 (Corretto) (java11)
• Java 8 (Corretto) (java8.al2)
• Node.js 14.x (nodejs14.x)
• Node.js 12.x (nodejs12.x)
• Node.js 10.x (nodejs10.x)
• Python 3.8 (python3.8)
• Python 3.7 (python3.7)
• Ruby 2.7 (ruby2.7)
• Ruby 2.5 (ruby2.5)

Note that the Go 1.x runtime does not support extensions. To support extensions, you can create Go
functions on the provided.al2 runtime. For more information, see Migrating Lambda functions to
Amazon Linux 2.

You are charged for the execution time that the extension consumes (in 1 ms increments). For more
pricing information for extensions, see AWS Lambda Pricing. For pricing information for partner
extensions, see those partners' websites. There is no cost to install your own extensions.

Topics
• Execution environment (p. 161)
• Impact on performance and resources (p. 161)
• Permissions (p. 161)
• Configuring extensions (.zip file archive) (p. 162)
• Using extensions in container images (p. 162)
• Next steps (p. 162)

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Execution environment
Lambda invokes your function in an execution environment (p. 200), which provides a secure and
isolated runtime environment. The execution environment manages the resources required to run your
function and provides lifecycle support for the function's runtime and extensions.

The lifecycle of the execution environment includes the following phases:

• Init: In this phase, Lambda creates or unfreezes an execution environment with the configured
resources, downloads the code for the function and all layers, initializes any extensions, initializes the
runtime, and then runs the function’s initialization code (the code outside the main handler). The Init
phase happens either during the first invocation, or in advance of function invocations if you have
enabled provisioned concurrency (p. 87).

The Init phase is split into three sub-phases: Extension init, Runtime init, and Function
init. These sub-phases ensure that all extensions and the runtime complete their setup tasks before
the function code runs.
• Invoke: In this phase, Lambda invokes the function handler. After the function runs to completion,
Lambda prepares to handle another function invocation.
• Shutdown: This phase is triggered if the Lambda function does not receive any invocations for a period
of time. In the Shutdown phase, Lambda shuts down the runtime, alerts the extensions to let them
stop cleanly, and then removes the environment. Lambda sends a Shutdown event to each extension,
which tells the extension that the environment is about to be shut down.

During the Init phase, Lambda extracts layers containing extensions into the /opt directory in the
execution environment. Lambda looks for extensions in the /opt/extensions/ directory, interprets
each file as an executable bootstrap for launching the extension, and starts all extensions in parallel.

Impact on performance and resources

The size of your function's extensions counts towards the deployment package size limit. For a .zip
file archive, the total unzipped size of the function and all extensions cannot exceed the unzipped
deployment package size limit of 250 MB.

Extensions can impact the performance of your function because they share function resources such as
CPU, memory, and storage. For example, if an extension performs compute-intensive operations, you
may see your function's execution duration increase.

Each extension must complete its initialization before Lambda invokes the function. Therefore,
an extension that consumes significant initialization time can increase the latency of the function
invocation.

To measure the extra time that the extension takes after the function execution, you can use the
PostRuntimeExtensionsDuration function metric (p. 692). To measure the increase in memory
used, you can use the MaxMemoryUsed metric. To understand the impact of a specific extension, you can
run different versions of your functions side by side.

Permissions
Extensions have access to the same resources as functions. Because extensions are executed within the
same environment as the function, permissions are shared between the function and the extension.

For a .zip file archive, you can create an AWS CloudFormation template to simplify the task of attaching
the same extension configuration—including AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions—
to multiple functions.

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Configuring extensions (.zip file archive)

You can add an extension to your function as a Lambda layer (p. 101). Using layers enables you to share
extensions across your organization or to the entire community of Lambda developers. You can add one
or more extensions to a layer. You can register up to 10 extensions for a function.

You add the extension to your function using the same method as you would for any layer. For more
information, see Using layers with your Lambda function (p. 106).

Add an extension to your function (console)

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose the Code tab if it is not already selected.
4. Under Layers, choose Edit.
5. For Choose a layer, choose Specify an ARN.
6. For Specify an ARN, enter the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an extension layer.
7. Choose Add.

Using extensions in container images

You can add extensions to your container image (p. 247). The ENTRYPOINT container image setting
specifies the main process for the function. Configure the ENTRYPOINT setting in the Dockerfile, or as an
override in the function configuration.

You can run multiple processes within a container. Lambda manages the lifecycle of the main process
and any additional processes. Lambda uses the Extensions API (p. 209) to manage the extension
lifecycle.

Example: Adding an external extension

An external extension runs in a separate process from the Lambda function. Lambda starts a process for
each extension in the /opt/extensions/ directory. Lambda uses the Extensions API to manage the
extension lifecycle. After the function has run to completion, Lambda sends a Shutdown event to each
external extension.

Example of adding an external extension to a Python base image

FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/python:3.8

# Copy and install the app

COPY /app /app
WORKDIR /app
RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

# Add an extension from the local directory into /opt

ADD my-extension.zip /opt
CMD python ./index.py

Next steps
To learn more about extensions, we recommend the following resources:

• For a basic working example, see Building Extensions for AWS Lambda on the AWS Compute Blog.

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• For information about extensions that AWS Lambda Partners provides, see Introducing AWS Lambda
Extensions on the AWS Compute Blog.
• To view available example extensions and wrapper scripts, see AWS Lambda Extensions on the AWS
Samples GitHub repository.

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Invoking functions defined as container images

For a Lambda function defined as a container image, function behavior during invocation is very
similar to a function defined as a .zip file archive. The following sections highlight the similarities and
differences.

Topics
• Function lifecycle (p. 164)
• Invoking the function (p. 164)
• Image security (p. 164)

Function lifecycle
Lambda optimizes a new or updated container image in preparation for the function to receive
invocations. The optimization process can take a few seconds. The function remains in the Pending
state until the process completes. The function then transitions to the Active state. While the state is
Pending, you can invoke the function, but other operations on the function fail. Invocations that occur
while an image update is in progress run the code from the previous image.

If a function is not invoked for multiple weeks, Lambda reclaims its optimized version, and the function
transitions to the Inactive state. To reactivate the function, you must invoke it. Lambda rejects the first
invocation and the function enters the Pending state until Lambda re-optimizes the image. The function
then returns to the Active state.

Lambda periodically fetches the associated container image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry
(Amazon ECR) repository. If the corresponding container image no longer exists on Amazon ECR, the
function enters the Failed state, and Lambda returns a failure for any function invocations.

You can use the Lambda API to get information about a function's state. For more information, see
Monitoring the state of a function with the Lambda API (p. 151).

Invoking the function

When you invoke the function, Lambda deploys the container image to an execution environment.
Lambda initializes any extensions (p. 162) and then runs the function’s initialization code (the code
outside the main handler). Note that function initialization duration is included in billed execution time.

Lambda then runs the function by calling the code entry point specified in the function configuration
(the ENTRYPOINT and CMD container image settings (p. 249)).

Image security
When Lambda first downloads the container image from its original source (Amazon ECR), the container
image is optimized, encrypted, and stored using authenticated convergent encryption methods. All
keys that are required to decrypt customer data are protected using customer managed AWS Key
Management Service (AWS KMS) customer master keys (CMKs). To track and audit Lambda's usage of
CMKs, you can view the AWS CloudTrail logs (p. 285).

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Invoking Lambda functions with the AWS Mobile

SDK for Android
You can call a Lambda function from a mobile application. Put business logic in functions to separate
its development lifecycle from that of front-end clients, making mobile applications less complex to
develop and maintain. With the Mobile SDK for Android, you use Amazon Cognito to authenticate users
and authorize requests (p. 165).

When you invoke a function from a mobile application, you choose the event structure, invocation
type (p. 137), and permission model. You can use aliases (p. 97) to enable seamless updates to your
function code, but otherwise the function and application are tightly coupled. As you add more
functions, you can create an API layer to decouple your function code from your front-end clients and
improve performance.

To create a fully-featured web API for your mobile and web applications, use Amazon API Gateway.
With API Gateway, you can add custom authorizers, throttle requests, and cache results for all of your
functions. For more information, see Using AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway (p. 261).

Topics
• Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with the Mobile SDK for Android (p. 165)
• Sample function code (p. 171)

Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with the Mobile SDK for

Android
In this tutorial, you create a simple Android mobile application that uses Amazon Cognito to get
credentials and invokes a Lambda function.

The mobile application retrieves AWS credentials from an Amazon Cognito identity pool and uses them
to invoke a Lambda function with an event that contains request data. The function processes the
request and returns a response to the front-end.

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Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – AWS Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-android-role.

The AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to write logs to
CloudWatch Logs.

Create the function

The following example uses data to generate a string response.
Note
For sample code in other languages, see Sample function code (p. 171).

Example index.js

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

console.log("Received event: ", event);
var data = {
"greetings": "Hello, " + event.firstName + " " + event.lastName + "."
};
callback(null, data);
}

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To create the function

1. Copy the sample code into a file named index.js.

2. Create a deployment package.

zip function.zip index.js

3. Create a Lambda function with the create-function command.

aws lambda create-function --function-name AndroidBackendLambdaFunction \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-android-role

Test the Lambda function

Invoke the function manually using the sample event data.

To test the Lambda function (AWS CLI)

1. Save the following sample event JSON in a file, input.txt.

{ "firstName": "first-name", "lastName": "last-name" }

2. Run the following invoke command:

aws lambda invoke --function-name AndroidBackendLambdaFunction \

--payload file://file-path/input.txt outputfile.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure
this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

Create an Amazon Cognito identity pool

In this section, you create an Amazon Cognito identity pool. The identity pool has two IAM
roles. You update the IAM role for unauthenticated users and grant permissions to run the
AndroidBackendLambdaFunction Lambda function.

For more information about IAM roles, see IAM roles in the IAM User Guide. For more information about
Amazon Cognito services, see the Amazon Cognito product detail page.

To create an identity pool

1. Open the Amazon Cognito console.

2. Create a new identity pool called JavaFunctionAndroidEventHandlerPool. Before you follow
the procedure to create an identity pool, note the following:

• The identity pool you are creating must allow access to unauthenticated identities because our
example mobile application does not require a user log in. Therefore, make sure to select the
Enable access to unauthenticated identities option.
• Add the following statement to the permission policy associated with the unauthenticated
identities.

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"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"lambda:InvokeFunction"
],
"Resource": [
"arn:aws:lambda:us-
east-1:123456789012:function:AndroidBackendLambdaFunction"
]
}

The resulting policy will be as follows:

{
"Version":"2012-10-17",
"Statement":[
{
"Effect":"Allow",
"Action":[
"mobileanalytics:PutEvents",
"cognito-sync:*"
],
"Resource":[
"*"
]
},
{
"Effect":"Allow",
"Action":[
"lambda:invokefunction"
],
"Resource":[
"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:account-
id:function:AndroidBackendLambdaFunction"
]
}
]
}

For instructions about how to create an identity pool, log in to the Amazon Cognito console and
follow the New Identity Pool wizard.
3. Note the identity pool ID. You specify this ID in your mobile application you create in the next
section. The app uses this ID when it sends request to Amazon Cognito to request for temporary
security credentials.

Create an Android application

Create a simple Android mobile application that generates events and invokes Lambda functions by
passing the event data as parameters.

The following instructions have been verified using Android studio.

1. Create a new Android project called AndroidEventGenerator using the following configuration:

• Select the Phone and Tablet platform.

• Choose Blank Activity.
2. In the build.gradle (Module:app) file, add the following in the dependencies section:

compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-android-sdk-core:2.2.+'

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compile 'com.amazonaws:aws-android-sdk-lambda:2.2.+'

3. Build the project so that the required dependencies are downloaded, as needed.
4. In the Android application manifest (AndroidManifest.xml), add the following permissions so
that your application can connect to the Internet. You can add them just before the </manifest>
end tag.

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />

5. In MainActivity, add the following imports:

import com.amazonaws.mobileconnectors.lambdainvoker.*;
import com.amazonaws.auth.CognitoCachingCredentialsProvider;
import com.amazonaws.regions.Regions;

6. In the package section, add the following two classes (RequestClass and ResponseClass). Note
that the POJO is same as the POJO you created in your Lambda function in the preceding section.

• RequestClass. The instances of this class act as the POJO (Plain Old Java Object) for event data
which consists of first and last name. If you are using Java example for your Lambda function
you created in the preceding section, this POJO is same as the POJO you created in your Lambda
function code.

package com.example....lambdaeventgenerator;
public class RequestClass {
String firstName;
String lastName;

public String getFirstName() {

return firstName;
}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

this.firstName = firstName;
}

public String getLastName() {

return lastName;
}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {

this.lastName = lastName;
}

public RequestClass(String firstName, String lastName) {

this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
}

public RequestClass() {
}
}

• ResponseClass

package com.example....lambdaeventgenerator;
public class ResponseClass {
String greetings;

public String getGreetings() {

return greetings;

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public void setGreetings(String greetings) {

this.greetings = greetings;
}

public ResponseClass(String greetings) {

this.greetings = greetings;
}

public ResponseClass() {
}
}

7. In the same package, create interface called MyInterface for invoking the
AndroidBackendLambdaFunction Lambda function.

package com.example.....lambdaeventgenerator;
import com.amazonaws.mobileconnectors.lambdainvoker.LambdaFunction;
public interface MyInterface {

/**
* Invoke the Lambda function "AndroidBackendLambdaFunction".
* The function name is the method name.
*/
@LambdaFunction
ResponseClass AndroidBackendLambdaFunction(RequestClass request);

The @LambdaFunction annotation in the code maps the specific client method to the same-name
Lambda function.
8. To keep the application simple, we are going to add code to invoke the Lambda function in the
onCreate() event handler. In MainActivity, add the following code toward the end of the
onCreate() code.

// Create an instance of CognitoCachingCredentialsProvider

CognitoCachingCredentialsProvider cognitoProvider = new
CognitoCachingCredentialsProvider(
this.getApplicationContext(), "identity-pool-id", Regions.US_WEST_2);

// Create LambdaInvokerFactory, to be used to instantiate the Lambda proxy.

LambdaInvokerFactory factory = new LambdaInvokerFactory(this.getApplicationContext(),
Regions.US_WEST_2, cognitoProvider);

// Create the Lambda proxy object with a default Json data binder.
// You can provide your own data binder by implementing
// LambdaDataBinder.
final MyInterface myInterface = factory.build(MyInterface.class);

RequestClass request = new RequestClass("John", "Doe");

// The Lambda function invocation results in a network call.
// Make sure it is not called from the main thread.
new AsyncTask<RequestClass, Void, ResponseClass>() {
@Override
protected ResponseClass doInBackground(RequestClass... params) {
// invoke "echo" method. In case it fails, it will throw a
// LambdaFunctionException.
try {
return myInterface.AndroidBackendLambdaFunction(params[0]);
} catch (LambdaFunctionException lfe) {
Log.e("Tag", "Failed to invoke echo", lfe);
return null;

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}
}

@Override
protected void onPostExecute(ResponseClass result) {
if (result == null) {
return;
}

// Do a toast
Toast.makeText(MainActivity.this, result.getGreetings(),
Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
}
}.execute(request);

9. Run the code and verify it as follows:

• The Toast.makeText() displays the response returned.

• Verify that CloudWatch Logs shows the log created by the Lambda function. It should show the
event data (first name and last name). You can also verify this in the AWS Lambda console.

Sample function code

Sample code is available for the following languages.

Topics
• Node.js (p. 171)
• Java (p. 171)

Node.js
The following example uses data to generate a string response.

Example index.js

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

console.log("Received event: ", event);
var data = {
"greetings": "Hello, " + event.firstName + " " + event.lastName + "."
};
callback(null, data);
}

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Node.js Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 489).

Java
The following example uses data to generate a string response.

In the code, the handler (myHandler) uses the RequestClass and ResponseClass types for the
input and output. The code provides implementation for these types.

Example HelloPojo.java

package example;

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import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;

public class HelloPojo {

// Define two classes/POJOs for use with Lambda function.

public static class RequestClass {
String firstName;
String lastName;

public String getFirstName() {

return firstName;
}

public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

this.firstName = firstName;
}

public String getLastName() {

return lastName;
}

public void setLastName(String lastName) {

this.lastName = lastName;
}

public RequestClass(String firstName, String lastName) {

this.firstName = firstName;
this.lastName = lastName;
}

public RequestClass() {
}
}

public static class ResponseClass {

String greetings;

public String getGreetings() {

return greetings;
}

public void setGreetings(String greetings) {

this.greetings = greetings;
}

public ResponseClass(String greetings) {

this.greetings = greetings;
}

public ResponseClass() {
}

public static ResponseClass myHandler(RequestClass request, Context context){

String greetingString = String.format("Hello %s, %s.", request.firstName,
request.lastName);
context.getLogger().log(greetingString);
return new ResponseClass(greetingString);
}
}

Dependencies

• aws-lambda-java-core

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Build the code with the Lambda library dependencies to create a deployment package. For instructions,
see Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578).

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AWS Lambda applications

An AWS Lambda application is a combination of Lambda functions, event sources, and other resources
that work together to perform tasks. You can use AWS CloudFormation and other tools to collect your
application's components into a single package that can be deployed and managed as one resource.
Applications make your Lambda projects portable and enable you to integrate with additional developer
tools, such as AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeBuild, and the AWS Serverless Application Model command
line interface (SAM CLI).

The AWS Serverless Application Repository provides a collection of Lambda applications that you
can deploy in your account with a few clicks. The repository includes both ready-to-use applications
and samples that you can use as a starting point for your own projects. You can also submit your own
projects for inclusion.

AWS CloudFormation enables you to create a template that defines your application's resources and lets
you manage the application as a stack. You can more safely add or modify resources in your application
stack. If any part of an update fails, AWS CloudFormation automatically rolls back to the previous
configuration. With AWS CloudFormation parameters, you can create multiple environments for your
application from the same template. AWS SAM (p. 5) extends AWS CloudFormation with a simplified
syntax focused on Lambda application development.

The AWS CLI (p. 5) and SAM CLI (p. 6) are command line tools for managing Lambda application stacks.
In addition to commands for managing application stacks with the AWS CloudFormation API, the AWS
CLI supports higher-level commands that simplify tasks like uploading deployment packages and
updating templates. The AWS SAM CLI provides additional functionality, including validating templates
and testing locally.

When creating an application, you can create its Git repository using either CodeCommit or an AWS
CodeStar connection to GitHub. CodeCommit enables you to use the IAM console to manage SSH keys
and HTTP credentials for your users. AWS CodeStar connections enables you to connect to your GitHub
account. For more information about connections, see What are connections? in the Developer Tools
console User Guide.

For more information about designing Lambda applications, see Application design in the Lambda
operator guide.

Topics
• Managing applications in the AWS Lambda console (p. 175)
• Creating an application with continuous delivery in the Lambda console (p. 178)
• Rolling deployments for Lambda functions (p. 187)
• Common Lambda application types and use cases (p. 189)
• Best practices for working with AWS Lambda functions (p. 192)

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Managing applications in the AWS Lambda console

The AWS Lambda console helps you monitor and manage your Lambda applications (p. 174). The
Applications menu lists AWS CloudFormation stacks with Lambda functions. The menu includes stacks
that you launch in AWS CloudFormation by using the AWS CloudFormation console, the AWS Serverless
Application Repository, the AWS CLI, or the AWS SAM CLI.

To view a Lambda application

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose an application.

The overview shows the following information about your application.

• AWS CloudFormation template or SAM template – The template that defines your application.
• Resources – The AWS resources that are defined in your application's template. To manage your
application's Lambda functions, choose a function name from the list.

Monitoring applications
The Monitoring tab shows an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard with aggregate metrics for the resources
in your application.

To monitor a Lambda application

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose Monitoring.

By default, the Lambda console shows a basic dashboard. You can customize this page by defining
custom dashboards in your application template. When your template includes one or more dashboards,
the page shows your dashboards instead of the default dashboard. You can switch between dashboards
with the drop-down menu on the top right of the page.

Custom monitoring dashboards

Customize your application monitoring page by adding one or more Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to
your application template with the AWS::CloudWatch::Dashboard resource type. The following example
creates a dashboard with a single widget that graphs the number of invocations of a function named
my-function.

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Example function dashboard template

Resources:
MyDashboard:
Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Dashboard
Properties:
DashboardName: my-dashboard
DashboardBody: |
{
"widgets": [
{
"type": "metric",
"width": 12,
"height": 6,
"properties": {
"metrics": [
[
"AWS/Lambda",
"Invocations",
"FunctionName",
"my-function",
{
"stat": "Sum",
"label": "MyFunction"
}
],
[
{
"expression": "SUM(METRICS())",
"label": "Total Invocations"
}
]
],
"region": "us-east-1",
"title": "Invocations",
"view": "timeSeries",
"stacked": false
}
}
]
}

You can get the definition for any of the widgets in the default monitoring dashboard from the
CloudWatch console.

To view a widget definition

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose an application that has the standard dashboard.
3. Choose Monitoring.
4. On any widget, choose View in metrics from the drop-down menu.

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5. Choose Source.

For more information about authoring CloudWatch dashboards and widgets, see Dashboard body
structure and syntax in the Amazon CloudWatch API Reference.

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Creating an application with continuous delivery in

the Lambda console
You can use the Lambda console to create an application with an integrated continuous delivery pipeline.
With continuous delivery, every change that you push to your source control repository triggers a
pipeline that builds and deploys your application automatically. The Lambda console provides starter
projects for common application types with Node.js sample code and templates that create supporting
resources.

In this tutorial, you create the following resources.

• Application – A Node.js Lambda function, build specification, and AWS Serverless Application Model
(AWS SAM) template.
• Pipeline – An AWS CodePipeline pipeline that connects the other resources to enable continuous
delivery.
• Repository – A Git repository in AWS CodeCommit. When you push a change, the pipeline copies the
source code into an Amazon S3 bucket and passes it to the build project.
• Trigger – An Amazon CloudWatch Events rule that watches the main branch of the repository and
triggers the pipeline.
• Build project – An AWS CodeBuild build that gets the source code from the pipeline and packages the
application. The source includes a build specification with commands that install dependencies and
prepare the application template for deployment.
• Deployment configuration – The pipeline's deployment stage defines a set of actions that take
the processed AWS SAM template from the build output, and deploy the new version with AWS
CloudFormation.
• Bucket – An Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket for deployment artifact storage.
• Roles – The pipeline's source, build, and deploy stages have IAM roles that allow them to manage AWS
resources. The application's function has an execution role (p. 47) that allows it to upload logs and can
be extended to access other services.

Your application and pipeline resources are defined in AWS CloudFormation templates that you can
customize and extend. Your application repository includes a template that you can modify to add
Amazon DynamoDB tables, an Amazon API Gateway API, and other application resources. The continuous
delivery pipeline is defined in a separate template outside of source control and has its own stack.

The pipeline maps a single branch in a repository to a single application stack. You can create additional
pipelines to add environments for other branches in the same repository. You can also add stages to your
pipeline for testing, staging, and manual approvals. For more information about AWS CodePipeline, see
What is AWS CodePipeline.

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 179)
• Create an application (p. 179)
• Invoke the function (p. 180)
• Add an AWS resource (p. 181)
• Update the permissions boundary (p. 183)
• Update the function code (p. 183)
• Next steps (p. 184)
• Troubleshooting (p. 185)
• Clean up (p. 186)

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Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

This tutorial uses CodeCommit for source control. To set up your local machine to access and update
application code, see Setting up in the AWS CodeCommit User Guide.

Create an application
Create an application in the Lambda console. In Lambda, an application is an AWS CloudFormation
stack with a Lambda function and any number of supporting resources. In this tutorial, you create an
application that has a function and its execution role.

To create an application

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose Create application.
3. Choose Author from scratch.
4. Configure application settings.

• Application name – my-app.

• Runtime – Node.js 10.x.
• Source control service – CodeCommit.
• Repository name – my-app-repo.
• Permissions – Create roles and permissions boundary.
5. Choose Create.

Lambda creates the pipeline and related resources and commits the sample application code to the Git
repository. As resources are created, they appear on the overview page.

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The Infrastructure stack contains the repository, build project, and other resources that combine to form
a continuous delivery pipeline. When this stack finishes deploying, it in turn deploys the application stack
that contains the function and execution role. These are the application resources that appear under
Resources.

Invoke the function

When the deployment process completes, invoke the function from the Lambda console.

To invoke the application's function

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose my-app.
3. Under Resources, choose helloFromLambdaFunction.
4. Choose Test.
5. Configure a test event.

• Event name – event

• Body – {}
6. Choose Create.
7. Choose Test.

The Lambda console runs your function and displays the result. Expand the Details section under the
result to see the output and execution details.

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Add an AWS resource

In the previous step, Lambda console created a Git repository that contains function code, a template,
and a build specification. You can add resources to your application by modifying the template and
pushing changes to the repository. To get a copy of the application on your local machine, clone the
repository.

To clone the project repository

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose my-app.
3. Choose Code.
4. Under Repository details, copy the HTTP or SSH repository URI, depending on the authentication
mode that you configured during setup (p. 179).
5. To clone the repository, use the git clone command.

git clone ssh://git-codecommit.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/v1/repos/my-app-repo

To add a DynamoDB table to the application, define an AWS::Serverless::SimpleTable resource in

the template.

To add a DynamoDB table

1. Open template.yml in a text editor.

2. Add a table resource, an environment variable that passes the table name to the function, and a
permissions policy that allows the function to manage it.

Example template.yml - resources

...
Resources:
ddbTable:
Type: AWS::Serverless::SimpleTable
Properties:

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PrimaryKey:
Name: id
Type: String
ProvisionedThroughput:
ReadCapacityUnits: 1
WriteCapacityUnits: 1
helloFromLambdaFunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: ./
Handler: src/handlers/hello-from-lambda.helloFromLambdaHandler
Runtime: nodejs10.x
MemorySize: 128
Timeout: 60
Description: A Lambda function that returns a static string.
Environment:
Variables:
DDB_TABLE: !Ref ddbTable
Policies:
- DynamoDBCrudPolicy:
TableName: !Ref ddbTable
- AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole

3. Commit and push the change.

git commit -am "Add DynamoDB table"

git push

When you push a change, it triggers the application's pipeline. Use the Deployments tab of the
application screen to track the change as it flows through the pipeline. When the deployment is
complete, proceed to the next step.

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Update the permissions boundary

The sample application applies a permissions boundary to its function's execution role. The permissions
boundary limits the permissions that you can add to the function's role. Without the boundary, users
with write access to the project repository could modify the project template to give the function
permission to access resources and services outside of the scope of the sample application.

In order for the function to use the DynamoDB permission that you added to its execution role in the
previous step, you must extend the permissions boundary to allow the additional permissions. The
Lambda console detects resources that aren't in the permissions boundary and provides an updated
policy that you can use to update it.

To update the application's permissions boundary

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose your application.
3. Under Resources, choose Edit permissions boundary.
4. Follow the instructions shown to update the boundary to allow access to the new table.

For more information about permissions boundaries, see Using permissions boundaries for AWS Lambda
applications (p. 67).

Update the function code

Next, update the function code to use the table. The following code uses the DynamoDB table to track
the number of invocations processed by each instance of the function. It uses the log stream ID as a
unique identifier for the function instance.

To update the function code

1. Add a new handler named index.js to the src/handlers folder with the following content.

Example src/handlers/index.js

const dynamodb = require('aws-sdk/clients/dynamodb');

const docClient = new dynamodb.DocumentClient();

exports.handler = async (event, context) => {

const message = 'Hello from Lambda!';
const tableName = process.env.DDB_TABLE;
const logStreamName = context.logStreamName;
var params = {
TableName : tableName,
Key: { id : logStreamName },
UpdateExpression: 'set invocations = if_not_exists(invocations, :start)
+ :inc',
ExpressionAttributeValues: {
':start': 0,
':inc': 1
},
ReturnValues: 'ALL_NEW'
};
await docClient.update(params).promise();

const response = {
body: JSON.stringify(message)
};
console.log(`body: ${response.body}`);
return response;

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2. Open the application template and change the handler value to src/handlers/index.handler.

Example template.yml

...
helloFromLambdaFunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: ./
Handler: src/handlers/index.handler
Runtime: nodejs10.x

3. Commit and push the change.

git add . && git commit -m "Use DynamoDB table"

git push

After the code change is deployed, invoke the function a few times to update the DynamoDB table.

To view the DynamoDB table

1. Open the Tables page of the DynamoDB console.

2. Choose the table that starts with my-app.
3. Choose Items.
4. Choose Start search.

Lambda creates additional instances of your function to handle multiple concurrent invocations. Each log
stream in the CloudWatch Logs log group corresponds to a function instance. A new function instance
is also created when you change your function's code or configuration. For more information on scaling,
see AWS Lambda function scaling (p. 153).

Next steps
The AWS CloudFormation template that defines your application resources uses the AWS Serverless
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the deployment package and other artifacts. AWS SAM also provides a command line interface (the AWS
SAM CLI), which has the same packaging and deployment functionality as the AWS CLI, with additional
features specific to Lambda applications. Use the AWS SAM CLI to test your application locally in a
Docker container that emulates the Lambda execution environment.

• Installing the AWS SAM CLI

• Testing and debugging serverless applications

AWS Cloud9 provides an online development environment that includes Node.js, the AWS SAM CLI, and
Docker. With AWS Cloud9, you can start developing quickly and access your development environment
from any computer. For instructions, see Getting started in the AWS Cloud9 User Guide.

For local development, AWS toolkits for integrated development environments (IDEs) let you test and
debug functions before pushing them to your repository.

• AWS Toolkit for JetBrains – Plugin for PyCharm (Python) and IntelliJ (Java) IDEs.
• AWS Toolkit for Eclipse – Plugin for Eclipse IDE (multiple languages).
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code – Plugin for Visual Studio Code IDE (multiple languages).
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio – Plugin for Visual Studio IDE (multiple languages).

Troubleshooting
As you develop your application, you will likely encounter the following types of errors.

• Build errors – Issues that occur during the build phase, including compilation, test, and packaging
errors.
• Deployment errors – Issues that occur when AWS CloudFormation isn't able to update the application
stack. These include permissions errors, account quotas, service issues, or template errors.
• Invocation errors – Errors that are returned by a function's code or runtime.

For build and deployment errors, you can identify the cause of an error in the Lambda console.

To troubleshoot application errors

1. Open the Lambda console Applications page.

2. Choose an application.
3. Choose Deployments.
4. To view the application's pipeline, choose Deployment pipeline.
5. Identify the action that encountered an error.
6. To view the error in context, choose Details.

For deployment errors that occur during the ExecuteChangeSet action, the pipeline links to a list of
stack events in the AWS CloudFormation console. Search for an event with the status UPDATE_FAILED.
Because AWS CloudFormation rolls back after an error, the relevant event is under several other events
in the list. If AWS CloudFormation could not create a change set, the error appears under Change sets
instead of under Events.

A common cause of deployment and invocation errors is a lack of permissions in one or more roles.
The pipeline has a role for deployments (CloudFormationRole) that's equivalent to the user
permissions (p. 56) that you would use to update an AWS CloudFormation stack directly. If you add
resources to your application or enable Lambda features that require user permissions, the deployment
role is used. You can find a link to the deployment role under Infrastructure in the application overview.

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If your function accesses other AWS services or resources, or if you enable features that require the
function to have additional permissions, the function's execution role (p. 47) is used. All execution roles
that are created in your application template are also subject to the application's permissions boundary.
This boundary requires you to explicitly grant access to additional services and resources in IAM after
adding permissions to the execution role in the template.

For example, to connect a function to a virtual private cloud (p. 111) (VPC), you need user permissions to
describe VPC resources. The execution role needs permission to manage network interfaces. This requires
the following steps.

1. Add the required user permissions to the deployment role in IAM.

2. Add the execution role permissions to the permissions boundary in IAM.
3. Add the execution role permissions to the execution role in the application template.
4. Commit and push to deploy the updated execution role.

After you address permissions errors, choose Release change in the pipeline overview to rerun the build
and deployment.

Clean up
You can continue to modify and use the sample to develop your own application. If you are done using
the sample, delete the application to avoid paying for the pipeline, repository, and storage.

To delete the application

1. Open the AWS CloudFormation console.

2. Delete the application stack – my-app.
3. Open the Amazon S3 console.
4. Delete the artifact bucket – us-east-2-123456789012-my-app-pipe.
5. Return to the AWS CloudFormation console and delete the infrastructure stack – serverlessrepo-
my-app-toolchain.

Function logs are not associated with the application or infrastructure stack in AWS CloudFormation.
Delete the log group separately in the CloudWatch Logs console.

To delete the log group

1. Open the Log groups page of the Amazon CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the function's log group (/aws/lambda/my-app-
helloFromLambdaFunction-YV1VXMPLK7QK).
3. Choose Actions, and then choose Delete log group.
4. Choose Yes, Delete.

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Rolling deployments for Lambda functions

Use rolling deployments to control the risks associated with introducing new versions of your Lambda
function. In a rolling deployment, the system automatically deploys the new version of the function and
gradually sends an increasing amount of traffic to the new version. The amount of traffic and rate of
increase are parameters that you can configure.

You configure a rolling deployment by using AWS CodeDeploy and AWS SAM. CodeDeploy is a service
that automates application deployments to Amazon computing platforms such as Amazon EC2 and AWS
Lambda. For more information, see What is CodeDeploy?. By using CodeDeploy to deploy your Lambda
function, you can easily monitor the status of the deployment and initiate a rollback if you detect any
issues.

AWS SAM is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. You create an AWS
SAM template (in YAML format) to specify the configuration of the components required for the
rolling deployment. AWS SAM uses the template to create and configure the components. For more
information, see What is the AWS SAM?.

In a rolling deployment, AWS SAM performs these tasks:

• It configures your Lambda function and creates an alias.

The alias routing configuration is the underlying capability that implements the rolling deployment.
• It creates a CodeDeploy application and deployment group.

The deployment group manages the rolling deployment and the rollback (if needed).
• It detects when you create a new version of your Lambda function.
• It triggers CodeDeploy to start the deployment of the new version.

Example AWS SAM Lambda template

The following example shows an AWS SAM template for a simple rolling deployment.

AWSTemplateFormatVersion : '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: A sample SAM template for deploying Lambda functions.

Resources:
# Details about the myDateTimeFunction Lambda function
myDateTimeFunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: myDateTimeFunction.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
# Creates an alias named "live" for the function, and automatically publishes when you
update the function.
AutoPublishAlias: live
DeploymentPreference:
# Specifies the deployment configuration
Type: Linear10PercentEvery2Minutes

This template defines a Lambda function named myDateTimeFunction with the following properties.

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AutoPublishAlias

The AutoPublishAlias property creates an alias named live. In addition, the AWS SAM
framework automatically detects when you save new code for the function. The framework then
publishes a new function version and updates the live alias to point to the new version.
DeploymentPreference

The DeploymentPreference property determines the rate at which the CodeDeploy application
shifts traffic from the original version of the Lambda function to the new version. The value
Linear10PercentEvery2Minutes shifts an additional ten percent of the traffic to the new
version every two minutes.

For a list of the predefined deployment configurations, see Deployment configurations.

For a detailed tutorial on how to use CodeDeploy with Lambda functions, see Deploy an updated
Lambda function with CodeDeploy.

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Use cases

Common Lambda application types and use cases

When building applications on AWS Lambda the core components are Lambda functions and triggers. A
trigger is the AWS service or application that invokes a function, and a Lambda function is the code and
runtime that process events. To illustrate, consider the following scenarios:

• File processing – Suppose you have a photo sharing application. People use your application to upload
photos, and the application stores these user photos in an Amazon S3 bucket. Then, your application
creates a thumbnail version of each user's photos and displays them on the user's profile page. In this
scenario, you may choose to create a Lambda function that creates a thumbnail automatically. Amazon
S3 is one of the supported AWS event sources that can publish object-created events and invoke your
Lambda function. Your Lambda function code can read the photo object from the S3 bucket, create a
thumbnail version, and then save it in another S3 bucket.
• Data and analytics – Suppose you are building an analytics application and storing raw data in a
DynamoDB table. When you write, update, or delete items in a table, DynamoDB streams can publish
item update events to a stream associated with the table. In this case, the event data provides the
item key, event name (such as insert, update, and delete), and other relevant details. You can write a
Lambda function to generate custom metrics by aggregating raw data.
• Websites – Suppose you are creating a website and you want to host the backend logic on Lambda.
You can invoke your Lambda function over HTTP using Amazon API Gateway as the HTTP endpoint.
Now, your web client can invoke the API, and then API Gateway can route the request to Lambda.
• Mobile applications – Suppose you have a custom mobile application that produces events. You can
create a Lambda function to process events published by your custom application. For example, in
this scenario you can configure a Lambda function to process the clicks within your custom mobile
application.

AWS Lambda supports many AWS services as event sources. For more information, see Using AWS
Lambda with other services (p. 257). When you configure these event sources to trigger a Lambda
function, the Lambda function is invoked automatically when events occur. You define event source
mapping, which is how you identify what events to track and which Lambda function to invoke.

The following are introductory examples of event sources and how the end-to-end experience works.

Example 1: Amazon S3 pushes events and invokes a

Lambda function
Amazon S3 can publish events of different types, such as PUT, POST, COPY, and DELETE object events on
a bucket. Using the bucket notification feature, you can configure an event source mapping that directs
Amazon S3 to invoke a Lambda function when a specific type of event occurs, as shown in the following
illustration.

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Example 2: AWS Lambda pulls events from a
Kinesis stream and invokes a Lambda function

The diagram illustrates the following sequence:

1. The user creates an object in a bucket.

2. Amazon S3 detects the object created event.
3. Amazon S3 invokes your Lambda function using the permissions provided by the execution
role (p. 47).
4. AWS Lambda runs the Lambda function, specifying the event as a parameter.

You configure Amazon S3 to invoke your function as a bucket notification action. To grant Amazon S3
permission to invoke the function, update the function's resource-based policy (p. 51).

Example 2: AWS Lambda pulls events from a Kinesis

stream and invokes a Lambda function
For poll-based event sources, AWS Lambda polls the source and then invokes the Lambda function when
records are detected on that source.

• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)

• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)

The following diagram shows how a custom application writes records to a Kinesis stream.

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Example 2: AWS Lambda pulls events from a
Kinesis stream and invokes a Lambda function

The diagram illustrates the following sequence:

1. The custom application writes records to a Kinesis stream.

2. AWS Lambda continuously polls the stream, and invokes the Lambda function when the service
detects new records on the stream. AWS Lambda knows which stream to poll and which Lambda
function to invoke based on the event source mapping you create in Lambda.
3. The Lambda function is invoked with the incoming event.

When working with stream-based event sources, you create event source mappings in AWS Lambda.
Lambda reads items from the stream invokes the function synchronously. You don't need to grant
Lambda permission to invoke the function, but it does need permission to read from the stream.

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Best practices for working with AWS Lambda

functions
The following are recommended best practices for using AWS Lambda:

Topics
• Function code (p. 192)
• Function configuration (p. 193)
• Metrics and alarms (p. 194)
• Working with streams (p. 194)

For more information about best practices for Lambda applications, see Application design in the
Lambda operator guide.

Function code
• Separate the Lambda handler from your core logic. This allows you to make a more unit-testable
function. In Node.js this may look like:

exports.myHandler = function(event, context, callback) {

var foo = event.foo;
var bar = event.bar;
var result = MyLambdaFunction (foo, bar);

callback(null, result);
}

function MyLambdaFunction (foo, bar) {

// MyLambdaFunction logic here
}

• Take advantage of execution environment reuse to improve the performance of your function.
Initialize SDK clients and database connections outside of the function handler, and cache static assets
locally in the /tmp directory. Subsequent invocations processed by the same instance of your function
can reuse these resources. This saves cost by reducing function run time.

To avoid potential data leaks across invocations, don’t use the execution environment to store user
data, events, or other information with security implications. If your function relies on a mutable state
that can’t be stored in memory within the handler, consider creating a separate function or separate
versions of a function for each user.
• Use a keep-alive directive to maintain persistent connections. Lambda purges idle connections over
time. Attempting to reuse an idle connection when invoking a function will result in a connection error.
To maintain your persistent connection, use the keep-alive directive associated with your runtime. For
an example, see Reusing Connections with Keep-Alive in Node.js.
• Use environment variables (p. 77) to pass operational parameters to your function. For example, if
you are writing to an Amazon S3 bucket, instead of hard-coding the bucket name you are writing to,
configure the bucket name as an environment variable.
• Control the dependencies in your function's deployment package. The AWS Lambda execution
environment contains a number of libraries such as the AWS SDK for the Node.js and Python runtimes
(a full list can be found here: Lambda runtimes (p. 195)). To enable the latest set of features and
security updates, Lambda will periodically update these libraries. These updates may introduce subtle
changes to the behavior of your Lambda function. To have full control of the dependencies your
function uses, package all of your dependencies with your deployment package.

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Function configuration

• Minimize your deployment package size to its runtime necessities. This will reduce the amount of
time that it takes for your deployment package to be downloaded and unpacked ahead of invocation.
For functions authored in Java or .NET Core, avoid uploading the entire AWS SDK library as part of
your deployment package. Instead, selectively depend on the modules which pick up components of
the SDK you need (e.g. DynamoDB, Amazon S3 SDK modules and Lambda core libraries).
• Reduce the time it takes Lambda to unpack deployment packages authored in Java by putting your
dependency .jar files in a separate /lib directory. This is faster than putting all your function’s code
in a single jar with a large number of .class files. See Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR
file archives (p. 578) for instructions.
• Minimize the complexity of your dependencies. Prefer simpler frameworks that load quickly on
execution environment (p. 200) startup. For example, prefer simpler Java dependency injection (IoC)
frameworks like Dagger or Guice, over more complex ones like Spring Framework.
• Avoid using recursive code in your Lambda function, wherein the function automatically calls itself
until some arbitrary criteria is met. This could lead to unintended volume of function invocations and
escalated costs. If you do accidentally do so, set the function reserved concurrency to 0 immediately to
throttle all invocations to the function, while you update the code.

Function configuration
• Performance testing your Lambda function is a crucial part in ensuring you pick the optimum
memory size configuration. Any increase in memory size triggers an equivalent increase in CPU
available to your function. The memory usage for your function is determined per-invoke and can be
viewed in Amazon CloudWatch. On each invoke a REPORT: entry will be made, as shown below:

REPORT RequestId: 3604209a-e9a3-11e6-939a-754dd98c7be3 Duration: 12.34 ms Billed

Duration: 100 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 18 MB

By analyzing the Max Memory Used: field, you can determine if your function needs more memory
or if you over-provisioned your function's memory size.

To find the right memory configuration for your functions, we recommend using the open source
AWS Lambda Power Tuning project. For more information, see AWS Lambda Power Tuning on GitHub.

To optimize function performance, we also recommend deploying libraries that can leverage Advanced
Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2). This allows you to process demanding workloads, including machine
learning inferencing, media processing, high performance computing (HPC), scientific simulations, and
financial modeling. For more information, see Creating faster AWS Lambda functions with AVX2.
• Load test your Lambda function to determine an optimum timeout value. It is important to analyze
how long your function runs so that you can better determine any problems with a dependency
service that may increase the concurrency of the function beyond what you expect. This is especially
important when your Lambda function makes network calls to resources that may not handle
Lambda's scaling.
• Use most-restrictive permissions when setting IAM policies. Understand the resources and
operations your Lambda function needs, and limit the execution role to these permissions. For more
information, see AWS Lambda permissions (p. 46).
• Be familiar with Lambda quotas (p. 44). Payload size, file descriptors and /tmp space are often
overlooked when determining runtime resource limits.
• Delete Lambda functions that you are no longer using. By doing so, the unused functions won't
needlessly count against your deployment package size limit.
• If you are using Amazon Simple Queue Service as an event source, make sure the value of the
function's expected invocation time does not exceed the Visibility Timeout value on the queue. This
applies both to CreateFunction (p. 763) and UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936).
• In the case of CreateFunction, AWS Lambda will fail the function creation process.

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• In the case of UpdateFunctionConfiguration, it could result in duplicate invocations of the function.

Metrics and alarms

• Use Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692) and CloudWatch Alarms instead of
creating or updating a metric from within your Lambda function code. It's a much more efficient way
to track the health of your Lambda functions, allowing you to catch issues early in the development
process. For instance, you can configure an alarm based on the expected duration of your Lambda
function invocation in order to address any bottlenecks or latencies attributable to your function code.
• Leverage your logging library and AWS Lambda Metrics and Dimensions to catch app errors (e.g.
ERR, ERROR, WARNING, etc.)

Working with streams

• Test with different batch and record sizes so that the polling frequency of each event source is tuned
to how quickly your function is able to complete its task. BatchSize (p. 755) controls the maximum
number of records that can be sent to your function with each invoke. A larger batch size can often
more efficiently absorb the invoke overhead across a larger set of records, increasing your throughput.

By default, Lambda invokes your function as soon as records are available in the stream. If the batch
that Lambda reads from the stream only has one record in it, Lambda sends only one record to the
function. To avoid invoking the function with a small number of records, you can tell the event source
to buffer records for up to five minutes by configuring a batch window. Before invoking the function,
Lambda continues to read records from the stream until it has gathered a full batch, or until the batch
window expires.
• Increase Kinesis stream processing throughput by adding shards. A Kinesis stream is composed
of one or more shards. Lambda will poll each shard with at most one concurrent invocation. For
example, if your stream has 100 active shards, there will be at most 100 Lambda function invocations
running concurrently. Increasing the number of shards will directly increase the number of maximum
concurrent Lambda function invocations and can increase your Kinesis stream processing throughput.
If you are increasing the number of shards in a Kinesis stream, make sure you have picked a good
partition key (see Partition Keys) for your data, so that related records end up on the same shards and
your data is well distributed.
• Use Amazon CloudWatch on IteratorAge to determine if your Kinesis stream is being processed. For
example, configure a CloudWatch alarm with a maximum setting to 30000 (30 seconds).

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Lambda runtimes
Lambda supports multiple languages through the use of runtimes (p. 30). For a function defined as a
container image (p. 72), you choose a runtime and the Linux distribution when you create the container
image (p. 248). To change the runtime, you create a new container image.

When you use a .zip file archive for the deployment package, you choose a runtime when you create
the function. To change the runtime, you can update your function's configuration (p. 70). The runtime
is paired with one of the Amazon Linux distributions. The underlying execution environment provides
additional libraries and environment variables (p. 77) that you can access from your function code.

Amazon Linux

• Image – amzn-ami-hvm-2018.03.0.20181129-x86_64-gp2
• Linux kernel – 4.14.171-105.231.amzn1.x86_64

Amazon Linux 2

• Image – Custom
• Linux kernel – 4.14.165-102.205.amzn2.x86_64

When your function is invoked, Lambda attempts to re-use the execution environment from a previous
invocation if one is available. This saves time preparing the execution environment, and it allows you to
save resources such as database connections and temporary files in the execution environment (p. 200)
to avoid creating them every time your function runs.

A runtime can support a single version of a language, multiple versions of a language, or multiple
languages. Runtimes specific to a language or framework version are deprecated (p. 198) when the
version reaches end of life.

Node.js runtimes

Name Identifier SDK for JavaScript Operating system

Node.js 14 nodejs14.x 2.880.0 Amazon Linux 2

Node.js 12 nodejs12.x 2.880.0 Amazon Linux 2

Node.js 10 nodejs10.x 2.880.0 Amazon Linux 2

Note
For end of support information about Node.js 10, see the section called “Runtime support
policy” (p. 198).

Python runtimes

Name Identifier AWS SDK for Operating system

Python

Python 3.8 python3.8 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux 2

botocore-1.20.42

Python 3.7 python3.7 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux

botocore-1.20.42

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Name Identifier AWS SDK for Operating system

Python

Python 3.6 python3.6 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux

botocore-1.20.42

Python 2.7 python2.7 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux

botocore-1.20.42

Important
Python 2.7 reached end of life on January 1, 2020. End of support (phase 1) for the Python
2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see Announcing end of support for
Python 2.7 in AWS Lambda on the AWS Compute Blog.

Ruby runtimes

Name Identifier SDK for Ruby Operating system

Ruby 2.7 ruby2.7 3.0.1 Amazon Linux 2

Ruby 2.5 ruby2.5 3.0.1 Amazon Linux

Note
For end of support information about Ruby 2.5, see the section called “Runtime support
policy” (p. 198).

Java runtimes

Name Identifier JDK Operating system

Java 11 java11 amazon-corretto-11 Amazon Linux 2

Java 8 java8.al2 amazon-corretto-8 Amazon Linux 2

Java 8 java8 java-1.8.0-openjdk Amazon Linux

Go runtimes

Name Identifier Operating system

Go 1.x go1.x Amazon Linux

.NET runtimes

Name Identifier Operating system

.NET Core 3.1 dotnetcore3.1 Amazon Linux 2

.NET Core 2.1 dotnetcore2.1 Amazon Linux

Note
For end of support information about .NET Core 2.1, see the section called “Runtime support
policy” (p. 198).

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To use other languages in Lambda, you can implement a custom runtime (p. 236). The Lambda
execution environment provides a runtime interface (p. 205) for getting invocation events and sending
responses. You can deploy a custom runtime alongside your function code, or in a layer (p. 101).

Custom runtime

Name Identifier Operating system

Custom Runtime provided.al2 Amazon Linux 2

Custom Runtime provided Amazon Linux

Topics
• Runtime support policy (p. 198)
• AWS Lambda execution environment (p. 200)
• Runtime support for Lambda container images (p. 203)
• AWS Lambda runtime API (p. 205)
• Lambda Extensions API (p. 209)
• Lambda Logs API (p. 223)
• Modifying the runtime environment (p. 231)
• Custom AWS Lambda runtimes (p. 236)
• Tutorial – Publishing a custom runtime (p. 239)
• Using AVX2 vectorization in Lambda (p. 245)

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Runtime support policy

Lambda runtimes (p. 195) for .zip file archives are built around a combination of operating system,
programming language, and software libraries that are subject to maintenance and security updates.
When security updates are no longer available for a component of a runtime, Lambda deprecates the
runtime.

Deprecation (end of support) for a runtime occurs in two phases. In phase 1, Lambda no longer applies
security patches or other updates to the runtime. You can no longer create functions that use the
runtime, but you can continue to update existing functions. This includes updating the runtime version,
and rolling back to the previous runtime version. Note that functions that use a deprecated runtime are
no longer eligible for technical support.

In phase 2, which starts at least 30 days after the start of phase 1, you can no longer create or update
functions that use the runtime. To update a function, you need to migrate it to a supported runtime
version. After you migrate the function to a supported runtime version, you cannot rollback the function
to the previous runtime.

Lambda does not block invocations of functions that use deprecated runtime versions. Function
invocations continue indefinitely after the runtime version reaches end of support. However, AWS
strongly recommends that you migrate functions to a supported runtime version so that you continue to
receive security patches and remain eligible for technical support.
Important
Python 2.7 reached end of life on January 1, 2020. End of support (phase 1) for the Python
2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see Announcing end of support for
Python 2.7 in AWS Lambda on the AWS Compute Blog.

The following runtimes have reached or are scheduled for end of support:

Runtime end of support dates

Name Identifier Operating system End of support End of support

phase 1 start phase 2 start

.NET Core 2.1 dotnetcore2.1 Amazon Linux Aug 23, 2021 Sept 23, 2021

Python 2.7 python2.7 Amazon Linux July 15, 2021 Sept 30, 2021

Ruby 2.5 ruby2.5 Amazon Linux July 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021

Node.js 10.x nodejs10.x Amazon Linux 2 July 30, 2021 Aug 30, 2021

Node.js 8.10 nodejs8.10 Amazon Linux March 6, 2020

Node.js 6.10 nodejs6.10 Amazon Linux August 12, 2019

Node.js 4.3 edge nodejs4.3-edge Amazon Linux April 30, 2019

Node.js 4.3 nodejs4.3 Amazon Linux March 6, 2020

Node.js 0.10 nodejs Amazon Linux October 31, 2016

.NET Core 2.0 dotnetcore2.0 Amazon Linux May 30, 2019

.NET Core 1.0 dotnetcore1.0 Amazon Linux July 30, 2019

In almost all cases, the end-of-life date of a language version or operating system is known well in
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support in the next 60 days. In rare cases, advance notice of support ending might not be possible. For
example, security issues that require a backwards-incompatible update, or a runtime component that
doesn't provide a long-term support (LTS) schedule.

Language and framework support policies

• Node.js – github.com
• Python – devguide.python.org
• Ruby – www.ruby-lang.org
• Java – www.oracle.com and Corretto FAQs
• Go – golang.org
• .NET Core – dotnet.microsoft.com

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AWS Lambda execution environment

Lambda invokes your function in an execution environment, which provides a secure and isolated
runtime environment. The execution environment manages the resources required to run your function.
The execution environment also provides lifecycle support for the function's runtime and any external
extensions (p. 160) associated with your function.

The function's runtime communicates with Lambda using the Runtime API (p. 205). Extensions
communicate with Lambda using the Extensions API (p. 209). Extensions can also receive log messages
from the function by subscribing to logs using the Logs API (p. 223).

When you create your Lambda function, you specify configuration information, such as the amount
of memory available and the maximum execution time allowed for your function. Lambda uses this
information to set up the execution environment.

The function's runtime and each external extension are processes that run within the execution
environment. Permissions, resources, credentials, and environment variables are shared between the
function and the extensions.

Lambda execution environment lifecycle

The lifecycle of the execution environment includes the following phases:

• Init: In this phase, Lambda creates or unfreezes an execution environment with the configured
resources, downloads the code for the function and all layers, initializes any extensions, initializes the
runtime, and then runs the function’s initialization code (the code outside the main handler). The Init
phase happens either during the first invocation, or in advance of function invocations if you have
enabled provisioned concurrency (p. 87).

The Init phase is split into three sub-phases: Extension init, Runtime init, and Function
init. These sub-phases ensure that all extensions and the runtime complete their setup tasks before
the function code runs.
• Invoke: In this phase, Lambda invokes the function handler. After the function runs to completion,
Lambda prepares to handle another function invocation.
• Shutdown: This phase is triggered if the Lambda function does not receive any invocations for a period
of time. In the Shutdown phase, Lambda shuts down the runtime, alerts the extensions to let them
stop cleanly, and then removes the environment. Lambda sends a Shutdown event to each extension,
which tells the extension that the environment is about to be shut down.

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Each phase starts with an event that Lambda sends to the runtime and to all registered extensions. The
runtime and each extension indicate completion by sending a Next API request. Lambda freezes the
execution environment when the runtime and each extension have completed and there are no pending
events.

Topics
• Init phase (p. 201)
• Invoke phase (p. 201)
• Shutdown phase (p. 202)

Init phase
In the Init phase, Lambda performs three tasks:

• Start all extensions (Extension init)

• Bootstrap the runtime (Runtime init)
• Run the function's static code (Function init)

The Init phase ends when the runtime and all extensions signal that they are ready by sending a
Next API request. The Init phase is limited to 10 seconds. If all three tasks do not complete within 10
seconds, Lambda retries the Init phase at the time of the first function invocation.

Invoke phase
When a Lambda function is invoked in response to a Next API request, Lambda sends an Invoke event
to the runtime and to each extension.

The function's timeout setting limits the duration of the entire Invoke phase. For example, if you set the
function timeout as 360 seconds, the function and all extensions need to complete within 360 seconds.
Note that there is no independent post-invoke phase. The duration is the sum of all invocation time
(runtime + extensions) and is not calculated until the function and all extensions have finished executing.

The invoke phase ends after the runtime and all extensions signal that they are done by sending a Next
API request.

If the Lambda function crashes or times out during the Invoke phase, Lambda resets the execution
environment. The reset behaves like a Shutdown event. First, Lambda shuts down the runtime. Then
Lambda sends a Shutdown event to each registered external extension. The event includes the reason
for the shutdown. If another Invoke event results in this execution environment being reused, Lambda
initializes the runtime and extensions as part of the next invocation.

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Shutdown phase
When Lambda is about to shut down the runtime, it sends a Shutdown event to the runtime and to
each external extension. Extensions can use this time for final cleanup tasks. The Shutdown event is a
response to a Next API request.

Duration: The entire Shutdown phase is capped at 2 seconds. If the runtime or any extension does not
respond, Lambda terminates it via a signal (SIGKILL).

After the function and all extensions have completed, Lambda maintains the execution environment
for some time in anticipation of another function invocation. In effect, Lambda freezes the execution
environment. When the function is invoked again, Lambda thaws the environment for reuse. Reusing the
execution environment has the following implications:

• Objects declared outside of the function's handler method remain initialized, providing additional
optimization when the function is invoked again. For example, if your Lambda function establishes
a database connection, instead of reestablishing the connection, the original connection is used in
subsequent invocations. We recommend adding logic in your code to check if a connection exists
before creating a new one.
• Each execution environment provides 512 MB of disk space in the /tmp directory. The directory
content remains when the execution environment is frozen, providing a transient cache that can be
used for multiple invocations. You can add extra code to check if the cache has the data that you
stored. For more information on deployment size limits, see Lambda quotas (p. 44).
• Background processes or callbacks that were initiated by your Lambda function and did not complete
when the function ended resume if Lambda reuses the execution environment. Make sure that any
background processes or callbacks in your code are complete before the code exits.

When you write your function code, do not assume that Lambda automatically reuses the execution
environment for subsequent function invocations. Other factors may dictate a need for Lambda to
create a new execution environment, which can lead to unexpected results, such as database connection
failures.

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Runtime support for Lambda container images

AWS provides a set of open-source base images that you can use. You can also use a preferred
community or private base image. Lambda provides client software that you add to your preferred base
image to make it compatible with the Lambda service.

Topics
• AWS base images for Lambda (p. 203)
• Base images for custom runtimes (p. 203)
• Runtime interface clients (p. 203)
• Runtime interface emulator (p. 204)

AWS base images for Lambda

You can use one of the AWS base images for Lambda to build the container image for your function
code. The base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components required to run a
container image on Lambda. You add your function code and dependencies to the base image and then
package it as a container image.

AWS will maintain and regularly update these images. In addition, AWS will release an AWS base images
when any new managed runtime becomes available.

Lambda provides base images for the following runtimes:

• Node.js (p. 492)

• Python (p. 529)
• Java (p. 585)
• .NET (p. 651)
• Go (p. 620)
• Ruby (p. 554)

Base images for custom runtimes

AWS provides base images that contain the required Lambda components and the Amazon Linux or
Amazon Linux2 operating system. You can add your preferred runtime, dependencies and code to these
images.

Tags Runtime Operating system

al2 provided.al2 Amazon Linux 2

alami provided Amazon Linux

DockerHub: amazon/aws-lambda-provided

ECR Public: public.ecr.aws/lambda/provided

Runtime interface clients

The runtime interface client in your container image manages the interaction between Lambda and your
function code. The Runtime API (p. 205), along with the Extensions API (p. 209), defines a simple

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HTTP interface for runtimes to receive invocation events from Lambda and respond with success or
failure indications.

Each of the AWS base images for Lambda include a runtime interface client. If you choose one of the
base images for custom runtimes or an alternative base image, you need to add the appropriate runtime
interface client.

For your convenience, Lambda provides an open source runtime interface client for each of the
supported Lambda runtimes:

• Node.js (p. 492)

• Python (p. 530)
• Java (p. 585)
• .NET (p. 651)
• Go (p. 620)
• Ruby (p. 554)

Runtime interface emulator

Lambda provides a runtime interface emulator (RIE) for you to test your function locally. The AWS base
images for Lambda and base images for custom runtimes include the RIE. For other base images, you can
download the Runtime interface emulator from the AWS GitHub repository.

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AWS Lambda runtime API

AWS Lambda provides an HTTP API for custom runtimes (p. 236) to receive invocation events from
Lambda and send response data back within the Lambda execution environment (p. 195).

The OpenAPI specification for the runtime API version 2018-06-01 is available in runtime-api.zip

To create an API request URL, runtimes get the API endpoint from the AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API
environment variable, add the API version, and add the desired resource path.

Example Request

curl "http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2018-06-01/runtime/invocation/next"

API methods
• Next invocation (p. 205)
• Invocation response (p. 206)
• Initialization error (p. 206)
• Invocation error (p. 207)

Next invocation
Path – /runtime/invocation/next

Method – GET

The runtime sends this message to Lambda to request an invocation event. The response body contains
the payload from the invocation, which is a JSON document that contains event data from the function
trigger. The response headers contain additional data about the invocation.

Response headers

• Lambda-Runtime-Aws-Request-Id – The request ID, which identifies the request that triggered the
function invocation.

For example, 8476a536-e9f4-11e8-9739-2dfe598c3fcd.

• Lambda-Runtime-Deadline-Ms – The date that the function times out in Unix time milliseconds.

For example, 1542409706888.

• Lambda-Runtime-Invoked-Function-Arn – The ARN of the Lambda function, version, or alias
that's specified in the invocation.

For example, arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:custom-runtime.

• Lambda-Runtime-Trace-Id – The AWS X-Ray tracing header.

For example, Root=1-5bef4de7-

ad49b0e87f6ef6c87fc2e700;Parent=9a9197af755a6419;Sampled=1.
• Lambda-Runtime-Client-Context – For invocations from the AWS Mobile SDK, data about the
client application and device.
• Lambda-Runtime-Cognito-Identity – For invocations from the AWS Mobile SDK, data about the
Amazon Cognito identity provider.

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Do not set a timeout on the GET request as the response may be delayed. Between when Lambda
bootstraps the runtime and when the runtime has an event to return, the runtime process may be frozen
for several seconds.

The request ID tracks the invocation within Lambda. Use it to specify the invocation when you send the
response.

The tracing header contains the trace ID, parent ID, and sampling decision. If the request is
sampled, the request was sampled by Lambda or an upstream service. The runtime should set the
_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID with the value of the header. The X-Ray SDK reads this to get the IDs and
determine whether to trace the request.

Invocation response
Path – /runtime/invocation/AwsRequestId/response

Method – POST

After the function has run to completion, the runtime sends an invocation response to Lambda. For
synchronous invocations, Lambda sends the response to the client.

Example success request

REQUEST_ID=156cb537-e2d4-11e8-9b34-d36013741fb9
curl -X POST "http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2018-06-01/runtime/invocation/$REQUEST_ID/
response" -d "SUCCESS"

Initialization error
If the function returns an error or the runtime encounters an error during initialization, the runtime uses
this method to report the error to Lambda.

Path – /runtime/init/error

Method – POST

Headers

Lambda-Runtime-Function-Error-Type – Error type that the extension encountered. Required: no.

This header consists of a string value. Lambda accepts any string, but we recommend a format of
<category.reason>. For example:

• Runtime.NoSuchHandler
• Extension.APIKeyNotFound
• Extension.ConfigInvalid
• Extension.UnknownReason

Body parameters

ErrorRequest – Information about the error. Required: no.

This field is a JSON object with the following structure:

{
errorMessage: string (text description of the error),

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errorType: string,
stackTrace: array of strings
}

Note that Lambda accepts any value for errorType.

The following example shows a Lambda function error message in which the function could not parse
the event data provided in the invocation.

Example Function error

{
"errorMessage" : "Error parsing event data.",
"errorType" : "InvalidEventDataException",
"stackTrace": [ ]
}

Response body parameters

• StatusResponse – String. Status information, sent with 202 response codes.

• ErrorResponse – Additional error information, sent with the error response codes. ErrorResponse
contains an error type and an error message.

Response codes

• 202 – Accepted
• 403 – Forbidden
• 500 – Container error. Non-recoverable state. Extension should exit promptly.

Example initialization error request

ERROR="{\"errorMessage\" : \"Failed to load function.\", \"errorType\" :

\"InvalidFunctionException\"}"
curl -X POST "http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2018-06-01/runtime/init/error" -d "$ERROR"
--header "Lambda-Runtime-Function-Error-Type: Unhandled"

Invocation error
If the function returns an error or the runtime encounters an error, the runtime uses this method to
report the error to Lambda.

Path – /runtime/invocation/AwsRequestId/error

Method – POST

Headers

Lambda-Runtime-Function-Error-Type – Error type that the extension encountered. Required: no.

This header consists of a string value. Lambda accepts any string, but we recommend a format of
<category.reason>. For example:

• Runtime.NoSuchHandler
• Extension.APIKeyNotFound
• Extension.ConfigInvalid

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• Extension.UnknownReason

Body parameters

ErrorRequest – Information about the error. Required: no.

This field is a JSON object with the following structure:

{
errorMessage: string (text description of the error),
errorType: string,
stackTrace: array of strings
}

Note that Lambda accepts any value for errorType.

The following example shows a Lambda function error message in which the function could not parse
the event data provided in the invocation.

Example Function error

{
"errorMessage" : "Error parsing event data.",
"errorType" : "InvalidEventDataException",
"stackTrace": [ ]
}

Response body parameters

• StatusResponse – String. Status information, sent with 202 response codes.

• ErrorResponse – Additional error information, sent with the error response codes. ErrorResponse
contains an error type and an error message.

Response codes

• 202 – Accepted
• 400 – Bad Request
• 403 – Forbidden
• 500 – Container error. Non-recoverable state. Extension should exit promptly.

Example error request

REQUEST_ID=156cb537-e2d4-11e8-9b34-d36013741fb9
ERROR="{\"errorMessage\" : \"Error parsing event data.\", \"errorType\" :
\"InvalidEventDataException\"}"
curl -X POST "http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2018-06-01/runtime/invocation/$REQUEST_ID/
error" -d "$ERROR" --header "Lambda-Runtime-Function-Error-Type: Unhandled"

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Lambda Extensions API

Lambda function authors use extensions to integrate Lambda with their preferred tools for monitoring,
observability, security, and governance. Function authors can use extensions from AWS, AWS Partners,
and open-source projects. For more information on using extensions, see Introducing AWS Lambda
Extensions on the AWS Compute Blog.

As an extension author, you can use the Lambda Extensions API to integrate deeply into the Lambda
execution environment (p. 200). Your extension can register for function and execution environment
lifecycle events. In response to these events, you can start new processes, run logic, and control and
participate in all phases of the Lambda lifecycle: initialization, invocation, and shutdown. In addition, you
can use the Runtime Logs API (p. 223) to receive a stream of logs.

An extension runs as an independent process in the execution environment and can continue to run
after the function invocation is fully processed. Because extensions run as processes, you can write
them in a different language than the function. We recommend that you implement extensions using a
compiled language. In this case, the extension is a self-contained binary that is compatible with all of the
supported runtimes. If you use a non-compiled language, ensure that you include a compatible runtime
in the extension.

The following Lambda runtimes (p. 195) support extensions:

• .NET Core 3.1 (C#/PowerShell) (dotnetcore3.1)

• Custom runtime (provided)
• Custom runtime on Amazon Linux 2 (provided.al2)
• Java 11 (Corretto) (java11)
• Java 8 (Corretto) (java8.al2)
• Node.js 14.x (nodejs14.x)
• Node.js 12.x (nodejs12.x)
• Node.js 10.x (nodejs10.x)
• Python 3.8 (python3.8)
• Python 3.7 (python3.7)
• Ruby 2.7 (ruby2.7)
• Ruby 2.5 (ruby2.5)

Note that the Go 1.x runtime does not support extensions. To support extensions, you can create Go
functions on the provided.al2 runtime. For more information, see Migrating Lambda functions to
Amazon Linux 2.

Lambda also supports internal extensions. An internal extension runs as a separate thread in the runtime
process. The runtime starts and stops the internal extension. An alternative way to integrate with the
Lambda environment is to use language-specific environment variables and wrapper scripts (p. 231).
You can use these to configure the runtime environment and modify the startup behavior of the runtime
process.

You can add extensions to a function in two ways. For a function deployed as a .zip file archive (p. 41),
you deploy your extension as a layer (p. 101). For a function defined as a container image, you add the
extensions (p. 162) to your container image.
Note
For example extensions and wrapper scripts, see AWS Lambda Extensions on the AWS Samples
GitHub repository.

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Topics
• Lambda execution environment lifecycle (p. 210)
• Extensions API reference (p. 218)

Lambda execution environment lifecycle

The lifecycle of the execution environment includes the following phases:

• Init: In this phase, Lambda creates or unfreezes an execution environment with the configured
resources, downloads the code for the function and all layers, initializes any extensions, initializes the
runtime, and then runs the function’s initialization code (the code outside the main handler). The Init
phase happens either during the first invocation, or in advance of function invocations if you have
enabled provisioned concurrency (p. 87).

The Init phase is split into three sub-phases: Extension init, Runtime init, and Function
init. These sub-phases ensure that all extensions and the runtime complete their setup tasks before
the function code runs.
• Invoke: In this phase, Lambda invokes the function handler. After the function runs to completion,
Lambda prepares to handle another function invocation.
• Shutdown: This phase is triggered if the Lambda function does not receive any invocations for a period
of time. In the Shutdown phase, Lambda shuts down the runtime, alerts the extensions to let them
stop cleanly, and then removes the environment. Lambda sends a Shutdown event to each extension,
which tells the extension that the environment is about to be shut down.

Each phase starts with an event from Lambda to the runtime and to all registered extensions. The
runtime and each extension signal completion by sending a Next API request. Lambda freezes the
execution environment when each process has completed and there are no pending events.

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Topics
• Init phase (p. 212)
• Invoke phase (p. 201)
• Shutdown phase (p. 202)
• Permissions and configuration (p. 216)
• Failure handling (p. 217)
• Troubleshooting extensions (p. 218)

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Init phase
During the Extension init phase, each extension needs to register with Lambda to receive events.
Lambda uses the full file name of the extension to validate that the extension has completed the
bootstrap sequence. Therefore, each Register API call must include the Lambda-Extension-Name
header with the full file name of the extension.

You can register up to 10 extensions for a function. This limit is enforced through the Register API call.

After each extension registers, Lambda starts the Runtime init phase. The runtime process calls
functionInit to start the Function init phase.

The Init phase completes after the runtime and each registered extension indicate completion by
sending a Next API request.
Note
Extensions can complete their initialization at any point in the Init phase.

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Invoke phase
When a Lambda function is invoked in response to a Next API request, Lambda sends an Invoke event
to the runtime and to each extension that is registered for the Invoke event.

During the invocation, external extensions run in parallel with the function. They also continue running
after the function has completed. This enables you to capture diagnostic information or to send logs,
metrics, and traces to a location of your choice.

After receiving the function response from the runtime, Lambda returns the response to the client, even
if extensions are still running.

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The Invoke phase ends after the runtime and all extensions signal that they are done by sending a Next
API request.

Event payload: The event sent to the runtime (and the Lambda function) carries the entire request,
headers (such as RequestId), and payload. The event sent to each extension contains metadata that
describes the event content. This lifecycle event includes the type of the event, the time that the
function times out (deadlineMs), the requestId, the invoked function's Amazon Resource Name
(ARN), and tracing headers.

Extensions that want to access the function event body can use an in-runtime SDK that communicates
with the extension. Function developers use the in-runtime SDK to send the payload to the extension
when the function is invoked.

Here is an example payload:

{
"eventType": "INVOKE",
"deadlineMs": 676051,
"requestId": "3da1f2dc-3222-475e-9205-e2e6c6318895",
"invokedFunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:ExtensionTest",

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"tracing": {
"type": "X-Amzn-Trace-Id",
"value":
"Root=1-5f35ae12-0c0fec141ab77a00bc047aa2;Parent=2be948a625588e32;Sampled=1"
}
}

Duration limit: The function's timeout setting (p. 70) limits the duration of the entire Invoke phase.
For example, if you set the function timeout as 360 seconds, the function and all extensions need to
complete within 360 seconds. Note that there is no independent post-invoke phase. The duration is
the sum of all invocation time (runtime + extensions) and is not calculated until the function and all
extensions have finished running.

Performance impact and extension overhead: Extensions can impact function performance. As an
extension author, you have control over the performance impact of your extension. For example, if
your extension performs compute-intensive operations, the function's duration increases because the
extension and the function code share the same CPU resources. In addition, if your extension performs
extensive operations after the function invocation completes, the function duration increases because
the Invoke phase continues until all extensions signal that they are completed.
Note
Lambda allocates CPU power in proportion to the function's memory setting. You might see
increased execution and initialization duration at lower memory settings because the function
and extension processes are competing for the same CPU resources. To reduce the execution and
initialization duration, try increasing the memory setting.

To help identify the performance impact introduced by extensions on the Invoke phase, Lambda
outputs the PostRuntimeExtensionsDuration metric. This metric measures the cumulative time
spent between the runtime Next API request and the last extension Next API request. To measure the
increase in memory used, use the MaxMemoryUsed metric. For more information about function metrics,
see Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692).

Function developers can run different versions of their functions side by side to understand the impact
of a specific extension. We recommend that extension authors publish expected resource consumption to
make it easier for function developers to choose a suitable extension.

Shutdown phase
When Lambda is about to shut down the runtime, it sends a Shutdown event to the runtime and then to
each registered external extension. Extensions can use this time for final cleanup tasks. The Shutdown
event is sent in response to a Next API request.

Duration limit: The maximum duration of the Shutdown phase depends on the configuration of
registered extensions:

• 300 ms – A function with no registered extensions

• 500 ms – A function with a registered internal extension
• 2,000 ms – A function with one or more registered external extensions

For a function with external extensions, Lambda reserves up to 300 ms (500 ms for a runtime with
an internal extension) for the runtime process to perform a graceful shutdown. Lambda allocates the
remainder of the 2,000 ms limit for external extensions to shut down.

If the runtime or an extension does not respond to the Shutdown event within the limit, Lambda ends
the process using a SIGKILL signal.

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Event payload: The Shutdown event contains the reason for the shutdown and the time remaining in
milliseconds.

The shutdownReason includes the following values:

• SPINDOWN – Normal shutdown

• TIMEOUT – Duration limit timed out
• FAILURE – Error condition, such as an out-of-memory event

{
"eventType": "SHUTDOWN",
"shutdownReason": "reason for shutdown",
"deadlineMs": "the time and date that the function times out in Unix time milliseconds"
}

Permissions and configuration

Extensions run in the same execution environment as the Lambda function. Extensions also share
resources with the function, such as CPU, memory, and /tmp disk storage. In addition, extensions use the
same AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role and security context as the function.

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File system and network access permissions: Extensions run in the same file system and network
name namespace as the function runtime. This means that extensions need to be compatible with the
associated operating system. If an extension requires any additional outbound network traffic rules, you
must apply these rules to the function configuration.
Note
Because the function code directory is read-only, extensions cannot modify the function code.

Environment variables: Extensions can access the function's environment variables (p. 77), except for the
following variables that are specific to the runtime process:

• AWS_EXECUTION_ENV
• AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME
• AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME
• AWS_XRAY_CONTEXT_MISSING
• AWS_XRAY_DAEMON_ADDRESS
• LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR
• LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT
• _AWS_XRAY_DAEMON_ADDRESS
• _AWS_XRAY_DAEMON_PORT
• _HANDLER

Failure handling
Initialization failures: If an extension fails, Lambda restarts the execution environment to enforce
consistent behavior and to encourage fail fast for extensions. Also, for some customers, the extensions
must meet mission-critical needs such as logging, security, governance, and telemetry collection.

Invoke failures (such as out of memory, function timeout): Because extensions share resources with the
runtime, memory exhaustion affects them. When the runtime fails, all extensions and the runtime itself
participate in the Shutdown phase. In addition, the runtime is restarted—either automatically as part of
the current invocation, or via a deferred re-initialization mechanism.

If there is a failure (such as a function timeout or runtime error) during Invoke, the Lambda service
performs a reset. The reset behaves like a Shutdown event. First, Lambda shuts down the runtime, then
it sends a Shutdown event to each registered external extension. The event includes the reason for the
shutdown. If this environment is used for a new invocation, the extension and runtime are re-initialized
as part of the next invocation.

Extension logs: Lambda sends the log output of extensions to CloudWatch Logs. Lambda also generates
an additional log event for each extension during Init. The log event records the name and registration
preference (event, config) on success, or the failure reason on failure.

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Troubleshooting extensions
• If a Register request fails, make sure that the Lambda-Extension-Name header in the Register
API call contains the full file name of the extension.
• If the Register request fails for an internal extension, make sure that the request does not register
for the Shutdown event.

Extensions API reference

The OpenAPI specification for the extensions API version 2020-01-01 is available here: extensions-api.zip

You can retrieve the value of the API endpoint from the AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API environment
variable. To send a Register request, use the prefix 2020-01-01/ before each API path. For example:

http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2020-01-01/extension/register

API methods
• Register (p. 218)
• Next (p. 219)
• Init error (p. 219)
• Exit error (p. 221)

Register
During Extension init, all extensions need to register with Lambda to receive events. Lambda uses
the full file name of the extension to validate that the extension has completed the bootstrap sequence.
Therefore, each Register API call must include the Lambda-Extension-Name header with the full file
name of the extension.

Internal extensions are started and stopped by the runtime process, so they are not permitted to register
for the Shutdown event.

Path – /extension/register

Method – POST

Headers

Lambda-Extension-Name – The full file name of the extension. Required: yes. Type: string.

Body parameters

events – Array of the events to register for. Required: no. Type: array of strings. Valid strings: INVOKE,
SHUTDOWN.

Response headers

• Lambda-Extension-Identifier – Generated unique agent identifier (UUID string) that is required

for all subsequent requests.

Response codes

• 200 – Response body contains the function name, function version, and handler name.

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• 400 – Bad Request

• 403 – Forbidden
• 500 – Container error. Non-recoverable state. Extension should exit promptly.

Example Example request body

{
'events': [ 'INVOKE', 'SHUTDOWN']
}

Example Example response body

{
"functionName": "helloWorld",
"functionVersion": "$LATEST",
"handler": "lambda_function.lambda_handler"
}

Next
Extensions send a Next API request to receive the next event, which can be an Invoke event or a
Shutdown event. The response body contains the payload, which is a JSON document that contains
event data.

The extension sends a Next API request to signal that it is ready to receive new events. This is a blocking
call.

Do not set a timeout on the GET call, as the extension can be suspended for a period of time until there
is an event to return.

Path – /extension/event/next

Method – GET

Parameters

Lambda-Extension-Identifier – Unique identifier for extension (UUID string). Required: yes. Type:
UUID string.

Response header

• Lambda-Extension-Identifier – Unique agent identifier (UUID string).

Response codes

• 200 – Response contains information about the next event (EventInvoke or EventShutdown).
• 403 – Forbidden
• 500 – Container error. Non-recoverable state. Extension should exit promptly.

Init error
The extension uses this method to report an initialization error to Lambda. Call it when the extension
fails to initialize after it has registered. After Lambda receives the error, no further API calls succeed. The
extension should exit after it receives the response from Lambda.

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Path – /extension/init/error

Method – POST

Headers

Lambda-Extension-Identifier – Unique identifier for extension. Required: yes. Type: UUID string.

Lambda-Extension-Function-Error-Type – Error type that the extension encountered. Required:

yes.

This header consists of a string value. Lambda accepts any string, but we recommend a format of
<category.reason>. For example:

• Runtime.NoSuchHandler
• Extension.APIKeyNotFound
• Extension.ConfigInvalid
• Extension.UnknownReason

Body parameters

ErrorRequest – Information about the error. Required: no.

This field is a JSON object with the following structure:

{
errorMessage: string (text description of the error),
errorType: string,
stackTrace: array of strings
}

Note that Lambda accepts any value for errorType.

The following example shows a Lambda function error message in which the function could not parse
the event data provided in the invocation.

Example Function error

{
"errorMessage" : "Error parsing event data.",
"errorType" : "InvalidEventDataException",
"stackTrace": [ ]
}

Response body

• Lambda-Extension-Identifier – Unique agent identifier (UUID string).

Response codes

• 202 – Accepted
• 400 – Bad Request
• 403 – Forbidden
• 500 – Container error. Non-recoverable state. Extension should exit promptly.

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Exit error
The extension uses this method to report an error to Lambda before exiting. Call it when you encounter
an unexpected failure. After Lambda receives the error, no further API calls succeed. The extension
should exit after it receives the response from Lambda.

Path – /extension/exit/error

Method – POST

Headers

Lambda-Extension-Identifier – Unique identifier for extension. Required: yes. Type: UUID string.

Lambda-Extension-Function-Error-Type – Error type that the extension encountered. Required:

yes.

This header consists of a string value. Lambda accepts any string, but we recommend a format of
<category.reason>. For example:

• Runtime.NoSuchHandler
• Extension.APIKeyNotFound
• Extension.ConfigInvalid
• Extension.UnknownReason

Body parameters

ErrorRequest – Information about the error. Required: no.

This field is a JSON object with the following structure:

{
errorMessage: string (text description of the error),
errorType: string,
stackTrace: array of strings
}

Note that Lambda accepts any value for errorType.

The following example shows a Lambda function error message in which the function could not parse
the event data provided in the invocation.

Example Function error

{
"errorMessage" : "Error parsing event data.",
"errorType" : "InvalidEventDataException",
"stackTrace": [ ]
}

Response body

• Lambda-Extension-Identifier – Unique agent identifier (UUID string).

Response codes

• 202 – Accepted

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• 400 – Bad Request

• 403 – Forbidden
• 500 – Container error. Non-recoverable state. Extension should exit promptly.

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Lambda Logs API

Lambda automatically captures runtime logs and streams them to Amazon CloudWatch. This log stream
contains the logs that your function code and extensions generate, and also the logs that Lambda
generates as part of the function invocation.

Lambda extensions (p. 209) can use the Lambda Runtime Logs API to subscribe to log streams directly
from within the Lambda execution environment (p. 200). Lambda streams the logs to the extension, and
the extension can then process, filter, and send the logs to any preferred destination.

The Logs API allows extensions to subscribe to three different logs streams:

• Function logs that the Lambda function generates and writes to stdout or stderr.
• Extension logs that extension code generates.
• Lambda platform logs, which record events and errors related to invocations and extensions.

Note
Lambda sends all logs to CloudWatch, even when an extension subscribes to one or more of the
log streams.

Topics
• Subscribing to receive logs (p. 224)
• Memory usage (p. 224)
• Destination protocols (p. 224)
• Buffering configuration (p. 224)
• Example subscription (p. 225)
• Sample code for Logs API (p. 225)
• Logs API reference (p. 226)
• Log messages (p. 227)

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Subscribing to receive logs

A Lambda extension can subscribe to receive logs by sending a subscription request to the Logs API.

To subscribe to receive logs, you need the extension identifier (Lambda-Extension-Identifier). First
register the extension (p. 218) to receive the extension identifier. Then subscribe to the Logs API during
initialization (p. 201). After the initialization phase completes, Lambda does not process subscription
requests.
Note
Logs API subscription is idempotent. Duplicate subscribe requests do not result in duplicate
subscriptions.

Memory usage
Memory usage increases linearly as the number of subscribers increases. Subscriptions consume memory
resources because each subscription opens a new memory buffer to store the logs. To help optimize
memory usage, you can adjust the buffering configuration (p. 224). Buffer memory usage counts
towards overall memory consumption in the execution environment.

Destination protocols
You can choose one of the following protocols to receive the logs:

1. HTTP (recommended) – Lambda delivers logs to a local HTTP endpoint (http://

sandbox.localdomain:${PORT}/${PATH}) as an array of records in JSON format. The $PATH
parameter is optional. Note that only HTTP is supported, not HTTPS. You can choose to receive logs
through PUT or POST.
2. TCP – Lambda delivers logs to a TCP port in Newline delimited JSON (NDJSON) format.

We recommend using HTTP rather than TCP. With TCP, the Lambda platform cannot acknowledge when
it delivers logs to the application layer. Therefore, you might lose logs if your extension crashes. HTTP
does not share this limitation.

We also recommend setting up the local HTTP listener or the TCP port before subscribing to receive logs.
During setup, note the following:

• Lambda sends logs only to destinations that are inside the execution environment.
• Lambda retries the attempt to send the logs (with backoff) if there is no listener, or if the POST or
PUT request results in an error. If the log subscriber crashes, it continues to receive logs after Lambda
restarts the execution environment.
• Lambda reserves port 9001. There are no other port number restrictions or recommendations.

Buffering configuration
Lambda can buffer logs and deliver them to the subscriber. You can configure this behavior in the
subscription request by specifying the following optional fields. Note that Lambda uses the default value
for any field that you do not specify.

• timeoutMs – The maximum time (in milliseconds) to buffer a batch. Default: 1,000. Minimum: 25.
Maximum: 30,000.
• maxBytes – The maximum size (in bytes) of the logs to buffer in memory. Default: 262,144. Minimum:
262,144. Maximum: 1,048,576.

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• maxItems – The maximum number of events to buffer in memory. Default: 10,000. Minimum: 1,000.
Maximum: 10,000.

During buffering configuration, note the following points:

• Lambda flushes the logs if any of the input streams are closed, for example, if the runtime crashes.
• Each subscriber can specify a different buffering configuration in their subscription request.
• Consider the buffer size that you need for reading the data. Expect to receive payloads as large as
2*maxBytes+metadata, where maxBytes is configured in the subscribe request. For example,
Lambda adds the following metadata bytes to each record:

{
"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "function",
"record": "Hello World"
}

• If the subscriber cannot process incoming logs quickly enough, Lambda might drop logs to
keep memory utilization bounded. To indicate the number of dropped records, Lambda sends a
platform.logsDropped log.

Example subscription
The following example shows a request to subscribe to the platform and function logs.

PUT http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2020-08-15/logs/ HTTP/1.1

{ "schemaVersion": "2020-08-15",
"types": [
"platform",
"function"
],
"buffering": {
"maxItems": 1000,
"maxBytes": 10240,
"timeoutMs": 100
}
"destination": {
"protocol": "HTTP",
"URI": "http://sandbox.localdomain:8080/lambda_logs"
}
}

If the request succeeds, the subscriber receives an HTTP 200 success response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
"OK"

Sample code for Logs API

For sample code showing how to send logs to a custom destination, see Using AWS Lambda extensions
to send logs to custom destinations on the AWS Compute Blog.

For Python and Go code examples showing how to develop a basic Lambda extension and subscribe to
the Logs API, see AWS Lambda Extensions on the AWS Samples GitHub repository. For more information
about building a Lambda extension, see the section called “Extensions API” (p. 209).

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Logs API reference

You can retrieve the Logs API endpoint from the AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API environment variable. To
send an API request, use the prefix 2020-08-15/ before the API path. For example:

http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2020-08-15/logs/

The OpenAPI specification for the Logs API version 2020-08-15 is available here: logs-api-request.zip

Subscribe
To subscribe to one or more of the log streams available in the Lambda execution environment,
extensions send a Subscribe API request.

Path – /logs

Method – PUT

Body parameters

destination – See the section called “Destination protocols” (p. 224). Required: yes. Type: strings.

buffering – See the section called “Buffering configuration” (p. 224). Required: no. Type: strings.

types – An array of the types of logs to receive. Required: yes. Type: array of strings. Valid values:
"platform", "function", "extension".

schemaVersion – Required: no. Default value: "2020-08-15". Set to "2021-03-18" for the extension to
receive platform.runtimeDone (p. 229) messages.

Response parameters

The OpenAPI specifications for the subscription responses version 2020-08-15 are available for the HTTP
and TCP protocols:

• HTTP: logs-api-http-response.zip
• TCP: logs-api-tcp-response.zip

Response codes

• 200 – Request completed successfully

• 202 – Request accepted. Response to a subscription request during local testing.
• 4XX – Bad Request
• 500 – Service error

If the request succeeds, the subscriber receives an HTTP 200 success response.

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
"OK"

If the request fails, the subscriber receives an error response. For example:

HTTP/1.1 400 OK

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{
"errorType": "Logs.ValidationError",
"errorMessage": URI port is not provided; types should not be empty"
}

Log messages
The Logs API allows extensions to subscribe to three different logs streams:

• Function – Logs that the Lambda function generates and writes to stdout or stderr.
• Extension – Logs that extension code generates.
• Platform – Logs that the runtime platform generates, which record events and errors related to
invocations and extensions.

Topics
• Function logs (p. 227)
• Extension logs (p. 227)
• Platform logs (p. 227)

Function logs
The Lambda function and internal extensions generate function logs and write them to stdout or
stderr.

The following example shows the format of a function log message. { "time":
"2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z", "type": "function", "record": "ERROR encountered. Stack trace:\n\my-
function (line 10)\n" }

Extension logs
Extensions can generate extension logs. The log format is the same as for a function log.

Platform logs
Lambda generates log messages for platform events such as platform.start, platform.end, and
platform.fault.

Optionally, you can subscribe to the 2021-03-18 version of the Logs API schema, which includes the
platform.runtimeDone log message.

Example platform log messages

The following example shows the platform start and platform end logs. These logs indicate the
invocation start time and invocation end time for the invocation that the requestId specifies.

{
"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "platform.start",
"record": {"requestId": "6f7f0961f83442118a7af6fe80b88d56"}
}
{
"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "platform.end",
"record": {"requestId": "6f7f0961f83442118a7af6fe80b88d56"}

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The platform report log includes metrics about the invocation that the requestId specifies. The
initDurationMs field is included in the log only if the invocation included a cold start. If AWS X-Ray
tracing is active, the log includes X-Ray metadata. The following example shows a platform report log for
an invocation that included a cold start.

{
"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "platform.report",
"record": {"requestId": "6f7f0961f83442118a7af6fe80b88d56",
"metrics": {"durationMs": 101.51,
"billedDurationMs": 300,
"memorySizeMB": 512,
"maxMemoryUsedMB": 33,
"initDurationMs": 116.67
}
}
}

The platform fault log captures runtime or execution environment errors. The following example shows a
platform fault log message.

{
"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "platform.fault",
"record": "RequestId: d783b35e-a91d-4251-af17-035953428a2c Process exited before
completing request"
}

Lambda generates a platform extension log when an extension registers with the extensions API. The
following example shows a platform extension message.

{
"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "platform.extension",
"record": {"name": "Foo.bar",
"state": "Ready",
"events": ["INVOKE", "SHUTDOWN"]
}
}

Lambda generates a platform logs subscription log when an extension subscribes to the logs API. The
following example shows a logs subscription message.

{
"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "platform.logsSubscription",
"record": {"name": "Foo.bar",
"state": "Subscribed",
"types": ["function", "platform"],
}
}

Lambda generates a platform logs dropped log when an extension is not able to process the number of
logs that it is receiving. The following example shows a platform.logsDropped log message.

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"time": "2020-08-20T12:31:32.123Z",
"type": "platform.logsDropped",
"record": {"reason": "Consumer seems to have fallen behind as it has not acknowledged
receipt of logs.",
"droppedRecords": 123,
"droppedBytes" 12345
}
}

Platform runtimeDone messages

If you set the schema version to "2021-03-18" in the subscribe request, Lambda sends a
platform.runtimeDone message after the function invocation completes either successfully or
with an error. The extension can use this message to stop all the telemetry collection for this function
invocation.

The OpenAPI specification for the Log event type in schema version 2021-03-18 is available here:
schema-2021-03-18.zip

Lambda generates the platform.runtimeDone log message when the runtime sends a Next or
Error runtime API request. The platform.runtimeDone log informs consumers of the Logs API that
the function invocation completes. Extensions can use this information to decide when to send all the
telemetry collected during that invocation.

Examples

Lambda sends the platform.runtimeDone message after the runtime sends the NEXT request when
the function invocation completes. The following examples show messages for each of the status values:
success, failure, and timeout.

Example Example success message

{
"time": "2021-02-04T20:00:05.123Z",
"type": "platform.runtimeDone",
"record": {
"requestId":"6f7f0961f83442118a7af6fe80b88",
"status": "success"
}
}

Example Example failure message

{
"time": "2021-02-04T20:00:05.123Z",
"type": "platform.runtimeDone",
"record": {
"requestId":"6f7f0961f83442118a7af6fe80b88",
"status": "failure"
}
}

Example Example timeout message

{
"time": "2021-02-04T20:00:05.123Z",
"type": "platform.runtimeDone",
"record": {
"requestId":"6f7f0961f83442118a7af6fe80b88",

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"status": "timeout"
}
}

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Modifying the runtime environment

You can use internal extensions (p. 160) to modify the runtime process. Internal extensions are not
separate processes—they run as part of the runtime process.

Lambda provides language-specific environment variables (p. 77) that you can set to add options and
tools to the runtime. Lambda also provides wrapper scripts (p. 233), which allow Lambda to delegate
the runtime startup to your script. You can create a wrapper script to customize the runtime startup
behavior.

Language-specific environment variables

Lambda supports configuration-only ways to enable code to be pre-loaded during function initialization
through the following language-specific environment variables:

• JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS – On Java 11 and Java 8 (java8.al2), Lambda supports this environment

variable to set additional command-line variables in Lambda. This environment variable allows you to
specify the initialization of tools, specifically the launching of native or Java programming language
agents using the agentlib or javaagent options.
• NODE_OPTIONS – On Node.js 10x and above, Lambda supports this environment variable.
• DOTNET_STARTUP_HOOKS – On .NET Core 3.1 and above, this environment variable specifies a path to
an assembly (dll) that Lambda can use.

Using language-specific environment variables is the preferred way to set startup properties.

Example: Intercept Lambda invokes with javaagent

The Java virtual machine (JVM) tries to locate the class that was specified with the javaagent
parameter to the JVM, and invoke its premain method before the application's entry point.

The following example uses Byte Buddy, a library for creating and modifying Java classes during the
runtime of a Java application without the help of a compiler. Byte Buddy offers an additional API for
generating Java agents. In this example, the Agent class intercepts every call of the handleRequest
method made to the RequestStreamHandler class. This class is used internally in the runtime to wrap the
handler invocations.

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestStreamHandler;
import net.bytebuddy.agent.builder.AgentBuilder;
import net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice;
import net.bytebuddy.matcher.ElementMatchers;

import java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation;

public class Agent {

public static void premain(String agentArgs, Instrumentation inst) {

new AgentBuilder.Default()
.with(new AgentBuilder.InitializationStrategy.SelfInjection.Eager())
.type(ElementMatchers.isSubTypeOf(RequestStreamHandler.class))
.transform((builder, typeDescription, classLoader, module) -> builder
.method(ElementMatchers.nameContains("handleRequest"))
.intercept(Advice.to(TimerAdvice.class)))
.installOn(inst);
}
}

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The agent in the preceding example uses the TimerAdvice method. TimerAdvice measures how many
milliseconds are spent with the method call and logs the method time and details, such as name and
passed arguments.

import static net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice.AllArguments;

import static net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice.Enter;
import static net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice.OnMethodEnter;
import static net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice.OnMethodExit;
import static net.bytebuddy.asm.Advice.Origin;

public class TimerAdvice {

@OnMethodEnter
static long enter() {
return System.currentTimeMillis();
}

@OnMethodExit
static void exit(@Origin String method, @Enter long start, @AllArguments Object[] args)
{
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (Object arg : args) {
sb.append(arg);
sb.append(", ");
}
System.out.println(method + " method with args: " + sb.toString() + " took " +
(System.currentTimeMillis() - start) + " milliseconds ");
}
}

The TimerAdvice method above has the following dependencies.

*'com.amazonaws'*, *name*: *'aws-lambda-java-core'*, *version*: *'1.2.1'*

*'net.bytebuddy'*, *name*: *'byte-buddy-dep'*, *version*: *'1.10.14'*
*'net.bytebuddy'*, *name*: *'byte-buddy-agent'*, *version*: *'1.10.14'*

After you create a layer that contains the agent JAR, you can pass the JAR name to the runtime's JVM by
setting an environment variable.

JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS=-javaagent:"/opt/ExampleAgent-0.0.jar"

After invoking the function with {key=lambdaInput}, you can find the following line in the logs:

public java.lang.Object lambdainternal.EventHandlerLoader

$PojoMethodRequestHandler.handleRequest
(java.lang.Object,com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context) method with args:
{key=lambdaInput}, lambdainternal.api.LambdaContext@4d9d1b69, took 106 milliseconds

Example: Adding a shutdown hook to the JVM runtime process

When an extension is registered during a Shutdown event, the runtime process gets up to 500 ms
to handle graceful shutdown. You can hook into the runtime process, and when the JVM begins its
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extension (p. 218). You do not need to explicitly register for the Shutdown event, as that is automatically
sent to the runtime.

import java.lang.instrument.Instrumentation;

public class Agent {

public static void premain(String agentArgs, Instrumentation inst) {

// Register the extension.
// ...

// Register the shutdown hook

addShutdownHook();
}

private static void addShutdownHook() {

// Shutdown hooks get up to 500 ms to handle graceful shutdown before the runtime is
terminated.
//
// You can use this time to egress any remaining telemetry, close open database
connections, etc.
Runtime.getRuntime().addShutdownHook(new Thread(() -> {
// Inside the shutdown hook's thread we can perform any remaining task which
needs to be done.
}));
}

Example: Retrieving the InvokedFunctionArn

@OnMethodEnter
static long enter() {
String invokedFunctionArn = null;
for (Object arg : args) {
if (arg instanceof Context) {
Context context = (Context) arg;
invokedFunctionArn = context.getInvokedFunctionArn();
}
}
}

Wrapper scripts
You can create a wrapper script to customize the runtime startup behavior of your Lambda function. A
wrapper script enables you to set configuration parameters that cannot be set through language-specific
environment variables.
Note
Invocations may fail if the wrapper script does not successfully start the runtime process.

The following Lambda runtimes (p. 195) support wrapper scripts:

• Node.js 14.x
• Node.js 12.x

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• Node.js 10.x
• Python 3.8
• Ruby 2.7
• Java 11
• Java 8 (java8.al2)
• .NET Core 3.1

When you use a wrapper script for your function, Lambda starts the runtime using your script. Lambda
sends to your script the path to the interpreter and all of the original arguments for the standard
runtime startup. Your script can extend or transform the startup behavior of the program. For example,
the script can inject and alter arguments, set environment variables, or capture metrics, errors, and other
diagnostic information.

You specify the script by setting the value of the AWS_LAMBDA_EXEC_WRAPPER environment variable as
the file system path of an executable binary or script.

Example: Create and use a wrapper script with Python 3.8

In the following example, you create a wrapper script to start the Python interpreter with the -X
importtime option. When you run the function, Lambda generates a log entry to show the duration of
the import time for each import.

To create and use a wrapper script with Python 3.8

1. To create the wrapper script, paste the following code into a file named importtime_wrapper:

#!/bin/bash

# the path to the interpreter and all of the originally intended arguments
args=("$@")

# the extra options to pass to the interpreter

extra_args=("-X" "importtime")

# insert the extra options

args=("${args[@]:0:$#-1}" "${extra_args[@]}" "${args[@]: -1}")

# start the runtime with the extra options

exec "${args[@]}"

2. To give the script executable permissions, enter chmod +x importtime_wrapper from the
command line.
3. Deploy the script as a Lambda layer (p. 101).
4. Create a function using the Lambda console.

a. Open the Lambda console.

b. Choose Create function.
c. Under Basic information, for Function name, enter wrapper-test-function.
d. For Runtime, choose Python 3.8.
e. Choose Create function.
5. Add the layer to your function.

a. Choose your function, and then choose Code if it is not already selected.

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b. Choose Add a layer.

c. Under Choose a layer, choose the Name and Version of the compatible layer that you created
earlier.
d. Choose Add.
6. Add the code and the environment variable to your function.

a. In the function code editor (p. 17), paste the following function code:

import json

def lambda_handler(event, context):

# TODO implement
return {
'statusCode': 200,
'body': json.dumps('Hello from Lambda!')
}

b. Choose Save.
c. Under Environment variables, choose Edit.
d. Choose Add environment variable.
e. For Key, enter AWS_LAMBDA_EXEC_WRAPPER.
f. For Value, enter /opt/importtime_wrapper.
g. Choose Save.
7. To run the function, choose Test.

Because your wrapper script started the Python interpreter with the -X importtime option, the
logs show the time required for each import. For example:

...
2020-06-30T18:48:46.780+01:00 import time: 213 | 213 | simplejson
2020-06-30T18:48:46.780+01:00 import time: 50 | 263 | simplejson.raw_json
...

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Custom AWS Lambda runtimes

You can implement an AWS Lambda runtime in any programming language. A runtime is a program that
runs a Lambda function's handler method when the function is invoked. You can include a runtime in
your function's deployment package in the form of an executable file named bootstrap.

A runtime is responsible for running the function's setup code, reading the handler name from an
environment variable, and reading invocation events from the Lambda runtime API. The runtime passes
the event data to the function handler, and posts the response from the handler back to Lambda.

Your custom runtime runs in the standard Lambda execution environment (p. 195). It can be a shell
script, a script in a language that's included in Amazon Linux, or a binary executable file that's compiled
in Amazon Linux.

To get started with custom runtimes, see Tutorial – Publishing a custom runtime (p. 239). You can also
explore a custom runtime implemented in C++ at awslabs/aws-lambda-cpp on GitHub.

Topics
• Using a custom runtime (p. 236)
• Building a custom runtime (p. 236)

Using a custom runtime

To use a custom runtime, set your function's runtime to provided. The runtime can be included in your
function's deployment package, or in a layer (p. 101).

Example function.zip

.
### bootstrap
### function.sh

If there's a file named bootstrap in your deployment package, Lambda runs that file. If not, Lambda
looks for a runtime in the function's layers. If the bootstrap file isn't found or isn't executable, your
function returns an error upon invocation.

Building a custom runtime

A custom runtime's entry point is an executable file named bootstrap. The bootstrap file can be the
runtime, or it can invoke another file that creates the runtime. The following example uses a bundled
version of Node.js to run a JavaScript runtime in a separate file named runtime.js.

Example bootstrap

#!/bin/sh
cd $LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT
./node-v11.1.0-linux-x64/bin/node runtime.js

Your runtime code is responsible for completing some initialization tasks. Then it processes
invocation events in a loop until it's terminated. The initialization tasks run once per instance of the
function (p. 200) to prepare the environment to handle invocations.

Initialization tasks

• Retrieve settings – Read environment variables to get details about the function and environment.

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• _HANDLER – The location to the handler, from the function's configuration. The standard format is
file.method, where file is the name of the file without an extension, and method is the name of
a method or function that's defined in the file.
• LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT – The directory that contains the function code.
• AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API – The host and port of the runtime API.

See Defined runtime environment variables (p. 80) for a full list of available variables.
• Initialize the function – Load the handler file and run any global or static code that it contains.
Functions should create static resources like SDK clients and database connections once, and reuse
them for multiple invocations.
• Handle errors – If an error occurs, call the initialization error (p. 206) API and exit immediately.

Initialization counts towards billed execution time and timeout. When an execution triggers the
initialization of a new instance of your function, you can see the initialization time in the logs and AWS
X-Ray trace (p. 451).

Example log

REPORT RequestId: f8ac1208... Init Duration: 48.26 ms Duration: 237.17 ms Billed

Duration: 300 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 26 MB

While it runs, a runtime uses the Lambda runtime interface (p. 205) to manage incoming events and
report errors. After completing initialization tasks, the runtime processes incoming events in a loop. In
your runtime code, perform the following steps in order.

Processing tasks

• Get an event – Call the next invocation (p. 205) API to get the next event. The response body contains
the event data. Response headers contain the request ID and other information.
• Propagate the tracing header – Get the X-Ray tracing header from the Lambda-Runtime-Trace-Id
header in the API response. Set the _X_AMZN_TRACE_ID environment variable locally with the same
value. The X-Ray SDK uses this value to connect trace data between services.
• Create a context object – Create an object with context information from environment variables and
headers in the API response.
• Invoke the function handler – Pass the event and context object to the handler.
• Handle the response – Call the invocation response (p. 206) API to post the response from the
handler.

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• Handle errors – If an error occurs, call the invocation error (p. 207) API.
• Cleanup – Release unused resources, send data to other services, or perform additional tasks before
getting the next event.

You can include the runtime in your function's deployment package, or distribute the runtime separately
in a function layer. For an example walkthrough, see Tutorial – Publishing a custom runtime (p. 239).

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Tutorial – Publishing a custom runtime

In this tutorial, you create a Lambda function with a custom runtime. You start by including the runtime
in the function's deployment package. Then you migrate it to a layer that you manage independently
from the function. Finally, you share the runtime layer with the world by updating its resource-based
permissions policy.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

You need an IAM role to create a Lambda function. The role needs permission to send logs to
CloudWatch Logs and access the AWS services that your function uses. If you don't have a role for
function development, create one now.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-role.

The AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to write
logs to CloudWatch Logs.

Create a function
Create a Lambda function with a custom runtime. This example includes two files, a runtime bootstrap
file, and a function handler. Both are implemented in Bash.

The runtime loads a function script from the deployment package. It uses two variables to locate the
script. LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT tells it where the package was extracted, and _HANDLER includes the name
of the script.

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Example bootstrap

#!/bin/sh

set -euo pipefail

# Initialization - load function handler

source $LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT/"$(echo $_HANDLER | cut -d. -f1).sh"

# Processing
while true
do
HEADERS="$(mktemp)"
# Get an event. The HTTP request will block until one is received
EVENT_DATA=$(curl -sS -LD "$HEADERS" -X GET "http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2018-06-01/
runtime/invocation/next")

# Extract request ID by scraping response headers received above

REQUEST_ID=$(grep -Fi Lambda-Runtime-Aws-Request-Id "$HEADERS" | tr -d '[:space:]' | cut
-d: -f2)

# Run the handler function from the script

RESPONSE=$($(echo "$_HANDLER" | cut -d. -f2) "$EVENT_DATA")

# Send the response

curl -X POST "http://${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}/2018-06-01/runtime/invocation/$REQUEST_ID/
response" -d "$RESPONSE"
done

After loading the script, the runtime processes events in a loop. It uses the runtime API to retrieve an
invocation event from Lambda, passes the event to the handler, and posts the response back to Lambda.
To get the request ID, the runtime saves the headers from the API response to a temporary file, and
reads the Lambda-Runtime-Aws-Request-Id header from the file.
Note
Runtimes have additional responsibilities, including error handling, and providing context
information to the handler. For details, see Building a custom runtime (p. 236).

The script defines a handler function that takes event data, logs it to stderr, and returns it.

Example function.sh

function handler () {
EVENT_DATA=$1
echo "$EVENT_DATA" 1>&2;
RESPONSE="Echoing request: '$EVENT_DATA'"

echo $RESPONSE
}

Save both files in a project directory named runtime-tutorial.

runtime-tutorial
# bootstrap
# function.sh

Make the files executable and add them to a .zip file archive.

runtime-tutorial$ chmod 755 function.sh bootstrap

runtime-tutorial$ zip function.zip function.sh bootstrap

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adding: function.sh (deflated 24%)

adding: bootstrap (deflated 39%)

Create a function named bash-runtime.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda create-function --function-name bash-runtime \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler function.handler --runtime provided \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role
{
"FunctionName": "bash-runtime",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:bash-runtime",
"Runtime": "provided",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "function.handler",
"CodeSha256": "mv/xRv84LPCxdpcbKvmwuuFzwo7sLwUO1VxcUv3wKlM=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "PassThrough"
},
"RevisionId": "2e1d51b0-6144-4763-8e5c-7d5672a01713",
...
}

Invoke the function and verify the response.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda invoke --function-name bash-runtime --payload

'{"text":"Hello"}' response.txt --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out
{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
runtime-tutorial$ cat response.txt
Echoing request: '{"text":"Hello"}'

Create a layer
To separate the runtime code from the function code, create a layer that only contains the runtime.
Layers let you develop your function's dependencies independently, and can reduce storage usage when
you use the same layer with multiple functions.

Create a layer archive that contains the bootstrap file.

runtime-tutorial$ zip runtime.zip bootstrap

adding: bootstrap (deflated 39%)

Create a layer with the publish-layer-version command.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda publish-layer-version --layer-name bash-runtime --zip-file

fileb://runtime.zip
{
"Content": {
"Location": "https://awslambda-us-west-2-layers.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
snapshots/123456789012/bash-runtime-018c209b...",
"CodeSha256": "bXVLhHi+D3H1QbDARUVPrDwlC7bssPxySQqt1QZqusE=",
"CodeSize": 584,
"UncompressedCodeSize": 0
},
"LayerArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:bash-runtime",
"LayerVersionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:bash-runtime:1",

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"Description": "",
"CreatedDate": "2018-11-28T07:49:14.476+0000",
"Version": 1
}

This creates the first version of the layer.

Update the function

To use the runtime layer with the function, configure the function to use the layer, and remove the
runtime code from the function.

Update the function configuration to pull in the layer.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name bash-runtime \

--layers arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:bash-runtime:1
{
"FunctionName": "bash-runtime",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:bash-runtime:1",
"CodeSize": 584,
"UncompressedCodeSize": 679
}
]
...
}

This adds the runtime to the function in the /opt directory. Lambda uses this runtime, but only if you
remove it from the function's deployment package. Update the function code to only include the handler
script.

runtime-tutorial$ zip function-only.zip function.sh

adding: function.sh (deflated 24%)
runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda update-function-code --function-name bash-runtime --zip-file
fileb://function-only.zip
{
"FunctionName": "bash-runtime",
"CodeSize": 270,
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:bash-runtime:7",
"CodeSize": 584,
"UncompressedCodeSize": 679
}
]
...
}

Invoke the function to verify that it works with the runtime layer.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda invoke --function-name bash-runtime --payload

'{"text":"Hello"}' response.txt
{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
runtime-tutorial$ cat response.txt
Echoing request: '{"text":"Hello"}'

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Update the runtime

To log information about the execution environment, update the runtime script to output environment
variables.

Example bootstrap

#!/bin/sh

set -euo pipefail

echo "## Environment variables:"

env

# Initialization - load function handler

source $LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT/"$(echo $_HANDLER | cut -d. -f1).sh"
...

Create a second version of the layer with the new code.

runtime-tutorial$ zip runtime.zip bootstrap

updating: bootstrap (deflated 39%)
runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda publish-layer-version --layer-name bash-runtime --zip-file
fileb://runtime.zip

Configure the function to use the new version of the layer.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name bash-runtime \

--layers arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:bash-runtime:2

Share the layer

Add a permission statement to your runtime layer to share it with other accounts.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda add-layer-version-permission --layer-name bash-runtime --

version-number 2 \
--principal "*" --statement-id publish --action lambda:GetLayerVersion
{
"Statement": "{\"Sid\":\"publish\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":\"*\",\"Action\":
\"lambda:GetLayerVersion\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:layer:bash-
runtime:2\"}",
"RevisionId": "9d5fe08e-2a1e-4981-b783-37ab551247ff"
}

You can add multiple statements that each grant permission to a single account, accounts in an
organization, or all accounts.

Clean up
Delete each version of the layer.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda delete-layer-version --layer-name bash-runtime --version-

number 1
runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda delete-layer-version --layer-name bash-runtime --version-
number 2

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Because the function holds a reference to version 2 of the layer, it still exists in Lambda. The function
continues to work, but functions can no longer be configured to use the deleted version. If you then
modify the list of layers on the function, you must specify a new version or omit the deleted layer.

Delete the tutorial function with the delete-function command.

runtime-tutorial$ aws lambda delete-function --function-name bash-runtime

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Using AVX2 vectorization in Lambda

Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2) is a vectorization extension to the Intel x86 instruction set that can
perform single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions over vectors of 256 bits. For vectorizable
algorithms with highly parallelizable operation, using AVX2 can enhance CPU performance, resulting in
lower latencies and higher throughput. Use the AVX2 instruction set for compute-intensive workloads
such as machine learning inferencing, multimedia processing, scientific simulations, and financial
modeling applications.

To use AVX2 with your Lambda function, make sure that your function code is accessing AVX2-optimized
code. For some languages, you can install the AVX2-supported version of libraries and packages. For
other languages, you can recompile your code and dependencies with the appropriate compiler flags
set (if the compiler supports auto-vectorization). You can also compile your code with third-party
libraries that use AVX2 to optimize math operations. For example, Intel Math Kernel Library (Intel MKL),
OpenBLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms), and AMD BLAS-like Library Instantiation Software (BLIS).
Auto-vectorized languages, such as Java, automatically use AVX2 for computations.

You can create new Lambda workloads or move existing AVX2-enabled workloads to Lambda at no
additional cost.

For more information about AVX2, see Advanced Vector Extensions 2 in Wikipedia.

Compiling from source

If your Lambda function uses a C or C++ library to perform compute-intensive vectorizable operations,
you can set the appropriate compiler flags and recompile the function code. Then, the compiler
automatically vectorizes your code.

For the gcc or clang compiler, add -march=haswell to the command or set -mavx2 as a command
option.

~ gcc -march=haswell main.c

or
~ gcc -mavx2 main.c

~ clang -march=haswell main.c

or
~ clang -mavx2 main.c

To use a specific library, follow instructions in the library's documentation to compile and build the
library. For example, to build TensorFlow from source, you can follow the installation instructions on the
TensorFlow website. Make sure to use the -march=haswell compile option.

Enabling AVX2 for Intel MKL

Intel MKL is a library of optimized math operations that implicitly use AVX2 instructions when the
compute platform supports them. Frameworks such as PyTorch build with Intel MKL by default, so you
don't need to enable AVX2.

Some libraries, such as TensorFlow, provide options in their build process to specify Intel MKL
optimization. For example, with TensorFlow, use the --config=mkl option.

You can also build popular scientific Python libraries, such as SciPy and NumPy, with Intel MKL. For
instructions on building these libraries with Intel MKL, see Numpy/Scipy with Intel MKL and Intel
Compilers on the Intel website.

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For more information about Intel MKL and similar libraries, see Math Kernel Library in Wikipedia, the
OpenBLAS website, and the AMD BLIS repository on GitHub.

AVX2 support in other languages

If you don't use C or C++ libraries and don't build with Intel MKL, you can still get some AVX2
performance improvement for your applications. Note that the actual improvement depends on the
compiler or interpreter's ability to utilize the AVX2 capabilities on your code.

Python

Python users generally use SciPy and NumPy libraries for compute-intensive workloads. You can
compile these libraries to enable AVX2, or you can use the Intel MKL-enabled versions of the
libraries.
Node

For compute-intensive workloads, use AVX2-enabled or Intel MKL-enabled versions of the libraries
that you need.
Java

Java's JIT compiler can auto-vectorize your code to run with AVX2 instructions. For information
about detecting vectorized code, see the Code vectorization in the JVM presentation on the
OpenJDK website.
Go

The standard Go compiler doesn't currently support auto-vectorization, but you can use gccgo, the
GCC compiler for Go. Set the -mavx2 option:

gcc -o avx2 -mavx2 -Wall main.c

Intrinsics

It's possible to use intrinsic functions in many languages to manually vectorize your code to use
AVX2. However, we don't recommend this approach. Manually writing vectorized code takes
significant effort. Also, debugging and maintaining such code is more difficult than using code that
depends on auto-vectorization.

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Using container images with Lambda

You can package your code and dependencies as a container image using tools such as the Docker
command line interface (CLI). You can then upload the image to your container registry hosted on
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR).

AWS provides a set of open-source base images that you can use to build the container image for
your function code. You can also use alternative base images from other container registries. AWS
also provides an open-source runtime client that you add to your alternative base image to make it
compatible with the Lambda service.

Additionally, AWS provides a runtime interface emulator for you to test your functions locally using tools
such as the Docker CLI.

There is no additional charge for packaging and deploying functions as container images. When a
function deployed as a container image is invoked, you pay for invocation requests and execution
duration. You do incur charges related to storing your container images in Amazon ECR. For more
information, see Amazon ECR pricing.

Topics
• Creating Lambda container images (p. 248)
• Testing Lambda container images locally (p. 254)

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Creating Lambda container images

You can package your Lambda function code and dependencies as a container image, using tools such
as the Docker CLI. You can then upload the image to your container registry hosted on Amazon Elastic
Container Registry (Amazon ECR). Note that you must create the Lambda function from the same
account as the container registry in Amazon ECR.

AWS provides a set of open-source base images (p. 203) that you can use to create your container
image. These base images include a runtime interface client (p. 203) to manage the interaction between
Lambda and your function code.

You can also use an alternative base image from another container registry. Lambda provides open-
source runtime interface clients that you add to an alternative base image to make it compatible with
Lambda.

For example applications, including a Node.js example and a Python example, see Container image
support for Lambda on the AWS Blog.

After you create a container image in the Amazon ECR container registry, you can create and run (p. 72)
the Lambda function.

Topics
• Image types (p. 248)
• Container tools (p. 248)
• Lambda requirements for container images (p. 249)
• Container image settings (p. 249)
• Create an image from an AWS base image for Lambda (p. 249)
• Create an image from an alternative base image (p. 251)
• Create an image using the AWS SAM toolkit (p. 253)

Image types
You can use an AWS provided base image or an alternative base image, such as Alpine or Debian. Lambda
supports any image that conforms to one of the following image manifest formats:

• Docker image manifest V2, schema 2 (used with Docker version 1.10 and newer)
• Open Container Initiative (OCI) Specifications (v1.0.0 and up)

Lambda supports images up to 10 GB in size.

Container tools
To create your container image, you can use any development tool that supports one of the following
container image manifest formats:

• Docker image manifest V2, schema 2 (used with Docker version 1.10 and newer)
• OCI Specifications (v1.0.0 and up)

For example, you can use the Docker CLI to build, test, and deploy your container images.

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Lambda requirements for container images

To deploy a container image to Lambda, note the following requirements:

1. The container image must implement the Lambda Runtime API (p. 205). The AWS open-source
runtime interface clients (p. 203) implement the API. You can add a runtime interface client to your
preferred base image to make it compatible with Lambda.
2. The container image must be able to run on a read-only file system. Your function code can access a
writable /tmp directory with 512 MB of storage.
3. The default Lambda user must be able to read all the files required to run your function code. Lambda
follows security best practices by defining a default Linux user with least-privileged permissions.
Verify that your application code does not rely on files that other Linux users are restricted from
running.
4. Lambda supports only Linux-based container images.

Container image settings

Lambda supports the following container image settings in the Dockerfile:

• ENTRYPOINT – Specifies the absolute path to the entry point of the application.
• CMD – Specifies parameters that you want to pass in with ENTRYPOINT.
• WORKDIR – Specifies the absolute path to the working directory.
• ENV – Specifies an environment variable for the Lambda function.

Note
Lambda ignores the values of any unsupported container image settings in the Dockerfile.

For more information about how Docker uses the container image settings, see ENTRYPOINT in the
Dockerfile reference on the Docker Docs website. For more information about using ENTRYPOINT and
CMD, see Demystifying ENTRYPOINT and CMD in Docker on the AWS Open Source Blog.

You can specify the container image settings in the Dockerfile when you build your image. You can
also override these configurations using the Lambda console or Lambda API. This allows you to deploy
multiple functions that deploy the same container image but with different runtime configurations.
Warning
When you specify ENTRYPOINT or CMD in the Dockerfile or as an override, make sure that you
enter the absolute path. Also, do not use symlinks as the entry point to the container.

Create an image from an AWS base image for

Lambda
To build a container image for a new Lambda function, you can start with an AWS base image for
Lambda.
Note
AWS periodically provides updates to the AWS base images for Lambda. If your Dockerfile
includes the image name in the FROM property, your Docker client pulls the latest version of the
image from Docker Hub. To use the updated base image, you must rebuild your container image
and update the function code (p. 74).

Prerequisites

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• The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The following instructions use the AWS CLI to call AWS service API operations. To install the AWS CLI,
see Installing, updating, and uninstalling the AWS CLI in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.
• Docker Desktop

The following instructions use Docker CLI commands to create the container image. To install the
Docker CLI, see Get Docker on the Docker Docs website.
• Your function code

To create an image from an AWS base image for Lambda

1. On your local machine, create a project directory for your new function.
2. Create a directory named app in in the project directory, and then add your function handler code to
the app directory.
3. Use a text editor to create a new Dockerfile.

The AWS base images provide the following environment variables:

• LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT=/var/task
• LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR=/var/runtime

The following shows an example Dockerfile for Node.js version 14. :

FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/nodejs:14
# Alternatively, you can pull the base image from Docker Hub: amazon/aws-lambda-
nodejs:12

# Assumes your function is named "app.js", and there is a package.json file in the app
directory.
COPY app.js package.json /var/task/

# Install NPM dependencies for function

RUN npm install

# Set the CMD to your handler (could also be done as a parameter override outside of
the Dockerfile)
CMD [ "app.handler" ]

4. Build your Docker image with the docker build command. Enter a name for the image. The
following example names the image hello-world.

docker build -t hello-world .

5. Start the Docker image with the docker run command. For this example, enter hello-world as
the image name.

docker run -p 9000:8080 hello-world

6. (Optional) Test your application locally using the runtime interface emulator (p. 254). From a new
terminal window, post an event to the following endpoint using a curl command:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'

This command invokes the function running in the container image and returns a response.
7. Authenticate the Docker CLI to your Amazon ECR registry.

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aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-
stdin 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

8. Create a repository in Amazon ECR using the create-repository command.

aws ecr create-repository --repository-name hello-world --image-scanning-configuration

scanOnPush=true --image-tag-mutability MUTABLE

9. Tag your image to match your repository name, and deploy the image to Amazon ECR using the
docker push command.

docker tag hello-world:latest 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-

world:latest
docker push 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-world:latest

Now that your container image resides in the Amazon ECR container registry, you can create and
run (p. 72) the Lambda function.

Create an image from an alternative base image

Prerequisites

• The AWS CLI

• Docker Desktop
• Your function code

To create an image using an alternative base image

1. Choose a base image. Lambda supports all Linux distributions, such as Alpine, Debian, and Ubuntu.
2. On your local machine, create a project directory for your new function.
3. Create a directory named app in the project directory, and then add your function handler code to
the app directory.
4. Use a text editor to create a new Dockerfile with the following configuration:

• Set the FROM property to the URI of the base image.

• Add instructions to install the runtime interface client.
• Set the ENTRYPOINT property to invoke the runtime interface client.
• Set the CMD argument to specify the Lambda function handler.

The following example shows a Dockerfile for Python:

# Define function directory

ARG FUNCTION_DIR="/function"

FROM python:buster as build-image

# Install aws-lambda-cpp build dependencies

RUN apt-get update && \
apt-get install -y \
g++ \
make \
cmake \
unzip \

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libcurl4-openssl-dev

# Include global arg in this stage of the build

ARG FUNCTION_DIR
# Create function directory
RUN mkdir -p ${FUNCTION_DIR}

# Copy function code

COPY app/* ${FUNCTION_DIR}

# Install the runtime interface client

RUN pip install \
--target ${FUNCTION_DIR} \
awslambdaric

# Multi-stage build: grab a fresh copy of the base image

FROM python:buster

# Include global arg in this stage of the build

ARG FUNCTION_DIR
# Set working directory to function root directory
WORKDIR ${FUNCTION_DIR}

# Copy in the build image dependencies

COPY --from=build-image ${FUNCTION_DIR} ${FUNCTION_DIR}

ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/local/bin/python", "-m", "awslambdaric" ]

CMD [ "app.handler" ]

5. Build your Docker image with the docker build command. Enter a name for the image. The
following example names the image hello-world.

docker build -t hello-world .

6. (Optional) Test your application locally using the Runtime interface emulator (p. 254).
7. Authenticate the Docker CLI to your Amazon ECR registry.

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-
stdin 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

8. Create a repository in Amazon ECR using the create-repository command.

aws ecr create-repository --repository-name hello-world --image-scanning-configuration

scanOnPush=true --image-tag-mutability MUTABLE

9. Tag your image to match your repository name, and deploy the image to Amazon ECR using the
docker push command.

docker tag hello-world:latest 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-

world:latest
docker push 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-world:latest

Now that your container image resides in the Amazon ECR container registry, you can create and
run (p. 72) the Lambda function.

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Create an image using the AWS SAM toolkit

You can use the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) toolkit to create and deploy a function
defined as a container image. For a new project, you can use the AWS SAM CLI init command to set up
the scaffolding for your project in your preferred runtime.

In your AWS SAM template, you set the Runtime type to Image and provide the URI of the base image.

For more information, see Building applications in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

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Testing Lambda container images locally

The AWS Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator (RIE) is a proxy for the Lambda Runtime API that allows
you to locally test your Lambda function packaged as a container image. The emulator is a lightweight
web server that converts HTTP requests into JSON events to pass to the Lambda function in the
container image.

The AWS base images for Lambda include the RIE component. If you use an alternate base image, you
can test your image without adding RIE to the image. You can also build the RIE component into your
base image. AWS provides an open-sourced RIE component on the AWS GitHub repository.

You can use the emulator to test whether your function code is compatible with the Lambda
environment. Also use the emulator to test that your Lambda function runs to completion successfully
and provides the expected output. If you build extensions and agents into your container image, you can
use the emulator to test that the extensions and agents work correctly with the Lambda Extensions API.

For examples of how to use the RIE, see Container image support for Lambda on the AWS Blog.

Topics
• Guidelines for using the RIE (p. 254)
• Environment variables (p. 254)
• Test an image with RIE included in the image (p. 255)
• Build RIE into your base image (p. 255)
• Test an image without adding RIE to the image (p. 256)

Guidelines for using the RIE

Note the following guidelines when using the Runtime Interface Emulator:

• The RIE does not emulate Lambda’s security and authentication configurations, or Lambda
orchestration.
• The emulator supports only Linux x86-64 architectures.
• The emulator does not support AWS X-Ray tracing or other Lambda integrations.

Environment variables
The runtime interface emulator supports a subset of environment variables (p. 77) for the Lambda
function in the local running image.

If your function uses security credentials, you can configure the credentials by setting the following
environment variables:

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
• AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
• AWS_REGION

To set the function timeout, configure AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_TIMEOUT. Enter the maximum number
of seconds that you want to allow the function to run.

The emulator does not populate the following Lambda environment variables. However, you can set
them to match the values that you expect when the function runs in the Lambda service:

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• AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION
• AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME
• AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE

Test an image with RIE included in the image

The AWS base images for Lambda include the runtime interface emulator. You can also follow these
steps if you built the RIE into your alternative base image.

To test your Lambda function with the emulator

1. Build your image locally using the docker build command.

docker build -t myfunction:latest .

2. Run your container image locally using the docker run command.

docker run -p 9000:8080 myfunction:latest

This command runs the image as a container and starts up an endpoint locally at
localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations.
3. From a new terminal window, post an event to the following endpoint using a curl command:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'

This command invokes the Lambda function running in the container image and returns a response.

Build RIE into your base image

You can build RIE into a base image. Download the RIE from GitHub to your local machine and update
your Dockerfile to install RIE.

To build the emulator into your image

1. Create a script and save it in your project directory. Set execution permissions for the script file.

The script checks for the presence of the AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API environment variable, which
indicates the presence of the runtime API. If the runtime API is present, the script runs the runtime
interface client (p. 203). Otherwise, the script runs the runtime interface emulator.

The following example shows a typical script for a Node.js function.

#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}" ]; then
exec /usr/local/bin/aws-lambda-rie /usr/local/bin/npx aws-lambda-ric $@
else
exec /usr/local/bin/npx aws-lambda-ric $@
fi

The following example shows a typical script for a Python function.

#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}" ]; then

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exec /usr/local/bin/aws-lambda-rie /usr/local/bin/python -m awslambdaric $@

else
exec /usr/local/bin/python -m awslambdaric $@
fi

2. Download the runtime interface emulator from GitHub into your project directory.
3. Copy the script, install the emulator package, and change ENTRYPOINT to run the new script by
adding the following lines to your Dockerfile:

COPY ./entry_script.sh /entry_script.sh

ADD aws-lambda-rie /usr/local/bin/aws-lambda-rie
ENTRYPOINT [ "/entry_script.sh" ]

4. Build your image locally using the docker build command.

docker build -t myfunction:latest .

Test an image without adding RIE to the image

You install the runtime interface emulator to your local machine. When you run the container image, you
set the entry point to be the emulator.

To test an image without adding RIE to the image

1. From your project directory, run the following command to download the RIE from GitHub and
install it on your local machine.

mkdir -p ~/.aws-lambda-rie && curl -Lo ~/.aws-lambda-rie/aws-lambda-rie \

https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator/releases/latest/download/
aws-lambda-rie \
&& chmod +x ~/.aws-lambda-rie/aws-lambda-rie

2. Run your Lambda function using the docker run command.

docker run -d -v ~/.aws-lambda-rie:/aws-lambda -p 9000:8080 \

--entrypoint /aws-lambda/aws-lambda-rie hello-world:latest <image entrypoint> \
<(optional) image command>

This runs the image as a container and starts up an endpoint locally at

localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations.
3. Post an event to the following endpoint using a curl command:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'

This command invokes the function running in the container image and returns a response.

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services
AWS Lambda integrates with other AWS services to invoke functions. You can configure triggers to
invoke a function in response to resource lifecycle events, respond to incoming HTTP requests, consume
events from a queue, or run on a schedule (p. 295).

Each service that integrates with Lambda sends data to your function in JSON as an event. The structure
of the event document is different for each event type, and contains data about the resource or request
that triggered the function. Lambda runtimes convert the event into an object and pass it to your
function.

The following example shows a test event from an Application Load Balancer (p. 349) that represents a
GET request to /lambda?query=1234ABCD.

Example event from an Application Load Balancer

{
"requestContext": {
"elb": {
"targetGroupArn": "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-
east-2:123456789012:targetgroup/lambda-279XGJDqGZ5rsrHC2Fjr/49e9d65c45c6791a"
}
},
"httpMethod": "GET",
"path": "/lambda",
"queryStringParameters": {
"query": "1234ABCD"
},
"headers": {
"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/
apng,*/*;q=0.8",
"accept-encoding": "gzip",
"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
"connection": "keep-alive",
"host": "lambda-alb-123578498.us-east-2.elb.amazonaws.com",
"upgrade-insecure-requests": "1",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36",
"x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-5c536348-3d683b8b04734faae651f476",
"x-forwarded-for": "72.12.164.125",
"x-forwarded-port": "80",
"x-forwarded-proto": "http",
"x-imforwards": "20"
},
"body": "",
"isBase64Encoded": false
}

Note
The Lambda runtime converts the event document into an object and passes it to your function
handler (p. 29). For compiled languages, Lambda provides definitions for event types in a library.
See the following topics for more information.

• Building Lambda functions with Java (p. 570)

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• Building Lambda functions with Go (p. 610)

• Building Lambda functions with C# (p. 638)
• Building Lambda functions with PowerShell (p. 667)

For services that generate a queue or data stream, you create an event source mapping (p. 148) in
Lambda and grant Lambda permission to access the other service in the execution role (p. 47). Lambda
reads data from the other service, creates an event, and invokes your function.

Services that Lambda reads events from

• Amazon DynamoDB (p. 313)

• Amazon Kinesis (p. 365)
• Amazon MQ (p. 389)
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (p. 396)
• self-managed Apache Kafka (p. 356)
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (p. 439)

Other services invoke your function directly. You grant the other service permission in the function's
resource-based policy (p. 51), and configure the other service to generate events and invoke your
function. Depending on the service, the invocation can be synchronous or asynchronous. For
synchronous invocation, the other service waits for the response from your function and might retry on
errors (p. 158).

For more information about Lambda service architectures, see Event driven architectures in the Lambda
operator guide.

Services that invoke Lambda functions synchronously

• Elastic Load Balancing (Application Load Balancer) (p. 349)

• Amazon Cognito (p. 310)
• Amazon connect (p. 312)
• Amazon Lex (p. 386)
• Amazon Alexa (p. 260)
• Amazon API Gateway (p. 261)
• Amazon CloudFront (Lambda@Edge) (p. 305)
• Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose (p. 364)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service Batch (p. 427)
• Secrets Manager (p. 429)

For asynchronous invocation, Lambda queues the event before passing it to your function. The other
service gets a success response as soon as the event is queued and isn't aware of what happens
afterwards. If an error occurs, Lambda handles retries (p. 158), and can send failed events to a
destination (p. 142) that you configure.

Services that invoke Lambda functions asynchronously

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (p. 407)

• Amazon Simple Notification Service (p. 432)
• Amazon Simple Email Service (p. 430)
• AWS CloudFormation (p. 303)
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs (p. 302)

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• Amazon CloudWatch Events (p. 295)

• AWS CodeCommit (p. 307)
• AWS Config (p. 311)
• AWS IoT (p. 353)
• AWS IoT Events (p. 354)
• AWS CodePipeline (p. 308)

Additionally, some services integrate with Lambda in other ways that don't involve invoking functions.

Services that integrate with Lambda in other ways

• Amazon Elastic File System (p. 351)

• AWS X-Ray (p. 451)

See the topics in this chapter for more details about each service, and example events that you can use
to test your function.

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Using AWS Lambda with Alexa

You can use Lambda functions to build services that give new skills to Alexa, the Voice assistant on
Amazon Echo. The Alexa Skills Kit provides the APIs, tools, and documentation to create these new skills,
powered by your own services running as Lambda functions. Amazon Echo users can access these new
skills by asking Alexa questions or making requests.

The Alexa Skills Kit is available on GitHub.

• Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Node.js

• Alexa Skills Kit SDK for Java

Example Alexa smart home event

{
"header": {
"payloadVersion": "1",
"namespace": "Control",
"name": "SwitchOnOffRequest"
},
"payload": {
"switchControlAction": "TURN_ON",
"appliance": {
"additionalApplianceDetails": {
"key2": "value2",
"key1": "value1"
},
"applianceId": "sampleId"
},
"accessToken": "sampleAccessToken"
}
}

For more information, see Host a custom skill as an AWS Lambda Function in the Build Skills with the
Alexa Skills Kit guide.

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway

You can create a web API with an HTTP endpoint for your Lambda function by using Amazon API
Gateway. API Gateway provides tools for creating and documenting web APIs that route HTTP requests
to Lambda functions. You can secure access to your API with authentication and authorization controls.
Your APIs can serve traffic over the internet or can be accessible only within your VPC.

To add a public endpoint to your Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Functional overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Select API Gateway.
5. For API, choose Create an API.
6. For Security, choose Open.
7. Choose Add.

API Gateway APIs are comprised of stages, resources, methods, and integrations. The stage and resource
determine the path of the endpoint:

API path format

• /prod/ – The prod stage and root resource.

• /prod/user – The prod stage and user resource.
• /dev/{proxy+} – Any route in the dev stage.
• / – (HTTP APIs) The default stage and root resource.

A Lambda integration maps a path and HTTP method combination to a Lambda function. You can
configure API Gateway to pass the body of the HTTP request as-is (custom integration), or to encapsulate
the request body in a document that includes all of the request information including headers, resource,
path, and method.

Amazon API Gateway invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) with an event that contains a JSON
representation of the HTTP request. For a custom integration, the event is the body of the request. For a
proxy integration, the event has a defined structure. The following example shows a proxy event from an
API Gateway REST API.

Example event.json API Gateway proxy event (REST API)

{
"resource": "/",
"path": "/",
"httpMethod": "GET",
"requestContext": {
"resourcePath": "/",
"httpMethod": "GET",
"path": "/Prod/",
...
},
"headers": {
"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/
apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
"Host": "70ixmpl4fl.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com",

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"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,

like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36",
"X-Amzn-Trace-Id": "Root=1-5e66d96f-7491f09xmpl79d18acf3d050",
...
},
"multiValueHeaders": {
"accept": [
"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/
*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9"
],
"accept-encoding": [
"gzip, deflate, br"
],
...
},
"queryStringParameters": null,
"multiValueQueryStringParameters": null,
"pathParameters": null,
"stageVariables": null,
"body": null,
"isBase64Encoded": false
}

This example shows an event for a GET request to the root path of the Prod stage of a REST API. Event
shape and contents vary by API type (p. 265) and configuration.

API Gateway waits for a response from your function and relays the result to the caller. For a custom
integration, you define an integration response and a method response to convert the output from the
function to an HTTP response. For a proxy integration, the function must respond with a representation
of the response in a specific format.

The following example shows a response object from a Node.js function. The response object represents
a successful HTTP response that contains a JSON document.

Example index.js – Proxy integration response object (Node.js)

var response = {
"statusCode": 200,
"headers": {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
"isBase64Encoded": false,
"multiValueHeaders": {
"X-Custom-Header": ["My value", "My other value"],
},
"body": "{\n \"TotalCodeSize\": 104330022,\n \"FunctionCount\": 26\n}"
}

The Lambda runtime serializes the response object into JSON and sends it to the API. The API parses the
response and uses it to create an HTTP response, which it then sends to the client that made the original
request.

Example HTTP response

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK

< Content-Type: application/json
< Content-Length: 55
< Connection: keep-alive
< x-amzn-RequestId: 32998fea-xmpl-4268-8c72-16138d629356
< X-Custom-Header: My value
< X-Custom-Header: My other value
< X-Amzn-Trace-Id: Root=1-5e6aa925-ccecxmplbae116148e52f036

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<
{
"TotalCodeSize": 104330022,
"FunctionCount": 26
}

Resources in your API define one or more methods, such as GET or POST. Methods have an integration
that routes requests to a Lambda function or another integration type. You can define each resource and
method individually, or use special resource and method types to match all requests that fit a pattern. A
proxy resource catches all paths beneath a resource. The ANY method catches all HTTP methods.

Sections
• Permissions (p. 263)
• Handling errors with an API Gateway API (p. 264)
• Choosing an API type (p. 265)
• Sample applications (p. 267)
• Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway (p. 267)
• Sample function code (p. 277)
• Create a simple microservice using Lambda and API Gateway (p. 280)
• AWS SAM template for an API Gateway application (p. 281)

Permissions
Amazon API Gateway gets permission to invoke your function from the function's resource-based
policy (p. 51). You can grant invoke permission to an entire API, or grant limited access to a stage,
resource, or method.

When you add an API to your function by using the Lambda console, using the API Gateway console, or
in an AWS SAM template, the function's resource-based policy is updated automatically. The following
example shows a function policy with a statement that was added by an AWS SAM template.

Example function policy

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Id": "default",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "nodejs-apig-functiongetEndpointPermissionProd-BWDBXMPLXE2F",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "apigateway.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "lambda:InvokeFunction",
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:nodejs-apig-
function-1G3MXMPLXVXYI",
"Condition": {
"ArnLike": {
"AWS:SourceArn": "arn:aws:execute-api:us-east-2:123456789012:ktyvxmpls1/*/GET/"
}
}
}
]
}

Confirm the function policy (p. 51) in the Permissions tab of the Lambda console.

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You can manage function policy permissions manually with the following API operations:

• AddPermission (p. 743)

• RemovePermission (p. 906)
• GetPolicy (p. 835)

To grant invocation permission to an existing API, use the add-permission command.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name my-function \

--statement-id apigateway-get --action lambda:InvokeFunction \
--principal apigateway.amazonaws.com \
--source-arn "arn:aws:execute-api:us-east-2:123456789012:mnh1xmpli7/default/GET/"

You should see the following output:

{
"Statement": "{\"Sid\":\"apigateway-test-2\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":
{\"Service\":\"apigateway.amazonaws.com\"},\"Action\":\"lambda:InvokeFunction\",\"Resource
\":\"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function\",\"Condition\":{\"ArnLike
\":{\"AWS:SourceArn\":\"arn:aws:execute-api:us-east-2:123456789012:mnh1xmpli7/default/GET
\"}}}"
}

Note
If your function and API are in different regions, the region identifier in the source ARN must
match the region of the function, not the region of the API. When API Gateway invokes a
function, it uses a resource ARN that is based on the ARN of the API, but modified to match the
function's region.

The source ARN in this example grants permission to an integration on the GET method of the root
resource in the default stage of an API, with ID mnh1xmpli7. You can use an asterisk in the source ARN
to grant permissions to multiple stages, methods, or resources.

Resource patterns

• mnh1xmpli7/*/GET/* – GET method on all resources in all stages.

• mnh1xmpli7/prod/ANY/user – ANY method on the user resource in the prod stage.
• mnh1xmpli7/*/*/* – Any method on all resources in all stages.

For details on viewing the policy and removing statements, see Cleaning up resource-based
policies (p. 55).

Handling errors with an API Gateway API

API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API rejects the
invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an error,
or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502. In both cases, the body of the
response from API Gateway is {"message": "Internal server error"}.
Note
API Gateway does not retry any Lambda invocations. If Lambda returns an error, API Gateway
returns an error response to the client.

The following example shows an X-Ray trace map for a request that resulted in a function error and a
502 from API Gateway. The client receives the generic error message.

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To customize the error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the
required format.

Example index.js – Error formatting

var formatError = function(error){

var response = {
"statusCode": error.statusCode,
"headers": {
"Content-Type": "text/plain",
"x-amzn-ErrorType": error.code
},
"isBase64Encoded": false,
"body": error.code + ": " + error.message
}
return response
}

API Gateway converts this response into an HTTP error with a custom status code and body. In the trace
map, the function node is green because it handled the error.

Choosing an API type

API Gateway supports three types of APIs that invoke Lambda functions:

• HTTP API – A lightweight, low-latency RESTful API.

• REST API – A customizable, feature-rich RESTful API.
• WebSocket API – A web API that maintains persistent connections with clients for full-duplex
communication.

HTTP APIs and REST APIs are both RESTful APIs that process HTTP requests and return responses. HTTP
APIs are newer and are built with the API Gateway version 2 API. The following features are new for
HTTP APIs:

HTTP API features

• Automatic deployments – When you modify routes or integrations, changes deploy automatically to
stages that have automatic deployment enabled.

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• Default stage – You can create a default stage ($default) to serve requests at the root path of your
API's URL. For named stages, you must include the stage name at the beginning of the path.
• CORS configuration – You can configure your API to add CORS headers to outgoing responses, instead
of adding them manually in your function code.

REST APIs are the classic RESTful APIs that API Gateway has supported since launch. REST APIs currently
have more customization, integration, and management features.

REST API features

• Integration types – REST APIs support custom Lambda integrations. With a custom integration, you
can send just the body of the request to the function, or apply a transform template to the request
body before sending it to the function.
• Access control – REST APIs support more options for authentication and authorization.
• Monitoring and tracing – REST APIs support AWS X-Ray tracing and additional logging options.

For a detailed comparison, see Choosing between HTTP APIs and REST APIs in the API Gateway Developer
Guide.

WebSocket APIs also use the API Gateway version 2 API and support a similar feature set. Use a
WebSocket API for applications that benefit from a persistent connection between the client and API.
WebSocket APIs provide full-duplex communication, which means that both the client and the API can
send messages continuously without waiting for a response.

HTTP APIs support a simplified event format (version 2.0). The following example shows an event from
an HTTP API.

Example event-v2.json – API Gateway proxy event (HTTP API)

{
"version": "2.0",
"routeKey": "ANY /nodejs-apig-function-1G3XMPLZXVXYI",
"rawPath": "/default/nodejs-apig-function-1G3XMPLZXVXYI",
"rawQueryString": "",
"cookies": [
"s_fid=7AABXMPL1AFD9BBF-0643XMPL09956DE2",
"regStatus=pre-register"
],
"headers": {
"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/
apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9",
"accept-encoding": "gzip, deflate, br",
...
},
"requestContext": {
"accountId": "123456789012",
"apiId": "r3pmxmplak",
"domainName": "r3pmxmplak.execute-api.us-east-2.amazonaws.com",
"domainPrefix": "r3pmxmplak",
"http": {
"method": "GET",
"path": "/default/nodejs-apig-function-1G3XMPLZXVXYI",
"protocol": "HTTP/1.1",
"sourceIp": "205.255.255.176",
"userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36"
},
"requestId": "JKJaXmPLvHcESHA=",
"routeKey": "ANY /nodejs-apig-function-1G3XMPLZXVXYI",

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"stage": "default",
"time": "10/Mar/2020:05:16:23 +0000",
"timeEpoch": 1583817383220
},
"isBase64Encoded": true
}

For more information, see AWS Lambda integrations in the API Gateway Developer Guide.

Sample applications
The GitHub repository for this guide provides the following sample application for API Gateway.

• API Gateway with Node.js – A function with an AWS SAM template that creates a REST API that has
AWS X-Ray tracing enabled. It includes scripts for deploying, invoking the function, testing the API,
and cleanup.

Lambda also provides blueprints (p. 39) and templates (p. 40) that you can use to create an API Gateway
application in the Lambda console.

Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon API

Gateway
In this example you create a simple API using Amazon API Gateway. An Amazon API
Gateway is a collection of resources and methods. For this tutorial, you create one resource
(DynamoDBManager) and define one method (POST) on it. The method is backed by a Lambda function
(LambdaFunctionOverHttps). That is, when you call the API through an HTTPS endpoint, Amazon API
Gateway invokes the Lambda function.

The POST method on the DynamoDBManager resource supports the following DynamoDB operations:

• Create, update, and delete an item.

• Read an item.
• Scan an item.
• Other operations (echo, ping), not related to DynamoDB, that you can use for testing.

The request payload you send in the POST request identifies the DynamoDB operation and provides
necessary data. For example:

• The following is a sample request payload for a DynamoDB create item operation:

{
"operation": "create",
"tableName": "lambda-apigateway",
"payload": {
"Item": {
"id": "1",
"name": "Bob"
}
}
}

• The following is a sample request payload for a DynamoDB read item operation:

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{
"operation": "read",
"tableName": "lambda-apigateway",
"payload": {
"Key": {
"id": "1"
}
}
}

• The following is a sample request payload for an echo operation. You send an HTTP POST request to
the endpoint, using the following data in the request body.

{
"operation": "echo",
"payload": {
"somekey1": "somevalue1",
"somekey2": "somevalue2"
}
}

Note
API Gateway offers advanced capabilities, such as:

• Pass through the entire request – A Lambda function can receive the entire HTTP request
(instead of just the request body) and set the HTTP response (instead of just the response
body) using the AWS_PROXY integration type.
• Catch-all methods – Map all methods of an API resource to a single Lambda function with a
single mapping, using the ANY catch-all method.
• Catch-all resources – Map all sub-paths of a resource to a Lambda function without any
additional configuration using the new path parameter ({proxy+}).

To learn more about these API Gateway features, see Configure proxy integration for a proxy
resource.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

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Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47). This role uses a custom policy to give your function permission to
access the required AWS resources. You first create the policy and then create the execution role.

To create a custom policy

1. Open the policy page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create Policy.
3. Choose the JSON tab. Paste the following custom policy into the input box.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Stmt1428341300017",
"Action": [
"dynamodb:DeleteItem",
"dynamodb:GetItem",
"dynamodb:PutItem",
"dynamodb:Query",
"dynamodb:Scan",
"dynamodb:UpdateItem"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "*"
},
{
"Sid": "",
"Resource": "*",
"Action": [
"logs:CreateLogGroup",
"logs:CreateLogStream",
"logs:PutLogEvents"
],
"Effect": "Allow"
}
]
}

4. Choose Next: Tags.

5. Choose Next: Review.
6. For the policy name, enter lambda-apigateway-policy.
7. Enter Create policy.

This policy includes permissions for the function to access DynamoDB and CloudWatch Logs.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. For the trusted entity, choose AWS Service, and for the use case choose Lambda.
4. Choose Next: Permissions.
5. In the policy search box, enter lambda-apigateway-policy.
6. In the results, select lambda-apigateway-policy and choose Next: Tags.
7. Choose Next: Review.
8. For the role name, enter lambda-apigateway-role.

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9. Enter Create role.

Note the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the execution role for later use.

Create the function

The following example code receives a API Gateway event input and processes the messages that it
contains. For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.
Note
For sample code in other languages, see Sample function code (p. 277).

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');

var dynamo = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();

/**
* Provide an event that contains the following keys:
*
* - operation: one of the operations in the switch statement below
* - tableName: required for operations that interact with DynamoDB
* - payload: a parameter to pass to the operation being performed
*/
exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {
//console.log('Received event:', JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));

var operation = event.operation;

if (event.tableName) {
event.payload.TableName = event.tableName;
}

switch (operation) {
case 'create':
dynamo.put(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'read':
dynamo.get(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'update':
dynamo.update(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'delete':
dynamo.delete(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'list':
dynamo.scan(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'echo':
callback(null, "Success");
break;
case 'ping':
callback(null, "pong");
break;
default:
callback(`Unknown operation: ${operation}`);
}
};

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To create the function

1. Copy the sample code into a file named index.js.

2. Create a deployment package.

zip function.zip index.js

3. Create a Lambda function with the create-function command. For the role parameter, enter
the ARN of the execution role that you created earlier.

aws lambda create-function --function-name LambdaFunctionOverHttps \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/service-role/lambda-apigateway-role

Test the Lambda function

Invoke the function manually using the sample event data. We recommend that you invoke the function
using the console because the console UI provides a user-friendly interface for reviewing the execution
results, including the execution summary, logs written by your code, and the results returned by the
function (because the console always performs synchronous execution—invokes the Lambda function
using the RequestResponse invocation type).

To test the Lambda function

1. Copy the following JSON into a file and save it as input.txt.

{
"operation": "echo",
"payload": {
"somekey1": "somevalue1",
"somekey2": "somevalue2"
}
}

2. Run the following invoke command:

aws lambda invoke --function-name LambdaFunctionOverHttps \

--payload file://input.txt outputfile.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure
this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

Create an API using Amazon API Gateway

In this step, you associate your Lambda function with a method in the API that you created using
Amazon API Gateway and test the end-to-end experience. That is, when an HTTP request is sent to an
API method, Amazon API Gateway invokes your Lambda function.

First, you create an API (DynamoDBOperations) using Amazon API Gateway with one resource
(DynamoDBManager) and one method (POST). You associate the POST method with your Lambda
function. Then, you test the end-to-end experience.

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Create the API

Run the following create-rest-api command to create the DynamoDBOperations API for this
tutorial.

aws apigateway create-rest-api --name DynamoDBOperations

You should see the following output:

{
"id": "bs8fqo6bp0",
"name": "DynamoDBOperations",
"createdDate": 1539803980,
"apiKeySource": "HEADER",
"endpointConfiguration": {
"types": [
"EDGE"
]
}
}

Save the API ID for use in further commands. You also need the ID of the API root resource. To get the ID,
run the get-resources command.

API=bs8fqo6bp0
aws apigateway get-resources --rest-api-id $API

You should see the following output:

{
"items": [
{
"path": "/",
"id": "e8kitthgdb"
}
]
}

At this time you only have the root resource, but you add more resources in the next step.

Create a resource in the API

Run the following create-resource command to create a resource (DynamoDBManager) in the API
that you created in the preceding section.

aws apigateway create-resource --rest-api-id $API --path-part DynamoDBManager \

--parent-id e8kitthgdb

You should see the following output:

{
"path": "/DynamoDBManager",
"pathPart": "DynamoDBManager",
"id": "iuig5w",
"parentId": "e8kitthgdb"
}

Note the ID in the response. This is the ID of the DynamoDBManager resource that you created.

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Create POST method on the resource

Run the following put-method command to create a POST method on the DynamoDBManager resource
in your API.

RESOURCE=iuig5w
aws apigateway put-method --rest-api-id $API --resource-id $RESOURCE \
--http-method POST --authorization-type NONE

You should see the following output:

{
"apiKeyRequired": false,
"httpMethod": "POST",
"authorizationType": "NONE"
}

We specify NONE for the --authorization-type parameter, which means that unauthenticated
requests for this method are supported. This is fine for testing but in production you should use either
the key-based or role-base authentication.

Set the Lambda function as the destination for the POST method
Run the following command to set the Lambda function as the integration point for the POST method.
This is the method Amazon API Gateway invokes when you make an HTTP request for the POST method
endpoint. This command and others use ARNs that include your account ID and region. Save these to
variables (you can find your account ID in the role ARN that you used to create the function).

REGION=us-east-2
ACCOUNT=123456789012
aws apigateway put-integration --rest-api-id $API --resource-id $RESOURCE \
--http-method POST --type AWS --integration-http-method POST \
--uri arn:aws:apigateway:$REGION:lambda:path/2015-03-31/functions/arn:aws:lambda:$REGION:
$ACCOUNT:function:LambdaFunctionOverHttps/invocations

You should see the following output:

{
"type": "AWS",
"httpMethod": "POST",
"uri": "arn:aws:apigateway:us-east-2:lambda:path/2015-03-31/functions/
arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:LambdaFunctionOverHttps/invocations",
"passthroughBehavior": "WHEN_NO_MATCH",
"timeoutInMillis": 29000,
"cacheNamespace": "iuig5w",
"cacheKeyParameters": []
}

--integration-http-method is the method that API Gateway uses to communicate with AWS
Lambda. --uri is unique identifier for the endpoint to which Amazon API Gateway can send request.

Set content-type of the POST method response and integration response to JSON as follows:

• Run the following command to set the POST method response to JSON. This is the response type that
your API method returns.

aws apigateway put-method-response --rest-api-id $API \

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--resource-id $RESOURCE --http-method POST \

--status-code 200 --response-models application/json=Empty

You should see the following output:

{
"statusCode": "200",
"responseModels": {
"application/json": "Empty"
}
}

• Run the following command to set the POST method integration response to JSON. This is the
response type that Lambda function returns.

aws apigateway put-integration-response --rest-api-id $API \

--resource-id $RESOURCE --http-method POST \
--status-code 200 --response-templates application/json=""

You should see the following output:

{
"statusCode": "200",
"responseTemplates": {
"application/json": null
}
}

Note
If you encounter an error running this command, you can use escape characters around
the response template field for more clarity. The text application/json="" becomes
"{\"application/json"\":""\"\"}"".

Deploy the API

In this step, you deploy the API that you created to a stage called prod.

aws apigateway create-deployment --rest-api-id $API --stage-name prod

You should see the following output:

{
"id": "20vgsz",
"createdDate": 1539820012
}

Grant invoke permission to the API

Now that you have an API created using Amazon API Gateway and you've deployed it, you can test. First,
you need to add permissions so that Amazon API Gateway can invoke your Lambda function when you
send HTTP request to the POST method.

To do this, you need to add a permission to the permissions policy associated with your Lambda
function. Run the following add-permission AWS Lambda command to grant the Amazon API
Gateway service principal (apigateway.amazonaws.com) permissions to invoke your Lambda function
(LambdaFunctionOverHttps).

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aws lambda add-permission --function-name LambdaFunctionOverHttps \

--statement-id apigateway-test-2 --action lambda:InvokeFunction \
--principal apigateway.amazonaws.com \
--source-arn "arn:aws:execute-api:$REGION:$ACCOUNT:$API/*/POST/DynamoDBManager"

You should see the following output:

{
"Statement": "{\"Sid\":\"apigateway-test-2\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":
{\"Service\":\"apigateway.amazonaws.com\"},\"Action\":\"lambda:InvokeFunction\",\"Resource
\":\"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:LambdaFunctionOverHttps\",\"Condition
\":{\"ArnLike\":{\"AWS:SourceArn\":\"arn:aws:execute-api:us-east-2:123456789012:mnh1yprki7/
*/POST/DynamoDBManager\"}}}"
}

You must grant this permission to enable testing (if you go to the Amazon API Gateway and choose
Test to test the API method, you need this permission). Note the --source-arn specifies a wildcard
character (*) as the stage value (indicates testing only). This allows you to test without deploying the API.
Note
If your function and API are in different regions, the region identifier in the source ARN must
match the region of the function, not the region of the API.

Now, run the same command again, but this time you grant to your deployed API permissions to invoke
the Lambda function.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name LambdaFunctionOverHttps \

--statement-id apigateway-prod-2 --action lambda:InvokeFunction \
--principal apigateway.amazonaws.com \
--source-arn "arn:aws:execute-api:$REGION:$ACCOUNT:$API/prod/POST/DynamoDBManager"

You should see the following output:

{
"Statement": "{\"Sid\":\"apigateway-prod-2\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":
{\"Service\":\"apigateway.amazonaws.com\"},\"Action\":\"lambda:InvokeFunction\",\"Resource
\":\"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:LambdaFunctionOverHttps\",\"Condition
\":{\"ArnLike\":{\"AWS:SourceArn\":\"arn:aws:execute-api:us-east-2:123456789012:mnh1yprki7/
prod/POST/DynamoDBManager\"}}}"
}

You grant this permission so that your deployed API has permissions to invoke the Lambda function.
Note that the --source-arn specifies a prod which is the stage name we used when deploying the API.

Create a Amazon DynamoDB table

Create the DynamoDB table that the Lambda function uses.

To create a DynamoDB table

1. Open the DynamoDB console.

2. Choose Create table.
3. Create a table with the following settings.

• Table name – lambda-apigateway

• Primary key – id (string)
4. Choose Create.

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Trigger the function with an HTTP request

In this step, you are ready to send an HTTP request to the POST method endpoint. You can use either
Curl or a method (test-invoke-method) provided by Amazon API Gateway.

You can use Amazon API Gateway CLI commands to send an HTTP POST request to the resource
(DynamoDBManager) endpoint. Because you deployed your Amazon API Gateway, you can use Curl to
invoke the methods for the same operation.

The Lambda function supports using the create operation to create an item in your DynamoDB table.
To request this operation, use the following JSON:

Example create-item.json

{
"operation": "create",
"tableName": "lambda-apigateway",
"payload": {
"Item": {
"id": "1234ABCD",
"number": 5
}
}
}

Save the test input to a file named create-item.json. Run the test-invoke-method Amazon
API Gateway command to send an HTTP POST method request to the resource (DynamoDBManager)
endpoint.

aws apigateway test-invoke-method --rest-api-id $API \

--resource-id $RESOURCE --http-method POST --path-with-query-string "" \
--body file://create-item.json

Or, you can use the following Curl command:

curl -X POST -d "{\"operation\":\"create\",\"tableName\":\"lambda-apigateway\",

\"payload\":{\"Item\":{\"id\":\"1\",\"name\":\"Bob\"}}}" https://$API.execute-api.
$REGION.amazonaws.com/prod/DynamoDBManager

To send request for the echo operation that your Lambda function supports, you can use the following
request payload:

Example echo.json

{
"operation": "echo",
"payload": {
"somekey1": "somevalue1",
"somekey2": "somevalue2"
}
}

Save the test input to a file named echo.json. Run the test-invoke-method Amazon API Gateway
CLI command to send an HTTP POST method request to the resource (DynamoDBManager) endpoint
using the preceding JSON in the request body.

aws apigateway test-invoke-method --rest-api-id $API \

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--resource-id $RESOURCE --http-method POST --path-with-query-string "" \

--body file://echo.json

Or, you can use the following Curl command:

curl -X POST -d "{\"operation\":\"echo\",\"payload\":{\"somekey1\":\"somevalue1\",

\"somekey2\":\"somevalue2\"}}" https://$API.execute-api.$REGION.amazonaws.com/prod/
DynamoDBManager

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the API

1. Open the APIs page of the API Gateway console.

2. Select the API you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the DynamoDB table

1. Open the Tables page of the DynamoDB console.

2. Select the table you created.
3. Choose Delete.
4. Enter delete in the text box.
5. Choose Delete.

Sample function code

Sample code is available for the following languages.

Topics

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• Node.js (p. 278)

• Python 3 (p. 279)
• Go (p. 279)

Node.js
The following example processes messages from API Gateway, and manages DynamoDB documents
based on the request method.

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

var AWS = require('aws-sdk');

var dynamo = new AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient();

/**
* Provide an event that contains the following keys:
*
* - operation: one of the operations in the switch statement below
* - tableName: required for operations that interact with DynamoDB
* - payload: a parameter to pass to the operation being performed
*/
exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {
//console.log('Received event:', JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));

var operation = event.operation;

if (event.tableName) {
event.payload.TableName = event.tableName;
}

switch (operation) {
case 'create':
dynamo.put(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'read':
dynamo.get(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'update':
dynamo.update(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'delete':
dynamo.delete(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'list':
dynamo.scan(event.payload, callback);
break;
case 'echo':
callback(null, "Success");
break;
case 'ping':
callback(null, "pong");
break;
default:
callback(`Unknown operation: ${operation}`);
}
};

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Node.js Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 489).

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Python 3
The following example processes messages from API Gateway, and manages DynamoDB documents
based on the request method.

Example LambdaFunctionOverHttps.py

from __future__ import print_function

import boto3
import json

print('Loading function')

def handler(event, context):

'''Provide an event that contains the following keys:

- operation: one of the operations in the operations dict below

- tableName: required for operations that interact with DynamoDB
- payload: a parameter to pass to the operation being performed
'''
#print("Received event: " + json.dumps(event, indent=2))

operation = event['operation']

if 'tableName' in event:
dynamo = boto3.resource('dynamodb').Table(event['tableName'])

operations = {
'create': lambda x: dynamo.put_item(**x),
'read': lambda x: dynamo.get_item(**x),
'update': lambda x: dynamo.update_item(**x),
'delete': lambda x: dynamo.delete_item(**x),
'list': lambda x: dynamo.scan(**x),
'echo': lambda x: x,
'ping': lambda x: 'pong'
}

if operation in operations:
return operations[operation](event.get('payload'))
else:
raise ValueError('Unrecognized operation "{}"'.format(operation))

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Python Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

Go
The following example processes messages from API Gateway, and logs information about the request.

Example LambdaFunctionOverHttps.go

import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
runtime "github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

func main() {

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runtime.Start(handleRequest)
}

func handleRequest(ctx context.Context, request events.APIGatewayProxyRequest)

(events.APIGatewayProxyResponse, error) {
fmt.Printf("Processing request data for request %s.\n",
request.RequestContext.RequestID)
fmt.Printf("Body size = %d.\n", len(request.Body))

fmt.Println("Headers:")
for key, value := range request.Headers {
fmt.Printf(" %s: %s\n", key, value)
}

return events.APIGatewayProxyResponse{Body: request.Body, StatusCode: 200}, nil

}

Build the executable with go build and create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Go
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617).

Create a simple microservice using Lambda and API

Gateway
In this tutorial you will use the Lambda console to create a Lambda function, and an Amazon API
Gateway endpoint to trigger that function. You will be able to call the endpoint with any method (GET,
POST, PATCH, etc.) to trigger your Lambda function. When the endpoint is called, the entire request will
be passed through to your Lambda function. Your function action will depend on the method you call
your endpoint with:

• DELETE: delete an item from a DynamoDB table

• GET: scan table and return all items
• POST: Create an item
• PUT: Update an item

Create an API using Amazon API Gateway

Follow the steps in this section to create a new Lambda function and an API Gateway endpoint to trigger
it:

To create an API

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Lambda console.
2. Choose Create Lambda function.
3. Choose Blueprint.
4. Enter microservice in the search bar. Choose the microservice-http-endpoint blueprint and then
choose Configure.
5. Configure the following settings.

• Name – lambda-microservice.
• Role – Create a new role from AWS policy templates.
• Role name – lambda-apigateway-role.
• Policy templates – Simple microservice permissions.
• API – Create a new API.
• Security – Open.

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Choose Create function.

When you complete the wizard and create your function, Lambda creates a proxy resource named
lambda-microservice under the API name you selected. For more information about proxy resources,
see Configure proxy integration for a proxy resource.

A proxy resource has an AWS_PROXY integration type and a catch-all method ANY. The AWS_PROXY
integration type applies a default mapping template to pass through the entire request to the Lambda
function and transforms the output from the Lambda function to HTTP responses. The ANY method
defines the same integration setup for all the supported methods, including GET, POST, PATCH, DELETE
and others.

Test sending an HTTP request

In this step, you will use the console to test the Lambda function. In addition, you can run a curl
command to test the end-to-end experience. That is, send an HTTP request to your API method and have
Amazon API Gateway invoke your Lambda function. In order to complete the steps, make sure you have
created a DynamoDB table and named it "MyTable". For more information, see Create a DynamoDB table
with a stream enabled (p. 327)

To test the API

1. With your lambda-microservice function still open in the console, choose the Test tab.
2. Choose New event.
3. Choose the Hello World template.
4. In Name, enter a name for the test event.
5. In the text entry panel, replace the existing text with the following:

{
"httpMethod": "GET",
"queryStringParameters": {
"TableName": "MyTable"
}
}

6. After entering the text above choose Create event.

7. Choose the event that you created and choose Invoke.

AWS SAM template for an API Gateway application

Below is a sample AWS SAM template for the Lambda application from the tutorial (p. 267). Copy the
text below to a file and save it next to the ZIP package you created previously. Note that the Handler
and Runtime parameter values should match the ones you used when you created the function in the
previous section.

Example template.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Resources:
LambdaFunctionOverHttps:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:

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Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
Policies: AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
Events:
HttpPost:
Type: Api
Properties:
Path: '/DynamoDBOperations/DynamoDBManager'
Method: post

For information on how to package and deploy your serverless application using the package and deploy
commands, see Deploying serverless applications in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer
Guide.

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Using AWS Lambda with AWS CloudTrail

AWS CloudTrail is a service that provides a record of actions taken by a user, role, or an AWS service.
CloudTrail captures API calls as events. For an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, you create
a trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files of events to an Amazon S3 bucket.

You can take advantage of Amazon S3's bucket notification feature and direct Amazon S3 to publish
object-created events to AWS Lambda. Whenever CloudTrail writes logs to your S3 bucket, Amazon S3
can then invoke your Lambda function by passing the Amazon S3 object-created event as a parameter.
The S3 event provides information, including the bucket name and key name of the log object that
CloudTrail created. Your Lambda function code can read the log object and process the access records
logged by CloudTrail. For example, you might write Lambda function code to notify you if specific API
call was made in your account.

In this scenario, CloudTrail writes access logs to your S3 bucket. As for AWS Lambda, Amazon S3 is the
event source so Amazon S3 publishes events to AWS Lambda and invokes your Lambda function.

Example CloudTrail log

{
"Records":[
{
"eventVersion":"1.02",
"userIdentity":{
"type":"Root",
"principalId":"123456789012",
"arn":"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root",
"accountId":"123456789012",
"accessKeyId":"access-key-id",
"sessionContext":{
"attributes":{
"mfaAuthenticated":"false",
"creationDate":"2015-01-24T22:41:54Z"
}
}
},
"eventTime":"2015-01-24T23:26:50Z",
"eventSource":"sns.amazonaws.com",
"eventName":"CreateTopic",
"awsRegion":"us-east-2",
"sourceIPAddress":"205.251.233.176",
"userAgent":"console.amazonaws.com",
"requestParameters":{
"name":"dropmeplease"
},
"responseElements":{
"topicArn":"arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:exampletopic"
},
"requestID":"3fdb7834-9079-557e-8ef2-350abc03536b",
"eventID":"17b46459-dada-4278-b8e2-5a4ca9ff1a9c",
"eventType":"AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId":"123456789012"
},
{
"eventVersion":"1.02",
"userIdentity":{
"type":"Root",
"principalId":"123456789012",
"arn":"arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root",
"accountId":"123456789012",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"sessionContext":{

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"attributes":{
"mfaAuthenticated":"false",
"creationDate":"2015-01-24T22:41:54Z"
}
}
},
"eventTime":"2015-01-24T23:27:02Z",
"eventSource":"sns.amazonaws.com",
"eventName":"GetTopicAttributes",
"awsRegion":"us-east-2",
"sourceIPAddress":"205.251.233.176",
"userAgent":"console.amazonaws.com",
"requestParameters":{
"topicArn":"arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:exampletopic"
},
"responseElements":null,
"requestID":"4a0388f7-a0af-5df9-9587-c5c98c29cbec",
"eventID":"ec5bb073-8fa1-4d45-b03c-f07b9fc9ea18",
"eventType":"AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId":"123456789012"
}
]
}

For detailed information about how to configure Amazon S3 as the event source, see Using AWS Lambda
with Amazon S3 (p. 407).

Topics
• Logging AWS Lambda API calls with AWS CloudTrail (p. 285)
• Tutorial: Triggering a Lambda function with AWS CloudTrail events (p. 288)
• Sample function code (p. 292)

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Logging AWS Lambda API calls with AWS CloudTrail

AWS Lambda is integrated with AWS CloudTrail, a service that provides a record of actions taken by a
user, role, or an AWS service in AWS Lambda. CloudTrail captures API calls for AWS Lambda as events.
The calls captured include calls from the AWS Lambda console and code calls to the AWS Lambda API
operations. If you create a trail, you can enable continuous delivery of CloudTrail events to an Amazon S3
bucket, including events for AWS Lambda. If you don't configure a trail, you can still view the most recent
events in the CloudTrail console in Event history. Using the information collected by CloudTrail, you can
determine the request that was made to AWS Lambda, the IP address from which the request was made,
who made the request, when it was made, and additional details.

To learn more about CloudTrail, including how to configure and enable it, see the AWS CloudTrail User
Guide.

AWS Lambda information in CloudTrail

CloudTrail is enabled on your AWS account when you create the account. When supported event activity
occurs in AWS Lambda, that activity is recorded in a CloudTrail event along with other AWS service
events in Event history. You can view, search, and download recent events in your AWS account. For
more information, see Viewing events with CloudTrail event history.

For an ongoing record of events in your AWS account, including events for AWS Lambda, you create a
trail. A trail enables CloudTrail to deliver log files to an Amazon S3 bucket. By default, when you create
a trail in the console, the trail applies to all AWS Regions. The trail logs events from all Regions in the
AWS partition and delivers the log files to the Amazon S3 bucket that you specify. Additionally, you can
configure other AWS services to further analyze and act upon the event data collected in CloudTrail logs.
For more information, see the following:

• Overview for creating a trail

• CloudTrail supported services and integrations
• Configuring Amazon SNS notifications for CloudTrail
• Receiving CloudTrail log files from multiple regions and Receiving CloudTrail log files from multiple
accounts

AWS Lambda supports logging the following actions as events in CloudTrail log files:

• AddLayerVersionPermission (p. 739)

• AddPermission (p. 743)
• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

(The ZipFile parameter is omitted from the CloudTrail logs for CreateFunction.)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)
• DeleteFunction (p. 784)
• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• GetFunction (p. 808)
• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• GetLayerVersionPolicy (p. 833)
• GetPolicy (p. 835)
• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)

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• ListFunctions (p. 859)

• RemovePermission (p. 906)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)

(The ZipFile parameter is omitted from the CloudTrail logs for UpdateFunctionCode.)
• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

Every log entry contains information about who generated the request. The user identity information
in the log helps you determine whether the request was made with root or IAM user credentials,
with temporary security credentials for a role or federated user, or by another AWS service. For more
information, see the userIdentity field in the CloudTrail event reference.

You can store your log files in your bucket for as long as you want, but you can also define Amazon S3
lifecycle rules to archive or delete log files automatically. By default, your log files are encrypted by using
Amazon S3 server-side encryption (SSE).

You can choose to have CloudTrail publish Amazon SNS notifications when new log files are delivered if
you want to take quick action upon log file delivery. For more information, see Configuring Amazon SNS
notifications for CloudTrail.

You can also aggregate AWS Lambda log files from multiple AWS regions and multiple AWS accounts
into a single S3 bucket. For more information, see Working with CloudTrail log files.

Understanding AWS Lambda log file entries

CloudTrail log files contain one or more log entries where each entry is made up of multiple JSON-
formatted events. A log entry represents a single request from any source and includes information
about the requested action, any parameters, the date and time of the action, and so on. The log entries
are not guaranteed to be in any particular order. That is, they are not an ordered stack trace of the public
API calls.

The following example shows CloudTrail log entries for the GetFunction and DeleteFunction
actions.

{
"Records": [
{
"eventVersion": "1.03",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "A1B2C3D4E5F6G7EXAMPLE",
"arn": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/myUserName",
"accountId": "999999999999",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"userName": "myUserName"
},
"eventTime": "2015-03-18T19:03:36Z",
"eventSource": "lambda.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "GetFunction",
"awsRegion": "us-east-1",
"sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
"userAgent": "Python-httplib2/0.8 (gzip)",
"errorCode": "AccessDenied",
"errorMessage": "User: arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/myUserName is not
authorized to perform: lambda:GetFunction on resource: arn:aws:lambda:us-
west-2:999999999999:function:other-acct-function",
"requestParameters": null,

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"responseElements": null,
"requestID": "7aebcd0f-cda1-11e4-aaa2-e356da31e4ff",
"eventID": "e92a3e85-8ecd-4d23-8074-843aabfe89bf",
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId": "999999999999"
},
{
"eventVersion": "1.03",
"userIdentity": {
"type": "IAMUser",
"principalId": "A1B2C3D4E5F6G7EXAMPLE",
"arn": "arn:aws:iam::999999999999:user/myUserName",
"accountId": "999999999999",
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"userName": "myUserName"
},
"eventTime": "2015-03-18T19:04:42Z",
"eventSource": "lambda.amazonaws.com",
"eventName": "DeleteFunction",
"awsRegion": "us-east-1",
"sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1",
"userAgent": "Python-httplib2/0.8 (gzip)",
"requestParameters": {
"functionName": "basic-node-task"
},
"responseElements": null,
"requestID": "a2198ecc-cda1-11e4-aaa2-e356da31e4ff",
"eventID": "20b84ce5-730f-482e-b2b2-e8fcc87ceb22",
"eventType": "AwsApiCall",
"recipientAccountId": "999999999999"
}
]
}

Note
The eventName may include date and version information, such as "GetFunction20150331",
but it is still referring to the same public API. For more information, see Services supported by
CloudTrail event history in the AWS CloudTrail User Guide.

Using CloudTrail to track function invocations

CloudTrail also logs data events. You can turn on data event logging so that you log an event every time
Lambda functions are invoked. This helps you understand what identities are invoking the functions and
the frequency of their invocations. For more information on this option, see Logging data events for
trails.

Using CloudTrail to troubleshoot disabled event sources

One data event that can be encountered is a LambdaESMDisabled event. There are five general
categories of error that are associated with this event:

RESOURCE_NOT_FOUND

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

FUNCTION_NOT_FOUND

The function attached to the event source does not exist.

REGION_NAME_NOT_VALID

A Region name provided to the event source or function is invalid.

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AUTHORIZATION_ERROR

Permissions have not been set, or are misconfigured.

FUNCTION_IN_FAILED_STATE

The function code does not compile, has encountered an unrecoverable exception, or a bad
deployment has occurred.

These errors are included in the CloudTrail event message within the serviceEventDetails entity.

Example serviceEventDetails entity

"serviceEventDetails":{
"ESMDisableReason":"Lambda Function not found"
}

Tutorial: Triggering a Lambda function with AWS

CloudTrail events
You can configure Amazon S3 to publish events to AWS Lambda when AWS CloudTrail stores API call
logs. Your Lambda function can read the log object and process the access records logged by CloudTrail.

Use the following instructions to create a Lambda function that notifies you when a specific API call is
made in your account. The function processes notification events from Amazon S3, reads logs from a
bucket, and publishes alerts through an Amazon SNS topic. For this tutorial, you create:

• A CloudTrail trail and an S3 bucket to save logs to.

• An Amazon SNS topic to publish alert notifications.
• An IAM user role with permissions to read items from an S3 bucket and write logs to Amazon
CloudWatch.
• A Lambda function that processes CloudTrail logs and sends a notification whenever an Amazon SNS
topic is created.

Requirements
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

Before you begin, make sure that you have the following tools:

• Node.js 12.x with npm.

• The Bash shell. For Linux and macOS, this is included by default. In Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.
• The AWS CLI.

Step 1: Creating a trail in CloudTrail

When you create a trail, CloudTrail records the API calls in log files and stores them in Amazon S3. A
CloudTrail log is an unordered array of events in JSON format. For each call to a supported API action,
CloudTrail records information about the request and the entity that made it. Log events include the
action name, parameters, response values, and details about the requester.

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To create a trail

1. Open the Trails page of the CloudTrail console.

2. Choose Create trail.
3. For Trail name, enter a name.
4. For S3 bucket, enter a name.
5. Choose Create.
6. Save the bucket Amazon Resource Name (ARN) to add it to the IAM execution role, which you create
later.

Step 2: Creating an Amazon SNS topic

Create an Amazon SNS topic to send out a notification when new object events have occurred.

To create a topic

1. Open the Topics page of the Amazon SNS console.

2. Choose Create topic.
3. For Topic name, enter a name.
4. Choose Create topic.
5. Record the topic ARN. You will need it when you create the IAM execution role and Lambda function.

Step 3: Creating an IAM execution role

An execution role (p. 47) gives your function permission to access AWS resources. Create an execution
role that grants the function permission to access CloudWatch Logs, Amazon S3, and Amazon SNS.

To create an execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties:

• For Trusted entity, choose Lambda.

• For Role name, enter lambda-cloudtrail-role.
• For Permissions, create a custom policy with the following statements. Replace the highlighted
values with the names of your bucket and topic.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"logs:*"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"s3:GetObject"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/*"

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},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"sns:Publish"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic"
}
]
}

4. Record the role ARN. You will need it when you create the Lambda function.

Step 4: Creating the Lambda function

The following Lambda function processes CloudTrail logs, and sends a notification through Amazon SNS
when a new Amazon SNS topic is created.

To create the function

1. Create a folder and give it a name that indicates that it's your Lambda function (for example,
lambda-cloudtrail).
2. In the folder, create a file named index.js.
3. Paste the following code into index.js. Replace the Amazon SNS topic ARN with the ARN that
Amazon S3 created when you created the Amazon SNS topic.

var aws = require('aws-sdk');

var zlib = require('zlib');
var async = require('async');

var EVENT_SOURCE_TO_TRACK = /sns.amazonaws.com/;

var EVENT_NAME_TO_TRACK = /CreateTopic/;
var DEFAULT_SNS_REGION = 'us-east-2';
var SNS_TOPIC_ARN = 'arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-topic';

var s3 = new aws.S3();

var sns = new aws.SNS({
apiVersion: '2010-03-31',
region: DEFAULT_SNS_REGION
});

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

var srcBucket = event.Records[0].s3.bucket.name;
var srcKey = event.Records[0].s3.object.key;

async.waterfall([
function fetchLogFromS3(next){
console.log('Fetching compressed log from S3...');
s3.getObject({
Bucket: srcBucket,
Key: srcKey
},
next);
},
function uncompressLog(response, next){
console.log("Uncompressing log...");
zlib.gunzip(response.Body, next);
},
function publishNotifications(jsonBuffer, next) {
console.log('Filtering log...');
var json = jsonBuffer.toString();
console.log('CloudTrail JSON from S3:', json);

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var records;
try {
records = JSON.parse(json);
} catch (err) {
next('Unable to parse CloudTrail JSON: ' + err);
return;
}
var matchingRecords = records
.Records
.filter(function(record) {
return record.eventSource.match(EVENT_SOURCE_TO_TRACK)
&& record.eventName.match(EVENT_NAME_TO_TRACK);
});

console.log('Publishing ' + matchingRecords.length + ' notification(s) in

parallel...');
async.each(
matchingRecords,
function(record, publishComplete) {
console.log('Publishing notification: ', record);
sns.publish({
Message:
'Alert... SNS topic created: \n TopicARN=' +
record.responseElements.topicArn + '\n\n' +
JSON.stringify(record),
TopicArn: SNS_TOPIC_ARN
}, publishComplete);
},
next
);
}
], function (err) {
if (err) {
console.error('Failed to publish notifications: ', err);
} else {
console.log('Successfully published all notifications.');
}
callback(null,"message");
});
};

4. In the lambda-cloudtrail folder, run the following script. It creates a package-lock.json file
and a node_modules folder, which handle all dependencies.

npm install async

5. Run the following script to create a deployment package.

zip -r function.zip .

6. Create a Lambda function named CloudTrailEventProcessing with the create-function command

by running the following script. Make the indicated replacements.

aws lambda create-function --function-name CloudTrailEventProcessing \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x --timeout
10 --memory-size 1024 \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-cloudtrail-role

Step 5: Adding permissions to the Lambda function policy

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To give Amazon S3 permissions to invoke the function

1. Run the following add-permission command. Replace the ARN and account ID with your own.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name CloudTrailEventProcessing \

--statement-id Id-1 --action "lambda:InvokeFunction" --principal s3.amazonaws.com \
--source-arn arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket \
--source-account 123456789012

This command grants the Amazon S3 service principal (s3.amazonaws.com) permissions to

perform the lambda:InvokeFunction action. Invoke permissions are granted to Amazon S3 only
if the following conditions are met:

• CloudTrail stores a log object in the specified bucket.

• The bucket is owned by the specified AWS account. If the bucket owner deletes a bucket, another
AWS account can create a bucket with the same name. This condition ensures that only the
specified AWS account can invoke your Lambda function.
2. To view the Lambda function's access policy, run the following get-policy command, and replace
the function name.

aws lambda get-policy --function-name function-name

Step 6: Configuring notifications on an Amazon S3 bucket

To request that Amazon S3 publishes object-created events to Lambda, add a notification configuration
to the S3 bucket. In the configuration, you specify the following:

• Event type – Any event types that create objects.

• Lambda function – The Lambda function that you want Amazon S3 to invoke.

To configure notifications

1. Open the Amazon S3 console.

2. Choose the source bucket.
3. Choose Properties.
4. Under Events, configure a notification with the following settings:

• Name – lambda-trigger
• Events – All object create events
• Send to – Lambda function
• Lambda – CloudTrailEventProcessing

When CloudTrail stores logs in the bucket, Amazon S3 sends an event to the function. The event provides
information, including the bucket name and key name of the log object that CloudTrail created.

Sample function code

Sample code is available for the following languages.

Topics
• Node.js (p. 293)

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Node.js
The following example processes CloudTrail logs, and sends a notification when an Amazon SNS topic
was created.

Example index.js

var aws = require('aws-sdk');

var zlib = require('zlib');
var async = require('async');

var EVENT_SOURCE_TO_TRACK = /sns.amazonaws.com/;

var EVENT_NAME_TO_TRACK = /CreateTopic/;
var DEFAULT_SNS_REGION = 'us-west-2';
var SNS_TOPIC_ARN = 'The ARN of your SNS topic';

var s3 = new aws.S3();

var sns = new aws.SNS({
apiVersion: '2010-03-31',
region: DEFAULT_SNS_REGION
});

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

var srcBucket = event.Records[0].s3.bucket.name;
var srcKey = event.Records[0].s3.object.key;

async.waterfall([
function fetchLogFromS3(next){
console.log('Fetching compressed log from S3...');
s3.getObject({
Bucket: srcBucket,
Key: srcKey
},
next);
},
function uncompressLog(response, next){
console.log("Uncompressing log...");
zlib.gunzip(response.Body, next);
},
function publishNotifications(jsonBuffer, next) {
console.log('Filtering log...');
var json = jsonBuffer.toString();
console.log('CloudTrail JSON from S3:', json);
var records;
try {
records = JSON.parse(json);
} catch (err) {
next('Unable to parse CloudTrail JSON: ' + err);
return;
}
var matchingRecords = records
.Records
.filter(function(record) {
return record.eventSource.match(EVENT_SOURCE_TO_TRACK)
&& record.eventName.match(EVENT_NAME_TO_TRACK);
});

console.log('Publishing ' + matchingRecords.length + ' notification(s) in

parallel...');
async.each(
matchingRecords,
function(record, publishComplete) {
console.log('Publishing notification: ', record);
sns.publish({

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Message:
'Alert... SNS topic created: \n TopicARN=' +
record.responseElements.topicArn + '\n\n' +
JSON.stringify(record),
TopicArn: SNS_TOPIC_ARN
}, publishComplete);
},
next
);
}
], function (err) {
if (err) {
console.error('Failed to publish notifications: ', err);
} else {
console.log('Successfully published all notifications.');
}
callback(null,"message");
});
};

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Node.js Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 489).

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon CloudWatch

Events
Amazon CloudWatch events help you to respond to state changes in your AWS resources. When your
resources change state, they automatically send events into an event stream. You can create rules that
match selected events in the stream and route them to your AWS Lambda function to take action. For
example, you can automatically invoke an AWS Lambda function to log the state of an EC2 instance or
AutoScaling group.

CloudWatch Events invokes your function asynchronously with an event document that wraps the event
from its source. The following example shows an event that originated from a database snapshot in
Amazon Relational Database Service.

Example CloudWatch Events event

{
"version": "0",
"id": "fe8d3c65-xmpl-c5c3-2c87-81584709a377",
"detail-type": "RDS DB Instance Event",
"source": "aws.rds",
"account": "123456789012",
"time": "2020-04-28T07:20:20Z",
"region": "us-east-2",
"resources": [
"arn:aws:rds:us-east-2:123456789012:db:rdz6xmpliljlb1"
],
"detail": {
"EventCategories": [
"backup"
],
"SourceType": "DB_INSTANCE",
"SourceArn": "arn:aws:rds:us-east-2:123456789012:db:rdz6xmpliljlb1",
"Date": "2020-04-28T07:20:20.112Z",
"Message": "Finished DB Instance backup",
"SourceIdentifier": "rdz6xmpliljlb1"
}
}

You can also create a Lambda function and direct AWS Lambda to invoke it on a regular schedule. You
can specify a fixed rate (for example, invoke a Lambda function every hour or 15 minutes), or you can
specify a Cron expression.

Example CloudWatch Events message event

{
"version": "0",
"account": "123456789012",
"region": "us-east-2",
"detail": {},
"detail-type": "Scheduled Event",
"source": "aws.events",
"time": "2019-03-01T01:23:45Z",
"id": "cdc73f9d-aea9-11e3-9d5a-835b769c0d9c",
"resources": [
"arn:aws:events:us-east-2:123456789012:rule/my-schedule"
]
}

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To configure CloudWatch Events to invoke your function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function
3. Under Function overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Set the trigger type to EventBridge(CloudWatch Events).
5. For Rule, choose Create a new rule.
6. Configure the remaining options and choose Add.

For more information on expressions schedules, see Schedule expressions using rate or cron (p. 300).

Each AWS account can have up to 100 unique event sources of the CloudWatch Events- Schedule source
type. Each of these can be the event source for up to five Lambda functions. That is, you can have up to
500 Lambda functions that can be executing on a schedule in your AWS account.

Topics
• Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with scheduled events (p. 296)
• AWS SAM template for a CloudWatch Events application (p. 299)
• Schedule expressions using rate or cron (p. 300)

Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with scheduled events

In this tutorial, you do the following:

• Create a Lambda function using the lambda-canary blueprint. You configure the Lambda function
to run every minute. Note that if the function returns an error, AWS Lambda logs error metrics to
CloudWatch.
• Configure a CloudWatch alarm on the Errors metric of your Lambda function to post a message to
your Amazon SNS topic when AWS Lambda emits error metrics to CloudWatch. You subscribe to the
Amazon SNS topics to get email notification. In this tutorial, you do the following to set this up:
• Create an Amazon SNS topic.
• Subscribe to the topic so you can get email notifications when a new message is posted to the topic.
• In Amazon CloudWatch, set an alarm on the Errors metric of your Lambda function to publish a
message to your SNS topic when errors occur.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

Create a Lambda function

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the AWS Lambda console at https://
console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/.
2. Choose Create function.
3. Choose Use a blueprint.
4. Enter canary in the search bar. Choose the lambda-canary blueprint, and then choose Configure.
5. Configure the following settings.

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• Name – lambda-canary.
• Role – Create a new role from AWS policy templates.
• Role name – lambda-apigateway-role.
• Policy templates – Simple microservice permissions.
• Rule – Create a new rule.
• Rule name – CheckWebsiteScheduledEvent.
• Rule description – CheckWebsiteScheduledEvent trigger.
• Schedule expression – rate(1 minute).
• Enabled – True (checked).
• Environment variables
• site – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/welcome.html.
• expected – What is AWS Lambda?.
6. Choose Create function.

CloudWatch Events emits an event every minute, based on the schedule expression. The event triggers
the Lambda function, which verifies that the expected string appears in the specified page. For more
information on expressions schedules, see Schedule expressions using rate or cron (p. 300).

Test the Lambda function

Test the function with a sample event provided by the Lambda console.

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose the lambda-canary function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Create a new event using the CloudWatch Events event template.
5. Choose Create event.
6. Choose Invoke.

The output from the function execution is shown at the top of the page.

Create an Amazon SNS topic and subscribe to it

Create an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic to receive notifications when the
canary function returns an error.

To create a topic

1. Open the Amazon SNS console.

2. Choose Create topic.
3. Create a topic with the following settings.

• Name – lambda-canary-notifications.
• Display name – Canary.
4. Choose Create subscription.
5. Create a subscription with the following settings.

• Protocol – Email.
• Endpoint – Your email address.

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Amazon SNS sends an email from Canary <no-reply@sns.amazonaws.com>, reflecting the friendly
name of the topic. Use the link in the email to confirm your address.

Configure an alarm
Configure an alarm in Amazon CloudWatch that monitors the Lambda function and sends a notification
when it fails.

To create an alarm

1. Open the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose Alarms.
3. Choose Create alarm.
4. Choose Alarms.
5. Create an alarm with the following settings.

• Metrics – lambda-canary Errors.

Search for lambda canary errors to find the metric.

• Statistic – Sum.

Choose the statistic from the drop-down menu above the preview graph.
• Name – lambda-canary-alarm.
• Description – Lambda canary alarm.
• Threshold – Whenever Errors is >=1.
• Send notification to – lambda-canary-notifications.

Test the alarm

Update the function configuration to cause the function to return an error, which triggers the alarm.

To trigger an alarm

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose the lambda-canary function.
3. Scroll down. Under Environment variables, choose Edit.
4. Set expected to 404.
5. Choose Save.

Wait a minute, and then check your email for a message from Amazon SNS.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.

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4. Choose Delete.

To delete the CloudWatch alarm

1. Open the Alarms page of the CloudWatch console.

2. Select the alarm you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the Amazon SNS subscription

1. Open the Subscriptions page of the Amazon SNS console.

2. Select the subscription you created.
3. Choose Delete, Delete.

To delete the Amazon SNS topic

1. Open the Topics page of the Amazon SNS console.

2. Select the topic you created.
3. Choose Delete.
4. Enter delete me in the text box.
5. Choose Delete.

AWS SAM template for a CloudWatch Events

application
You can build this application using AWS SAM. To learn more about creating AWS SAM templates, see
AWS SAM template basics in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

Below is a sample AWS SAM template for the Lambda application from the tutorial (p. 296). Copy
the text below to a .yaml file and save it next to the ZIP package you created previously. Note that
the Handler and Runtime parameter values should match the ones you used when you created the
function in the previous section.

Example template.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Parameters:
NotificationEmail:
Type: String
Resources:
CheckWebsitePeriodically:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: LambdaFunctionOverHttps.handler
Runtime: runtime
Policies: AmazonDynamoDBFullAccess
Events:
CheckWebsiteScheduledEvent:
Type: Schedule
Properties:
Schedule: rate(1 minute)

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AlarmTopic:
Type: AWS::SNS::Topic
Properties:
Subscription:
- Protocol: email
Endpoint: !Ref NotificationEmail

Alarm:
Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
Properties:
AlarmActions:
- !Ref AlarmTopic
ComparisonOperator: GreaterThanOrEqualToThreshold
Dimensions:
- Name: FunctionName
Value: !Ref CheckWebsitePeriodically
EvaluationPeriods: 1
MetricName: Errors
Namespace: AWS/Lambda
Period: 60
Statistic: Sum
Threshold: '1'

For information on how to package and deploy your serverless application using the package and deploy
commands, see Deploying serverless applications in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer
Guide.

Schedule expressions using rate or cron

AWS Lambda supports standard rate and cron expressions for frequencies of up to once per minute.
CloudWatch Events rate expressions have the following format.

rate(Value Unit)

Where Value is a positive integer and Unit can be minute(s), hour(s), or day(s). For a singular value the
unit must be singular (for example, rate(1 day)), otherwise plural (for example, rate(5 days)).

Rate expression examples

Frequency Expression

Every 5 minutes rate(5 minutes)

Every hour rate(1 hour)

Every seven days rate(7 days)

Cron expressions have the following format.

cron(Minutes Hours Day-of-month Month Day-of-week Year)

Cron expression examples

Frequency Expression

10:15 AM (UTC) every day cron(15 10 * * ? *)

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Frequency Expression

6:00 PM Monday through Friday cron(0 18 ? * MON-FRI *)

8:00 AM on the first day of the cron(0 8 1 * ? *)

month

Every 10 min on weekdays cron(0/10 * ? * MON-FRI *)

Every 5 minutes between 8:00 cron(0/5 8-17 ? * MON-FRI *)

AM and 5:55 PM weekdays

9:00 AM on the first Monday of cron(0 9 ? * 2#1 *)

each month

Note the following:

• If you are using the Lambda console, do not include the cron prefix in your expression.
• One of the day-of-month or day-of-week values must be a question mark (?).

For more information, see Schedule expressions for rules in the EventBridge User Guide.

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Using Lambda with CloudWatch Logs

You can use a Lambda function to monitor and analyze logs from an Amazon CloudWatch Logs log
stream. Create subscriptions for one or more log streams to invoke a function when logs are created or
match an optional pattern. Use the function to send a notification or persist the log to a database or
storage.

CloudWatch Logs invokes your function asynchronously with an event that contains log data. The value
of the data field is a Base64-encoded .gzip file archive.

Example CloudWatch Logs message event

{
"awslogs": {
"data":
"ewogICAgIm1lc3NhZ2VUeXBlIjogIkRBVEFfTUVTU0FHRSIsCiAgICAib3duZXIiOiAiMTIzNDU2Nzg5MDEyIiwKICAgICJsb2dHc
}
}

When decoded and decompressed, the log data is a JSON document with the following structure:

Example CloudWatch Logs message data (decoded)

{
"messageType": "DATA_MESSAGE",
"owner": "123456789012",
"logGroup": "/aws/lambda/echo-nodejs",
"logStream": "2019/03/13/[$LATEST]94fa867e5374431291a7fc14e2f56ae7",
"subscriptionFilters": [
"LambdaStream_cloudwatchlogs-node"
],
"logEvents": [
{
"id": "34622316099697884706540976068822859012661220141643892546",
"timestamp": 1552518348220,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 6234bffe-149a-b642-81ff-2e8e376d8aff\tDuration:
46.84 ms\tBilled Duration: 47 ms \tMemory Size: 192 MB\tMax Memory Used: 72 MB\t\n"
}
]
}

For a sample application that uses CloudWatch Logs as a trigger, see Error processor sample application
for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

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Using AWS Lambda with AWS CloudFormation

In an AWS CloudFormation template, you can specify a Lambda function as the target of a custom
resource. Use custom resources to process parameters, retrieve configuration values, or call other AWS
services during stack lifecycle events.

The following example invokes a function that's defined elsewhere in the template.

Example – Custom resource definition

Resources:
primerinvoke:
Type: AWS::CloudFormation::CustomResource
Version: "1.0"
Properties:
ServiceToken: !GetAtt primer.Arn
FunctionName: !Ref randomerror

The service token is the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function that AWS CloudFormation
invokes when you create, update, or delete the stack. You can also include additional properties like
FunctionName, which AWS CloudFormation passes to your function as is.

AWS CloudFormation invokes your Lambda function asynchronously (p. 140) with an event that includes
a callback URL.

Example – AWS CloudFormation message event

{
"RequestType": "Create",
"ServiceToken": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:lambda-error-processor-
primer-14ROR2T3JKU66",
"ResponseURL": "https://cloudformation-custom-resource-response-useast2.s3-us-
east-2.amazonaws.com/arn%3Aaws%3Acloudformation%3Aus-east-2%3A123456789012%3Astack/lambda-
error-processor/1134083a-2608-1e91-9897-022501a2c456%7Cprimerinvoke%7C5d478078-13e9-
baf0-464a-7ef285ecc786?
AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE&Expires=1555451971&Signature=28UijZePE5I4dvukKQqM
%2F9Rf1o4%3D",
"StackId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-2:123456789012:stack/lambda-error-
processor/1134083a-2608-1e91-9897-022501a2c456",
"RequestId": "5d478078-13e9-baf0-464a-7ef285ecc786",
"LogicalResourceId": "primerinvoke",
"ResourceType": "AWS::CloudFormation::CustomResource",
"ResourceProperties": {
"ServiceToken": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:lambda-error-
processor-primer-14ROR2T3JKU66",
"FunctionName": "lambda-error-processor-randomerror-ZWUC391MQAJK"
}
}

The function is responsible for returning a response to the callback URL that indicates success or failure.
For the full response syntax, see Custom resource response objects.

Example – AWS CloudFormation custom resource response

{
"Status": "SUCCESS",
"PhysicalResourceId": "2019/04/18/[$LATEST]b3d1bfc65f19ec610654e4d9b9de47a0",
"StackId": "arn:aws:cloudformation:us-east-2:123456789012:stack/lambda-error-
processor/1134083a-2608-1e91-9897-022501a2c456",

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"RequestId": "5d478078-13e9-baf0-464a-7ef285ecc786",
"LogicalResourceId": "primerinvoke"
}

AWS CloudFormation provides a library called cfn-response that handles sending the response. If you
define your function within a template, you can require the library by name. AWS CloudFormation then
adds the library to the deployment package that it creates for the function.

The following example function invokes a second function. If the call succeeds, the function sends
a success response to AWS CloudFormation, and the stack update continues. The template uses the
AWS::Serverless::Function resource type provided by AWS Serverless Application Model.

Example error-processor/template.yml – Custom resource function

Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Resources:
primer:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
InlineCode: |
var aws = require('aws-sdk');
var response = require('cfn-response');
exports.handler = function(event, context) {
// For Delete requests, immediately send a SUCCESS response.
if (event.RequestType == "Delete") {
response.send(event, context, "SUCCESS");
return;
}
var responseStatus = "FAILED";
var responseData = {};
var functionName = event.ResourceProperties.FunctionName
var lambda = new aws.Lambda();
lambda.invoke({ FunctionName: functionName }, function(err, invokeResult) {
if (err) {
responseData = {Error: "Invoke call failed"};
console.log(responseData.Error + ":\n", err);
}
else responseStatus = "SUCCESS";
response.send(event, context, responseStatus, responseData);
});
};
Description: Invoke a function to create a log stream.
MemorySize: 128
Timeout: 8
Role: !GetAtt role.Arn
Tracing: Active

If the function that the custom resource invokes isn't defined in a template, you can get the source code
for cfn-response from cfn-response module in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

For a sample application that uses a custom resource to ensure that a function's log group is
created before another resource that depends on it, see Error processor sample application for AWS
Lambda (p. 473).

For more information about custom resources, see Custom resources in the AWS CloudFormation User
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Using AWS Lambda with CloudFront

Lambda@Edge
Lambda@Edge lets you run Node.js and Python Lambda functions to customize content that CloudFront
delivers, executing the functions in AWS locations closer to the viewer. The functions run in response to
CloudFront events, without provisioning or managing servers. You can use Lambda functions to change
CloudFront requests and responses at the following points:

• After CloudFront receives a request from a viewer (viewer request)

• Before CloudFront forwards the request to the origin (origin request)
• After CloudFront receives the response from the origin (origin response)
• Before CloudFront forwards the response to the viewer (viewer response)

Note
Lambda@Edge supports a limited set of runtimes and features. For details, see Requirements
and restrictions on Lambda functions in the Amazon CloudFront developer guide.

You can also generate responses to viewers without ever sending the request to the origin.

Example CloudFront message event

{
"Records": [
{
"cf": {
"config": {
"distributionId": "EDFDVBD6EXAMPLE"
},
"request": {
"clientIp": "2001:0db8:85a3:0:0:8a2e:0370:7334",
"method": "GET",
"uri": "/picture.jpg",
"headers": {
"host": [
{
"key": "Host",
"value": "d111111abcdef8.cloudfront.net"
}
],
"user-agent": [
{
"key": "User-Agent",

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"value": "curl/7.51.0"
}
]
}
}
}
}
]
}

With Lambda@Edge, you can build a variety of solutions, for example:

• Inspect cookies to rewrite URLs to different versions of a site for A/B testing.
• Send different objects to your users based on the User-Agent header, which contains information
about the device that submitted the request. For example, you can send images in different resolutions
to users based on their devices.
• Inspect headers or authorized tokens, inserting a corresponding header and allowing access control
before forwarding a request to the origin.
• Add, delete, and modify headers, and rewrite the URL path to direct users to different objects in the
cache.
• Generate new HTTP responses to do things like redirect unauthenticated users to login pages, or
create and deliver static webpages right from the edge. For more information, see Using Lambda
functions to generate HTTP responses to viewer and origin requests in the Amazon CloudFront
Developer Guide.

For more information about using Lambda@Edge, see Using CloudFront with Lambda@Edge.

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Using AWS Lambda with AWS CodeCommit

You can create a trigger for an AWS CodeCommit repository so that events in the repository will invoke
a Lambda function. For example, you can invoke a Lambda function when a branch or tag is created or
when a push is made to an existing branch.

Example AWS CodeCommit message event

{
"Records": [
{
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"codecommit": {
"references": [
{
"commit": "5e493c6f3067653f3d04eca608b4901eb227078",
"ref": "refs/heads/master"
}
]
},
"eventId": "31ade2c7-f889-47c5-a937-1cf99e2790e9",
"eventName": "ReferenceChanges",
"eventPartNumber": 1,
"eventSource": "aws:codecommit",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:codecommit:us-east-2:123456789012:lambda-pipeline-
repo",
"eventTime": "2019-03-12T20:58:25.400+0000",
"eventTotalParts": 1,
"eventTriggerConfigId": "0d17d6a4-efeb-46f3-b3ab-a63741badeb8",
"eventTriggerName": "index.handler",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"userIdentityARN": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/intern"
}
]
}

For more information, see Manage triggers for an AWS CodeCommit repository.

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Using AWS Lambda with AWS CodePipeline

AWS CodePipeline is a service that enables you to create continuous delivery pipelines for applications
that run on AWS. You can create a pipeline to deploy your Lambda application. You can also configure
a pipeline to invoke a Lambda function to perform a task when the pipeline runs. When you create a
Lambda application (p. 174) in the Lambda console, Lambda creates a pipeline that includes source,
build, and deploy stages.

CodePipeline invokes your function asynchronously with an event that contains details about the job.
The following example shows an event from a pipeline that invoked a function named my-function.

Example CodePipeline event

{
"CodePipeline.job": {
"id": "c0d76431-b0e7-xmpl-97e3-e8ee786eb6f6",
"accountId": "123456789012",
"data": {
"actionConfiguration": {
"configuration": {
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"UserParameters": "{\"KEY\": \"VALUE\"}"
}
},
"inputArtifacts": [
{
"name": "my-pipeline-SourceArtifact",
"revision": "e0c7xmpl2308ca3071aa7bab414de234ab52eea",
"location": {
"type": "S3",
"s3Location": {
"bucketName": "us-west-2-123456789012-my-pipeline",
"objectKey": "my-pipeline/test-api-2/TdOSFRV"
}
}
}
],
"outputArtifacts": [
{
"name": "invokeOutput",
"revision": null,
"location": {
"type": "S3",
"s3Location": {
"bucketName": "us-west-2-123456789012-my-pipeline",
"objectKey": "my-pipeline/invokeOutp/D0YHsJn"
}
}
}
],
"artifactCredentials": {
"accessKeyId": "AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE",
"secretAccessKey": "6CGtmAa3lzWtV7a...",
"sessionToken": "IQoJb3JpZ2luX2VjEA...",
"expirationTime": 1575493418000
}
}
}
}

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To complete the job, the function must call the CodePipeline API to signal success or failure. The
following example Node.js function uses the PutJobSuccessResult operation to signal success. It gets
the job ID for the API call from the event object.

Example index.js

var AWS = require('aws-sdk')

var codepipeline = new AWS.CodePipeline()

exports.handler = async (event) => {

console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2))
var jobId = event["CodePipeline.job"].id
var params = {
jobId: jobId
}
return codepipeline.putJobSuccessResult(params).promise()
}

For asynchronous invocation, Lambda queues the message and retries (p. 158) if your function returns
an error. Configure your function with a destination (p. 142) to retain events that your function could not
process.

For a tutorial on how to configure a pipeline to invoke a Lambda function, see Invoke an AWS Lambda
function in a pipeline in the AWS CodePipeline User Guide.

You can use AWS CodePipeline to create a continuous delivery pipeline for your Lambda application.
CodePipeline combines source control, build, and deployment resources to create a pipeline that runs
whenever you make a change to your application's source code.

For an alternate method of creating a pipeline with AWS Serverless Application Model and AWS
CloudFormation, watch Automate your serverless application deployments on the Amazon Web Services
YouTube channel.

Permissions
To invoke a function, a CodePipeline pipeline needs permission to use the following API operations:

• ListFunctions (p. 859)

• InvokeFunction (p. 840)

The default pipeline service role includes these permissions.

To complete a job, the function needs the following permissions in its execution role (p. 47).

• codepipeline:PutJobSuccessResult
• codepipeline:PutJobFailureResult

These permissions are included in the AWSCodePipelineCustomActionAccess managed policy.

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Cognito

The Amazon Cognito Events feature enables you to run Lambda functions in response to events in
Amazon Cognito. For example, you can invoke a Lambda function for the Sync Trigger events, that
is published each time a dataset is synchronized. To learn more and walk through an example, see
Introducing Amazon Cognito Events: Sync Triggers in the Mobile Development blog.

Example Amazon Cognito message event

{
"datasetName": "datasetName",
"eventType": "SyncTrigger",
"region": "us-east-1",
"identityId": "identityId",
"datasetRecords": {
"SampleKey2": {
"newValue": "newValue2",
"oldValue": "oldValue2",
"op": "replace"
},
"SampleKey1": {
"newValue": "newValue1",
"oldValue": "oldValue1",
"op": "replace"
}
},
"identityPoolId": "identityPoolId",
"version": 2
}

You configure event source mapping using Amazon Cognito event subscription configuration. For
information about event source mapping and a sample event, see Amazon Cognito events in the Amazon
Cognito Developer Guide.

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Using AWS Lambda with AWS Config

You can use AWS Lambda functions to evaluate whether your AWS resource configurations comply
with your custom Config rules. As resources are created, deleted, or changed, AWS Config records these
changes and sends the information to your Lambda functions. Your Lambda functions then evaluate
the changes and report results to AWS Config. You can then use AWS Config to assess overall resource
compliance: you can learn which resources are noncompliant and which configuration attributes are the
cause of noncompliance.

Example AWS Config message event

{
"invokingEvent": "{\"configurationItem\":{\"configurationItemCaptureTime\":
\"2016-02-17T01:36:34.043Z\",\"awsAccountId\":\"000000000000\",\"configurationItemStatus\":
\"OK\",\"resourceId\":\"i-00000000\",\"ARN\":\"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:000000000000:instance/
i-00000000\",\"awsRegion\":\"us-east-1\",\"availabilityZone\":\"us-east-1a\",
\"resourceType\":\"AWS::EC2::Instance\",\"tags\":{\"Foo\":\"Bar\"},\"relationships\":
[{\"resourceId\":\"eipalloc-00000000\",\"resourceType\":\"AWS::EC2::EIP\",\"name\":
\"Is attached to ElasticIp\"}],\"configuration\":{\"foo\":\"bar\"}},\"messageType\":
\"ConfigurationItemChangeNotification\"}",
"ruleParameters": "{\"myParameterKey\":\"myParameterValue\"}",
"resultToken": "myResultToken",
"eventLeftScope": false,
"executionRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::012345678912:role/config-role",
"configRuleArn": "arn:aws:config:us-east-1:012345678912:config-rule/config-
rule-0123456",
"configRuleName": "change-triggered-config-rule",
"configRuleId": "config-rule-0123456",
"accountId": "012345678912",
"version": "1.0"
}

For more information, see Evaluating resources with AWS Config rules.

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Using Lambda with Amazon Connect

You can use a Lambda function to process requests from Amazon Connect.

Amazon Connect invokes your Lambda function synchronously with an event that contains the request
body and metadata.

Example Amazon Connect request event

{
"Details": {
"ContactData": {
"Attributes": {},
"Channel": "VOICE",
"ContactId": "4a573372-1f28-4e26-b97b-XXXXXXXXXXX",
"CustomerEndpoint": {
"Address": "+1234567890",
"Type": "TELEPHONE_NUMBER"
},
"InitialContactId": "4a573372-1f28-4e26-b97b-XXXXXXXXXXX",
"InitiationMethod": "INBOUND | OUTBOUND | TRANSFER | CALLBACK",
"InstanceARN": "arn:aws:connect:aws-region:1234567890:instance/
c8c0e68d-2200-4265-82c0-XXXXXXXXXX",
"PreviousContactId": "4a573372-1f28-4e26-b97b-XXXXXXXXXXX",
"Queue": {
"ARN": "arn:aws:connect:eu-west-2:111111111111:instance/cccccccc-bbbb-dddd-
eeee-ffffffffffff/queue/aaaaaaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd-eeeeeeeeeeee",
"Name": "PasswordReset"
},
"SystemEndpoint": {
"Address": "+1234567890",
"Type": "TELEPHONE_NUMBER"
}
},
"Parameters": {
"sentAttributeKey": "sentAttributeValue"
}
},
"Name": "ContactFlowEvent"
}

For information about how to use Amazon Connect with Lambda, see Invoke Lambda functions in the
Amazon Connect administrator guide.

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon DynamoDB

You can use an AWS Lambda function to process records in an Amazon DynamoDB stream. With
DynamoDB Streams, you can trigger a Lambda function to perform additional work each time a
DynamoDB table is updated.

Lambda reads records from the stream and invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) with an event
that contains stream records. Lambda reads records in batches and invokes your function to process
records from the batch.

Example DynamoDB Streams record event

{
"Records": [
{
"eventID": "1",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"dynamodb": {
"Keys": {
"Id": {
"N": "101"
}
},
"NewImage": {
"Message": {
"S": "New item!"
},
"Id": {
"N": "101"
}
},
"StreamViewType": "NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES",
"SequenceNumber": "111",
"SizeBytes": 26
},
"awsRegion": "us-west-2",
"eventName": "INSERT",
"eventSourceARN": eventsourcearn,
"eventSource": "aws:dynamodb"
},
{
"eventID": "2",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"dynamodb": {
"OldImage": {
"Message": {
"S": "New item!"
},
"Id": {
"N": "101"
}
},
"SequenceNumber": "222",
"Keys": {
"Id": {
"N": "101"
}
},
"SizeBytes": 59,
"NewImage": {
"Message": {
"S": "This item has changed"
},

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"Id": {
"N": "101"
}
},
"StreamViewType": "NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES"
},
"awsRegion": "us-west-2",
"eventName": "MODIFY",
"eventSourceARN": sourcearn,
"eventSource": "aws:dynamodb"
}

Lambda polls shards in your DynamoDB stream for records at a base rate of 4 times per second. When
records are available, Lambda invokes your function and waits for the result. If processing succeeds,
Lambda resumes polling until it receives more records.

By default, Lambda invokes your function as soon as records are available in the stream. If the batch that
Lambda reads from the stream only has one record in it, Lambda sends only one record to the function.
To avoid invoking the function with a small number of records, you can tell the event source to buffer
records for up to five minutes by configuring a batch window. Before invoking the function, Lambda
continues to read records from the stream until it has gathered a full batch, or until the batch window
expires.

If your function returns an error, Lambda retries the batch until processing succeeds or the data expires.
To avoid stalled shards, you can configure the event source mapping to retry with a smaller batch size,
limit the number of retries, or discard records that are too old. To retain discarded events, you can
configure the event source mapping to send details about failed batches to an SQS queue or SNS topic.

You can also increase concurrency by processing multiple batches from each shard in parallel. Lambda
can process up to 10 batches in each shard simultaneously. If you increase the number of concurrent
batches per shard, Lambda still ensures in-order processing at the partition-key level.

Configure the ParallelizationFactor setting to process one shard of a Kinesis or DynamoDB

data stream with more than one Lambda invocation simultaneously. You can specify the number of
concurrent batches that Lambda polls from a shard via a parallelization factor from 1 (default) to 10. For
example, when ParallelizationFactor is set to 2, you can have 200 concurrent Lambda invocations
at maximum to process 100 Kinesis data shards. This helps scale up the processing throughput when
the data volume is volatile and the IteratorAge is high. For more information, see New AWS Lambda
scaling controls for Kinesis and DynamoDB event sources.

Sections
• Execution role permissions (p. 314)
• Configuring a stream as an event source (p. 315)
• Event source mapping APIs (p. 316)
• Error handling (p. 318)
• Amazon CloudWatch metrics (p. 319)
• Time windows (p. 319)
• Reporting batch item failures (p. 322)
• Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon DynamoDB streams (p. 324)
• Sample function code (p. 329)
• AWS SAM template for a DynamoDB application (p. 332)

Execution role permissions

Lambda needs the following permissions to manage resources related to your DynamoDB stream. Add
them to your function's execution role.

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• dynamodb:DescribeStream
• dynamodb:GetRecords
• dynamodb:GetShardIterator
• dynamodb:ListStreams
• dynamodb:ListShards

The AWSLambdaDynamoDBExecutionRole managed policy includes these permissions. For more

information, see AWS Lambda execution role (p. 47).

To send records of failed batches to a queue or topic, your function needs additional permissions. Each
destination service requires a different permission, as follows:

• Amazon SQS – sqs:SendMessage

• Amazon SNS – sns:Publish

Configuring a stream as an event source

Create an event source mapping to tell Lambda to send records from your stream to a Lambda function.
You can create multiple event source mappings to process the same data with multiple Lambda
functions, or to process items from multiple streams with a single function.

To configure your function to read from DynamoDB Streams in the Lambda console, create a DynamoDB
trigger.

To create a trigger

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Choose a trigger type.
5. Configure the required options and then choose Add.

Lambda supports the following options for DynamoDB event sources.

Event source options

• DynamoDB table – The DynamoDB table to read records from.

• Batch size – The number of records to send to the function in each batch, up to 10,000. Lambda
passes all of the records in the batch to the function in a single call, as long as the total size of the
events doesn't exceed the payload limit (p. 44) for synchronous invocation (6 MB).
• Batch window – Specify the maximum amount of time to gather records before invoking the function,
in seconds.
• Starting position – Process only new records, or all existing records.
• Latest – Process new records that are added to the stream.
• Trim horizon – Process all records in the stream.

After processing any existing records, the function is caught up and continues to process new records.
• On-failure destination – An SQS queue or SNS topic for records that can't be processed. When
Lambda discards a batch of records because it's too old or has exhausted all retries, it sends details
about the batch to the queue or topic.

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• Retry attempts – The maximum number of times that Lambda retries when the function returns an
error. This doesn't apply to service errors or throttles where the batch didn't reach the function.
• Maximum age of record – The maximum age of a record that Lambda sends to your function.
• Split batch on error – When the function returns an error, split the batch into two before retrying.
• Concurrent batches per shard – Process multiple batches from the same shard concurrently.
• Enabled – Set to true to enable the event source mapping. Set to false to stop processing records.
Lambda keeps track of the last record processed and resumes processing from that point when the
mapping is reenabled.

Note
You are not charged for GetRecords API calls invoked by Lambda as part of DynamoDB triggers.

To manage the event source configuration later, choose the trigger in the designer.

Event source mapping APIs

To manage an event source with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, you can use the following API operations:

• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)

• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)
• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)

The following example uses the AWS CLI to map a function named my-function to a DynamoDB
stream that is specified by its Amazon Resource Name (ARN), with a batch size of 500.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --function-name my-function --batch-size 500 --

starting-position LATEST \
--event-source-arn arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:123456789012:table/my-table/
stream/2019-06-10T19:26:16.525

You should see the following output:

{
"UUID": "14e0db71-5d35-4eb5-b481-8945cf9d10c2",
"BatchSize": 500,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 0,
"ParallelizationFactor": 1,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:123456789012:table/my-table/
stream/2019-06-10T19:26:16.525",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1560209851.963,
"LastProcessingResult": "No records processed",
"State": "Creating",
"StateTransitionReason": "User action",
"DestinationConfig": {},
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": 604800,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": false,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 10000
}

Configure additional options to customize how batches are processed and to specify when to discard
records that can't be processed. The following example updates an event source mapping to send a
failure record to an SQS queue after two retry attempts, or if the records are more than an hour old.

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aws lambda update-event-source-mapping --uuid f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b \

--maximum-retry-attempts 2 --maximum-record-age-in-seconds 3600
--destination-config '{"OnFailure": {"Destination": "arn:aws:sqs:us-
east-2:123456789012:dlq"}}'

You should see this output:

{
"UUID": "f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b",
"BatchSize": 100,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 0,
"ParallelizationFactor": 1,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:123456789012:table/my-table/
stream/2019-06-10T19:26:16.525",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1573243620.0,
"LastProcessingResult": "PROBLEM: Function call failed",
"State": "Updating",
"StateTransitionReason": "User action",
"DestinationConfig": {},
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": 604800,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": false,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 10000
}

Updated settings are applied asynchronously and aren't reflected in the output until the process
completes. Use the get-event-source-mapping command to view the current status.

aws lambda get-event-source-mapping --uuid f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b

You should see this output:

{
"UUID": "f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b",
"BatchSize": 100,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 0,
"ParallelizationFactor": 1,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:123456789012:table/my-table/
stream/2019-06-10T19:26:16.525",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1573244760.0,
"LastProcessingResult": "PROBLEM: Function call failed",
"State": "Enabled",
"StateTransitionReason": "User action",
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:dlq"
}
},
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": 3600,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": false,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 2
}

To process multiple batches concurrently, use the --parallelization-factor option.

aws lambda update-event-source-mapping --uuid 2b733gdc-8ac3-cdf5-af3a-1827b3b11284 \

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Error handling
The event source mapping that reads records from your DynamoDB stream invokes your function
synchronously and retries on errors. If the function is throttled or the Lambda service returns an error
without invoking the function, Lambda retries until the records expire or exceed the maximum age that
you configure on the event source mapping.

If the function receives the records but returns an error, Lambda retries until the records in the batch
expire, exceed the maximum age, or reach the configured retry quota. For function errors, you can also
configure the event source mapping to split a failed batch into two batches. Retrying with smaller
batches isolates bad records and works around timeout issues. Splitting a batch does not count towards
the retry quota.

If the error handling measures fail, Lambda discards the records and continues processing batches from
the stream. With the default settings, this means that a bad record can block processing on the affected
shard for up to one day. To avoid this, configure your function's event source mapping with a reasonable
number of retries and a maximum record age that fits your use case.

To retain a record of discarded batches, configure a failed-event destination. Lambda sends a document
to the destination queue or topic with details about the batch.

To configure a destination for failed-event records

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add destination.
4. For Source, choose Stream invocation.
5. For Stream, choose a stream that is mapped to the function.
6. For Destination type, choose the type of resource that receives the invocation record.
7. For Destination, choose a resource.
8. Choose Save.

The following example shows an invocation record for a DynamoDB stream.

Example Invocation Record

{
"requestContext": {
"requestId": "316aa6d0-8154-xmpl-9af7-85d5f4a6bc81",
"functionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:myfunction",
"condition": "RetryAttemptsExhausted",
"approximateInvokeCount": 1
},
"responseContext": {
"statusCode": 200,
"executedVersion": "$LATEST",
"functionError": "Unhandled"
},
"version": "1.0",
"timestamp": "2019-11-14T00:13:49.717Z",
"DDBStreamBatchInfo": {
"shardId": "shardId-00000001573689847184-864758bb",
"startSequenceNumber": "800000000003126276362",
"endSequenceNumber": "800000000003126276362",
"approximateArrivalOfFirstRecord": "2019-11-14T00:13:19Z",
"approximateArrivalOfLastRecord": "2019-11-14T00:13:19Z",
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"streamArn": "arn:aws:dynamodb:us-east-2:123456789012:table/mytable/
stream/2019-11-14T00:04:06.388"
}
}

You can use this information to retrieve the affected records from the stream for troubleshooting. The
actual records aren't included, so you must process this record and retrieve them from the stream before
they expire and are lost.

Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Lambda emits the IteratorAge metric when your function finishes processing a batch of records. The
metric indicates how old the last record in the batch was when processing finished. If your function is
processing new events, you can use the iterator age to estimate the latency between when a record is
added and when the function processes it.

An increasing trend in iterator age can indicate issues with your function. For more information, see
Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692).

Time windows
Lambda functions can run continuous stream processing applications. A stream represents unbounded
data that flows continuously through your application. To analyze information from this continuously
updating input, you can bound the included records using a window defined in terms of time.

Lambda invocations are stateless—you cannot use them for processing data across multiple continuous
invocations without an external database. However, with windowing enabled, you can maintain your
state across invocations. This state contains the aggregate result of the messages previously processed
for the current window. Your state can be a maximum of 1 MB per shard. If it exceeds that size, Lambda
terminates the window early.

Tumbling windows
Lambda functions can aggregate data using tumbling windows: distinct time windows that open and
close at regular intervals. Tumbling windows enable you to process streaming data sources through
contiguous, non-overlapping time windows.

Each record of a stream belongs to a specific window. A record is processed only once, when Lambda
processes the window that the record belongs to. In each window, you can perform calculations, such as
a sum or average, at the partition key level within a shard.

Aggregation and processing

Your user managed function is invoked both for aggregation and for processing the final results
of that aggregation. Lambda aggregates all records received in the window. You can receive these
records in multiple batches, each as a separate invocation. Each invocation receives a state. You can
also process records and return a new state, which is passed in the next invocation. Lambda returns a
TimeWindowEventResponse in JSON in the following format:

Example TimeWindowEventReponse values

{
"state": {
"1": 282,
"2": 715
},
"batchItemFailures": []
}

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Note
For Java functions, we recommend using a Map<String, String> to represent the state.

At the end of the window, the flag isFinalInvokeForWindow is set to true to indicate that this is
the final state and that it’s ready for processing. After processing, the window completes and your final
invocation completes, and then the state is dropped.

At the end of your window, Lambda uses final processing for actions on the aggregation results. Your
final processing is synchronously invoked. After successful invocation, your function checkpoints the
sequence number and stream processing continues. If invocation is unsuccessful, your Lambda function
suspends further processing until a successful invocation.

Example DynamodbTimeWindowEvent

{
"Records":[
{
"eventID":"1",
"eventName":"INSERT",
"eventVersion":"1.0",
"eventSource":"aws:dynamodb",
"awsRegion":"us-east-1",
"dynamodb":{
"Keys":{
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"NewImage":{
"Message":{
"S":"New item!"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"SequenceNumber":"111",
"SizeBytes":26,
"StreamViewType":"NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES"
},
"eventSourceARN":"stream-ARN"
},
{
"eventID":"2",
"eventName":"MODIFY",
"eventVersion":"1.0",
"eventSource":"aws:dynamodb",
"awsRegion":"us-east-1",
"dynamodb":{
"Keys":{
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"NewImage":{
"Message":{
"S":"This item has changed"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"OldImage":{

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"Message":{
"S":"New item!"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"SequenceNumber":"222",
"SizeBytes":59,
"StreamViewType":"NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES"
},
"eventSourceARN":"stream-ARN"
},
{
"eventID":"3",
"eventName":"REMOVE",
"eventVersion":"1.0",
"eventSource":"aws:dynamodb",
"awsRegion":"us-east-1",
"dynamodb":{
"Keys":{
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"OldImage":{
"Message":{
"S":"This item has changed"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"SequenceNumber":"333",
"SizeBytes":38,
"StreamViewType":"NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES"
},
"eventSourceARN":"stream-ARN"
}
],
"window": {
"start": "2020-07-30T17:00:00Z",
"end": "2020-07-30T17:05:00Z"
},
"state": {
"1": "state1"
},
"shardId": "shard123456789",
"eventSourceARN": "stream-ARN",
"isFinalInvokeForWindow": false,
"isWindowTerminatedEarly": false
}

Configuration
You can configure tumbling windows when you create or update an event source mapping (p. 148). To
configure a tumbling window, specify the window in seconds. The following example AWS Command
Line Interface (AWS CLI) command creates a streaming event source mapping that has a tumbling
window of 120 seconds. The Lambda function defined for aggregation and processing is named
tumbling-window-example-function.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --event-source-arn arn:aws:dynamodb:us-

east-1:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream --function-name "arn:aws:lambda:us-

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east-1:123456789018:function:tumbling-window-example-function" --region us-east-1 --

starting-position TRIM_HORIZON --tumbling-window-in-seconds 120

Lambda determines tumbling window boundaries based on the time when records were inserted
into the stream. All records have an approximate timestamp available that Lambda uses in boundary
determinations.

Tumbling window aggregations do not support resharding. When the shard ends, Lambda considers the
window closed, and the child shards start their own window in a fresh state.

Tumbling windows fully support the existing retry policies maxRetryAttempts and maxRecordAge.

Example Handler.py – Aggregation and processing

The following Python function demonstrates how to aggregate and then process your final state:

def lambda_handler(event, context):

print('Incoming event: ', event)
print('Incoming state: ', event['state'])

#Check if this is the end of the window to either aggregate or process.

if event['isFinalInvokeForWindow']:
# logic to handle final state of the window
print('Destination invoke')
else:
print('Aggregate invoke')

#Check for early terminations

if event['isWindowTerminatedEarly']:
print('Window terminated early')

#Aggregation logic
state = event['state']
for record in event['Records']:
state[record['dynamodb']['NewImage']['Id']] = state.get(record['dynamodb']
['NewImage']['Id'], 0) + 1

print('Returning state: ', state)

return {'state': state}

Reporting batch item failures

When consuming and processing streaming data from an event source, by default Lambda checkpoints
to the highest sequence number of a batch only when the batch is a complete success. Lambda treats
all other results as a complete failure and retries processing the batch up to the retry limit. To allow
for partial successes while processing batches from a stream, turn on ReportBatchItemFailures.
Allowing partial successes can help to reduce the number of retries on a record, though it doesn’t
entirely prevent the possibility of retries in a successful record.

To turn on ReportBatchItemFailures, include the enum value ReportBatchItemFailures in the

FunctionResponseTypes list. This list indicates which response types are enabled for your function.
You can configure this list when you create or update an event source mapping (p. 148).

Report syntax
When configuring reporting on batch item failures, the StreamsEventResponse class is returned with
a list of batch item failures. You can use a StreamsEventResponse object to return the sequence
number of the first failed record in the batch. You can also create your own custom class using the
correct response syntax. The following JSON structure shows the required response syntax:

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{
"batchItemFailures": [
{
"itemIdentifier": "<id>"
}
]
}

Success and failure conditions

Lambda treats a batch as a complete success if you return any of the following:

• An empty batchItemFailure list

• A null batchItemFailure list
• An empty EventResponse
• A null EventResponse

Lambda treats a batch as a complete failure if you return any of the following:

• An empty string itemIdentifier

• A null itemIdentifier
• An itemIdentifier with a bad key name

Lambda retries failures based on your retry strategy.

Bisecting a batch
If your invocation fails and BisectBatchOnFunctionError is turned on, the batch is bisected
regardless of your ReportBatchItemFailures setting.

When a partial batch success response is received and both BisectBatchOnFunctionError and
ReportBatchItemFailures are turned on, the batch is bisected at the returned sequence number and
Lambda retries only the remaining records.

Java

Example Handler.java – return new StreamsEventResponse()

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.DynamodbEvent;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class ProcessDynamodbRecords implements RequestHandler<DynamodbEvent,

Serializable> {

@Override
public Serializable handleRequest(DynamodbEvent input, Context context) {

List<StreamsEventResponse.BatchItemFailure> batchItemFailures = new

ArrayList<*>();
String curRecordSequenceNumber = "";

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for (DynamodbEvent.DynamodbEventRecord dynamodbEventRecord :

input.getRecords()) {
try {
//Process your record
DynamodbEvent.Record dynamodbRecord =
dynamodbEventRecord.getDynamodb();
curRecordSequenceNumber = dynamodbRecord.getSequenceNumber();

} catch (Exception e) {
//Return failed record's sequence number
batchItemFailures.add(new
StreamsEventResponse.BatchItemFailure(curRecordSequenceNumber));
return new StreamsEventResponse(batchItemFailures);
}
}

return new StreamsEventResponse(batchItemFailures);

}
}

Python

Example Handler.py – return batchItemFailures[]

def handler(event, context):

records = event.get("Records")
curRecordSequenceNumber = "";

for record in records:

try:
# Process your record
curRecordSequenceNumber = record["dynamodb"]["sequenceNumber"]
except Exception as e:
# Return failed record's sequence number
return {"batchItemFailures":[{"itemIdentifier": curRecordSequenceNumber}]}

return {"batchItemFailures":[]}

Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon

DynamoDB streams
In this tutorial, you create a Lambda function to consume events from an Amazon DynamoDB stream.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

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For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaDynamoDBExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-dynamodb-role.

The AWSLambdaDynamoDBExecutionRole has the permissions that the function needs to read items
from DynamoDB and write logs to CloudWatch Logs.

Create the function

The following example code receives a DynamoDB event input and processes the messages that it
contains. For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.
Note
For sample code in other languages, see Sample function code (p. 329).

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));
event.Records.forEach(function(record) {
console.log(record.eventID);
console.log(record.eventName);
console.log('DynamoDB Record: %j', record.dynamodb);
});
callback(null, "message");
};

To create the function

1. Copy the sample code into a file named index.js.

2. Create a deployment package.

zip function.zip index.js

3. Create a Lambda function with the create-function command.

aws lambda create-function --function-name ProcessDynamoDBRecords \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-dynamodb-role

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Test the Lambda function

In this step, you invoke your Lambda function manually using the invoke AWS Lambda CLI command
and the following sample DynamoDB event.

Example input.txt

{
"Records":[
{
"eventID":"1",
"eventName":"INSERT",
"eventVersion":"1.0",
"eventSource":"aws:dynamodb",
"awsRegion":"us-east-1",
"dynamodb":{
"Keys":{
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"NewImage":{
"Message":{
"S":"New item!"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"SequenceNumber":"111",
"SizeBytes":26,
"StreamViewType":"NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES"
},
"eventSourceARN":"stream-ARN"
},
{
"eventID":"2",
"eventName":"MODIFY",
"eventVersion":"1.0",
"eventSource":"aws:dynamodb",
"awsRegion":"us-east-1",
"dynamodb":{
"Keys":{
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"NewImage":{
"Message":{
"S":"This item has changed"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"OldImage":{
"Message":{
"S":"New item!"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"SequenceNumber":"222",

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"SizeBytes":59,
"StreamViewType":"NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES"
},
"eventSourceARN":"stream-ARN"
},
{
"eventID":"3",
"eventName":"REMOVE",
"eventVersion":"1.0",
"eventSource":"aws:dynamodb",
"awsRegion":"us-east-1",
"dynamodb":{
"Keys":{
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"OldImage":{
"Message":{
"S":"This item has changed"
},
"Id":{
"N":"101"
}
},
"SequenceNumber":"333",
"SizeBytes":38,
"StreamViewType":"NEW_AND_OLD_IMAGES"
},
"eventSourceARN":"stream-ARN"
}
]
}

Run the following invoke command.

aws lambda invoke --function-name ProcessDynamoDBRecords --payload file://input.txt

outputfile.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

The function returns the string message in the response body.

Verify the output in the outputfile.txt file.

Create a DynamoDB table with a stream enabled

Create an Amazon DynamoDB table with a stream enabled.

To create a DynamoDB table

1. Open the DynamoDB console.

2. Choose Create table.
3. Create a table with the following settings.

• Table name – lambda-dynamodb-stream

• Primary key – id (string)
4. Choose Create.

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To enable streams

1. Open the DynamoDB console.

2. Choose Tables.
3. Choose the lambda-dynamodb-stream table.
4. Under Overview, choose Manage stream.
5. Choose Enable.

Write down the stream ARN. You need this in the next step when you associate the stream with
your Lambda function. For more information on enabling streams, see Capturing table activity with
DynamoDB Streams.

Add an event source in AWS Lambda

Create an event source mapping in AWS Lambda. This event source mapping associates the DynamoDB
stream with your Lambda function. After you create this event source mapping, AWS Lambda starts
polling the stream.

Run the following AWS CLI create-event-source-mapping command. After the command runs,
note down the UUID. You'll need this UUID to refer to the event source mapping in any commands, for
example, when deleting the event source mapping.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --function-name ProcessDynamoDBRecords \

--batch-size 100 --starting-position LATEST --event-source DynamoDB-stream-arn

This creates a mapping between the specified DynamoDB stream and the Lambda function. You can
associate a DynamoDB stream with multiple Lambda functions, and associate the same Lambda function
with multiple streams. However, the Lambda functions will share the read throughput for the stream
they share.

You can get the list of event source mappings by running the following command.

aws lambda list-event-source-mappings

The list returns all of the event source mappings you created, and for each mapping it shows the
LastProcessingResult, among other things. This field is used to provide an informative message if
there are any problems. Values such as No records processed (indicates that AWS Lambda has not
started polling or that there are no records in the stream) and OK (indicates AWS Lambda successfully
read records from the stream and invoked your Lambda function) indicate that there are no issues. If
there are issues, you receive an error message.

If you have a lot of event source mappings, use the function name parameter to narrow down the results.

aws lambda list-event-source-mappings --function-name ProcessDynamoDBRecords

Test the setup

Test the end-to-end experience. As you perform table updates, DynamoDB writes event records to the
stream. As AWS Lambda polls the stream, it detects new records in the stream and invokes your Lambda
function on your behalf by passing events to the function.

1. In the DynamoDB console, add, update, and delete items to the table. DynamoDB writes records of
these actions to the stream.

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2. AWS Lambda polls the stream and when it detects updates to the stream, it invokes your Lambda
function by passing in the event data it finds in the stream.
3. Your function runs and creates logs in Amazon CloudWatch. You can verify the logs reported in the
Amazon CloudWatch console.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the DynamoDB table

1. Open the Tables page of the DynamoDB console.

2. Select the table you created.
3. Choose Delete.
4. Enter delete in the text box.
5. Choose Delete.

Sample function code

Sample code is available for the following languages.

Topics
• Node.js (p. 329)
• Java 11 (p. 330)
• C# (p. 331)
• Python 3 (p. 331)
• Go (p. 332)

Node.js
The following example processes messages from DynamoDB, and logs their contents.

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Example ProcessDynamoDBStream.js

console.log('Loading function');

exports.lambda_handler = function(event, context, callback) {

console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));
event.Records.forEach(function(record) {
console.log(record.eventID);
console.log(record.eventName);
console.log('DynamoDB Record: %j', record.dynamodb);
});
callback(null, "message");
};

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Node.js Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 489).

Java 11
The following example processes messages from DynamoDB, and logs their contents. handleRequest
is the handler that AWS Lambda invokes and provides event data. The handler uses the predefined
DynamodbEvent class, which is defined in the aws-lambda-java-events library.

Example DDBEventProcessor.java

package example;

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.LambdaLogger;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.DynamodbEvent;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.DynamodbEvent.DynamodbStreamRecord;

public class DDBEventProcessor implements

RequestHandler<DynamodbEvent, String> {

public String handleRequest(DynamodbEvent ddbEvent, Context context) {

for (DynamodbStreamRecord record : ddbEvent.getRecords()){
System.out.println(record.getEventID());
System.out.println(record.getEventName());
System.out.println(record.getDynamodb().toString());

}
return "Successfully processed " + ddbEvent.getRecords().size() + " records.";
}
}

If the handler returns normally without exceptions, Lambda considers the input batch of records as
processed successfully and begins reading new records in the stream. If the handler throws an exception,
Lambda considers the input batch of records as not processed and invokes the function with the same
batch of records again.

Dependencies

• aws-lambda-java-core
• aws-lambda-java-events

Build the code with the Lambda library dependencies to create a deployment package. For instructions,
see Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578).

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C#
The following example processes messages from DynamoDB, and logs their contents.
ProcessDynamoEvent is the handler that AWS Lambda invokes and provides event data. The handler
uses the predefined DynamoDbEvent class, which is defined in the Amazon.Lambda.DynamoDBEvents
library.

Example ProcessingDynamoDBStreams.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using Amazon.Lambda.Core;
using Amazon.Lambda.DynamoDBEvents;

using Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json;

namespace DynamoDBStreams
{
public class DdbSample
{
private static readonly JsonSerializer _jsonSerializer = new JsonSerializer();

public void ProcessDynamoEvent(DynamoDBEvent dynamoEvent)

{
Console.WriteLine($"Beginning to process {dynamoEvent.Records.Count}
records...");

foreach (var record in dynamoEvent.Records)

{
Console.WriteLine($"Event ID: {record.EventID}");
Console.WriteLine($"Event Name: {record.EventName}");

string streamRecordJson = SerializeObject(record.Dynamodb);

Console.WriteLine($"DynamoDB Record:");
Console.WriteLine(streamRecordJson);
}

Console.WriteLine("Stream processing complete.");

}

private string SerializeObject(object streamRecord)

{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
_jsonSerializer.Serialize(streamRecord, ms);
return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
}
}
}
}

Replace the Program.cs in a .NET Core project with the above sample. For instructions, see Deploy C#
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 645).

Python 3
The following example processes messages from DynamoDB, and logs their contents.

Example ProcessDynamoDBStream.py

from __future__ import print_function

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def lambda_handler(event, context):

for record in event['Records']:
print(record['eventID'])
print(record['eventName'])
print('Successfully processed %s records.' % str(len(event['Records'])))

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Python Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

Go
The following example processes messages from DynamoDB, and logs their contents.

Example

import (
"strings"

"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
)

func handleRequest(ctx context.Context, e events.DynamoDBEvent) {

for _, record := range e.Records {

fmt.Printf("Processing request data for event ID %s, type %s.\n", record.EventID,
record.EventName)

// Print new values for attributes of type String

for name, value := range record.Change.NewImage {
if value.DataType() == events.DataTypeString {
fmt.Printf("Attribute name: %s, value: %s\n", name, value.String())
}
}
}
}

Build the executable with go build and create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Go
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617).

AWS SAM template for a DynamoDB application

You can build this application using AWS SAM. To learn more about creating AWS SAM templates, see
AWS SAM template basics in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

Below is a sample AWS SAM template for the tutorial application (p. 324). Copy the text below to
a .yaml file and save it next to the ZIP package you created previously. Note that the Handler and
Runtime parameter values should match the ones you used when you created the function in the
previous section.

Example template.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Resources:
ProcessDynamoDBStream:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: handler
Runtime: runtime

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Policies: AWSLambdaDynamoDBExecutionRole
Events:
Stream:
Type: DynamoDB
Properties:
Stream: !GetAtt DynamoDBTable.StreamArn
BatchSize: 100
StartingPosition: TRIM_HORIZON

DynamoDBTable:
Type: AWS::DynamoDB::Table
Properties:
AttributeDefinitions:
- AttributeName: id
AttributeType: S
KeySchema:
- AttributeName: id
KeyType: HASH
ProvisionedThroughput:
ReadCapacityUnits: 5
WriteCapacityUnits: 5
StreamSpecification:
StreamViewType: NEW_IMAGE

For information on how to package and deploy your serverless application using the package and deploy
commands, see Deploying serverless applications in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer
Guide.

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EC2

Using AWS Lambda with Amazon EC2

You can use AWS Lambda to process lifecycle events from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and manage
Amazon EC2 resources. Amazon EC2 sends events to Amazon CloudWatch Events for lifecycle events
such as when an instance changes state, when an Amazon Elastic Block Store volume snapshot
completes, or when a spot instance is scheduled to be terminated. You configure CloudWatch Events to
forward those events to a Lambda function for processing.

CloudWatch Events invokes your Lambda function asynchronously with the event document from
Amazon EC2.

Example instance lifecycle event

{
"version": "0",
"id": "b6ba298a-7732-2226-xmpl-976312c1a050",
"detail-type": "EC2 Instance State-change Notification",
"source": "aws.ec2",
"account": "123456798012",
"time": "2019-10-02T17:59:30Z",
"region": "us-east-2",
"resources": [
"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-2:123456798012:instance/i-0c314xmplcd5b8173"
],
"detail": {
"instance-id": "i-0c314xmplcd5b8173",
"state": "running"
}
}

For details on configuring events in CloudWatch Events, see Using AWS Lambda with Amazon
CloudWatch Events (p. 295). For an example function that processes Amazon EBS snapshot notifications,
see Amazon CloudWatch Events for Amazon EBS in the Amazon EC2 User Guide for Linux Instances.

You can also use the AWS SDK to manage instances and other resources with the Amazon EC2 API. For
a tutorial with a sample application in C#, see Tutorial: Using AWS SDK for .NET to manage Amazon EC2
Spot Instances (p. 335).

Permissions
To process lifecycle events from Amazon EC2, CloudWatch Events needs permission to invoke your
function. This permission comes from the function's resource-based policy (p. 51). If you use the
CloudWatch Events console to configure an event trigger, the console updates the resource-based policy
on your behalf. Otherwise, add a statement like the following:

Example resource-based policy statement for Amazon EC2 lifecycle notifications

{
"Sid": "ec2-events",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "events.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "lambda:InvokeFunction",
"Resource": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:12456789012:function:my-function",
"Condition": {
"ArnLike": {
"AWS:SourceArn": "arn:aws:events:us-east-2:12456789012:rule/*"
}
}

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To add a statement, use the add-permission AWS CLI command.

aws lambda add-permission --action lambda:InvokeFunction --statement-id ec2-events \

--principal events.amazonaws.com --function-name my-function --source-arn
'arn:aws:events:us-east-2:12456789012:rule/*'

If your function uses the AWS SDK to manage Amazon EC2 resources, add Amazon EC2 permissions to
the function's execution role (p. 47).

Tutorial: Using AWS SDK for .NET to manage Amazon

EC2 Spot Instances
You can use the AWS SDK for .NET to manage Amazon EC2 spot instances with C# code. The SDK enables
you to use the Amazon EC2 API to create spot instance requests, determine when the request is fulfilled,
delete requests, and identify the instances created.

This tutorial provides code that performs these tasks and a sample application that you can run locally or
on AWS. It includes a sample project that you can deploy to AWS Lambda's .NET Core 2.1 runtime.

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For more information about spot instances usage and best practices, see Spot Instances in the Amazon
EC2 user guide.

Prerequisites
To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

This tutorial uses code from the developer guide's GitHub repository. The repository also contains
helper scripts and configuration files that are needed to follow its procedures. Clone the repository at
github.com/awsdocs/aws-lambda-developer-guide.

To use the sample code you need the following tools:

• AWS CLI – To deploy the sample application to AWS, install the AWS CLI. The AWS CLI also provides
credentials to the sample code when you run it locally.
• .NET Core CLI – To run and test the code locally, install the .NET Core SDK 2.1.
• Lambda .NET Core Global Tool – To build the deployment package for Lambda, install the .NET Core
global tool with the .NET Core CLI.

dotnet tool install -g Amazon.Lambda.Tools

The code in this tutorial manages spot requests that launch Amazon EC2 instances. To run the code
locally, you need SDK credentials with permission to use the following APIs.

• ec2:RequestSpotInstance
• ec2:GetSpotRequestState
• ec2:CancelSpotRequest
• ec2:TerminateInstances

To run the sample application in AWS, you need permission to use Lambda (p. 46) and the following
services.

• AWS CloudFormation (pricing)

• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (pricing)

Standard charges apply for each service.

Review the code

Locate the sample project in the guide repository under sample-apps/ec2-spot. This directory contains
Lambda function code, tests, project files, scripts, and a AWS CloudFormation template.

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The Function class includes a FunctionHandler method that calls other methods to create spot
requests, check their status, and clean up. It creates an Amazon EC2 client with the AWS SDK for .NET in
a static constructor to allow it to be used throughout the class.

Example Function.cs – FunctionHandler

using Amazon.EC2;
...
public class Function
{
private static AmazonEC2Client ec2Client;

static Function() {
AWSSDKHandler.RegisterXRayForAllServices();
ec2Client = new AmazonEC2Client();
}

public async Task<string> FunctionHandler(Dictionary<string, string> input,

ILambdaContext context)
{
// More AMI IDs: amazon-linux-2/release-notes/
// us-east-2 HVM EBS-Backed 64-bit Amazon Linux 2
string ami = "ami-09d9edae5eb90d556";
string sg = "default";
InstanceType type = InstanceType.T3aNano;
string price = "0.003";
int count = 1;
var requestSpotInstances = await RequestSpotInstance(ami, sg, type, price,
count);
var spotRequestId =
requestSpotInstances.SpotInstanceRequests[0].SpotInstanceRequestId;

The RequestSpotInstance method creates a spot instance request.

Example Function.cs – RequestSpotInstance

using Amazon;
using Amazon.Util;
using Amazon.EC2;
using Amazon.EC2.Model;
...
public async Task<RequestSpotInstancesResponse> RequestSpotInstance(
string amiId,
string securityGroupName,
InstanceType instanceType,
string spotPrice,
int instanceCount)
{
var request = new RequestSpotInstancesRequest();

var launchSpecification = new LaunchSpecification();

launchSpecification.ImageId = amiId;
launchSpecification.InstanceType = instanceType;
launchSpecification.SecurityGroups.Add(securityGroupName);

request.SpotPrice = spotPrice;
request.InstanceCount = instanceCount;
request.LaunchSpecification = launchSpecification;

RequestSpotInstancesResponse response = await

ec2Client.RequestSpotInstancesAsync(request);

return response;

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}
...

Next, you need to wait until the spot request reaches the Active state before proceeding to the last
step. To determine the state of your spot request, use the DescribeSpotInstanceRequests method to
obtain the state of the spot request ID to monitor.

public async Task<SpotInstanceRequest> GetSpotRequest(string spotRequestId)

{
var request = new DescribeSpotInstanceRequestsRequest();
request.SpotInstanceRequestIds.Add(spotRequestId);

var describeResponse = await ec2Client.DescribeSpotInstanceRequestsAsync(request);

return describeResponse.SpotInstanceRequests[0];
}

The final step is to clean up your requests and instances. It is important to both cancel any outstanding
requests and terminate any instances. Just canceling your requests will not terminate your instances,
which means that you will continue to be charged for them. If you terminate your instances, your Spot
requests may be canceled, but there are some scenarios, such as if you use persistent requests, where
terminating your instances is not sufficient to stop your request from being re-fulfilled. Therefore, it is a
best practice to both cancel any active requests and terminate any running instances.

You use the CancelSpotInstanceRequests method to cancel a Spot request. The following example
demonstrates how to cancel a Spot request.

public async Task CancelSpotRequest(string spotRequestId)

{
Console.WriteLine("Canceling request " + spotRequestId);
var cancelRequest = new CancelSpotInstanceRequestsRequest();
cancelRequest.SpotInstanceRequestIds.Add(spotRequestId);

await ec2Client.CancelSpotInstanceRequestsAsync(cancelRequest);
}

You use the TerminateInstances method to terminate an instance.

public async Task TerminateSpotInstance(string instanceId)

{
Console.WriteLine("Terminating instance " + instanceId);
var terminateRequest = new TerminateInstancesRequest();
terminateRequest.InstanceIds = new List<string>() { instanceId };
try
{
var terminateResponse = await ec2Client.TerminateInstancesAsync(terminateRequest);
}
catch (AmazonEC2Exception ex)
{
// Check the ErrorCode to see if the instance does not exist.
if ("InvalidInstanceID.NotFound" == ex.ErrorCode)
{
Console.WriteLine("Instance {0} does not exist.", instanceId);
}
else
{
// The exception was thrown for another reason, so re-throw the exception.
throw;
}
}
}

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Run the code locally

Run the code on your local machine to create a spot instance request. After the request is fulfilled, the
code deletes the request and terminates the instance.

To run the application code

1. Navigate to the ec2Spot.Tests directory.

cd test/ec2Spot.Tests

2. Use the .NET CLI to run the project's unit tests.

dotnet test

You should see the following output:

Starting test execution, please wait...

sir-x5tgs5ij
open
open
open
open
open
active
Canceling request sir-x5tgs5ij
Terminating instance i-0b3fdff0e12e0897e
Complete

Test Run Successful.

Total tests: 1
Passed: 1
Total time: 7.6060 Seconds

The unit test invokes the FunctionHandler method to create a spot instance request, monitor it, and
clean up. It is implemented in the xUnit.net testing framework.

Deploy the application

Run the code in Lambda as a starting point for creating a serverless application.

To deploy and test the application

1. Set your region to us-east-2.

export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-2

2. Create a bucket for deployment artifacts.

./create-bucket.sh

You should see the following output:

make_bucket: lambda-artifacts-63d5cbbf18fa5ecc

3. Create a deployment package and deploy the application.

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./deploy.sh

You should see the following output:

Amazon Lambda Tools for .NET Core applications (3.3.0)

Project Home: https://github.com/aws/aws-extensions-for-dotnet-cli, https://github.com/
aws/aws-lambda-dotnet

Executing publish command

...
Created publish archive (ec2spot.zip)
Lambda project successfully packaged: ec2spot.zip
Uploading to ebd38e401cedd7d676d05d22b76f0209 1305107 / 1305107.0 (100.00%)
Successfully packaged artifacts and wrote output template to file out.yaml.
Run the following command to deploy the packaged template
aws cloudformation deploy --template-file out.yaml --stack-name <YOUR STACK NAME>

Waiting for changeset to be created..

Waiting for stack create/update to complete
Successfully created/updated stack - ec2-spot

4. Open the Applications page of the Lambda console.

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5. Under Resources, choose function.

6. Choose Test and create a test event from the default template.
7. Choose Test again to invoke the function.

View the logs and trace information to see the spot request ID and sequence of calls to Amazon EC2.

To view the service map, open the Service map page in the X-Ray console.

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Choose a node in the service map and then choose View traces to see a list of traces. Choose a trace
from the list to see the timeline of calls that the function made to Amazon EC2.

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Clean up
The code provided in this tutorial is designed to create and delete spot instance requests, and to
terminate the instances that they launch. However, if an error occurs, the requests and instances might
not be cleaned up automatically. View the spot requests and instances in the Amazon EC2 console.

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To confirm that Amazon EC2 resources are cleaned up

1. Open the Spot Requests page in the Amazon EC2 console.

2. Verify that the state of the requests is Cancelled.
3. Choose the instance ID in the Capacity column to view the instance.
4. Verify that the state of the instances is Terminated or Shutting down.

To clean up the sample function and support resources, delete its AWS CloudFormation stack and the
artifacts bucket that you created.

./cleanup.sh

You should see the following output:

Delete deployment artifacts and bucket (lambda-artifacts-63d5cbbf18fa5ecc)?y

delete: s3://lambda-artifacts-63d5cbbf18fa5ecc/ebd38e401cedd7d676d05d22b76f0209
remove_bucket: lambda-artifacts-63d5cbbf18fa5ecc

The function's log group is not deleted automatically. You can delete it in the CloudWatch Logs console.
Traces in X-Ray expire after a few weeks and are deleted automatically.

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Tutorial: Configuring a Lambda function to access

Amazon ElastiCache in an Amazon VPC
In this tutorial, you do the following:

• Create an Amazon ElastiCache cluster in your default Amazon Virtual Private Cloud. For more
information about Amazon ElastiCache, see Amazon ElastiCache.
• Create a Lambda function to access the ElastiCache cluster. When you create the Lambda function,
you provide subnet IDs in your Amazon VPC and a VPC security group to allow the Lambda function
to access resources in your VPC. For illustration in this tutorial, the Lambda function generates a UUID,
writes it to the cache, and retrieves it from the cache.
• Invoke the Lambda function and verify that it accessed the ElastiCache cluster in your VPC.

For details on using Lambda with Amazon VPC, see Configuring a Lambda function to access resources in
a VPC (p. 111).

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-vpc-role.

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Create an ElastiCache cluster

The AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole has the permissions that the function needs to manage
network connections to a VPC.

Create an ElastiCache cluster

Create an ElastiCache cluster in your default VPC.

1. Run the following AWS CLI command to create a Memcached cluster.

aws elasticache create-cache-cluster --cache-cluster-id ClusterForLambdaTest --cache-

node-type cache.t3.medium --engine memcached --num-cache-nodes 1 --security-group-
ids sg-0123a1b123456c1de

You can look up the default VPC security group in the VPC console under Security Groups. Your
example Lambda function will add and retrieve an item from this cluster.
2. Write down the configuration endpoint for the cache cluster that you launched. You can get this
from the Amazon ElastiCache console. You will specify this value in your Lambda function code in
the next section.

Create a deployment package

The following example Python code reads and writes an item to your ElastiCache cluster.

Example app.py

from __future__ import print_function

import time
import uuid
import sys
import socket
import elasticache_auto_discovery
from pymemcache.client.hash import HashClient

#elasticache settings
elasticache_config_endpoint = "your-elasticache-cluster-endpoint:port"
nodes = elasticache_auto_discovery.discover(elasticache_config_endpoint)
nodes = map(lambda x: (x[1], int(x[2])), nodes)
memcache_client = HashClient(nodes)

def handler(event, context):

"""
This function puts into memcache and get from it.
Memcache is hosted using elasticache
"""

#Create a random UUID... this will be the sample element we add to the cache.
uuid_inserted = uuid.uuid4().hex
#Put the UUID to the cache.
memcache_client.set('uuid', uuid_inserted)
#Get item (UUID) from the cache.
uuid_obtained = memcache_client.get('uuid')
if uuid_obtained.decode("utf-8") == uuid_inserted:
# this print should go to the CloudWatch Logs and Lambda console.
print ("Success: Fetched value %s from memcache" %(uuid_inserted))
else:
raise Exception("Value is not the same as we put :(. Expected %s got %s"
%(uuid_inserted, uuid_obtained))

return "Fetched value from memcache: " + uuid_obtained.decode("utf-8")

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Dependencies

• pymemcache – The Lambda function code uses this library to create a HashClient object to set and
get items from memcache.
• elasticache-auto-discovery – The Lambda function uses this library to get the nodes in your Amazon
ElastiCache cluster.

Install dependencies with Pip and create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Python
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

Create the Lambda function

Create the Lambda function with the create-function command.

aws lambda create-function --function-name AccessMemCache --timeout 30 --memory-size 1024 \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler app.handler --runtime python3.8 \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-vpc-role \
--vpc-config SubnetIds=subnet-0532bb6758ce7c71f,subnet-
d6b7fda068036e11f,SecurityGroupIds=sg-0897d5f549934c2fb

You can find the subnet IDs and the default security group ID of your VPC from the VPC console.

Test the Lambda function

In this step, you invoke the Lambda function manually using the invoke command. When the Lambda
function runs, it generates a UUID and writes it to the ElastiCache cluster that you specified in your
Lambda code. The Lambda function then retrieves the item from the cache.

1. Invoke the Lambda function with the invoke command.

aws lambda invoke --function-name AccessMemCache output.txt

2. Verify that the Lambda function executed successfully as follows:

• Review the output.txt file.

• Review the results in the AWS Lambda console.
• Verify the results in CloudWatch Logs.

Now that you have created a Lambda function that accesses an ElastiCache cluster in your VPC, you can
have the function invoked in response to events. For information about configuring event sources and
examples, see Using AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.

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4. Choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the ElastiCache cluster

1. Open the Memcached page of the ElastiCache console.

2. Select the cluster you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

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Using AWS Lambda with an Application Load

Balancer
You can use a Lambda function to process requests from an Application Load Balancer. Elastic Load
Balancing supports Lambda functions as a target for an Application Load Balancer. Use load balancer
rules to route HTTP requests to a function, based on path or header values. Process the request and
return an HTTP response from your Lambda function.

Elastic Load Balancing invokes your Lambda function synchronously with an event that contains the
request body and metadata.

Example Application Load Balancer request event

{
"requestContext": {
"elb": {
"targetGroupArn": "arn:aws:elasticloadbalancing:us-
east-2:123456789012:targetgroup/lambda-279XGJDqGZ5rsrHC2Fjr/49e9d65c45c6791a"
}
},
"httpMethod": "GET",
"path": "/lambda",
"queryStringParameters": {
"query": "1234ABCD"
},
"headers": {
"accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/
apng,*/*;q=0.8",
"accept-encoding": "gzip",
"accept-language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
"connection": "keep-alive",
"host": "lambda-alb-123578498.us-east-2.elb.amazonaws.com",
"upgrade-insecure-requests": "1",
"user-agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36",
"x-amzn-trace-id": "Root=1-5c536348-3d683b8b04734faae651f476",
"x-forwarded-for": "72.12.164.125",
"x-forwarded-port": "80",
"x-forwarded-proto": "http",
"x-imforwards": "20"
},
"body": "",
"isBase64Encoded": false
}

Your function processes the event and returns a response document to the load balancer in JSON. Elastic
Load Balancing converts the document to an HTTP success or error response and returns it to the user.

Example response document format

{
"statusCode": 200,
"statusDescription": "200 OK",
"isBase64Encoded": False,
"headers": {
"Content-Type": "text/html"
},
"body": "<h1>Hello from Lambda!</h1>"
}

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To configure an Application Load Balancer as a function trigger, grant Elastic Load Balancing permission
to run the function, create a target group that routes requests to the function, and add a rule to the load
balancer that sends requests to the target group.

Use the add-permission command to add a permission statement to your function's resource-based
policy.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name alb-function \

--statement-id load-balancer --action "lambda:InvokeFunction" \
--principal elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com

You should see the following output:

{
"Statement": "{\"Sid\":\"load-balancer\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"Service
\":\"elasticloadbalancing.amazonaws.com\"},\"Action\":\"lambda:InvokeFunction\",\"Resource
\":\"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:alb-function\"}"
}

For instructions on configuring the Application Load Balancer listener and target group, see Lambda
functions as a target in the User Guide for Application Load Balancers.

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Using Amazon EFS with Lambda

Lambda integrates with Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to support secure, shared file system
access for Lambda applications. You can configure functions to mount a file system during initialization
with the NFS protocol over the local network within a VPC. Lambda manages the connection and
encrypts all traffic to and from the file system.

The file system and the Lambda function must be in the same region. A Lambda function in one account
can mount a file system in a different account. For this scenario, you configure VPC peering between the
function VPC and the file system VPC.
Note
To configure a function to connect to a file system, see Configuring file system access for
Lambda functions (p. 126).

Amazon EFS supports file locking to prevent corruption if multiple functions try to write to the same file
system at the same time. Locking in Amazon EFS follows the NFS v4.1 protocol for advisory locking, and
enables your applications to use both whole file and byte range locks.

Amazon EFS provides options to customize your file system based on your application's need to maintain
high performance at scale. There are three primary factors to consider: the number of connections,
throughput (in MiB per second), and IOPS.
Quotas
For detail on file system quotas and limits, see Quotas for Amazon EFS file systems in the
Amazon Elastic File System User Guide.

To avoid issues with scaling, throughput, and IOPS, monitor the metrics that Amazon EFS sends to
Amazon CloudWatch. For an overview of monitoring in Amazon EFS, see Monitoring Amazon EFS in the
Amazon Elastic File System User Guide.

Sections
• Connections (p. 351)
• Throughput (p. 352)
• IOPS (p. 352)

Connections
Amazon EFS supports up to 25,000 connections per file system. During initialization, each instance of a
function creates a single connection to its file system that persists across invocations. This means that
you can reach 25,000 concurrency across one or more functions connected to a file system. To limit the
number of connections a function creates, use reserved concurrency (p. 84).

However, when you make changes to your function's code or configuration at scale, there is a temporary
increase in the number of function instances beyond the current concurrency. Lambda provisions new
instances to handle new requests and there is some delay before old instances close their connections
to the file system. To avoid hitting the maximum connections limit during a deployment, use rolling
deployments (p. 187). With rolling deployments, you gradually shift traffic to the new version each time
you make a change.

If you connect to the same file system from other services such as Amazon EC2, you should also be aware
of the scaling behavior of connections in Amazon EFS. A file system supports the creation of up to 3,000
connections in a burst, after which it supports 500 new connections per minute. This matches burst
scaling (p. 153) behavior in Lambda, which applies across all functions in a Region. But if you are creating
connections outside of Lambda, your functions may not be able to scale at full speed.

To monitor and trigger an alarm on connections, use the ClientConnections metric.

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Throughput
At scale, it is also possible to exceed the maximum throughput for a file system. In bursting mode (the
default), a file system has a low baseline throughput that scales linearly with its size. To allow for bursts
of activity, the file system is granted burst credits that allow it to use 100 MiB/s or more of throughput.
Credits accumulate continually and are expended with every read and write operation. If the file system
runs out of credits, it throttles read and write operations beyond the baseline throughput, which can
cause invocations to time out.
Note
If you use provisioned concurrency (p. 84), your function can consume burst credits even when
idle. With provisioned concurrency, Lambda initializes instances of your function before it is
invoked, and recycles instances every few hours. If you use files on an attached file system
during initialization, this activity can use all of your burst credits.

To monitor and trigger an alarm on throughput, use the BurstCreditBalance metric. It should
increase when your function's concurrency is low and decrease when it is high. If it always decreases
or does not accumulate enough during low activity to cover peak traffic, you may need to limit your
function's concurrency or enable provisioned throughput.

IOPS
Input/output operations per second (IOPS) is a measurement of the number of read and write operations
processed by the file system. In general purpose mode, IOPS is limited in favor of lower latency, which is
beneficial for most applications.

To monitor and alarm on IOPS in general purpose mode, use the PercentIOLimit metric. If this metric
reaches 100%, your function can time out waiting for read and write operations to complete.

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Using AWS Lambda with AWS IoT

AWS IoT provides secure communication between internet-connected devices (such as sensors) and the
AWS Cloud. This makes it possible for you to collect, store, and analyze telemetry data from multiple
devices.

You can create AWS IoT rules for your devices to interact with AWS services. The AWS IoT Rules Engine
provides a SQL-based language to select data from message payloads and send the data to other
services, such as Amazon S3, Amazon DynamoDB, and AWS Lambda. You define a rule to invoke a
Lambda function when you want to invoke another AWS service or a third-party service.

When an incoming IoT message triggers the rule, AWS IoT invokes your Lambda function
asynchronously (p. 140) and passes data from the IoT message to the function.

The following example shows a moisture reading from a greenhouse sensor. The row and pos values
identify the location of the sensor. This example event is based on the greenhouse type in the AWS IoT
Rules tutorials.

Example AWS IoT message event

{
"row" : "10",
"pos" : "23",
"moisture" : "75"
}

For asynchronous invocation, Lambda queues the message and retries (p. 158) if your function returns
an error. Configure your function with a destination (p. 142) to retain events that your function could not
process.

You need to grant permission for the AWS IoT service to invoke your Lambda function. Use the add-
permission command to add a permission statement to your function's resource-based policy.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name my-function \

--statement-id iot-events --action "lambda:InvokeFunction" --principal iot.amazonaws.com

You should see the following output:

{
"Statement": "{\"Sid\":\"iot-events\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":
{\"Service\":\"iot.amazonaws.com\"},\"Action\":\"lambda:InvokeFunction\",\"Resource\":
\"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function\"}"
}

For more information about how to use Lambda with AWS IoT, see Creating an AWS Lambda rule.

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Using AWS Lambda with AWS IoT Events

AWS IoT Events monitors the inputs from multiple IoT sensors and applications to recognize event
patterns. Then it takes appropriate actions when events occur. AWS IoT Events receives its inputs as
JSON payloads from many sources. AWS IoT Events supports simple events (where each input triggers an
event) and complex events (where multiple inputs must occur to trigger the event).

To use AWS IoT Events, you define a detector model, which is a state-machine model of your equipment
or process. In addition to states, you define inputs and events for the model. You also define the actions
to take when an event occurs. Use a Lambda function for an action when you want to invoke another
AWS service (such as Amazon Connect), or take actions in an external application (such as your enterprise
resource planning (ERP) application).

When the event occurs, AWS IoT Events invokes your Lambda function asynchronously. It provides
information about the detector model and the event that triggered the action. The following example
message event is based on the definitions in the AWS IoT Events simple step-by-step example.

Example AWS IoT Events message event

{
"event: ":{
"eventName": "myChargedEvent",
"eventTime": 1567797571647,
"payload":{
"detector":{
"detectorModelName": "AWS_IoTEvents_Hello_World1567793458261",
"detectorModelVersion": "4",
"keyValue": "100009"
},
"eventTriggerDetails":{
"triggerType": "Message",
"inputName": "AWS_IoTEvents_HelloWorld_VoltageInput",
"messageId": "64c75a34-068b-4a1d-ae58-c16215dc4efd"
},
"actionExecutionId": "49f0f32f-1209-38a7-8a76-d6ca49dd0bc4",
"state":{
"variables": {},
"stateName": "Charged",
"timers": {}
}
}
}
}

The event that is passed into the Lambda function includes the following fields:

• eventName – The name for this event in the detector model.

• eventTime – The time that the event occurred.
• detector – The name and version of the detector model.
• eventTriggerDetails – A description of the input that triggered the event.
• actionExecutionId – The unique execution identifier of the action.
• state – The state of the detector model when the event occurred.
• stateName – The name of the state in the detector model.
• timers – Any timers that are set in this state.
• variables – Any variable values that are set in this state.

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You need to grant permission for the AWS IoT Events service to invoke your Lambda function. Use the
add-permission command to add a permission statement to your function's resource-based policy.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name my-function \

--statement-id iot-events --action "lambda:InvokeFunction" --principal
iotevents.amazonaws.com

You should see the following output:

{
"Statement": "{\"Sid\":\"iot-events\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"Service
\":\"iotevents.amazonaws.com\"},\"Action\":\"lambda:InvokeFunction\",\"Resource\":
\"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function\"}"
}

For more information about using Lambda with AWS IoT Events, see Using AWS IoT Events with other
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Using Lambda with self-managed Apache Kafka

Lambda supports Apache Kafka as an event source (p. 148). Apache Kafka is a an open-source event
streaming platform that supports workloads such as data pipelines and streaming analytics.

You can use the AWS managed Kafka service Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon
MSK), or a self-managed Kafka cluster. For details about using Lambda with Amazon MSK, see Using
Lambda with Amazon MSK (p. 396).

This topic describes how to use Lambda with a self-managed Kafka cluster. In AWS terminology, a self-
managed cluster includes non-AWS hosted Kafka clusters. For example, you can host your Kafka cluster
with a cloud provider such as CloudKarafka. You can also use other AWS hosting options for your cluster.
For more information, see Best Practices for Running Apache Kafka on AWS on the AWS Big Data Blog.

Apache Kafka as an event source operates similarly to using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) or Amazon Kinesis. Lambda internally polls for new messages from the event source and then
synchronously invokes the target Lambda function. Lambda reads the messages in batches and provides
these to your function as an event payload. The maximum batch size is configurable. (The default is 100
messages.)

For an example of how to use self-managed Kafka as an event source, see Using self-hosted Apache
Kafka as an event source for AWS Lambda on the AWS Compute Blog.

Lambda sends the batch of messages in the event parameter when it invokes your Lambda function. The
event payload contains an array of messages. Each array item contains details of the Kafka topic and
Kafka partition identifier, together with a timestamp and a base64-encoded message.

{ "eventSource": "aws:kafka",
"eventSourceArn": "arn:aws:kafka:sa-east-1:123456789012:cluster/
vpc-2priv-2pub/751d2973-a626-431c-9d4e-d7975eb44dd7-2",
"records": {
"mytopic-0": [
{
"topic": "mytopic"
"partition": "0",
"offset": 15,
"timestamp": 1545084650987,
"timestampType": "CREATE_TIME",
"value": "SGVsbG8sIHRoaXMgaXMgYSB0ZXN0Lg==",
}
]
}
}

Topics
• Managing access and permissions (p. 357)
• Kafka authentication (p. 358)
• Network configuration (p. 359)
• Adding a Kafka cluster as an event source (p. 359)
• Using a Kafka cluster as an event source (p. 361)
• Auto scaling of the Kafka event source (p. 361)
• Event source API operations (p. 361)
• Event source mapping errors (p. 362)

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• Event source configuration parameters (p. 362)

Managing access and permissions

For Lambda to poll your Apache Kafka topic and update other cluster resources, your Lambda function
—as well as your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and roles—must have the following
permissions.

Required Lambda function permissions

To create and store logs to a log group in Amazon CloudWatch Logs, your Lambda function must have
the following permissions in its execution role (p. 47):

• logs:CreateLogGroup
• logs:CreateLogStream
• logs:PutLogEvents

Optional Lambda function permissions

Your Lambda function might need permission to describe your AWS Secrets Manager secret or your AWS
Key Management Service (AWS KMS) customer managed customer master key (CMK), or to access your
virtual private cloud (VPC).

Secrets Manager and AWS KMS permissions

If your Apache Kafka users access your Kafka brokers over the internet, you must specify a Secrets
Manager secret. Your Lambda function might need permission to describe your Secrets Manager
secret or to decrypt your AWS KMS customer managed CMK. To access these resources, your function's
execution role (p. 47) must have the following permissions:

• secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
• kms:Decrypt

VPC permissions
If only users within a VPC can access your self-managed Apache Kafka cluster, your Lambda function
must have permission to access your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources. These
resources include your VPC, subnets, security groups, and network interfaces. To access these resources,
your function's execution role (p. 47) must have the following permissions:

• ec2:CreateNetworkInterface
• ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces
• ec2:DescribeVpcs
• ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface
• ec2:DescribeSubnets
• ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups

Adding permissions to your execution role

To access other AWS services that your self-managed Apache Kafka cluster uses, Lambda uses the
permissions policies that you define in your Lambda function's execution role (p. 47).

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By default, Lambda is not permitted to perform the required or optional actions for a self-managed
Apache Kafka cluster. You must create and define these actions in an IAM trust policy, and then attach
the policy to your execution role. This example shows how you might create a policy that allows Lambda
to access your Amazon VPC resources.

{
"Version":"2012-10-17",
"Statement":[
{
"Effect":"Allow",
"Action":[
"ec2:CreateNetworkInterface",
"ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces",
"ec2:DescribeVpcs",
"ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface",
"ec2:DescribeSubnets",
"ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups"
],
"Resource":"arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:01234567890:instance/my-instance-name"
}
]
}

For information about creating a JSON policy document in the IAM console, see Creating policies on the
JSON tab in the IAM User Guide.

Adding users to an IAM policy

By default, IAM users and roles do not have permission to perform event source API operations (p. 361).
To grant access to users in your organization or account, you might need to create an identity-based
policy. For more information, see Controlling access to AWS resources using policies in the IAM User
Guide.

Kafka authentication
Lambda supports several methods to authenticate with your self-managed Apache Kafka cluster. Make
sure that you configure the Kafka cluster to use one of the following authentication methods that
Lambda supports:

• VPC

If only Kafka users within your VPC access your Kafka brokers, you must configure the event source
with VPC access.
• SASL/SCRAM

With Simple Authentication and Security Layer/Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism
(SASL/SCRAM) authentication, the cluster encrypts the credentials using SSL encryption. Lambda
sends the encrypted credentials to authenticate with the cluster. Because the credentials are
encrypted, the connection to the cluster does not need to be encrypted. For more information about
SASL/SCRAM authentication, see RFC 5802.
• SASL/PLAIN

With SASL/PLAIN authentication, credentials are sent as clear text (unencrypted) to the server.
Because the credentials are clear text, the connection to the server must use TLS encryption.

For SASL authentication, you must store the user name and password as a secret in Secrets Manager. For
more information, see Tutorial: Creating and retrieving a secret in the AWS Secrets Manager User Guide.

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Network configuration
If you configure Amazon VPC access to your Kafka brokers, Lambda must have access to the Amazon VPC
resources.

Lambda must have access to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources associated with
your Kafka cluster. We recommend that you deploy AWS PrivateLink VPC endpoints for Lambda and AWS
Security Token Service (AWS STS). If authentication is required, also deploy a VPC endpoint for Secrets
Manager.

Alternatively, ensure that the VPC associated with your Kafka cluster includes one NAT gateway
per public subnet. For more information, see Internet and service access for VPC-connected
functions (p. 116).

You must configure your Amazon VPC security groups with the following rules (at minimum):

• Inbound rules – Allow all traffic on all ports for the security group specified as your event source.
• Outbound rules – Allow all traffic on all ports for all destinations.

For more information about configuring the network, see Setting up AWS Lambda with an Apache Kafka
cluster within a VPC on the AWS Compute Blog.

Adding a Kafka cluster as an event source

To create an event source mapping (p. 148), add your Kafka cluster as a Lambda function trigger (p. 29)
using the Lambda console, an AWS SDK, or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

This section describes how to create an event source mapping using the Lambda console and the AWS
CLI.

Prerequisites
• A self-managed Apache Kafka cluster. Lambda supports Apache Kafka version 0.10.0.0 and later.
• A Lambda execution role with permission to access the AWS resources that your self-managed Kafka
cluster uses.

Adding a self-managed Kafka cluster (console)

Follow these steps to add your self-managed Apache Kafka cluster and a Kafka topic as a trigger for your
Lambda function.

To add an Apache Kafka trigger to your Lambda function (console)

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Choose the name of your Lambda function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Under Trigger configuration, do the following:

a. Choose the Apache Kafka trigger type.

b. For Bootstrap servers, enter the host and port pair address of a Kafka broker in your cluster,
and then choose Add. Repeat for each Kafka broker in the cluster.
c. For Topic name, enter the name of the Kafka topic used to store records in the cluster.
d. (Optional) For Batch size, enter the maximum number of records to receive in a single batch.

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e. (Optional) For Starting position, choose Latest to start reading the stream from the latest
record. Or, choose Trim horizon to start at the earliest available record.
5. Under Authentication method, choose the access or authentication protocol of the Kafka brokers in
your cluster. If only users within your VPC access your Kafka brokers, you must configure VPC access.
If users access your Kafka brokers over the internet, you must configure SASL authentication.
• To configure VPC access, choose the VPC for your Kafka cluster, then choose VPC subnets and
VPC security groups.
• To configure SASL authentication, under Secret key, choose Add, then do the following:

a. Choose the key type. If your Kafka broker uses SASL plaintext, choose BASIC_AUTH.
Otherwise, choose one of the SASL_SCRAM options.
b. Choose the name of the Secrets Manager secret key that contains the credentials for your
Kafka cluster.
6. To create the trigger, choose Add.

Adding a self-managed Kafka cluster (AWS CLI)

Use the following example AWS CLI commands to create and view a self-managed Apache Kafka trigger
for your Lambda function.

Using SASL/SCRAM
If Kafka users access your Kafka brokers over the internet, you must specify the Secrets Manager secret
that you created for SASL/SCRAM authentication. The following example uses the create-event-
source-mapping AWS CLI command to map a Lambda function named my-kafka-function to a
Kafka topic named AWSKafkaTopic.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --topics AWSKafkaTopic

--source-access-configuration
Type=SASL_SCRAM_512_AUTH,URI=arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-
east-1:01234567890:secret:MyBrokerSecretName
--function-name arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:01234567890:function:my-kafka-function
--self-managed-event-source '{"Endpoints":{"KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS":
["abc3.xyz.com:9092", "abc2.xyz.com:9092"]}}'

For more information, see the CreateEventSourceMapping API reference documentation.

Using a VPC
If only Kafka users within your VPC access your Kafka brokers, you must specify your VPC, subnets,
and VPC security group. The following example uses the create-event-source-mapping AWS
CLI command to map a Lambda function named my-kafka-function to a Kafka topic named
AWSKafkaTopic.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping

--topics AWSKafkaTopic
--source-access-configuration '[{"Type": "VPC_SUBNET", "URI":
"subnet:subnet-0011001100"},
{"Type": "VPC_SUBNET", "URI": "subnet:subnet-0022002200"},
{"Type": "VPC_SECURITY_GROUP", "URI": "security_group:sg-0123456789"}]'
--function-name arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:01234567890:function:my-kafka-function
--self-managed-event-source '{"Endpoints":{"KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS":
["abc3.xyz.com:9092",
"abc2.xyz.com:9092"]}}'

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For more information, see the CreateEventSourceMapping API reference documentation.

Viewing the status using the AWS CLI

The following example uses the get-event-source-mapping AWS CLI command to describe the
status of the event source mapping that you created.

aws lambda get-event-source-mapping

--uuid dh38738e-992b-343a-1077-3478934hjkfd7

Using a Kafka cluster as an event source

When you add your Apache Kafka cluster as a trigger for your Lambda function, the cluster is used as an
event source (p. 148).

Lambda reads event data from the Kafka topics that you specify in Topics based on the starting
position that you specify in StartingPosition. After successful processing, your Kafka topic is
committed to your Kafka cluster.

If you specify LATEST as the starting position, Lambda starts reading from the latest message in each
partition belonging to the topic. Because there can be some delay after trigger configuration before
Lambda starts reading the messages, Lambda does not read any messages produced during this window.

Lambda processes records from one or more Kafka topic partitions that you specify and sends a JSON
payload to your Lambda function. When more records are available, Lambda continues processing
records in batches, based on the value that you specify in BatchSize, until the function catches up with
the topic.

If your Lambda function returns an error for any of the messages in a batch, Lambda retries the whole
batch of messages until processing succeeds or the messages expire.

The maximum amount of time that Lambda lets a function run before stopping it is 14 minutes.

Auto scaling of the Kafka event source

When you initially create an Apache Kafka event source (p. 148), Lambda allocates one consumer to
process all of the partitions in the Kafka topic. Lambda automatically scales up or down the number of
consumers, based on workload. To preserve message ordering in each partition, the maximum number of
consumers is one consumer per partition in the topic.

Every 15 minutes, Lambda evaluates the consumer offset lag of all the partitions in the topic. If the lag is
too high, the partition is receiving messages faster than Lambda can process them. If necessary, Lambda
adds or removes consumers from the topic.

If your target Lambda function is overloaded, Lambda reduces the number of consumers. This action
reduces the workload on the function by reducing the number of messages that consumers can retrieve
and send to the function.

To monitor the throughput of your Kafka topic, you can view the Apache Kafka consumer metrics, such
as consumer_lag and consumer_offset. To check how many function invocations occur in parallel,
you can also monitor the concurrency metrics (p. 693) for your function.

Event source API operations

When you add your Kafka cluster as an event source (p. 148) for your Lambda function using the Lambda
console, an AWS SDK, or the AWS CLI, Lambda uses APIs to process your request.

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Event source errors

To manage an event source with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, you can use the following API operations:

• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)

• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)
• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)

Event source mapping errors

When you add your Apache Kafka cluster as an event source (p. 148) for your Lambda function, if your
function encounters an error, your Kafka consumer stops processing records. Consumers of a topic
partition are those that subscribe to, read, and process your records. Your other Kafka consumers can
continue processing records, provided they don't encounter the same error.

To determine the cause of a stopped consumer, check the StateTransitionReason field in the
response of EventSourceMapping. The following list describes the event source errors that you can
receive:

ESM_CONFIG_NOT_VALID

The event source mapping configuration is not valid.

EVENT_SOURCE_AUTHN_ERROR

Lambda could not authenticate the event source.

EVENT_SOURCE_AUTHZ_ERROR

Lambda does not have the required permissions to access the event source.
FUNCTION_CONFIG_NOT_VALID

The function configuration is not valid.

Note
If your Lambda event records exceed the allowed size limit of 6 MB, they can go unprocessed.

Event source configuration parameters

All Lambda event source types share the same CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754) and
UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919) API operations. However, only some of the parameters apply to
Apache Kafka.

Event source parameters that apply to self-managed Apache Kafka

Parameter Required Default Notes

BatchSize N 100 Maximum: 10,000

DestinationConfig N none

Enabled N Enabled

KafkaBrokerList Y   Can set only on Create

FunctionName Y

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Event source configuration parameters

Parameter Required Default Notes

MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds
N 0 Maximum: 300

MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds
N 604,800 (7 days) Maximum: no limit

MaximumRetryAttempts N 10,000 Maximum: no limit

ParallelizationFactor N 1

SourceAccessConfigurations
N No credentials VPC information
or authentication
credentials for the
cluster

For SASL_PLAIN, set to

BASIC_AUTH

StartingPosition Y TRIM_HORIZON or
LATEST

Can set only on Create

Topics Y Topic name

Can set only on Create

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Kinesis Data

Firehose
Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose captures, transforms, and loads streaming data into downstream services
such as Kinesis Data Analytics or Amazon S3. You can write Lambda functions to request additional,
customized processing of the data before it is sent downstream.

Example Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose message event

{
"invocationId": "invoked123",
"deliveryStreamArn": "aws:lambda:events",
"region": "us-west-2",
"records": [
{
"data": "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=",
"recordId": "record1",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": 1510772160000,
"kinesisRecordMetadata": {
"shardId": "shardId-000000000000",
"partitionKey": "4d1ad2b9-24f8-4b9d-a088-76e9947c317a",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": "2012-04-23T18:25:43.511Z",
"sequenceNumber": "49546986683135544286507457936321625675700192471156785154",
"subsequenceNumber": ""
}
},
{
"data": "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ=",
"recordId": "record2",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": 151077216000,
"kinesisRecordMetadata": {
"shardId": "shardId-000000000001",
"partitionKey": "4d1ad2b9-24f8-4b9d-a088-76e9947c318a",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": "2012-04-23T19:25:43.511Z",
"sequenceNumber": "49546986683135544286507457936321625675700192471156785155",
"subsequenceNumber": ""
}
}
]
}

For more information, see Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose data transformation in the Kinesis Data
Firehose Developer Guide.

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Kinesis

You can use an AWS Lambda function to process records in an Amazon Kinesis data stream.

A Kinesis data stream is a set of shards. Each shard contains a sequence of data records. A consumer is
an application that processes the data from a Kinesis data stream. You can map a Lambda function to a
shared-throughput consumer (standard iterator), or to a dedicated-throughput consumer with enhanced
fan-out.

For standard iterators, Lambda polls each shard in your Kinesis stream for records using HTTP protocol.
The event source mapping shares read throughput with other consumers of the shard.

To minimize latency and maximize read throughput, you can create a data stream consumer with
enhanced fan-out. Stream consumers get a dedicated connection to each shard that doesn't impact
other applications reading from the stream. The dedicated throughput can help if you have many
applications reading the same data, or if you're reprocessing a stream with large records. Kinesis pushes
records to Lambda over HTTP/2.

For details about Kinesis data streams, see Reading Data from Amazon Kinesis Data Streams.

Lambda reads records from the data stream and invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) with
an event that contains stream records. Lambda reads records in batches and invokes your function to
process records from the batch.

Example Kinesis record event

{
"Records": [
{
"kinesis": {
"kinesisSchemaVersion": "1.0",
"partitionKey": "1",
"sequenceNumber":
"49590338271490256608559692538361571095921575989136588898",
"data": "SGVsbG8sIHRoaXMgaXMgYSB0ZXN0Lg==",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": 1545084650.987
},
"eventSource": "aws:kinesis",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"eventID":
"shardId-000000000006:49590338271490256608559692538361571095921575989136588898",
"eventName": "aws:kinesis:record",
"invokeIdentityArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream"
},
{
"kinesis": {
"kinesisSchemaVersion": "1.0",
"partitionKey": "1",
"sequenceNumber":
"49590338271490256608559692540925702759324208523137515618",
"data": "VGhpcyBpcyBvbmx5IGEgdGVzdC4=",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": 1545084711.166
},
"eventSource": "aws:kinesis",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"eventID":
"shardId-000000000006:49590338271490256608559692540925702759324208523137515618",
"eventName": "aws:kinesis:record",
"invokeIdentityArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",

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"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream"
}
]
}

By default, Lambda invokes your function as soon as records are available in the stream. If the batch that
Lambda reads from the stream only has one record in it, Lambda sends only one record to the function.
To avoid invoking the function with a small number of records, you can tell the event source to buffer
records for up to five minutes by configuring a batch window. Before invoking the function, Lambda
continues to read records from the stream until it has gathered a full batch, or until the batch window
expires.

If your function returns an error, Lambda retries the batch until processing succeeds or the data expires.
To avoid stalled shards, you can configure the event source mapping to retry with a smaller batch size,
limit the number of retries, or discard records that are too old. To retain discarded events, you can
configure the event source mapping to send details about failed batches to an SQS queue or SNS topic.

You can also increase concurrency by processing multiple batches from each shard in parallel. Lambda
can process up to 10 batches in each shard simultaneously. If you increase the number of concurrent
batches per shard, Lambda still ensures in-order processing at the partition-key level.

Configure the ParallelizationFactor setting to process one shard of a Kinesis or DynamoDB

data stream with more than one Lambda invocation simultaneously. You can specify the number of
concurrent batches that Lambda polls from a shard via a parallelization factor from 1 (default) to 10. For
example, when ParallelizationFactor is set to 2, you can have 200 concurrent Lambda invocations
at maximum to process 100 Kinesis data shards. This helps scale up the processing throughput when
the data volume is volatile and the IteratorAge is high. For more information, see New AWS Lambda
scaling controls for Kinesis and DynamoDB event sources.

Sections
• Configuring your data stream and function (p. 366)
• Execution role permissions (p. 367)
• Configuring a stream as an event source (p. 367)
• Event source mapping API (p. 368)
• Error handling (p. 370)
• Amazon CloudWatch metrics (p. 371)
• Time windows (p. 372)
• Reporting batch item failures (p. 374)
• Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Kinesis (p. 376)
• Sample function code (p. 380)
• AWS SAM template for a Kinesis application (p. 383)

Configuring your data stream and function

Your Lambda function is a consumer application for your data stream. It processes one batch of records
at a time from each shard. You can map a Lambda function to a data stream (standard iterator), or to a
consumer of a stream (enhanced fan-out).

For standard iterators, Lambda polls each shard in your Kinesis stream for records at a base rate of
once per second. When more records are available, Lambda keeps processing batches until the function
catches up with the stream. The event source mapping shares read throughput with other consumers of
the shard.

To minimize latency and maximize read throughput, create a data stream consumer with enhanced fan-
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applications reading from the stream. Stream consumers use HTTP/2 to reduce latency by pushing
records to Lambda over a long-lived connection and by compressing request headers. You can create a
stream consumer with the Kinesis RegisterStreamConsumer API.

aws kinesis register-stream-consumer --consumer-name con1 \

--stream-arn arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream

You should see the following output:

{
"Consumer": {
"ConsumerName": "con1",
"ConsumerARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream/
consumer/con1:1540591608",
"ConsumerStatus": "CREATING",
"ConsumerCreationTimestamp": 1540591608.0
}
}

To increase the speed at which your function processes records, add shards to your data stream. Lambda
processes records in each shard in order. It stops processing additional records in a shard if your function
returns an error. With more shards, there are more batches being processed at once, which lowers the
impact of errors on concurrency.

If your function can't scale up to handle the total number of concurrent batches, request a quota
increase (p. 44) or reserve concurrency (p. 84) for your function.

Execution role permissions

Lambda needs the following permissions to manage resources that are related to your Kinesis data
stream. Add them to your function's execution role (p. 47).

• kinesis:DescribeStream
• kinesis:DescribeStreamSummary
• kinesis:GetRecords
• kinesis:GetShardIterator
• kinesis:ListShards
• kinesis:ListStreams
• kinesis:SubscribeToShard

The AWSLambdaKinesisExecutionRole managed policy includes these permissions. For more

information, see AWS Lambda execution role (p. 47).

To send records of failed batches to a queue or topic, your function needs additional permissions. Each
destination service requires a different permission, as follows:

• Amazon SQS – sqs:SendMessage

• Amazon SNS – sns:Publish

Configuring a stream as an event source

Create an event source mapping to tell Lambda to send records from your data stream to a Lambda
function. You can create multiple event source mappings to process the same data with multiple Lambda
functions, or to process items from multiple data streams with a single function.

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To configure your function to read from Kinesis in the Lambda console, create a Kinesis trigger.

To create a trigger

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Choose a trigger type.
5. Configure the required options and then choose Add.

Lambda supports the following options for Kinesis event sources.

Event source options

• Kinesis stream – The Kinesis stream to read records from.

• Consumer (optional) – Use a stream consumer to read from the stream over a dedicated connection.
• Batch size – The number of records to send to the function in each batch, up to 10,000. Lambda
passes all of the records in the batch to the function in a single call, as long as the total size of the
events doesn't exceed the payload limit (p. 44) for synchronous invocation (6 MB).
• Batch window – Specify the maximum amount of time to gather records before invoking the function,
in seconds.
• Starting position – Process only new records, all existing records, or records created after a certain
date.
• Latest – Process new records that are added to the stream.
• Trim horizon – Process all records in the stream.
• At timestamp – Process records starting from a specific time.

After processing any existing records, the function is caught up and continues to process new records.
• On-failure destination – An SQS queue or SNS topic for records that can't be processed. When
Lambda discards a batch of records because it's too old or has exhausted all retries, it sends details
about the batch to the queue or topic.
• Retry attempts – The maximum number of times that Lambda retries when the function returns an
error. This doesn't apply to service errors or throttles where the batch didn't reach the function.
• Maximum age of record – The maximum age of a record that Lambda sends to your function.
• Split batch on error – When the function returns an error, split the batch into two before retrying.
• Concurrent batches per shard – Process multiple batches from the same shard concurrently.
• Enabled – Set to true to enable the event source mapping. Set to false to stop processing records.
Lambda keeps track of the last record processed and resumes processing from that point when it's
reenabled.

Note
Kinesis charges for each shard and, for enhanced fan-out, data read from the stream. For pricing
details, see Amazon Kinesis pricing.

To manage the event source configuration later, choose the trigger in the designer.

Event source mapping API

To manage an event source with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, you can use the following API operations:

• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)

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• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)

• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)

To create the event source mapping with the AWS CLI, use the create-event-source-mapping
command. The following example uses the AWS CLI to map a function named my-function to a Kinesis
data stream. The data stream is specified by an Amazon Resource Name (ARN), with a batch size of 500,
starting from the timestamp in Unix time.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --function-name my-function \

--batch-size 500 --starting-position AT_TIMESTAMP --starting-position-timestamp 1541139109
\
--event-source-arn arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream

You should see the following output:

{
"UUID": "2b733gdc-8ac3-cdf5-af3a-1827b3b11284",
"BatchSize": 500,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 0,
"ParallelizationFactor": 1,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1541139209.351,
"LastProcessingResult": "No records processed",
"State": "Creating",
"StateTransitionReason": "User action",
"DestinationConfig": {},
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": 604800,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": false,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 10000
}

To use a consumer, specify the consumer's ARN instead of the stream's ARN.

Configure additional options to customize how batches are processed and to specify when to discard
records that can't be processed. The following example updates an event source mapping to send a
failure record to an SQS queue after two retry attempts, or if the records are more than an hour old.

aws lambda update-event-source-mapping --uuid f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b \

--maximum-retry-attempts 2 --maximum-record-age-in-seconds 3600
--destination-config '{"OnFailure": {"Destination": "arn:aws:sqs:us-
east-2:123456789012:dlq"}}'

You should see this output:

{
"UUID": "f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b",
"BatchSize": 100,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 0,
"ParallelizationFactor": 1,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1573243620.0,
"LastProcessingResult": "PROBLEM: Function call failed",
"State": "Updating",

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"StateTransitionReason": "User action",

"DestinationConfig": {},
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": 604800,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": false,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 10000
}

Updated settings are applied asynchronously and aren't reflected in the output until the process
completes. Use the get-event-source-mapping command to view the current status.

aws lambda get-event-source-mapping --uuid f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b

You should see this output:

{
"UUID": "f89f8514-cdd9-4602-9e1f-01a5b77d449b",
"BatchSize": 100,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 0,
"ParallelizationFactor": 1,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1573244760.0,
"LastProcessingResult": "PROBLEM: Function call failed",
"State": "Enabled",
"StateTransitionReason": "User action",
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:dlq"
}
},
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": 3600,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": false,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": 2
}

To process multiple batches concurrently, use the --parallelization-factor option.

aws lambda update-event-source-mapping --uuid 2b733gdc-8ac3-cdf5-af3a-1827b3b11284 \

--parallelization-factor 5

Error handling
The event source mapping that reads records from your Kinesis stream invokes your function
synchronously and retries on errors. If the function is throttled or the Lambda service returns an error
without invoking the function, Lambda retries until the records expire or exceed the maximum age that
you configure on the event source mapping.

If the function receives the records but returns an error, Lambda retries until the records in the batch
expire, exceed the maximum age, or reach the configured retry quota. For function errors, you can also
configure the event source mapping to split a failed batch into two batches. Retrying with smaller
batches isolates bad records and works around timeout issues. Splitting a batch does not count towards
the retry quota.

If the error handling measures fail, Lambda discards the records and continues processing batches
from the stream. With the default settings, this means that a bad record can block processing on the
affected shard for up to one week. To avoid this, configure your function's event source mapping with a
reasonable number of retries and a maximum record age that fits your use case.

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To retain a record of discarded batches, configure a failed-event destination. Lambda sends a document
to the destination queue or topic with details about the batch.

To configure a destination for failed-event records

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add destination.
4. For Source, choose Stream invocation.
5. For Stream, choose a stream that is mapped to the function.
6. For Destination type, choose the type of resource that receives the invocation record.
7. For Destination, choose a resource.
8. Choose Save.

The following example shows an invocation record for a Kinesis stream.

Example invocation Record

{
"requestContext": {
"requestId": "c9b8fa9f-5a7f-xmpl-af9c-0c604cde93a5",
"functionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:myfunction",
"condition": "RetryAttemptsExhausted",
"approximateInvokeCount": 1
},
"responseContext": {
"statusCode": 200,
"executedVersion": "$LATEST",
"functionError": "Unhandled"
},
"version": "1.0",
"timestamp": "2019-11-14T00:38:06.021Z",
"KinesisBatchInfo": {
"shardId": "shardId-000000000001",
"startSequenceNumber": "49601189658422359378836298521827638475320189012309704722",
"endSequenceNumber": "49601189658422359378836298522902373528957594348623495186",
"approximateArrivalOfFirstRecord": "2019-11-14T00:38:04.835Z",
"approximateArrivalOfLastRecord": "2019-11-14T00:38:05.580Z",
"batchSize": 500,
"streamArn": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/mystream"
}
}

You can use this information to retrieve the affected records from the stream for troubleshooting. The
actual records aren't included, so you must process this record and retrieve them from the stream before
they expire and are lost.

Amazon CloudWatch metrics

Lambda emits the IteratorAge metric when your function finishes processing a batch of records. The
metric indicates how old the last record in the batch was when processing finished. If your function is
processing new events, you can use the iterator age to estimate the latency between when a record is
added and when the function processes it.

An increasing trend in iterator age can indicate issues with your function. For more information, see
Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692).

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Time windows
Lambda functions can run continuous stream processing applications. A stream represents unbounded
data that flows continuously through your application. To analyze information from this continuously
updating input, you can bound the included records using a window defined in terms of time.

Lambda invocations are stateless—you cannot use them for processing data across multiple continuous
invocations without an external database. However, with windowing enabled, you can maintain your
state across invocations. This state contains the aggregate result of the messages previously processed
for the current window. Your state can be a maximum of 1 MB per shard. If it exceeds that size, Lambda
terminates the window early.

Tumbling windows
Lambda functions can aggregate data using tumbling windows: distinct time windows that open and
close at regular intervals. Tumbling windows enable you to process streaming data sources through
contiguous, non-overlapping time windows.

Each record of a stream belongs to a specific window. A record is processed only once, when Lambda
processes the window that the record belongs to. In each window, you can perform calculations, such as
a sum or average, at the partition key level within a shard.

Aggregation and processing

Your user managed function is invoked both for aggregation and for processing the final results
of that aggregation. Lambda aggregates all records received in the window. You can receive these
records in multiple batches, each as a separate invocation. Each invocation receives a state. You can
also process records and return a new state, which is passed in the next invocation. Lambda returns a
TimeWindowEventResponse in JSON in the following format:

Example TimeWindowEventReponse values

{
"state": {
"1": 282,
"2": 715
},
"batchItemFailures": []
}

Note
For Java functions, we recommend using a Map<String, String> to represent the state.

At the end of the window, the flag isFinalInvokeForWindow is set to true to indicate that this is
the final state and that it’s ready for processing. After processing, the window completes and your final
invocation completes, and then the state is dropped.

At the end of your window, Lambda uses final processing for actions on the aggregation results. Your
final processing is synchronously invoked. After successful invocation, your function checkpoints the
sequence number and stream processing continues. If invocation is unsuccessful, your Lambda function
suspends further processing until a successful invocation.

Example KinesisTimeWindowEvent

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{
"Records": [
{
"kinesis": {
"kinesisSchemaVersion": "1.0",
"partitionKey": "1",
"sequenceNumber":
"49590338271490256608559692538361571095921575989136588898",
"data": "SGVsbG8sIHRoaXMgaXMgYSB0ZXN0Lg==",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": 1607497475.000
},
"eventSource": "aws:kinesis",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"eventID":
"shardId-000000000006:49590338271490256608559692538361571095921575989136588898",
"eventName": "aws:kinesis:record",
"invokeIdentityArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-kinesis-role",
"awsRegion": "us-east-1",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-1:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream"
}
],
"window": {
"start": "2020-12-09T07:04:00Z",
"end": "2020-12-09T07:06:00Z"
},
"state": {
"1": 282,
"2": 715
},
"shardId": "shardId-000000000006",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-1:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream",
"isFinalInvokeForWindow": false,
"isWindowTerminatedEarly": false
}

Configuration
You can configure tumbling windows when you create or update an event source mapping (p. 148). To
configure a tumbling window, specify the window in seconds. The following example AWS Command
Line Interface (AWS CLI) command creates a streaming event source mapping that has a tumbling
window of 120 seconds. The Lambda function defined for aggregation and processing is named
tumbling-window-example-function.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --event-source-arn arn:aws:kinesis:us-

east-1:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream --function-name "arn:aws:lambda:us-
east-1:123456789018:function:tumbling-window-example-function" --region us-east-1 --
starting-position TRIM_HORIZON --tumbling-window-in-seconds 120

Lambda determines tumbling window boundaries based on the time when records were inserted
into the stream. All records have an approximate timestamp available that Lambda uses in boundary
determinations.

Tumbling window aggregations do not support resharding. When the shard ends, Lambda considers the
window closed, and the child shards start their own window in a fresh state.

Tumbling windows fully support the existing retry policies maxRetryAttempts and maxRecordAge.

Example Handler.py – Aggregation and processing

The following Python function demonstrates how to aggregate and then process your final state:

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def lambda_handler(event, context):

print('Incoming event: ', event)
print('Incoming state: ', event['state'])

#Check if this is the end of the window to either aggregate or process.

if event['isFinalInvokeForWindow']:
# logic to handle final state of the window
print('Destination invoke')
else:
print('Aggregate invoke')

#Check for early terminations

if event['isWindowTerminatedEarly']:
print('Window terminated early')

#Aggregation logic
state = event['state']
for record in event['Records']:
state[record['kinesis']['partitionKey']] = state.get(record['kinesis']
['partitionKey'], 0) + 1

print('Returning state: ', state)

return {'state': state}

Reporting batch item failures

When consuming and processing streaming data from an event source, by default Lambda checkpoints
to the highest sequence number of a batch only when the batch is a complete success. Lambda treats
all other results as a complete failure and retries processing the batch up to the retry limit. To allow
for partial successes while processing batches from a stream, turn on ReportBatchItemFailures.
Allowing partial successes can help to reduce the number of retries on a record, though it doesn’t
entirely prevent the possibility of retries in a successful record.

To turn on ReportBatchItemFailures, include the enum value ReportBatchItemFailures in the

FunctionResponseTypes list. This list indicates which response types are enabled for your function.
You can configure this list when you create or update an event source mapping (p. 148).

Report syntax
When configuring reporting on batch item failures, the StreamsEventResponse class is returned with
a list of batch item failures. You can use a StreamsEventResponse object to return the sequence
number of the first failed record in the batch. You can also create your own custom class using the
correct response syntax. The following JSON structure shows the required response syntax:

{
"batchItemFailures": [
{
"itemIdentifier": "<id>"
}
]
}

Success and failure conditions

Lambda treats a batch as a complete success if you return any of the following:

• An empty batchItemFailure list

• A null batchItemFailure list

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• An empty EventResponse
• A null EventResponse

Lambda treats a batch as a complete failure if you return any of the following:

• An empty string itemIdentifier

• A null itemIdentifier
• An itemIdentifier with a bad key name

Lambda retries failures based on your retry strategy.

Bisecting a batch
If your invocation fails and BisectBatchOnFunctionError is turned on, the batch is bisected
regardless of your ReportBatchItemFailures setting.

When a partial batch success response is received and both BisectBatchOnFunctionError and
ReportBatchItemFailures are turned on, the batch is bisected at the returned sequence number and
Lambda retries only the remaining records.

Java

Example Handler.java – return new StreamsEventResponse()

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.KinesisEvent;

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

public class ProcessKinesisRecords implements RequestHandler<KinesisEvent,

Serializable> {

@Override
public Serializable handleRequest(KinesisEvent input, Context context) {

List<StreamsEventResponse.BatchItemFailure> batchItemFailures = new

ArrayList<*>();
String curRecordSequenceNumber = "";

for (KinesisEvent.KinesisEventRecord kinesisEventRecord : input.getRecords()) {

try {
//Process your record
KinesisEvent.Record kinesisRecord = kinesisEventRecord.getKinesis();
curRecordSequenceNumber = kinesisRecord.getSequenceNumber();

} catch (Exception e) {
//Return failed record's sequence number
batchItemFailures.add(new
StreamsEventResponse.BatchItemFailure(curRecordSequenceNumber));
return new StreamsEventResponse(batchItemFailures);
}
}

return new StreamsEventResponse(batchItemFailures);

}
}

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Python

Example Handler.py – return batchItemFailures[]

def handler(event, context):

records = event.get("Records")
curRecordSequenceNumber = ""

for record in records:

try:
# Process your record
curRecordSequenceNumber = record["kinesis"]["sequenceNumber"]
except Exception as e:
# Return failed record's sequence number
return {"batchItemFailures":[{"itemIdentifier": curRecordSequenceNumber}]}

return {"batchItemFailures":[]}

Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Kinesis

In this tutorial, you create a Lambda function to consume events from a Kinesis stream. The following
diagram illustrates the application flow:

1. Custom app writes records to the stream.

2. AWS Lambda polls the stream and, when it detects new records in the stream, invokes your Lambda
function.
3. AWS Lambda runs the Lambda function by assuming the execution role you specified at the time you
created the Lambda function.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

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aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – AWS Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaKinesisExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-kinesis-role.

The AWSLambdaKinesisExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to read items
from Kinesis and write logs to CloudWatch Logs.

Create the function

The following example code receives a Kinesis event input and processes the messages that it contains.
For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.
Note
For sample code in other languages, see Sample function code (p. 380).

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

exports.handler = function(event, context) {

//console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));
event.Records.forEach(function(record) {
// Kinesis data is base64 encoded so decode here
var payload = Buffer.from(record.kinesis.data, 'base64').toString('ascii');
console.log('Decoded payload:', payload);
});
};

To create the function

1. Copy the sample code into a file named index.js.

2. Create a deployment package.

zip function.zip index.js

3. Create a Lambda function with the create-function command.

aws lambda create-function --function-name ProcessKinesisRecords \

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--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \

--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-kinesis-role

Test the Lambda function

Invoke your Lambda function manually using the invoke AWS Lambda CLI command and a sample
Kinesis event.

To test the Lambda function

1. Copy the following JSON into a file and save it as input.txt.

{
"Records": [
{
"kinesis": {
"kinesisSchemaVersion": "1.0",
"partitionKey": "1",
"sequenceNumber":
"49590338271490256608559692538361571095921575989136588898",
"data": "SGVsbG8sIHRoaXMgaXMgYSB0ZXN0Lg==",
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": 1545084650.987
},
"eventSource": "aws:kinesis",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"eventID":
"shardId-000000000006:49590338271490256608559692538361571095921575989136588898",
"eventName": "aws:kinesis:record",
"invokeIdentityArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-kinesis-role",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-
stream"
}
]
}

2. Use the invoke command to send the event to the function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name ProcessKinesisRecords --payload file://input.txt

out.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure
this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

The response is saved to out.txt.

Create a Kinesis stream

Use the create-stream command to create a stream.

aws kinesis create-stream --stream-name lambda-stream --shard-count 1

Run the following describe-stream command to get the stream ARN.

aws kinesis describe-stream --stream-name lambda-stream

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You should see the following output:

{
"StreamDescription": {
"Shards": [
{
"ShardId": "shardId-000000000000",
"HashKeyRange": {
"StartingHashKey": "0",
"EndingHashKey": "340282366920746074317682119384634633455"
},
"SequenceNumberRange": {
"StartingSequenceNumber":
"49591073947768692513481539594623130411957558361251844610"
}
}
],
"StreamARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream",
"StreamName": "lambda-stream",
"StreamStatus": "ACTIVE",
"RetentionPeriodHours": 24,
"EnhancedMonitoring": [
{
"ShardLevelMetrics": []
}
],
"EncryptionType": "NONE",
"KeyId": null,
"StreamCreationTimestamp": 1544828156.0
}
}

You use the stream ARN in the next step to associate the stream with your Lambda function.

Add an event source in AWS Lambda

Run the following AWS CLI add-event-source command.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --function-name ProcessKinesisRecords \

--event-source arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream \
--batch-size 100 --starting-position LATEST

Note the mapping ID for later use. You can get a list of event source mappings by running the list-
event-source-mappings command.

aws lambda list-event-source-mappings --function-name ProcessKinesisRecords \

--event-source arn:aws:kinesis:us-west-2:123456789012:stream/lambda-stream

In the response, you can verify the status value is enabled. Event source mappings can be disabled to
pause polling temporarily without losing any records.

Test the setup

To test the event source mapping, add event records to your Kinesis stream. The --data value is a string
that the CLI encodes to base64 prior to sending it to Kinesis. You can run the same command more than
once to add multiple records to the stream.

aws kinesis put-record --stream-name lambda-stream --partition-key 1 \

--data "Hello, this is a test."

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Lambda uses the execution role to read records from the stream. Then it invokes your Lambda function,
passing in batches of records. The function decodes data from each record and logs it, sending the
output to CloudWatch Logs. View the logs in the CloudWatch console.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the Kinesis stream

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Kinesis console at https://
console.aws.amazon.com/kinesis.
2. Select the stream you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Enter delete in the text box.
5. Choose Delete.

Sample function code

To process events from Amazon Kinesis, iterate through the records included in the event object and
decode the Base64-encoded data included in each.
Note
The code on this page does not support aggregated records. You can disable aggregation in
the Kinesis Producer Library configuration, or use the Kinesis Record Aggregation library to
deaggregate records.

Sample code is available for the following languages.

Topics
• Node.js 12.x (p. 381)
• Java 11 (p. 381)
• C# (p. 382)
• Python 3 (p. 382)
• Go (p. 383)

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Node.js 12.x
The following example code receives a Kinesis event input and processes the messages that it contains.
For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

exports.handler = function(event, context) {

//console.log(JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));
event.Records.forEach(function(record) {
// Kinesis data is base64 encoded so decode here
var payload = Buffer.from(record.kinesis.data, 'base64').toString('ascii');
console.log('Decoded payload:', payload);
});
};

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Node.js Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 489).

Java 11
The following is example Java code that receives Kinesis event record data as input and processes it. For
illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

In the code, recordHandler is the handler. The handler uses the predefined KinesisEvent class that
is defined in the aws-lambda-java-events library.

Example ProcessKinesisEvents.java

package example;

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.KinesisEvent;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.KinesisEvent.KinesisEventRecord;

public class ProcessKinesisRecords implements RequestHandler<KinesisEvent, Void>{

@Override
public Void handleRequest(KinesisEvent event, Context context)
{
for(KinesisEventRecord rec : event.getRecords()) {
System.out.println(new String(rec.getKinesis().getData().array()));
}
return null;
}
}

If the handler returns normally without exceptions, Lambda considers the input batch of records as
processed successfully and begins reading new records in the stream. If the handler throws an exception,
Lambda considers the input batch of records as not processed and invokes the function with the same
batch of records again.

Dependencies

• aws-lambda-java-core
• aws-lambda-java-events

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• aws-java-sdk

Build the code with the Lambda library dependencies to create a deployment package. For instructions,
see Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578).

C#
The following is example C# code that receives Kinesis event record data as input and processes it. For
illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

In the code, HandleKinesisRecord is the handler. The handler uses the predefined KinesisEvent
class that is defined in the Amazon.Lambda.KinesisEvents library.

Example ProcessingKinesisEvents.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

using Amazon.Lambda.Core;
using Amazon.Lambda.KinesisEvents;

namespace KinesisStreams
{
public class KinesisSample
{
[LambdaSerializer(typeof(JsonSerializer))]
public void HandleKinesisRecord(KinesisEvent kinesisEvent)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Beginning to process {kinesisEvent.Records.Count}
records...");

foreach (var record in kinesisEvent.Records)

{
Console.WriteLine($"Event ID: {record.EventId}");
Console.WriteLine($"Event Name: {record.EventName}");

string recordData = GetRecordContents(record.Kinesis);

Console.WriteLine($"Record Data:");
Console.WriteLine(recordData);
}
Console.WriteLine("Stream processing complete.");
}

private string GetRecordContents(KinesisEvent.Record streamRecord)

{
using (var reader = new StreamReader(streamRecord.Data, Encoding.ASCII))
{
return reader.ReadToEnd();
}
}
}
}

Replace the Program.cs in a .NET Core project with the above sample. For instructions, see Deploy C#
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 645).

Python 3
The following is example Python code that receives Kinesis event record data as input and processes it.
For illustration, the code writes to some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

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Example ProcessKinesisRecords.py

from __future__ import print_function

#import json
import base64
def lambda_handler(event, context):
for record in event['Records']:
#Kinesis data is base64 encoded so decode here
payload=base64.b64decode(record["kinesis"]["data"])
print("Decoded payload: " + str(payload))

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Python Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

Go
The following is example Go code that receives Kinesis event record data as input and processes it. For
illustration, the code writes to some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

Example ProcessKinesisRecords.go

import (
"strings"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
)

func handler(ctx context.Context, kinesisEvent events.KinesisEvent) {

for _, record := range kinesisEvent.Records {
kinesisRecord := record.Kinesis
dataBytes := kinesisRecord.Data
dataText := string(dataBytes)

fmt.Printf("%s Data = %s \n", record.EventName, dataText)

}
}

Build the executable with go build and create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Go
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617).

AWS SAM template for a Kinesis application

You can build this application using AWS SAM. To learn more about creating AWS SAM templates, see
AWS SAM template basics in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

Below is a sample AWS SAM template for the Lambda application from the tutorial (p. 376). The
function and handler in the template are for the Node.js code. If you use a different code sample, update
the values accordingly.

Example template.yaml - Kinesis stream

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Resources:
LambdaFunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
Timeout: 10

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Tracing: Active
Events:
Stream:
Type: Kinesis
Properties:
Stream: !GetAtt stream.Arn
BatchSize: 100
StartingPosition: LATEST
stream:
Type: AWS::Kinesis::Stream
Properties:
ShardCount: 1
Outputs:
FunctionName:
Description: "Function name"
Value: !Ref LambdaFunction
StreamARN:
Description: "Stream ARN"
Value: !GetAtt stream.Arn

The template creates a Lambda function, a Kinesis stream, and an event source mapping. The event
source mapping reads from the stream and invokes the function.

To use an HTTP/2 stream consumer (p. 366), create the consumer in the template and configure the
event source mapping to read from the consumer instead of from the stream.

Example template.yaml - Kinesis stream consumer

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: A function that processes data from a Kinesis stream.
Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
Timeout: 10
Tracing: Active
Events:
Stream:
Type: Kinesis
Properties:
Stream: !GetAtt streamConsumer.ConsumerARN
StartingPosition: LATEST
BatchSize: 100
stream:
Type: "AWS::Kinesis::Stream"
Properties:
ShardCount: 1
streamConsumer:
Type: "AWS::Kinesis::StreamConsumer"
Properties:
StreamARN: !GetAtt stream.Arn
ConsumerName: "TestConsumer"
Outputs:
FunctionName:
Description: "Function name"
Value: !Ref function
StreamARN:
Description: "Stream ARN"
Value: !GetAtt stream.Arn
ConsumerARN:
Description: "Stream consumer ARN"

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Value: !GetAtt streamConsumer.ConsumerARN

For information on how to package and deploy your serverless application using the package and deploy
commands, see Deploying serverless applications in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer
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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Lex

You can use Amazon Lex to integrate a conversation bot into your application. The Amazon Lex bot
provides a conversational interface with your users. Amazon Lex provides prebuilt integration with
Lambda, which enables you to use a Lambda function with your Amazon Lex bot.

When you configure an Amazon Lex bot, you can specify a Lambda function to perform validation,
fulfillment, or both. For validation, Amazon Lex invokes the Lambda function after each response from
the user. The Lambda function can validate the response and provide corrective feedback to the user, if
necessary. For fulfillment, Amazon Lex invokes the Lambda function to fulfill the user request after the
bot successfully collects all of the required information and receives confirmation from the user.

You can manage the concurrency (p. 84) of your Lambda function to control the maximum number of
simultaneous bot conversations that you serve. The Amazon Lex API returns an HTTP 429 status code
(Too Many Requests) if the function is at maximum concurrency.

The API returns an HTTP 424 status code (Dependency Failed Exception) if the Lambda function throws
an exception.

The Amazon Lex bot invokes your Lambda function synchronously (p. 138). The event parameter
contains information about the bot and the value of each slot in the dialog. The invocationSource
parameter indicates whether the Lambda function should validate the inputs (DialogCodeHook) or fulfill
the intent (FulfillmentCodeHook).

Example Amazon Lex message event

{
"messageVersion": "1.0",
"invocationSource": "FulfillmentCodeHook",
"userId": "ABCD1234",
"sessionAttributes": {
"key1": "value1",
"key2": "value2",
},
"bot": {
"name": "OrderFlowers",
"alias": "prod",
"version": "1"
},
"outputDialogMode": "Text",
"currentIntent": {
"name": "OrderFlowers",
"slots": {
"FlowerType": "lilies",
"PickupDate": "2030-11-08",
"PickupTime": "10:00"
},
"confirmationStatus": "Confirmed"
}
}

Amazon Lex expects a response from a Lambda function in the following format. The dialogAction
field is required. The sessionAttributes and the recentIntentSummaryView fields are optional.

Example Amazon Lex message event

{
"sessionAttributes": {
"key1": "value1",
"key2": "value2"

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...
},
"recentIntentSummaryView": [
{
"intentName": "Name",
"checkpointLabel": "Label",
"slots": {
"slot name": "value",
"slot name": "value"
},
"confirmationStatus": "None, Confirmed, or Denied (intent confirmation, if
configured)",
"dialogActionType": "ElicitIntent, ElicitSlot, ConfirmIntent, Delegate, or Close",
"fulfillmentState": "Fulfilled or Failed",
"slotToElicit": "Next slot to elicit
}
],
"dialogAction": {
"type": "Close",
"fulfillmentState": "Fulfilled",
"message": {
"contentType": "PlainText",
"content": "Thanks, your pizza has been ordered."
},
"responseCard": {
"version": integer-value,
"contentType": "application/vnd.amazonaws.card.generic",
"genericAttachments": [
{
"title":"card-title",
"subTitle":"card-sub-title",
"imageUrl":"URL of the image to be shown",
"attachmentLinkUrl":"URL of the attachment to be associated with the card",
"buttons":[
{
"text":"button-text",
"value":"Value sent to server on button click"
}
]
}
]
}
}
}

Note that the additional fields required for dialogAction vary based on the value of the type field.
For more information about the event and response fields, see Lambda event and response format in the
Amazon Lex Developer Guide. For an example tutorial that shows how to use Lambda with Amazon Lex,
see Exercise 1: Create Amazon Lex bot using a blueprint in the Amazon Lex Developer Guide.

Roles and permissions

You need to configure a service-linked role as your function's execution role (p. 47). Amazon Lex defines
the service-linked role with predefined permissions. When you create an Amazon Lex bot using the
console, the service-linked role is created automatically. To create a service-linked role with the AWS CLI,
use the create-service-linked-role command.

aws iam create-service-linked-role --aws-service-name lex.amazonaws.com

This command creates the following role.

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"Role": {
"AssumeRolePolicyDocument": {
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lex.amazonaws.com"
}
}
]
},
"RoleName": "AWSServiceRoleForLexBots",
"Path": "/aws-service-role/lex.amazonaws.com/",
"Arn": "arn:aws:iam::account-id:role/aws-service-role/lex.amazonaws.com/
AWSServiceRoleForLexBots"
}

If your Lambda function uses other AWS services, you need to add the corresponding permissions to the
service-linked role.

You use a resource-based permissions policy to allow the Amazon Lex intent to invoke your Lambda
function. If you use the Amazon Lex console, the permissions policy is created automatically. From the
AWS CLI, use the Lambda add-permission command to set the permission. The following example sets
permission for the OrderFlowers intent.

aws lambda add-permission \

--function-name OrderFlowersCodeHook \
--statement-id LexGettingStarted-OrderFlowersBot \
--action lambda:InvokeFunction \
--principal lex.amazonaws.com \
--source-arn "arn:aws:lex:us-east-1:123456789012 ID:intent:OrderFlowers:*"

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Using Lambda with Amazon MQ

Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ. A message broker
allows software applications and components to communicate using various programming languages,
operating systems, and formal messaging protocols through either topic or queue event destinations.

Amazon MQ can also manage Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances on your behalf
by installing ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ brokers and by providing different network topologies and other
infrastructure needs.

You can use a Lambda function to process records from your Amazon MQ message broker. Your broker
invokes your function through an event source mapping (p. 148), a Lambda resource that reads messages
from your broker and invokes the function synchronously (p. 138).

The Amazon MQ event source mapping has the following configuration restrictions:

• Cross account – Cross-account processing is not supported. You cannot use Lambda to process records
from an Amazon MQ message broker that is in a different AWSaccount.
• Authentication – For ActiveMQ, only the ActiveMQ SimpleAuthenticationPlugin is supported. For
RabbitMQ, only the PLAIN authentication mechanism is supported. Users must use AWS Secrets
Manager to manage their credentials. For more information about ActiveMQ authentication, see
Integrating ActiveMQ brokers with LDAP in the Amazon MQ Developer Guide.
• Connection quota – Brokers have a maximum number of allowed connections per wire-level protocol.
This quota is based on the broker instance type. For more information, see the Brokers section of
Quotas in Amazon MQ in the Amazon MQ Developer Guide.
• Connectivity – You can create brokers in a public or private virtual private cloud (VPC). For private
VPCs, your Lambda function needs access to the VPC to receive messages. For more information, see
the section called “Event source mapping API” (p. 393) later in this topic.
• Event destinations – Only queue destinations are supported. However, you can use a virtual topic,
which behaves as a topic internally while interacting with Lambda as a queue. For more information,
see Virtual Destinations on the Apache ActiveMQ website, and Virtual Hosts on the RabbitMQ website.
• Network topology – For ActiveMQ, only one single-instance or standby broker is supported per event
source mapping. For RabbitMQ, only one single-instance broker or cluster deployment is supported
per event source mapping. Single-instance brokers require a failover endpoint. For more information
about these broker deployment modes, see Active MQ Broker Architecture and Rabbit MQ Broker
Architecturein the Amazon MQ Developer Guide.
• Protocols – Supported protocols depend on the type of Amazon MQ integration.
• For ActiveMQ integrations, Lambda consumes messages using the OpenWire/Java Message Service
(JMS) protocol. No other protocols are supported for consuming messages. Within the JMS protocol,
only TextMessage and BytesMessage are supported. For more information about the OpenWire
protocol, see OpenWire on the Apache ActiveMQ website.
• For RabbitMQ integrations, Lambda consumes messages using the AMQP 0-9-1 protocol. No
other protocols are supported for consuming messages. For more information about RabbitMQ's
implementation of the AMQP 0-9-1 protocol, see AMQP 0-9-1 Complete Reference Guide on the
RabbitMQ website.

Lambda automatically supports the latest versions of ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that Amazon MQ
supports. For the latest supported versions, see Amazon MQ release notes in the Amazon MQ Developer
Guide.
Note
By default, Amazon MQ has a weekly maintenance window for brokers. During that window
of time, brokers are unavailable. For brokers without standby, Lambda cannot process any
messages during that window.

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Sections
• Lambda consumer group (p. 390)
• Execution role permissions (p. 392)
• Configuring a broker as an event source (p. 392)
• Event source mapping API (p. 393)
• Event source mapping errors (p. 395)

Lambda consumer group

To interact with Amazon MQ, Lambda creates a consumer group which can read from your Amazon MQ
brokers. The consumer group is created with the same ID as the event source mapping UUID.

Lambda will pull messages until it has processed a maximum of 6 MB, until timeout, or until the batch
size is fulfilled. When configured, batch size determines the maximum number of items to retrieve in
a single batch. Your batch is converted into a Lambda payload, and your target function is invoked.
Messages are neither persisted nor deserialized. Instead, they are retrieved by the consumer group as a
BLOB of bytes and are base64-encoded for a JSON payload.
Note
The maximum function invocation time is 14 minutes.

You can monitor a given function's concurrency usage using the ConcurrentExecutions
metric in Amazon CloudWatch. For more information about concurrency, see the section called
“Concurrency” (p. 84).

Example Amazon MQ record events

ActiveMQ

{
"eventSource": "aws:amq",
"eventSourceArn": "arn:aws:mq:us-
west-2:112556298976:broker:test:b-9bcfa592-423a-4942-879d-eb284b418fc8",
"messages": {
[
{
"messageID": "ID:b-9bcfa592-423a-4942-879d-eb284b418fc8-1.mq.us-
west-2.amazonaws.com-37557-1234520418293-4:1:1:1:1",
"messageType": "jms/text-message",
"data": "QUJDOkFBQUE=",
"connectionId": "myJMSCoID",
"redelivered": false,
"destination": {
"physicalname": "testQueue"
},
"timestamp": 1598827811958,
"brokerInTime": 1598827811958,
"brokerOutTime": 1598827811959
},
{
"messageID": "ID:b-9bcfa592-423a-4942-879d-eb284b418fc8-1.mq.us-
west-2.amazonaws.com-37557-1234520418293-4:1:1:1:1",
"messageType":"jms/bytes-message",
"data": "3DTOOW7crj51prgVLQaGQ82S48k=",
"connectionId": "myJMSCoID1",
"persistent": false,
"destination": {
"physicalname": "testQueue"

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},
"timestamp": 1598827811958,
"brokerInTime": 1598827811958,
"brokerOutTime": 1598827811959
}
]
}
}

RabbitMQ

{
"eventSource": "aws:rmq",
"eventSourceArn": "arn:aws:mq:us-
west-2:112556298976:broker:test:b-9bcfa592-423a-4942-879d-eb284b418fc8",
"rmqMessagesByQueue": {
"test::/": [
{
"basicProperties": {
"contentType": "text/plain",
"contentEncoding": null,
"headers": {
"header1": {
"bytes": [
118,
97,
108,
117,
101,
49
]
},
"header2": {
"bytes": [
118,
97,
108,
117,
101,
50
]
},
"numberInHeader": 10
}
"deliveryMode": 1,
"priority": 34,
"correlationId": null,
"replyTo": null,
"expiration": "60000",
"messageId": null,
"timestamp": "Jan 1, 1970, 12:33:41 AM",
"type": null,
"userId": "AIDACKCEVSQ6C2EXAMPLE",
"appId": null,
"clusterId": null,
"bodySize": 80
},
"redelivered": false,
"data": "eyJ0aW1lb3V0IjowLCJkYXRhIjoiQ1pybWYwR3c4T3Y0YnFMUXhENEUifQ=="
}
]
}
}

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Note
In the RabbitMQ example, test is the name of the RabbitMQ queue, and / is the name of the
virtual host. When receiving messages, the event source lists messages under test::/.

Execution role permissions

To read records from an Amazon MQ broker, your Lambda function needs the following permissions
added to its execution role (p. 47):

• mq:DescribeBroker
• secretsmanager:GetSecretValue
• ec2:CreateNetworkInterface
• ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface
• ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces
• ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups
• ec2:DescribeSubnets
• ec2:DescribeVpcs
• logs:CreateLogGroup
• logs:CreateLogStream
• logs:PutLogEvents

Note
When using an encrypted customer managed key, add the kms:Decrypt permission as well.

Configuring a broker as an event source

Create an event source mapping (p. 148) to tell Lambda to send records from an Amazon MQ broker to a
Lambda function. You can create multiple event source mappings to process the same data with multiple
functions, or to process items from multiple sources with a single function.

To configure your function to read from Amazon MQ, create an MQ trigger in the Lambda console.

To create a trigger

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Choose a trigger type.
5. Configure the required options and then choose Add.

Lambda supports the following options for Amazon MQ event sources:

• MQ broker – Select an Amazon MQ broker.

• Batch size – Set the maximum number of messages to retrieve in a single batch.
• Queue name – Enter the Amazon MQ queue to consume.
• Source access configuration – Enter virtual host information and the Secrets Manager secret that
stores your broker credentials.

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• Enable trigger – Disable the trigger to stop processing records.

To enable or disable the trigger (or delete it), choose the MQ trigger in the designer. To reconfigure the
trigger, use the event source mapping API operations.

Event source mapping API

To manage an event source with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, you can use the following API operations:

• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)

• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)
• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)

To create the event source mapping with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), use the create-
event-source-mapping command.

By default, Amazon MQ brokers are created with the PubliclyAccessible flag set to false. It is only
when PubliclyAccessible is set to true that the broker receive a public IP address.

For full access with your event source mapping, your broker must either use a public endpoint or provide
access to the VPC. To meet the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) access requirements, you can
do one of the following:

• Configure one NAT gateway per public subnet. For more information, see Internet and service access
for VPC-connected functions (p. 116).
• Create a connection between your Amazon VPC and Lambda. Your Amazon VPC must also connect
to AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) and Secrets Manager endpoints. For more information, see
Configuring interface VPC endpoints for Lambda (p. 118).

The Amazon VPC security group rules that you configure should have the following settings at minimum:

• Inbound rules – For a broker without public accessibility, allow all traffic on all ports for the security
group that's specified as your source. For a broker with public accessibility, allow all traffic on all ports
for all destinations.
• Outbound rules – Allow all traffic on all ports for all destinations.

The Amazon VPC configuration is discoverable through the Amazon MQ API and does not need to be
configured in the create-event-source-mapping setup.

The following example AWS CLI command creates an event source which maps a Lambda function
named MQ-Example-Function to an Amazon MQ RabbitMQ-based broker named ExampleMQBroker.
The command also provides the virtual host name and a Secrets Manager secret ARN that stores the
broker credentials.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping \

--event-source-arn arn:aws:mq:us-east-1:123456789012:broker:ExampleMQBroker:b-24cacbb4-
b295-49b7-8543-7ce7ce9dfb98 \
--function-name arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:MQ-Example-Function \
--queues ExampleQueue \
--source-access-configuration Type=VIRTUAL_HOST,URI="/"
Type=BASIC_AUTH,URI=arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-
east-1:123456789012:secret:ExampleMQBrokerUserPassword-xPBMTt \

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You should see the following output:

{
"UUID": "91eaeb7e-c976-1234-9451-8709db01f137",
"BatchSize": 100,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:mq:us-east-1:123456789012:broker:ExampleMQBroker:b-b4d492ef-
bdc3-45e3-a781-cd1a3102ecca",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:MQ-Example-Function",
"LastModified": 1601927898.741,
"LastProcessingResult": "No records processed",
"State": "Creating",
"StateTransitionReason": "USER_INITIATED",
"Queues": [
"ExampleQueue"
],
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [
{
"Type": "BASIC_AUTH",
"URI": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-
east-1:123456789012:secret:ExampleMQBrokerUserPassword-xPBMTt"
}
]
}

Using the update-event-source-mapping command, you can configure additional options such as
how Lambda processes batches and to specify when to discard records that cannot be processed. The
following example command updates an event source mapping to have a batch size of 2.

aws lambda update-event-source-mapping \

--uuid 91eaeb7e-c976-1234-9451-8709db01f137 \
--batch-size 2

You should see the following output:

{
"UUID": "91eaeb7e-c976-1234-9451-8709db01f137",
"BatchSize": 2,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:mq:us-east-1:123456789012:broker:ExampleMQBroker:b-b4d492ef-
bdc3-45e3-a781-cd1a3102ecca",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:MQ-Example-Function",
"LastModified": 1601928393.531,
"LastProcessingResult": "No records processed",
"State": "Updating",
"StateTransitionReason": "USER_INITIATED"
}

Updated settings are applied asynchronously and aren't reflected in the output until the process
completes. To view the current status of your resource, use the get-event-source-mapping
command.

aws lambda get-event-source-mapping \

--uuid 91eaeb7e-c976-4939-9451-8709db01f137

You should see the following output:

{
"UUID": "91eaeb7e-c976-4939-9451-8709db01f137",
"BatchSize": 2,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:mq:us-east-1:123456789012:broker:ExampleMQBroker:b-b4d492ef-
bdc3-45e3-a781-cd1a3102ecca",

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"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:MQ-Example-Function",
"LastModified": 1601928393.531,
"LastProcessingResult": "No records processed",
"State": "Enabled",
"StateTransitionReason": "USER_INITIATED"
}

Event source mapping errors

When a Lambda function encounters an unrecoverable error, your Amazon MQ consumer stops
processing records. Any other consumers can continue processing, provided that they do not
encounter the same error. To determine the potential cause of a stopped consumer, check the
StateTransitionReason field in the return details of your EventSourceMapping for one of the
following codes:

ESM_CONFIG_NOT_VALID

The event source mapping configuration is not valid.

EVENT_SOURCE_AUTHN_ERROR

Lambda failed to authenticate the event source.

EVENT_SOURCE_AUTHZ_ERROR

Lambda does not have the required permissions to access the event source.
FUNCTION_CONFIG_NOT_VALID

The function's configuration is not valid.

Records also go unprocessed if Lambda drops them due to their size. The size limit for Lambda records is
6 MB. To redeliver messages upon function error, you can use a redelivery policy and dead-letter queue
(DLQ) handling with Amazon MQ. For more information, see Message Redelivery and DLQ Handling on
the Apache ActiveMQ website and Reliability Guide on the RabbitMQ website.

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Using Lambda with Amazon MSK

Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) is a fully managed service that you can use
to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. Amazon MSK simplifies
the setup, scaling, and management of clusters running Kafka. Amazon MSK also makes it easier to
configure your application for multiple Availability Zones and for security with AWS Identity and Access
Management (IAM). Additionally, Amazon MSK supports multiple open-source versions of Kafka.

Amazon MSK as an event source operates similarly to using Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) or Amazon Kinesis. Lambda internally polls for new messages from the event source and then
synchronously invokes the target Lambda function. Lambda reads the messages in batches and provides
these to your function as an event payload. The maximum batch size is configurable. (The default is 100
messages.)

For an example of how to configure Amazon MSK as an event source, see Using Amazon MSK as an event
source for AWS Lambda on the AWS Compute Blog.

Lambda reads the messages sequentially for each partition. After Lambda processes each batch, it
commits the offsets of the messages in that batch. If your function returns an error for any of the
messages in a batch, Lambda retries the whole batch of messages until processing succeeds or the
messages expire.

Lambda allows a function to run for up to 14 minutes before stopping it.

Lambda sends the batch of messages in the event parameter when it invokes your function. The event
payload contains an array of messages. Each array item contains details of the Amazon MSK topic and
partition identifier, together with a timestamp and a base64-encoded message.

{ "eventSource": "aws:kafka",
"eventSourceArn": "arn:aws:kafka:sa-east-1:123456789012:cluster/
vpc-2priv-2pub/751d2973-a626-431c-9d4e-d7975eb44dd7-2",
"records": {
"mytopic-0": [
{
"topic": "mytopic"
"partition": "0",
"offset": 15,
"timestamp": 1545084650987,
"timestampType": "CREATE_TIME",
"value": "SGVsbG8sIHRoaXMgaXMgYSB0ZXN0Lg==",
}
]
}
}

Topics
• Managing access and permissions (p. 396)
• Network configuration (p. 359)
• Adding Amazon MSK as an event source (p. 398)
• Auto scaling of the Amazon MSK event source (p. 399)
• Amazon MSK configuration parameters (p. 362)

Managing access and permissions

For Lambda to poll your Kafka topic and update other cluster resources, your Lambda function—as well
as your IAM users and roles—must have the following permissions.

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Required Lambda function permissions

Your Lambda function's execution role (p. 47) must have permission to read records from
your Amazon MSK cluster on your behalf. You can either add the AWS managed policy
AWSLambdaMSKExecutionRole to your execution role, or create a custom policy with permission to
perform the following actions:

• kafka:DescribeCluster
• kafka:GetBootstrapBrokers
• ec2:CreateNetworkInterface
• ec2:DescribeNetworkInterfaces
• ec2:DescribeVpcs
• ec2:DeleteNetworkInterface
• ec2:DescribeSubnets
• ec2:DescribeSecurityGroups
• logs:CreateLogGroup
• logs:CreateLogStream
• logs:PutLogEvents

Adding a policy to your execution role

Follow these steps to add the AWS managed policy AWSLambdaMSKExecutionRole to your execution
role using the IAM console.

To add an AWS managed policy

1. Open the Policies page of the IAM console.

2. In the search box, enter the policy name (AWSLambdaMSKExecutionRole).
3. Select the policy from the list, and then choose Policy actions, Attach.
4. On the Attach policy page, select your execution role from the list, and then choose Attach policy.

Granting users access with an IAM policy

By default, IAM users and roles do not have permission to perform Amazon MSK API operations. To
grant access to users in your organization or account, you might need an identity-based policy. For more
information, see Amazon MSK Identity-Based Policy Examples in the Amazon Managed Streaming for
Apache Kafka Developer Guide.

Using SASL/SCRAM authentication

Amazon MSK supports Simple Authentication and Security Layer/Salted Challenge Response
Authentication Mechanism (SASL/SCRAM) authentication. You can control access to your Amazon MSK
clusters by setting up user name and password authentication using an AWS Secrets Manager secret. For
more information, see Username and password authentication with AWS Secrets Manager in the Amazon
Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Developer Guide.

Note that Amazon MSK does not support SASL/PLAIN authentication.

Network configuration
Lambda must have access to the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) resources associated with
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and AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS). If authentication is required, also deploy a VPC endpoint for
Secrets Manager.

Alternatively, ensure that the VPC associated with your Amazon MSK cluster includes one NAT
gateway per public subnet. For more information, see Internet and service access for VPC-connected
functions (p. 116).

You must configure your Amazon VPC security groups with the following rules (at minimum):

• Inbound rules – Allow all traffic on all ports for the security group specified as your event source.
• Outbound rules – Allow all traffic on all ports for all destinations.

Note
Your Amazon VPC configuration is discoverable through the Amazon MSK API, and does not
need to be configured during setup using the create-event-source-mapping command.

For more information about configuring the network, see Setting up AWS Lambda with an Apache Kafka
cluster within a VPC on the AWS Compute Blog.

Adding Amazon MSK as an event source

To create an event source mapping (p. 148), add Amazon MSK as a Lambda function trigger (p. 29) using
the Lambda console, an AWS SDK, or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

This section describes how to create an event source mapping using the Lambda console and the AWS
CLI.

Prerequisites
• An Amazon MSK cluster and a Kafka topic. For more information, see Getting Started Using Amazon
MSK in the Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Developer Guide.
• A Lambda execution role (p. 47) with permission to access the AWS resources that your Amazon MSK
cluster uses.

Adding an Amazon MSK trigger (console)

Follow these steps to add your Amazon MSK cluster and a Kafka topic as a trigger for your Lambda
function.

To add an Amazon MSK trigger to your Lambda function (console)

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Choose the name of your Lambda function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Under Trigger configuration, do the following:

a. Choose the MSK trigger type.

b. For MSK cluster, select your cluster.
c. For Batch size, enter the maximum number of messages to receive in a single batch.
d. For Topic name, enter the name of a Kafka topic.
e. (Optional) For Starting position, choose Latest to start reading the stream from the latest
record. Or, choose Trim horizon to start at the earliest available record.

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f. (Optional) For Secret key, choose the secret key for SASL/SCRAM authentication of the brokers
in your Amazon MSK cluster.
g. To create the trigger in a disabled state for testing (recommended), clear Enable trigger. Or, to
enable the trigger immediately, select Enable trigger.
5. To create the trigger, choose Add.

Adding an Amazon MSK trigger (AWS CLI)

Use the following example AWS CLI commands to create and view an Amazon MSK trigger for your
Lambda function.

Creating a trigger using the AWS CLI

The following example uses the create-event-source-mapping AWS CLI command to map a
Lambda function named my-kafka-function to a Kafka topic named AWSKafkaTopic. The topic's
starting position is set to LATEST.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping \

--event-source-arn arn:aws:kafka:us-west-2:arn:aws:kafka:us-west-2:111111111111:cluster/
my-cluster/fc2f5bdf-fd1b-45ad-85dd-15b4a5a6247e-2 \
--topics AWSKafkaTopic \
--starting-position LATEST \
--function-name my-kafka-function

For more information, see the CreateEventSourceMapping API reference documentation.

Viewing the status using the AWS CLI

The following example uses the get-event-source-mapping AWS CLI command to describe the
status of the event source mapping that you created.

aws lambda get-event-source-mapping \

--uuid 6d9bce8e-836b-442c-8070-74e77903c815

Auto scaling of the Amazon MSK event source

When you initially create an Amazon MSK event source, Lambda allocates one consumer to process all
of the partitions in the Kafka topic. Lambda automatically scales up or down the number of consumers,
based on workload. To preserve message ordering in each partition, the maximum number of consumers
is one consumer per partition in the topic.

Every 15 minutes, Lambda evaluates the consumer offset lag of all the partitions in the topic. If the lag is
too high, the partition is receiving messages faster than Lambda can process them. If necessary, Lambda
adds or removes consumers from the topic.

If your target Lambda function is overloaded, Lambda reduces the number of consumers. This action
reduces the workload on the function by reducing the number of messages that consumers can retrieve
and send to the function.

To monitor the throughput of your Kafka topic, you can view the Amazon MSK consumer-lag metrics. To
help you find the metrics for this Lambda function, the value of the consumer group field in the logs is
set to the event source UUID.

To check how many function invocations occur in parallel, you can also monitor the concurrency
metrics (p. 693) for your function.

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Amazon MSK configuration parameters

All Lambda event source types share the same CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754) and
UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919) API operations. However, only some of the parameters apply to
Amazon MSK.

Event source parameters that apply to Amazon MSK

Parameter Required Default Notes

BatchSize N 100 Maximum: 10,000

Enabled N Enabled

EventSourceArn Y   Can set only on Create

FunctionName Y

SourceAccessConfigurations
N No credentials VPC information
or SASL/SCRAM
authentication
credentials for your
event source

StartingPosition Y TRIM_HORIZON or
LATEST

Can set only on Create

Topics Y Kafka topic name

Can set only on Create

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon RDS

You can use AWS Lambda to process event notifications from an Amazon Relational Database Service
(Amazon RDS) database. Amazon RDS sends notifications to an Amazon Simple Notification Service
(Amazon SNS) topic, which you can configure to invoke a Lambda function. Amazon SNS wraps the
message from Amazon RDS in its own event document and sends it to your function.

Example Amazon RDS message in an Amazon SNS event

{
"Records": [
{
"EventVersion": "1.0",
"EventSubscriptionArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:rds-lambda:21be56ed-
a058-49f5-8c98-aedd2564c486",
"EventSource": "aws:sns",
"Sns": {
"SignatureVersion": "1",
"Timestamp": "2019-01-02T12:45:07.000Z",
"Signature": "tcc6faL2yUC6dgZdmrwh1Y4cGa/ebXEkAi6RibDsvpi+tE/1+82j...65r==",
"SigningCertUrl": "https://sns.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/
SimpleNotificationService-ac565b8b1a6c5d002d285f9598aa1d9b.pem",
"MessageId": "95df01b4-ee98-5cb9-9903-4c221d41eb5e",
"Message": "{\"Event Source\":\"db-instance\",\"Event Time\":\"2019-01-02
12:45:06.000\",\"Identifier Link\":\"https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/home?region=eu-
west-1#dbinstance:id=dbinstanceid\",\"Source ID\":\"dbinstanceid\",\"Event ID\":\"http://
docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_Events.html#RDS-EVENT-0002\",
\"Event Message\":\"Finished DB Instance backup\"}",
"MessageAttributes": {},
"Type": "Notification",
"UnsubscribeUrl": "https://sns.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/?
Action=Unsubscribe&amp;SubscriptionArn=arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:test-
lambda:21be56ed-a058-49f5-8c98-aedd2564c486",
"TopicArn":"arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:sns-lambda",
"Subject": "RDS Notification Message"
}
}
]
}

Topics
• Tutorial: Configuring a Lambda function to access Amazon RDS in an Amazon VPC (p. 401)
• Configuring the function (p. 405)

Tutorial: Configuring a Lambda function to access

Amazon RDS in an Amazon VPC
In this tutorial, you do the following:

• Launch an Amazon RDS MySQL database engine instance in your default Amazon VPC. In the
MySQL instance, you create a database (ExampleDB) with a sample table (Employee) in it. For more
information about Amazon RDS, see Amazon RDS.
• Create a Lambda function to access the ExampleDB database, create a table (Employee), add a few
records, and retrieve the records from the table.
• Invoke the Lambda function and verify the query results. This is how you verify that your Lambda
function was able to access the RDS MySQL instance in the VPC.

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For details on using Lambda with Amazon VPC, see Configuring a Lambda function to access resources in
a VPC (p. 111).

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-vpc-role.

The AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole has the permissions that the function needs to manage
network connections to a VPC.

Create an Amazon RDS database instance

In this tutorial, the example Lambda function creates a table (Employee), inserts a few records, and then
retrieves the records. The table that the Lambda function creates has the following schema:

Employee(EmpID, Name)

Where EmpID is the primary key. Now, you need to add a few records to this table.

First, you launch an RDS MySQL instance in your default VPC with ExampleDB database. If you already
have an RDS MySQL instance running in your default VPC, skip this step.

You can launch an RDS MySQL instance using one of the following methods:

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• Follow the instructions at Creating a MySQL DB instance and connecting to a database on a MySQL DB
instance in the Amazon RDS User Guide.
• Use the following AWS CLI command:

aws rds create-db-instance --db-name ExampleDB --engine MySQL \

--db-instance-identifier MySQLForLambdaTest --backup-retention-period 3 \
--db-instance-class db.t2.micro --allocated-storage 5 --no-publicly-accessible \
--master-username username --master-user-password password

Write down the database name, user name, and password. You also need the host address (endpoint)
of the DB instance, which you can get from the RDS console. You might need to wait until the instance
status is available and the Endpoint value appears in the console.

Create a deployment package

The following example Python code runs a SELECT query against the Employee table in the MySQL RDS
instance that you created in the VPC. The code creates a table in the ExampleDB database, adds sample
records, and retrieves those records.

The following method for handling database credentials is for illustrative purposes only. In a production
environment, we recommend using AWS Secrets Manager instead of environment variables to store
database credentials. For more information, see Configuring database access for a Lambda function.

Example app.py

import sys
import logging
import rds_config
import pymysql
#rds settings
rds_host = "rds-instance-endpoint"
name = rds_config.db_username
password = rds_config.db_password
db_name = rds_config.db_name

logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

try:
conn = pymysql.connect(host=rds_host, user=name, passwd=password, db=db_name,
connect_timeout=5)
except pymysql.MySQLError as e:
logger.error("ERROR: Unexpected error: Could not connect to MySQL instance.")
logger.error(e)
sys.exit()

logger.info("SUCCESS: Connection to RDS MySQL instance succeeded")

def handler(event, context):
"""
This function fetches content from MySQL RDS instance
"""

item_count = 0

with conn.cursor() as cur:

cur.execute("create table Employee ( EmpID int NOT NULL, Name varchar(255) NOT
NULL, PRIMARY KEY (EmpID))")
cur.execute('insert into Employee (EmpID, Name) values(1, "Joe")')
cur.execute('insert into Employee (EmpID, Name) values(2, "Bob")')
cur.execute('insert into Employee (EmpID, Name) values(3, "Mary")')

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conn.commit()
cur.execute("select * from Employee")
for row in cur:
item_count += 1
logger.info(row)
#print(row)
conn.commit()

return "Added %d items from RDS MySQL table" %(item_count)

Executing pymysql.connect() outside of the handler allows your function to re-use the database
connection for better performance.

A second file contains connection information for the function.

Example rds_config.py

#config file containing credentials for RDS MySQL instance

db_username = "username"
db_password = "password"
db_name = "ExampleDB"

A deployment package is a .zip file containing your Lambda function code and dependencies. The sample
function code has the following dependencies:

Dependencies

• pymysql – The Lambda function code uses this library to access your MySQL instance (see PyMySQL) .

To create a deployment package

• Install dependencies with Pip and create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Python
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

Create the Lambda function

Create the Lambda function with the create-function command. You can find the subnet IDs and
security group ID for your default VPC in the Amazon VPC console.

aws lambda create-function --function-name CreateTableAddRecordsAndRead --runtime

python3.8 \
--zip-file fileb://app.zip --handler app.handler \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-vpc-role \
--vpc-config SubnetIds=subnet-0532bb6758ce7c71f,subnet-
d6b7fda068036e11f,SecurityGroupIds=sg-0897d5f549934c2fb

Test the Lambda function

In this step, you invoke the Lambda function manually using the invoke command. When the Lambda
function runs, it runs the SELECT query against the Employee table in the RDS MySQL instance and
prints the results, which also go to the CloudWatch Logs.

1. Invoke the Lambda function with the invoke command.

aws lambda invoke --function-name CreateTableAddRecordsAndRead output.txt

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2. Verify that the Lambda function executed successfully as follows:

• Review the output.txt file.

• Review the results in the AWS Lambda console.
• Verify the results in CloudWatch Logs.

Now that you have created a Lambda function that accesses a database in your VPC, you can have the
function invoked in response to events. For information about configuring event sources and examples,
see Using AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the MySQL DB instance

1. Open the Databases page of the Amazon RDS console.

2. Select the database you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Clear the Create final snapshot check box.
5. Enter delete me in the text box.
6. Choose Delete.

Configuring the function

The following section shows additional configurations and topics we recommend as part of this tutorial.

• If too many function instances run concurrently, one or more instances may fail to obtain a database
connection. You can use reserved concurrency to limit the maximum concurrency of the function. Set
the reserved concurrency to be less than the number of database connections. Reserved concurrency
also reserves those instances for this function, which may not be ideal. If you are invoking the Lambda
functions from your application, we recommend you write code that limits the number of concurrent
instances. For more information, see Managing concurrency for a Lambda function.
• For more information on configuring an Amazon RDS database to send notifications, see Using
Amazon RDS event notifications.

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• For more information on using Amazon SNS as trigger, see Using Lambda with Amazon SNS (p. 432).

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon S3

You can use Lambda to process event notifications from Amazon Simple Storage Service. Amazon S3
can send an event to a Lambda function when an object is created or deleted. You configure notification
settings on a bucket, and grant Amazon S3 permission to invoke a function on the function's resource-
based permissions policy.
Warning
If your Lambda function uses the same bucket that triggers it, it could cause the function to
run in a loop. For example, if the bucket triggers a function each time an object is uploaded,
and the function uploads an object to the bucket, then the function indirectly triggers itself. To
avoid this, use two buckets, or configure the trigger to only apply to a prefix used for incoming
objects.

Amazon S3 invokes your function asynchronously (p. 140) with an event that contains details about the
object. The following example shows an event that Amazon S3 sent when a deployment package was
uploaded to Amazon S3.

Example Amazon S3 notification event

{
"Records": [
{
"eventVersion": "2.1",
"eventSource": "aws:s3",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"eventTime": "2019-09-03T19:37:27.192Z",
"eventName": "ObjectCreated:Put",
"userIdentity": {
"principalId": "AWS:AIDAINPONIXQXHT3IKHL2"
},
"requestParameters": {
"sourceIPAddress": "205.255.255.255"
},
"responseElements": {
"x-amz-request-id": "D82B88E5F771F645",
"x-amz-id-2":
"vlR7PnpV2Ce81l0PRw6jlUpck7Jo5ZsQjryTjKlc5aLWGVHPZLj5NeC6qMa0emYBDXOo6QBU0Wo="
},
"s3": {
"s3SchemaVersion": "1.0",
"configurationId": "828aa6fc-f7b5-4305-8584-487c791949c1",
"bucket": {
"name": "lambda-artifacts-deafc19498e3f2df",
"ownerIdentity": {
"principalId": "A3I5XTEXAMAI3E"
},
"arn": "arn:aws:s3:::lambda-artifacts-deafc19498e3f2df"
},
"object": {
"key": "b21b84d653bb07b05b1e6b33684dc11b",
"size": 1305107,
"eTag": "b21b84d653bb07b05b1e6b33684dc11b",
"sequencer": "0C0F6F405D6ED209E1"
}
}
}
]
}

To invoke your function, Amazon S3 needs permission from the function's resource-based policy (p. 51).
When you configure an Amazon S3 trigger in the Lambda console, the console modifies the resource-

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based policy to allow Amazon S3 to invoke the function if the bucket name and account ID match. If you
configure the notification in Amazon S3, you use the Lambda API to update the policy. You can also use
the Lambda API to grant permission to another account, or restrict permission to a designated alias.

If your function uses the AWS SDK to manage Amazon S3 resources, it also needs Amazon S3
permissions in its execution role (p. 47).

Topics
• Tutorial: Using an Amazon S3 trigger to invoke a Lambda function (p. 408)
• Tutorial: Using an Amazon S3 trigger to create thumbnail images (p. 413)
• AWS SAM template for an Amazon S3 application (p. 426)

Tutorial: Using an Amazon S3 trigger to invoke a

Lambda function
In this tutorial, you use the console to create a Lambda function and configure a trigger for Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). The trigger invokes your function every time that you add an object
to your Amazon S3 bucket.

We recommend that you complete this console-based tutorial before you try the tutorial to create
thumbnail images (p. 413).

Prerequisites
To use Lambda and other AWS services, you need an AWS account. If you do not have an account, visit
aws.amazon.com and choose Create an AWS Account. For instructions, see How do I create and activate
a new AWS account?

This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

Create a bucket and upload a sample object

Create an Amazon S3 bucket and upload a test file to your new bucket. Your Lambda function retrieves
information about this file when you test the function from the console.

To create an Amazon S3 bucket using the console

1. Open the Amazon S3 console.

2. Choose Create bucket.
3. Under General configuration, do the following:

a. For Bucket name, enter a unique name.

b. For AWS Region, choose a Region. Note that you must create your Lambda function in the same
Region.
4. Choose Create bucket.

After creating the bucket, Amazon S3 opens the Buckets page, which displays a list of all buckets in your
account in the current Region.

To upload a test object using the Amazon S3 console

1. On the Buckets page of the Amazon S3 console, choose the name of the bucket that you created.

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2. On the Objects tab, choose Upload.

3. Drag a test file from your local machine to the Upload page.
4. Choose Upload.

Create the Lambda function

Use a function blueprint (p. 39) to create the Lambda function. A blueprint provides a sample function
that demonstrates how to use Lambda with other AWS services. Also, a blueprint includes sample code
and function configuration presets for a certain runtime. For this tutorial, you can choose the blueprint
for the Node.js or Python runtime.

To create a Lambda function from a blueprint in the console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. On the Create function page, choose Use a blueprint.
4. Under Blueprints, enter s3 in the search box.
5. In the search results, do one of the following:

• For a Node.js function, choose s3-get-object.

• For a Python function, choose s3-get-object-python.
6. Choose Configure.
7. Under Basic information, do the following:

a. For Function name, enter my-s3-function.

b. For Execution role, choose Create a new role from AWS policy templates.
c. For Role name, enter my-s3-function-role.
8. Under S3 trigger, choose the S3 bucket that you created previously.

When you configure an S3 trigger using the Lambda console, the console modifies your function's
resource-based policy (p. 51) to allow Amazon S3 to invoke the function.
9. Choose Create function.

Review the function code

The Lambda function retrieves the source S3 bucket name and the key name of the uploaded object
from the event parameter that it receives. The function uses the Amazon S3 getObject API to retrieve
the content type of the object.

While viewing your function in the Lambda console, you can review the function code on the Code tab,
under Code source. The code looks like the following:

Node.js

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

const aws = require('aws-sdk');

const s3 = new aws.S3({ apiVersion: '2006-03-01' });

exports.handler = async (event, context) => {

//console.log('Received event:', JSON.stringify(event, null, 2));

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// Get the object from the event and show its content type
const bucket = event.Records[0].s3.bucket.name;
const key = decodeURIComponent(event.Records[0].s3.object.key.replace(/\+/g, ' '));
const params = {
Bucket: bucket,
Key: key,
};
try {
const { ContentType } = await s3.getObject(params).promise();
console.log('CONTENT TYPE:', ContentType);
return ContentType;
} catch (err) {
console.log(err);
const message = `Error getting object ${key} from bucket ${bucket}. Make sure
they exist and your bucket is in the same region as this function.`;
console.log(message);
throw new Error(message);
}
};

Python

Example lambda-function.py

import json
import urllib.parse
import boto3

print('Loading function')

s3 = boto3.client('s3')

def lambda_handler(event, context):

#print("Received event: " + json.dumps(event, indent=2))

# Get the object from the event and show its content type
bucket = event['Records'][0]['s3']['bucket']['name']
key = urllib.parse.unquote_plus(event['Records'][0]['s3']['object']['key'],
encoding='utf-8')
try:
response = s3.get_object(Bucket=bucket, Key=key)
print("CONTENT TYPE: " + response['ContentType'])
return response['ContentType']
except Exception as e:
print(e)
print('Error getting object {} from bucket {}. Make sure they exist and your
bucket is in the same region as this function.'.format(key, bucket))
raise e

Test in the console

Invoke the Lambda function manually using sample Amazon S3 event data.

To test the Lambda function using the console

1. On the Code tab, under Code source, choose the arrow next to Test, and then choose Configure test
events from the dropdown list.

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2. In the Configure test event window, do the following:

a. Choose Create new test event.

b. For Event template, choose Amazon S3 Put (s3-put).
c. For Event name, enter a name for the test event. For example, mys3testevent.
d. In the test event JSON, replace the S3 bucket name (example-bucket) and object key (test/
key) with your bucket name and test file name. Your test event should look similar to the
following:

{
"Records": [
{
"eventVersion": "2.0",
"eventSource": "aws:s3",
"awsRegion": "us-west-2",
"eventTime": "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"eventName": "ObjectCreated:Put",
"userIdentity": {
"principalId": "EXAMPLE"
},
"requestParameters": {
"sourceIPAddress": "127.0.0.1"
},
"responseElements": {
"x-amz-request-id": "EXAMPLE123456789",
"x-amz-id-2": "EXAMPLE123/5678abcdefghijklambdaisawesome/
mnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGH"
},
"s3": {
"s3SchemaVersion": "1.0",
"configurationId": "testConfigRule",
"bucket": {
"name": "my-s3-bucket",
"ownerIdentity": {
"principalId": "EXAMPLE"
},
"arn": "arn:aws:s3:::example-bucket"
},
"object": {
"key": "HappyFace.jpg",
"size": 1024,
"eTag": "0123456789abcdef0123456789abcdef",
"sequencer": "0A1B2C3D4E5F678901"
}
}
}
]
}

e. Choose Create.
3. To invoke the function with your test event, under Code source, choose Test.

The Execution results tab displays the response, function logs, and request ID, similar to the
following:

Response
"image/jpeg"

Function Logs
START RequestId: 12b3cae7-5f4e-415e-93e6-416b8f8b66e6 Version: $LATEST
2021-02-18T21:40:59.280Z 12b3cae7-5f4e-415e-93e6-416b8f8b66e6 INFO INPUT BUCKET AND
KEY: { Bucket: 'my-s3-bucket', Key: 'HappyFace.jpg' }

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2021-02-18T21:41:00.215Z 12b3cae7-5f4e-415e-93e6-416b8f8b66e6 INFO CONTENT TYPE: image/

jpeg
END RequestId: 12b3cae7-5f4e-415e-93e6-416b8f8b66e6
REPORT RequestId: 12b3cae7-5f4e-415e-93e6-416b8f8b66e6 Duration: 976.25 ms Billed
Duration: 977 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 90 MB Init Duration: 430.47 ms

Request ID
12b3cae7-5f4e-415e-93e6-416b8f8b66e6

Test with the S3 trigger

Invoke your function when you upload a file to the Amazon S3 source bucket.

To test the Lambda function using the S3 trigger

1. On the Buckets page of the Amazon S3 console, choose the name of the source bucket that you
created earlier.
2. On the Upload page, upload a few .jpg or .png image files to the bucket.
3. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.
4. Choose the name of your function (my-s3-function).
5. To verify that the function ran once for each file that you uploaded, choose the Monitor tab. This
page shows graphs for the metrics that Lambda sends to CloudWatch. The count in the Invocations
graph should match the number of files that you uploaded to the Amazon S3 bucket.

For more information on these graphs, see Monitoring functions in the AWS Lambda
console (p. 684).
6. (Optional) To view the logs in the CloudWatch console, choose View logs in CloudWatch. Choose a
log stream to view the logs output for one of the function invocations.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

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2. Select the function that you created.

3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the IAM policy

1. Open the Policies page of the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) console.
2. Select the policy that Lambda created for you. The policy name begins with
AWSLambdaS3ExecutionRole-.
3. Choose Policy actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the S3 bucket

1. Open the Amazon S3 console.

2. Select the bucket you created.
3. Choose Delete.
4. Enter the name of the bucket in the text box.
5. Choose Confirm.

Next steps
Try the more advanced tutorial. In this tutorial, the S3 trigger invokes a function to create a thumbnail
image (p. 413) for each image file that is uploaded to your S3 bucket. This tutorial requires a moderate
level of AWS and Lambda domain knowledge. You use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)
to create resources, and you create a .zip file archive deployment package for your function and its
dependencies.

Tutorial: Using an Amazon S3 trigger to create

thumbnail images
In this tutorial, you create a Lambda function and configure a trigger for Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3). Amazon S3 invokes the CreateThumbnail function for each image file that is uploaded
to an S3 bucket. The function reads the image object from the source S3 bucket and creates a thumbnail
image to save in a target S3 bucket.
Note
This tutorial requires a moderate level of AWS and Lambda domain knowledge. We recommend
that you first try Tutorial: Using an Amazon S3 trigger to invoke a Lambda function (p. 408).

In this tutorial, you use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to create the following AWS
resources:

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Lambda resources

• A Lambda function. You can choose Node.js, Python, or Java for the function code.
• A .zip file archive deployment package for the function.
• An access policy that grants Amazon S3 permission to invoke the function.

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) resources

• An execution role with an associated permissions policy to grant permissions that your function needs.

Amazon S3 resources

• A source S3 bucket with a notification configuration that invokes the function.

• A target S3 bucket where the function saves the resized images.

Topics
• Prerequisites (p. 414)
• Step 1. Create S3 buckets and upload a sample object (p. 415)
• Step 2. Create the IAM policy (p. 415)
• Step 3. Create the execution role (p. 416)
• Step 4. Create the function code (p. 416)
• Step 5. Create the deployment package (p. 421)
• Step 6. Create the Lambda function (p. 422)
• Step 7. Test the Lambda function (p. 423)
• Step 8. Configure Amazon S3 to publish events (p. 424)
• Step 9. Test using the S3 trigger (p. 425)
• Step 10. Clean up your resources (p. 425)

Prerequisites
• AWS account

To use Lambda and other AWS services, you need an AWS account. If you do not have an account,
visit aws.amazon.com and choose Create an AWS Account. For instructions, see How do I create and
activate a new AWS account?
• Command line

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install
the Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

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• AWS CLI

In this tutorial, you use AWS CLI commands to create and invoke the Lambda function. Install the AWS
CLI and configure it with your AWS credentials.
• Language tools

Install the language support tools and a package manager for the language that you want to use:
Node.js, Python, or Java. For suggested tools, see Code authoring tools (p. 6).

Step 1. Create S3 buckets and upload a sample object

Follow these steps to create S3 buckets and upload an object.

1. Open the Amazon S3 console.

2. Create two S3 buckets. The target bucket must be named source-resized, where source is the
name of the source bucket. For example, a source bucket named mybucket and a target bucket
named mybucket-resized.
3. In the source bucket, upload a .jpg object, for example, HappyFace.jpg.

You must create this sample object before you test your Lambda function. When you test the function
manually using the Lambda invoke command, you pass sample event data to the function that
specifies the source bucket name and HappyFace.jpg as the newly created object.

Step 2. Create the IAM policy

Create an IAM policy that defines the permissions for the Lambda function. The function must have
permissions to:

• Get the object from the source S3 bucket.

• Put the resized object into the target S3 bucket.
• Write logs to Amazon CloudWatch Logs.

To create an IAM policy

1. Open the Policies page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create policy.
3. Choose the JSON tab, and then paste the following policy. Be sure to replace mybucket with the
name of the source bucket that you created previously.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"logs:PutLogEvents",
"logs:CreateLogGroup",
"logs:CreateLogStream"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:logs:*:*:*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"s3:GetObject"

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],
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::mybucket/*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"s3:PutObject"
],
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::mybucket-resized/*"
}
]
}

4. Choose Next: Tags.

5. Choose Next: Review.
6. Under Review policy, for Name, enter AWSLambdaS3Policy.
7. Choose Create policy.

Step 3. Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your Lambda function permission to access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the Roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties:

• Trusted entity – Lambda

• Permissions policy – AWSLambdaS3Policy
• Role name – lambda-s3-role

Step 4. Create the function code

In the following code examples, the Amazon S3 event contains the source S3 bucket name and the
object key name. If the object is a .jpg or a .png image file, it reads the image from the source bucket,
generates a thumbnail image, and then saves the thumbnail to the target S3 bucket.

Note the following:

• The code assumes that the target bucket exists and that its name is a concatenation of the source
bucket name and -resized.
• For each thumbnail file created, the Lambda function code derives the object key name as a
concatenation of resized- and the source object key name. For example, if the source object key
name is sample.jpg, the code creates a thumbnail object that has the key resized-sample.jpg.

Node.js

Copy the following code example into a file named index.js.

Example index.js

// dependencies
const AWS = require('aws-sdk');
const util = require('util');

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const sharp = require('sharp');

// get reference to S3 client

const s3 = new AWS.S3();

exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {

// Read options from the event parameter.

console.log("Reading options from event:\n", util.inspect(event, {depth: 5}));
const srcBucket = event.Records[0].s3.bucket.name;
// Object key may have spaces or unicode non-ASCII characters.
const srcKey = decodeURIComponent(event.Records[0].s3.object.key.replace(/\+/g, "
"));
const dstBucket = srcBucket + "-resized";
const dstKey = "resized-" + srcKey;

// Infer the image type from the file suffix.

const typeMatch = srcKey.match(/\.([^.]*)$/);
if (!typeMatch) {
console.log("Could not determine the image type.");
return;
}

// Check that the image type is supported

const imageType = typeMatch[1].toLowerCase();
if (imageType != "jpg" && imageType != "png") {
console.log(`Unsupported image type: ${imageType}`);
return;
}

// Download the image from the S3 source bucket.

try {
const params = {
Bucket: srcBucket,
Key: srcKey
};
var origimage = await s3.getObject(params).promise();

} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
return;
}

// set thumbnail width. Resize will set the height automatically to maintain aspect
ratio.
const width = 200;

// Use the sharp module to resize the image and save in a buffer.
try {
var buffer = await sharp(origimage.Body).resize(width).toBuffer();

} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
return;
}

// Upload the thumbnail image to the destination bucket

try {
const destparams = {
Bucket: dstBucket,
Key: dstKey,
Body: buffer,
ContentType: "image"
};

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const putResult = await s3.putObject(destparams).promise();

} catch (error) {
console.log(error);
return;
}

console.log('Successfully resized ' + srcBucket + '/' + srcKey +

' and uploaded to ' + dstBucket + '/' + dstKey);
};

Python

Copy the following code example into a file named lambda_function.py.

Example lambda_function.py

import boto3
import os
import sys
import uuid
from urllib.parse import unquote_plus
from PIL import Image
import PIL.Image

s3_client = boto3.client('s3')

def resize_image(image_path, resized_path):

with Image.open(image_path) as image:
image.thumbnail(tuple(x / 2 for x in image.size))
image.save(resized_path)

def lambda_handler(event, context):

for record in event['Records']:
bucket = record['s3']['bucket']['name']
key = unquote_plus(record['s3']['object']['key'])
tmpkey = key.replace('/', '')
download_path = '/tmp/{}{}'.format(uuid.uuid4(), tmpkey)
upload_path = '/tmp/resized-{}'.format(tmpkey)
s3_client.download_file(bucket, key, download_path)
resize_image(download_path, upload_path)
s3_client.upload_file(upload_path, '{}-resized'.format(bucket), key)

Java

The Java code implements the RequestHandler interface provided in the aws-lambda-java-
core library. When you create a Lambda function, you specify the class as the handler (in this code
example, example.handler). For more information about using interfaces to provide a handler, see
Handler interfaces (p. 576).

The handler uses S3Event as the input type, which provides convenient methods for your function
code to read information from the incoming Amazon S3 event. Amazon S3 invokes your Lambda
function asynchronously. Because you are implementing an interface that requires you to specify a
return type, the handler uses String as the return type.

Copy the following code example into a file named Handler.java.

Example Handler.java

package example;
import java.awt.Color;

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import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.RenderingHints;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

import com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.S3Event;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.event.S3EventNotification.S3EventNotificationRecord;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.GetObjectRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.ObjectMetadata;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3Object;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3ClientBuilder;

public class Handler implements

RequestHandler<S3Event, String> {
private static final float MAX_WIDTH = 100;
private static final float MAX_HEIGHT = 100;
private final String JPG_TYPE = (String) "jpg";
private final String JPG_MIME = (String) "image/jpeg";
private final String PNG_TYPE = (String) "png";
private final String PNG_MIME = (String) "image/png";

public String handleRequest(S3Event s3event, Context context) {

try {
S3EventNotificationRecord record = s3event.getRecords().get(0);

String srcBucket = record.getS3().getBucket().getName();

// Object key may have spaces or unicode non-ASCII characters.

String srcKey = record.getS3().getObject().getUrlDecodedKey();

String dstBucket = srcBucket + "-resized";

String dstKey = "resized-" + srcKey;

// Sanity check: validate that source and destination are different

// buckets.
if (srcBucket.equals(dstBucket)) {
System.out
.println("Destination bucket must not match source bucket.");
return "";
}

// Infer the image type.

Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile(".*\\.([^\\.]*)").matcher(srcKey);
if (!matcher.matches()) {
System.out.println("Unable to infer image type for key "
+ srcKey);
return "";
}
String imageType = matcher.group(1);
if (!(JPG_TYPE.equals(imageType)) && !(PNG_TYPE.equals(imageType))) {
System.out.println("Skipping non-image " + srcKey);
return "";
}

// Download the image from S3 into a stream

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AmazonS3 s3Client = AmazonS3ClientBuilder.defaultClient();

S3Object s3Object = s3Client.getObject(new GetObjectRequest(
srcBucket, srcKey));
InputStream objectData = s3Object.getObjectContent();

// Read the source image

BufferedImage srcImage = ImageIO.read(objectData);
int srcHeight = srcImage.getHeight();
int srcWidth = srcImage.getWidth();
// Infer the scaling factor to avoid stretching the image
// unnaturally
float scalingFactor = Math.min(MAX_WIDTH / srcWidth, MAX_HEIGHT
/ srcHeight);
int width = (int) (scalingFactor * srcWidth);
int height = (int) (scalingFactor * srcHeight);

BufferedImage resizedImage = new BufferedImage(width, height,

BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
Graphics2D g = resizedImage.createGraphics();
// Fill with white before applying semi-transparent (alpha) images
g.setPaint(Color.white);
g.fillRect(0, 0, width, height);
// Simple bilinear resize
g.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION,
RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
g.drawImage(srcImage, 0, 0, width, height, null);
g.dispose();

// Re-encode image to target format

ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageIO.write(resizedImage, imageType, os);
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(os.toByteArray());
// Set Content-Length and Content-Type
ObjectMetadata meta = new ObjectMetadata();
meta.setContentLength(os.size());
if (JPG_TYPE.equals(imageType)) {
meta.setContentType(JPG_MIME);
}
if (PNG_TYPE.equals(imageType)) {
meta.setContentType(PNG_MIME);
}

// Uploading to S3 destination bucket

System.out.println("Writing to: " + dstBucket + "/" + dstKey);
try {
s3Client.putObject(dstBucket, dstKey, is, meta);
}
catch(AmazonServiceException e)
{
System.err.println(e.getErrorMessage());
System.exit(1);
}
System.out.println("Successfully resized " + srcBucket + "/"
+ srcKey + " and uploaded to " + dstBucket + "/" + dstKey);
return "Ok";
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}

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Step 5. Create the deployment package

The deployment package is a .zip file archive (p. 41) containing your Lambda function code and its
dependencies.

Node.js

The sample function must include the sharp module in the deployment package.

To create a deployment package

1. Open a command line terminal or shell in a Linux environment. Ensure that the Node.js version
in your local environment matches the Node.js version of your function.
2. Save the function code as index.js in a directory named lambda-s3.
3. Install the sharp library with npm. For Linux, use the following command:

npm install sharp

After this step, you have the following directory structure:

lambda-s3
|- index.js
|- /node_modules/sharp
# /node_modules/...

4. Create a deployment package with the function code and its dependencies. Set the -r (recursive)
option for the zip command to compress the subfolders.

zip -r function.zip .

Python

Dependencies

• Pillow

To create a deployment package

• We recommend using the AWS SAM CLI sam build command with the --use-container option
to create deployment packages that contain libraries written in C or C++, such as the Pillow (PIL)
library.

Java

Dependencies

• aws-lambda-java-core
• aws-lambda-java-events
• aws-java-sdk

To create a deployment package

• Build the code with the Lambda library dependencies to create a deployment package. For
instructions, see Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578).

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Step 6. Create the Lambda function

To create the function

• Create a Lambda function with the create-function command.

Node.js

aws lambda create-function --function-name CreateThumbnail \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \
--timeout 10 --memory-size 1024 \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-s3-role

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also
configure this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

The create-function command specifies the function handler as index.handler. This handler
name reflects the function name as handler, and the name of the file where the handler
code is stored as index.js. For more information, see AWS Lambda function handler in
Node.js (p. 487). The command specifies a runtime of nodejs12.x. For more information, see
Lambda runtimes (p. 195).
Python

aws lambda create-function --function-name CreateThumbnail \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler lambda_function.lambda_handler --runtime
python3.8 \
--timeout 10 --memory-size 1024 \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-s3-role

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also
configure this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

The create-function command specifies the function handler as

lambda_function.lambda_handler. This handler name reflects the function
name as lambda_handler, and the name of the file where the handler code is stored
as lambda_function.py. For more information, see Lambda function handler in
Python (p. 512). The command specifies a runtime of python3.8. For more information, see
Lambda runtimes (p. 195).
Java

aws lambda create-function --function-name CreateThumbnail \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler example.handler --runtime java11 \
--timeout 10 --memory-size 1024 \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-s3-role

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also
configure this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

The create-function command specifies the function handler as example.handler. The

function can use the abbreviated handler format of package.Class because the function
implements a handler interface. For more information, see AWS Lambda function handler in
Java (p. 574). The command specifies a runtime of java11. For more information, see Lambda
runtimes (p. 195).

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For the role parameter, replace 123456789012 with your AWS account ID. The preceding example
command specifies a 10-second timeout value as the function configuration. Depending on the size
of objects that you upload, you might need to increase the timeout value using the following AWS CLI
command:

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name CreateThumbnail --timeout 30

Step 7. Test the Lambda function

Invoke the Lambda function manually using sample Amazon S3 event data.

To test the Lambda function

1. Save the following Amazon S3 sample event data in a file named inputFile.txt. Be sure to
replace sourcebucket and HappyFace.jpg with your source S3 bucket name and a .jpg object
key, respectively.

{
"Records":[
{
"eventVersion":"2.0",
"eventSource":"aws:s3",
"awsRegion":"us-west-2",
"eventTime":"1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"eventName":"ObjectCreated:Put",
"userIdentity":{
"principalId":"AIDAJDPLRKLG7UEXAMPLE"
},
"requestParameters":{
"sourceIPAddress":"127.0.0.1"
},
"responseElements":{
"x-amz-request-id":"C3D13FE58DE4C810",
"x-amz-id-2":"FMyUVURIY8/IgAtTv8xRjskZQpcIZ9KG4V5Wp6S7S/JRWeUWerMUE5JgHvANOjpD"
},
"s3":{
"s3SchemaVersion":"1.0",
"configurationId":"testConfigRule",
"bucket":{
"name":"sourcebucket",
"ownerIdentity":{
"principalId":"A3NL1KOZZKExample"
},
"arn":"arn:aws:s3:::sourcebucket"
},
"object":{
"key":"HappyFace.jpg",
"size":1024,
"eTag":"d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e",
"versionId":"096fKKXTRTtl3on89fVO.nfljtsv6qko"
}
}
}
]
}

2. Invoke the function with the following invoke command. Note that the command requests
asynchronous execution (--invocation-type Event). Optionally, you can invoke the function
synchronously by specifying RequestResponse as the invocation-type parameter value.

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aws lambda invoke

--function-name CreateThumbnail \
--invocation-type Event \
--payload file://inputFile.txt outputfile.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure
this option in your AWS CLI config file
.
3. Verify that the thumbnail is created in the target S3 bucket.

Step 8. Configure Amazon S3 to publish events

Complete the configuration so that Amazon S3 can publish object-created events to Lambda and invoke
your Lambda function. In this step, you do the following:

• Add permissions to the function access policy to allow Amazon S3 to invoke the function.
• Add a notification configuration to your source S3 bucket. In the notification configuration, you
provide the following:
• The event type for which you want Amazon S3 to publish events. For this tutorial, specify the
s3:ObjectCreated:* event type so that Amazon S3 publishes events when objects are created.
• The function to invoke.

To add permissions to the function policy

1. Run the following add-permission command to grant Amazon S3 service principal

(s3.amazonaws.com) permissions to perform the lambda:InvokeFunction action. Note that
Amazon S3 is granted permission to invoke the function only if the following conditions are met:

• An object-created event is detected on a specific S3 bucket.

• The S3 bucket is owned by your AWS account. If you delete a bucket, it is possible for another AWS
account to create a bucket with the same Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

aws lambda add-permission --function-name CreateThumbnail --principal s3.amazonaws.com

\
--statement-id s3invoke --action "lambda:InvokeFunction" \
--source-arn arn:aws:s3:::sourcebucket \
--source-account account-id

2. Verify the function's access policy by running the get-policy command.

aws lambda get-policy --function-name CreateThumbnail

To have Amazon S3 publish object-created events to Lambda, add a notification configuration on the
source S3 bucket.
Important
This procedure configures the S3 bucket to invoke your function every time that an object is
created in the bucket. Be sure to configure this option only on the source bucket. Do not have
your function create objects in the source bucket, or your function could cause itself to be
invoked continuously in a loop (p. 407).

To configure notifications

1. Open the Amazon S3 console.

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2. Choose the name of the source S3 bucket.

3. Choose the Properties tab.
4. Under Event notifications, choose Create event notification to configure a notification with the
following settings:

• Event name – lambda-trigger

• Event types – All object create events
• Destination – Lambda function
• Lambda function – CreateThumbnail

For more information on event configuration, see Enabling and configuring event notifications using the
Amazon S3 console in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Console User Guide.

Step 9. Test using the S3 trigger

Test the setup as follows:

1. Upload .jpg or .png objects to the source S3 bucket using the Amazon S3 console.
2. Verify for each image object that a thumbnail is created in the target S3 bucket using the
CreateThumbnail Lambda function.
3. View logs in the CloudWatch console.

Step 10. Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the policy that you created

1. Open the Policies page of the IAM console.

2. Select the policy that you created (AWSLambdaS3Policy).
3. Choose Policy actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

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To delete the S3 bucket

1. Open the Amazon S3 console.

2. Select the bucket you created.
3. Choose Delete.
4. Enter the name of the bucket in the text box.
5. Choose Confirm.

AWS SAM template for an Amazon S3 application

You can build this application using AWS SAM. To learn more about creating AWS SAM templates, see
AWS SAM template basics in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

Below is a sample AWS SAM template for the Lambda application from the tutorial (p. 408). Copy
the text below to a .yaml file and save it next to the ZIP package you created previously. Note that
the Handler and Runtime parameter values should match the ones you used when you created the
function in the previous section.

Example template.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Resources:
CreateThumbnail:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: handler
Runtime: runtime
Timeout: 60
Policies: AWSLambdaExecute
Events:
CreateThumbnailEvent:
Type: S3
Properties:
Bucket: !Ref SrcBucket
Events: s3:ObjectCreated:*

SrcBucket:
Type: AWS::S3::Bucket

For information on how to package and deploy your serverless application using the package and deploy
commands, see Deploying serverless applications in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer
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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon S3 batch

operations
You can use Amazon S3 batch operations to invoke a Lambda function on a large set of Amazon S3
objects. Amazon S3 tracks the progress of batch operations, sends notifications, and stores a completion
report that shows the status of each action.

To run a batch operation, you create an Amazon S3 batch operations job. When you create the job, you
provide a manifest (the list of objects) and configure the action to perform on those objects.

When the batch job starts, Amazon S3 invokes the Lambda function synchronously (p. 138) for each
object in the manifest. The event parameter includes the names of the bucket and the object.

The following example shows the event that Amazon S3 sends to the Lambda function for an object that
is named customerImage1.jpg in the examplebucket bucket.

Example Amazon S3 batch request event

{
"invocationSchemaVersion": "1.0",
"invocationId": "YXNkbGZqYWRmaiBhc2RmdW9hZHNmZGpmaGFzbGtkaGZza2RmaAo",
"job": {
"id": "f3cc4f60-61f6-4a2b-8a21-d07600c373ce"
},
"tasks": [
{
"taskId": "dGFza2lkZ29lc2hlcmUK",
"s3Key": "customerImage1.jpg",
"s3VersionId": "1",
"s3BucketArn": "arn:aws:s3:us-east-1:0123456788:examplebucket"
}
]
}

Your Lambda function must return a JSON object with the fields as shown in the following example.
You can copy the invocationId and taskId from the event parameter. You can return a string in the
resultString. Amazon S3 saves the resultString values in the completion report.

Example Amazon S3 batch request response

{
"invocationSchemaVersion": "1.0",
"treatMissingKeysAs" : "PermanentFailure",
"invocationId" : "YXNkbGZqYWRmaiBhc2RmdW9hZHNmZGpmaGFzbGtkaGZza2RmaAo",
"results": [
{
"taskId": "dGFza2lkZ29lc2hlcmUK",
"resultCode": "Succeeded",
"resultString": "["Alice", "Bob"]"
}
]
}

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Amazon S3 batch operations

Invoking Lambda functions from Amazon S3 batch

operations
You can invoke the Lambda function with an unqualified or qualified function ARN. If you want to
use the same function version for the entire batch job, configure a specific function version in the
FunctionARN parameter when you create your job. If you configure an alias or the $LATEST qualifier,
the batch job immediately starts calling the new version of the function if the alias or $LATEST is
updated during the job execution.

Note that you can't reuse an existing Amazon S3 event-based function for batch operations. This is
because the Amazon S3 batch operation passes a different event parameter to the Lambda function and
expects a return message with a specific JSON structure.

In the resource-based policy (p. 51) that you create for the Amazon S3 batch job, ensure that you set
permission for the job to invoke your Lambda function.

In the execution role (p. 47) for the function, set a trust policy for Amazon S3 to assume the role when it
runs your function.

If your function uses the AWS SDK to manage Amazon S3 resources, you need to add Amazon S3
permissions in the execution role.

When the job runs, Amazon S3 starts multiple function instances to process the Amazon S3 objects in
parallel, up to the concurrency limit (p. 153) of the function. Amazon S3 limits the initial ramp-up of
instances to avoid excess cost for smaller jobs.

If the Lambda function returns a TemporaryFailure response code, Amazon S3 retries the operation.

For more information about Amazon S3 batch operations, see Performing batch operations in the
Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

For an example of how to use a Lambda function in Amazon S3 batch operations, see Invoking a Lambda
function from Amazon S3 batch operations in the Amazon S3 Developer Guide.

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Using AWS Lambda with Secrets Manager

Secrets Manager uses a Lambda function to rotate the secret for a secured service or database. You can
customize the Lambda function to implement the service-specific details of rotating a secret.

Secrets Manager invokes the Lambda rotation function as a synchronous invocation. The event
parameter contains the following fields:

{
"Step" : "request.type",
"SecretId" : "string",
"ClientRequestToken" : "string"
}

For more information about using Lambda with Secrets Manager, see Understanding Your Lambda
rotation function.

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon SES

When you use Amazon SES to receive messages, you can configure Amazon SES to call your Lambda
function when messages arrive. The service can then invoke your Lambda function by passing in
the incoming email event, which in reality is an Amazon SES message in an Amazon SNS event, as a
parameter.

Example Amazon SES message event

{
"Records": [
{
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"ses": {
"mail": {
"commonHeaders": {
"from": [
"Jane Doe <janedoe@example.com>"
],
"to": [
"johndoe@example.com"
],
"returnPath": "janedoe@example.com",
"messageId": "<0123456789example.com>",
"date": "Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:34:56 -0700",
"subject": "Test Subject"
},
"source": "janedoe@example.com",
"timestamp": "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"destination": [
"johndoe@example.com"
],
"headers": [
{
"name": "Return-Path",
"value": "<janedoe@example.com>"
},
{
"name": "Received",
"value": "from mailer.example.com (mailer.example.com [203.0.113.1]) by
inbound-smtp.us-west-2.amazonaws.com with SMTP id o3vrnil0e2ic for johndoe@example.com;
Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:34:56 +0000 (UTC)"
},
{
"name": "DKIM-Signature",
"value": "v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=example.com;
s=example; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type;
bh=jX3F0bCAI7sIbkHyy3mLYO28ieDQz2R0P8HwQkklFj4=; b=sQwJ+LMe9RjkesGu+vqU56asvMhrLRRYrWCbV"
},
{
"name": "MIME-Version",
"value": "1.0"
},
{
"name": "From",
"value": "Jane Doe <janedoe@example.com>"
},
{
"name": "Date",
"value": "Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:34:56 -0700"
},
{
"name": "Message-ID",

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"value": "<0123456789example.com>"
},
{
"name": "Subject",
"value": "Test Subject"
},
{
"name": "To",
"value": "johndoe@example.com"
},
{
"name": "Content-Type",
"value": "text/plain; charset=UTF-8"
}
],
"headersTruncated": false,
"messageId": "o3vrnil0e2ic28tr"
},
"receipt": {
"recipients": [
"johndoe@example.com"
],
"timestamp": "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
"spamVerdict": {
"status": "PASS"
},
"dkimVerdict": {
"status": "PASS"
},
"processingTimeMillis": 574,
"action": {
"type": "Lambda",
"invocationType": "Event",
"functionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:012345678912:function:Example"
},
"spfVerdict": {
"status": "PASS"
},
"virusVerdict": {
"status": "PASS"
}
}
},
"eventSource": "aws:ses"
}
]
}

For more information, see Lambda action in the Amazon SES Developer Guide.

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Using Lambda with Amazon SNS

You can use a Lambda function to process Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
notifications. Amazon SNS supports Lambda functions as a target for messages sent to a topic. You can
subscribe your function to topics in the same account or in other AWS accounts.

Amazon SNS invokes your function asynchronously (p. 140) with an event that contains a message and
metadata.

Example Amazon SNS message event

{
"Records": [
{
"EventVersion": "1.0",
"EventSubscriptionArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:sns-lambda:21be56ed-
a058-49f5-8c98-aedd2564c486",
"EventSource": "aws:sns",
"Sns": {
"SignatureVersion": "1",
"Timestamp": "2019-01-02T12:45:07.000Z",
"Signature": "tcc6faL2yUC6dgZdmrwh1Y4cGa/ebXEkAi6RibDsvpi+tE/1+82j...65r==",
"SigningCertUrl": "https://sns.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/SimpleNotificationService-
ac565b8b1a6c5d002d285f9598aa1d9b.pem",
"MessageId": "95df01b4-ee98-5cb9-9903-4c221d41eb5e",
"Message": "Hello from SNS!",
"MessageAttributes": {
"Test": {
"Type": "String",
"Value": "TestString"
},
"TestBinary": {
"Type": "Binary",
"Value": "TestBinary"
}
},
"Type": "Notification",
"UnsubscribeUrl": "https://sns.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/?
Action=Unsubscribe&amp;SubscriptionArn=arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:test-
lambda:21be56ed-a058-49f5-8c98-aedd2564c486",
"TopicArn":"arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:123456789012:sns-lambda",
"Subject": "TestInvoke"
}
}
]
}

For asynchronous invocation, Lambda queues the message and handles retries. If Amazon SNS can't
reach Lambda or the message is rejected, Amazon SNS retries at increasing intervals over several hours.
For details, see Reliability in the Amazon SNS FAQs.

To perform cross-account Amazon SNS deliveries to Lambda, you must authorize Amazon SNS to invoke
your Lambda function. In turn, Amazon SNS must allow the AWS account with the Lambda function
to subscribe to the Amazon SNS topic. For example, if the Amazon SNS topic is in account A and the
Lambda function is in account B, both accounts must grant permissions to the other to access their
respective resources. Since not all the options for setting up cross-account permissions are available from
the AWS Management Console, you must use the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) for setup.

For more information, see Fanout to Lambda functions in the Amazon Simple Notification Service
Developer Guide.

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Tutorial

Input types for Amazon SNS events

For input type examples for Amazon SNS events in Java, .NET, and Go, see the following on the AWS
GitHub repository:

• SNSEvent.java
• SNSEvent.cs
• sns.go

Topics
• Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Simple Notification Service (p. 433)
• Sample function code (p. 437)

Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Simple

Notification Service
You can use a Lambda function in one AWS account to subscribe to an Amazon SNS topic in a separate
AWS account. In this tutorial, you use the AWS Command Line Interface to perform AWS Lambda
operations such as creating a Lambda function, creating an Amazon SNS topic and granting permissions
to allow these two resources to access each other.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

In the tutorial, you use two accounts. The AWS CLI commands illustrate this by using two named profiles,
each configured for use with a different account. If you use profiles with different names, or the default
profile and one named profile, modify the commands as needed.

Create an Amazon SNS topic

From account A (01234567891A), create the source Amazon SNS topic.

aws sns create-topic --name sns-topic-for-lambda --profile accountA

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Note the topic ARN that is returned by the command. You will need it when you add permissions to the
Lambda function to subscribe to the topic.

Create the execution role

From account B (01234567891B), create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to
access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – AWS Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-sns-role.

The AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to write logs to
CloudWatch Logs.

Create a Lambda function

From account B (01234567891B), create the function that processes events from Amazon SNS. The
following example code receives an Amazon SNS event input and processes the messages that it
contains. For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.
Note
For sample code in other languages, see Sample function code (p. 437).

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

// console.log('Received event:', JSON.stringify(event, null, 4));

var message = event.Records[0].Sns.Message;

console.log('Message received from SNS:', message);
callback(null, "Success");
};

To create the function

1. Copy the sample code into a file named index.js.

2. Create a deployment package.

zip function.zip index.js

3. Create a Lambda function with the create-function command.

aws lambda create-function --function-name Function-With-SNS \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \
--role arn:aws:iam::01234567891B:role/service-role/lambda-sns-execution-role \
--timeout 60 --profile accountB

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Note the function ARN that is returned by the command. You will need it when you add permissions to
allow Amazon SNS to invoke your function.

Set up cross-account permissions

From account A (01234567891A), grant permission to account B (01234567891B) to subscribe to the
topic:

aws sns add-permission --label lambda-access --aws-account-id 12345678901B \

--topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:12345678901A:sns-topic-for-lambda \
--action-name Subscribe ListSubscriptionsByTopic --profile accountA

From account B (01234567891B), add the Lambda permission to allow invocation from Amazon SNS.

aws lambda add-permission --function-name Function-With-SNS \

--source-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:12345678901A:sns-topic-for-lambda \
--statement-id function-with-sns --action "lambda:InvokeFunction" \
--principal sns.amazonaws.com --profile accountB

You should see the following output:

{
"Statement": "{\"Condition\":{\"ArnLike\":{\"AWS:SourceArn\":
\"arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:12345678901A:sns-topic-for-lambda\"}},
\"Action\":[\"lambda:InvokeFunction\"],
\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:01234567891B:function:Function-With-SNS\",
\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":{\"Service\":\"sns.amazonaws.com\"},
\"Sid\":\"function-with-sns1\"}"
}

Do not use the --source-account parameter to add a source account to the Lambda policy when
adding the policy. Source account is not supported for Amazon SNS event sources and will result in
access being denied.
Note
If the account with the SNS topic is hosted in an opt-in region, you need to specify the region in
the principal. For an example, see Invoking Lambda functions using Amazon SNS notifications in
the Amazon Simple Notification Service Developer Guide.

Create a subscription
From account B, subscribe the Lambda function to the topic. When a message is sent to the sns-topic-
for-lambda topic in account A (01234567891A), Amazon SNS invokes the Function-With-SNS
function in account B (01234567891B).

aws sns subscribe --protocol lambda \

--topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:12345678901A:sns-topic-for-lambda \
--notification-endpoint arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:12345678901B:function:Function-With-SNS \
--profile accountB

You should see the following output:

{
"SubscriptionArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:12345678901A:sns-topic-for-
lambda:5d906xxxx-7c8x-45dx-a9dx-0484e31c98xx"
}

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The output contains the ARN of the topic subscription.

Test subscription
From account A (01234567891A), test the subscription. Type Hello World into a text file and save it as
message.txt. Then run the following command:

aws sns publish --message file://message.txt --subject Test \

--topic-arn arn:aws:sns:us-east-2:12345678901A:sns-topic-for-lambda \
--profile accountA

This will return a message id with a unique identifier, indicating the message has been accepted by the
Amazon SNS service. Amazon SNS will then attempt to deliver it to the topic's subscribers. Alternatively,
you could supply a JSON string directly to the message parameter, but using a text file allows for line
breaks in the message.

To learn more about Amazon SNS, see What is Amazon Simple Notification Service.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Amazon SNS topic

1. Open the Topics page of the Amazon SNS console.

2. Select the topic you created.
3. Choose Delete.
4. Enter delete me in the text box.
5. Choose Delete.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the Amazon SNS subscription

1. Open the Subscriptions page of the Amazon SNS console.

2. Select the subscription you created.
3. Choose Delete, Delete.

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Sample function code

Sample code is available for the following languages.

Topics
• Node.js 12.x (p. 437)
• Java 11 (p. 437)
• Go (p. 438)
• Python 3 (p. 438)

Node.js 12.x
The following example processes messages from Amazon SNS, and logs their contents.

Example index.js

console.log('Loading function');

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

// console.log('Received event:', JSON.stringify(event, null, 4));

var message = event.Records[0].Sns.Message;

console.log('Message received from SNS:', message);
callback(null, "Success");
};

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Node.js Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 489).

Java 11
The following example processes messages from Amazon SNS, and logs their contents.

Example LogEvent.java

package example;

import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.SNSEvent;

public class LogEvent implements RequestHandler<SNSEvent, Object> {

public Object handleRequest(SNSEvent request, Context context){
String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-
dd_HH:mm:ss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
context.getLogger().log("Invocation started: " + timeStamp);
context.getLogger().log(request.getRecords().get(0).getSNS().getMessage());

timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-

dd_HH:mm:ss").format(Calendar.getInstance().getTime());
context.getLogger().log("Invocation completed: " + timeStamp);
return null;
}
}

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Dependencies

• aws-lambda-java-core
• aws-lambda-java-events

Build the code with the Lambda library dependencies to create a deployment package. For instructions,
see Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578).

Go
The following example processes messages from Amazon SNS, and logs their contents.

Example lambda_handler.go

package main

import (
"context"
"fmt"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
)

func handler(ctx context.Context, snsEvent events.SNSEvent) {

for _, record := range snsEvent.Records {
snsRecord := record.SNS
fmt.Printf("[%s %s] Message = %s \n", record.EventSource, snsRecord.Timestamp,
snsRecord.Message)
}
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(handler)
}

Build the executable with go build and create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Go
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617).

Python 3
The following example processes messages from Amazon SNS, and logs their contents.

Example lambda_handler.py

from __future__ import print_function

import json
print('Loading function')

def lambda_handler(event, context):

#print("Received event: " + json.dumps(event, indent=2))
message = event['Records'][0]['Sns']['Message']
print("From SNS: " + message)
return message

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Python Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

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Using AWS Lambda with Amazon SQS

You can use an AWS Lambda function to process messages in an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon
SQS) queue. Lambda event source mappings (p. 148) support standard queues and first-in, first-out
(FIFO) queues. With Amazon SQS, you can offload tasks from one component of your application by
sending them to a queue and processing them asynchronously.

Lambda polls the queue and invokes your Lambda function synchronously (p. 138) with an event that
contains queue messages. Lambda reads messages in batches and invokes your function once for each
batch. When your function successfully processes a batch, Lambda deletes its messages from the queue.
The following example shows an event for a batch of two messages.

Example Amazon SQS message event (standard queue)

{
"Records": [
{
"messageId": "059f36b4-87a3-44ab-83d2-661975830a7d",
"receiptHandle": "AQEBwJnKyrHigUMZj6rYigCgxlaS3SLy0a...",
"body": "Test message.",
"attributes": {
"ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
"SentTimestamp": "1545082649183",
"SenderId": "AIDAIENQZJOLO23YVJ4VO",
"ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1545082649185"
},
"messageAttributes": {},
"md5OfBody": "e4e68fb7bd0e697a0ae8f1bb342846b3",
"eventSource": "aws:sqs",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:my-queue",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2"
},
{
"messageId": "2e1424d4-f796-459a-8184-9c92662be6da",
"receiptHandle": "AQEBzWwaftRI0KuVm4tP+/7q1rGgNqicHq...",
"body": "Test message.",
"attributes": {
"ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
"SentTimestamp": "1545082650636",
"SenderId": "AIDAIENQZJOLO23YVJ4VO",
"ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1545082650649"
},
"messageAttributes": {},
"md5OfBody": "e4e68fb7bd0e697a0ae8f1bb342846b3",
"eventSource": "aws:sqs",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:my-queue",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2"
}
]
}

By default, Lambda invokes your function as soon as records are available in the SQS queue. Lambda will
poll up to 10 messages in your queue at once and will send that batch to the function. To avoid invoking
the function with a small number of records, you can tell the event source to buffer records for up to
five minutes by configuring a batch window. Before invoking the function, Lambda continues to poll
messages from the SQS standard queue until batch window expires, the payload limit (p. 44) is reached
or full batch size is reached.

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Example Amazon SQS message event (FIFO queue)

{
"Records": [
{
"messageId": "11d6ee51-4cc7-4302-9e22-7cd8afdaadf5",
"receiptHandle": "AQEBBX8nesZEXmkhsmZeyIE8iQAMig7qw...",
"body": "Test message.",
"attributes": {
"ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
"SentTimestamp": "1573251510774",
"SequenceNumber": "18849496460467696128",
"MessageGroupId": "1",
"SenderId": "AIDAIO23YVJENQZJOL4VO",
"MessageDeduplicationId": "1",
"ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1573251510774"
},
"messageAttributes": {},
"md5OfBody": "e4e68fb7bd0e697a0ae8f1bb342846b3",
"eventSource": "aws:sqs",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:fifo.fifo",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2"
}
]
}

When Lambda reads a batch, the messages stay in the queue but become hidden for the length of
the queue's visibility timeout. If your function successfully processes the batch, Lambda deletes the
messages from the queue. If your function is throttled (p. 153), returns an error, or doesn't respond, the
message becomes visible again. All messages in a failed batch return to the queue, so your function code
must be able to process the same message multiple times without side effects.

Sections
• Scaling and processing (p. 440)
• Configuring a queue to use with Lambda (p. 441)
• Execution role permissions (p. 441)
• Configuring a queue as an event source (p. 441)
• Event source mapping APIs (p. 316)
• Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Simple Queue Service (p. 443)
• Sample Amazon SQS function code (p. 447)
• AWS SAM template for an Amazon SQS application (p. 449)

Scaling and processing

For standard queues, Lambda uses long polling to poll a queue until it becomes active. When messages
are available, Lambda reads up to 5 batches and sends them to your function. If messages are still
available, Lambda increases the number of processes that are reading batches by up to 60 more
instances per minute. The maximum number of batches that can be processed simultaneously by an
event source mapping is 1000.

For FIFO queues, Lambda sends messages to your function in the order that it receives them. When you
send a message to a FIFO queue, you specify a message group ID. Amazon SQS ensures that messages in
the same group are delivered to Lambda in order. Lambda sorts the messages into groups and sends only
one batch at a time for a group. If the function returns an error, all retries are attempted on the affected
messages before Lambda receives additional messages from the same group.

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Your function can scale in concurrency to the number of active message groups. For more information,
see SQS FIFO as an event source on the AWS Compute Blog.

Configuring a queue to use with Lambda

Create an SQS queue to serve as an event source for your Lambda function. Then configure the queue
to allow time for your Lambda function to process each batch of events—and for Lambda to retry in
response to throttling errors as it scales up.

To allow your function time to process each batch of records, set the source queue's visibility timeout
to at least 6 times the timeout (p. 70) that you configure on your function. The extra time allows for
Lambda to retry if your function execution is throttled while your function is processing a previous batch.

If a message fails to be processed multiple times, Amazon SQS can send it to a dead-letter queue. When
your function returns an error, Lambda leaves it in the queue. After the visibility timeout occurs, Lambda
receives the message again. To send messages to a second queue after a number of receives, configure a
dead-letter queue on your source queue.
Note
Make sure that you configure the dead-letter queue on the source queue, not on the Lambda
function. The dead-letter queue that you configure on a function is used for the function's
asynchronous invocation queue (p. 140), not for event source queues.

If your function returns an error, or can't be invoked because it's at maximum concurrency, processing
might succeed with additional attempts. To give messages a better chance to be processed before
sending them to the dead-letter queue, set the maxReceiveCount on the source queue's redrive policy
to at least 5.

Execution role permissions

Lambda needs the following permissions to manage messages in your Amazon SQS queue. Add them to
your function's execution role.

• sqs:ReceiveMessage
• sqs:DeleteMessage
• sqs:GetQueueAttributes

For more information, see AWS Lambda execution role (p. 47).

Configuring a queue as an event source

Create an event source mapping to tell Lambda to send items from your queue to a Lambda function.
You can create multiple event source mappings to process items from multiple queues with a single
function. When Lambda invokes the target function, the event can contain multiple items, up to a
configurable maximum batch size.

To configure your function to read from Amazon SQS in the Lambda console, create an SQS trigger.

To create a trigger

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Function overview, choose Add trigger.
4. Choose a trigger type.

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5. Configure the required options and then choose Add.

Lambda supports the following options for Amazon SQS event sources.

Event source options

• SQS queue – The Amazon SQS queue to read records from.

• Batch size – The number of records to send to the function in each batch. For a standard queue this
can be up to 10,000 records. For a FIFO queue the maximum is 10. For a batch size over 10, you must
also set the MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds parameter to at least 1 second. Lambda passes all
of the records in the batch to the function in a single call, as long as the total size of the events doesn't
exceed the payload limit (p. 44) for synchronous invocation (6 MB).

Metadata is generated by both Lambda and Amazon SQS for each record. This additional metadata
is counted towards the total payload size and may cause the total number of records sent in a batch
to be lower than your configured batch size. The metadata fields sent by Amazon SQS can be variable
in length. For more information about the Amazon SQS metadata fields, see the ReceiveMessage
documentation in the Amazon Simple Queue Service API Reference.
• Batch window – Specify the maximum amount of time to gather records before invoking the function,
in seconds. Only applicable to standard queues.

If you are using a batch window greater than 0 seconds, you must account for the increased processing
time in your queue visibility timeout. Set your queue visibility timeout to 6 times your function
timeout, plus the value of MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds. This allows time for your Lambda
function to process each batch of events and to retry in the event of a throttling error.

Lambda processes up to 5 batches at a time. This means there are a maximum of 5 workers available
to batch and process messages in parallel at any one time. Each worker will show a distinct Lambda
invocation for its current batch of messages.
• Enabled – Set to true to enable the event source mapping. Set to false to stop processing records.

Note
Amazon SQS has a perpetual free tier for requests. Beyond the free tier, Amazon SQS charges
per million requests. While your event source mapping is active, Lambda makes requests to the
queue to get items. For pricing details, see Amazon Simple Queue Service pricing.

To manage the event source configuration later, choose the trigger in the designer.

Configure your function timeout to allow enough time to process an entire batch of items. If items take a
long time to process, choose a smaller batch size. A large batch size can improve efficiency for workloads
that are very fast or have a lot of overhead. However, if your function returns an error, all items in the
batch return to the queue. If you configure reserved concurrency (p. 84) on your function, set a minimum
of 5 concurrent executions to reduce the chance of throttling errors when Lambda invokes your function.
To eliminate the chance of throttling errors, set the reserved concurrency (p. 84) value to 1000, which is
the maximum number of concurrent executions for an Amazon SQS event source.

Event source mapping APIs

To manage an event source with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, you can use the following API operations:

• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)

• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)
• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)

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The following example uses the AWS CLI to map a function named my-function to an Amazon SQS
queue that is specified by its Amazon Resource Name (ARN), with a batch size of 5 and a batch window of
60 seconds.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --function-name my-function --batch-size 5 \

--maximum-batching-window-in-seconds 60 \
--event-source-arn arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:my-queue

You should see the following output:

{
"UUID": "2b733gdc-8ac3-cdf5-af3a-1827b3b11284",
"BatchSize": 5,
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": 60,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:my-queue",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"LastModified": 1541139209.351,
"State": "Creating",
"StateTransitionReason": "USER_INITIATED"
}

Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon Simple

Queue Service
In this tutorial, you create a Lambda function to consume messages from an Amazon SQS queue.

Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have some knowledge of basic Lambda operations and the Lambda
console. If you haven't already, follow the instructions in Getting started with Lambda (p. 9) to create
your first Lambda function.

To complete the following steps, you need a command line terminal or shell to run commands.
Commands and the expected output are listed in separate blocks:

aws --version

You should see the following output:

aws-cli/2.0.57 Python/3.7.4 Darwin/19.6.0 exe/x86_64

For long commands, an escape character (\) is used to split a command over multiple lines.

On Linux and macOS, use your preferred shell and package manager. On Windows 10, you can install the
Windows Subsystem for Linux to get a Windows-integrated version of Ubuntu and Bash.

Create the execution role

Create the execution role (p. 47) that gives your function permission to access AWS resources.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.

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3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – AWS Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaSQSQueueExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-sqs-role.

The AWSLambdaSQSQueueExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to read
items from Amazon SQS and write logs to CloudWatch Logs.

Create the function

The following example shows how to process each Amazon SQS message in the event input. See Using
AWS Lambda with Amazon SQS for an example of an event with multiple messages. In the example, the
code writes each message to a log in CloudWatch Logs.
Note
For sample code in other languages, see Sample Amazon SQS function code (p. 447).

Example index.js

exports.handler = async function(event, context) {

event.Records.forEach(record => {
const { body } = record;
console.log(body);
});
return {};
}

To create the function

1. Copy the sample code into a file named index.js.

2. Create a deployment package.

zip function.zip index.js

3. Create a Lambda function with the create-function command.

aws lambda create-function --function-name ProcessSQSRecord \

--zip-file fileb://function.zip --handler index.handler --runtime nodejs12.x \
--role arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-sqs-role

Test the function

Invoke your Lambda function manually using the invoke AWS Lambda CLI command and a sample
Amazon Simple Queue Service event.

If the handler returns normally without exceptions, Lambda considers the message processed
successfully and begins reading new messages in the queue. Once a message is processed successfully, it
is automatically deleted from the queue. If the handler throws an exception, Lambda considers the input
of messages as not processed and invokes the function with the same batch of messages.

1. Copy the following JSON into a file and save it as input.txt.

{
"Records": [

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{
"messageId": "059f36b4-87a3-44ab-83d2-661975830a7d",
"receiptHandle": "AQEBwJnKyrHigUMZj6rYigCgxlaS3SLy0a...",
"body": "test",
"attributes": {
"ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
"SentTimestamp": "1545082649183",
"SenderId": "AIDAIENQZJOLO23YVJ4VO",
"ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1545082649185"
},
"messageAttributes": {},
"md5OfBody": "098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6",
"eventSource": "aws:sqs",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:my-queue",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2"
}
]
}

2. Run the following invoke command.

aws lambda invoke --function-name ProcessSQSRecord \

--payload file://input.txt outputfile.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure
this option in your AWS CLI config file
.
3. Verify the output in the outputfile.txt file.

Create an Amazon SQS queue

Create an Amazon SQS queue that the Lambda function can use as an event source.

To create a queue

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon SQS console at https://
console.aws.amazon.com/sqs/.
2. In the Amazon SQS console, create a queue.
3. Write down or otherwise record the identifying queue ARN (Amazon Resource Name). You need this
in the next step when you associate the queue with your Lambda function.

Create an event source mapping in AWS Lambda. This event source mapping associates the Amazon
SQS queue with your Lambda function. After you create this event source mapping, AWS Lambda starts
polling the queue.

Test the end-to-end experience. As you perform queue updates, Amazon Simple Queue Service writes
messages to the queue. AWS Lambda polls the queue, detects new records and invokes your Lambda
function on your behalf by passing events, in this case Amazon SQS messages, to the function.

Configure the event source

To create a mapping between the specified Amazon SQS queue and the Lambda function, run the
following AWS CLI create-event-source-mapping command. After the command runs, write down
or otherwise record the UUID. You'll need this UUID to refer to the event source mapping in any other
commands, for example, if you choose to delete the event source mapping.

aws lambda create-event-source-mapping --function-name ProcessSQSRecord --batch-size 10 \

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--event-source-arn arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:my-queue

You can get the list of event source mappings by running the following command.

aws lambda list-event-source-mappings --function-name ProcessSQSRecord \

--event-source-arn arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:my-queue

The list returns all of the event source mappings you created, and for each mapping it shows the
LastProcessingResult, among other things. This field is used to provide an informative message if
there are any problems. Values such as No records processed (indicates that AWS Lambda has not
started polling or that there are no records in the queue) and OK (indicates AWS Lambda successfully
read records from the queue and invoked your Lambda function) indicate that there no issues. If there
are issues, you receive an error message.

Test the setup

Now you can test the setup as follows:

1. In the Amazon SQS console, send messages to the queue. Amazon SQS writes records of these actions
to the queue.
2. AWS Lambda polls the queue and when it detects updates, it invokes your Lambda function by
passing in the event data it finds in the queue.
3. Your function runs and creates logs in Amazon CloudWatch. You can verify the logs reported in the
Amazon CloudWatch console.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the execution role

1. Open the Roles page of the IAM console.

2. Select the execution role that you created.
3. Choose Delete role.
4. Choose Yes, delete.

To delete the Lambda function

1. Open the Functions page of the Lambda console.

2. Select the function that you created.
3. Choose Actions, Delete.
4. Choose Delete.

To delete the Amazon SQS queue

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon SQS console at https://
console.aws.amazon.com/sqs/.
2. Select the queue you created.
3. Choose Delete.

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4. Enter delete in the text box.

5. Choose Delete.

Sample Amazon SQS function code

Sample code is available for the following languages.

Topics
• Node.js (p. 447)
• Java (p. 447)
• C# (p. 448)
• Go (p. 448)
• Python (p. 449)

Node.js
The following is example code that receives an Amazon SQS event message as input and processes it. For
illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

Example index.js (Node.js 12)

exports.handler = async function(event, context) {

event.Records.forEach(record => {
const { body } = record;
console.log(body);
});
return {};
}

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Node.js Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 489).

Java
The following is example Java code that receives an Amazon SQS event message as input and processes
it. For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

In the code, handleRequest is the handler. The handler uses the predefined SQSEvent class that is
defined in the aws-lambda-java-events library.

Example Handler.java

package example;

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.SQSEvent;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.SQSEvent.SQSMessage;

public class Handler implements RequestHandler<SQSEvent, Void>{

@Override
public Void handleRequest(SQSEvent event, Context context)
{
for(SQSMessage msg : event.getRecords()){
System.out.println(new String(msg.getBody()));

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}
return null;
}
}

Dependencies

• aws-lambda-java-core
• aws-lambda-java-events

Build the code with the Lambda library dependencies to create a deployment package. For instructions,
see Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578).

C#
The following is example C# code that receives an Amazon SQS event message as input and processes it.
For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to the console.

In the code, handleRequest is the handler. The handler uses the predefined SQSEvent class that is
defined in the AWS.Lambda.SQSEvents library.

Example ProcessingSQSRecords.cs

[assembly: LambdaSerializer(typeof(Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json.JsonSerializer))]

namespace SQSLambdaFunction
{
public class SQSLambdaFunction
{
public string HandleSQSEvent(SQSEvent sqsEvent, ILambdaContext context)
{
Console.WriteLine($"Beginning to process {sqsEvent.Records.Count} records...");

foreach (var record in sqsEvent.Records)

{
Console.WriteLine($"Message ID: {record.MessageId}");
Console.WriteLine($"Event Source: {record.EventSource}");

Console.WriteLine($"Record Body:");
Console.WriteLine(record.Body);
}

Console.WriteLine("Processing complete.");

return $"Processed {sqsEvent.Records.Count} records.";

}
}
}

Replace the Program.cs in a .NET Core project with the above sample. For instructions, see Deploy C#
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 645).

Go
The following is example Go code that receives an Amazon SQS event message as input and processes it.
For illustration, the code writes some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

In the code, handler is the handler. The handler uses the predefined SQSEvent class that is defined in
the aws-lambda-go-events library.

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Example ProcessSQSRecords.go

package main

import (
"context"
"fmt"

"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

func handler(ctx context.Context, sqsEvent events.SQSEvent) error {

for _, message := range sqsEvent.Records {
fmt.Printf("The message %s for event source %s = %s \n", message.MessageId,
message.EventSource, message.Body)
}

return nil
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(handler)
}

Build the executable with go build and create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Go
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617).

Python
The following is example Python code that accepts an Amazon SQS record as input and processes it. For
illustration, the code writes to some of the incoming event data to CloudWatch Logs.

Example ProcessSQSRecords.py

from __future__ import print_function

def lambda_handler(event, context):

for record in event['Records']:
print("test")
payload = record["body"]
print(str(payload))

Zip up the sample code to create a deployment package. For instructions, see Deploy Python Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

AWS SAM template for an Amazon SQS application

You can build this application using AWS SAM. To learn more about creating AWS SAM templates, see
AWS SAM template basics in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

Below is a sample AWS SAM template for the Lambda application from the tutorial (p. 443). Copy
the text below to a .yaml file and save it next to the ZIP package you created previously. Note that
the Handler and Runtime parameter values should match the ones you used when you created the
function in the previous section.

Example template.yaml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'

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Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: Example of processing messages on an SQS queue with Lambda
Resources:
MySQSQueueFunction:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
Events:
MySQSEvent:
Type: SQS
Properties:
Queue: !GetAtt MySqsQueue.Arn
BatchSize: 10
MySqsQueue:
Type: AWS::SQS::Queue

For information on how to package and deploy your serverless application using the package and deploy
commands, see Deploying serverless applications in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer
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Using AWS Lambda with AWS X-Ray

You can use AWS X-Ray to visualize the components of your application, identify performance
bottlenecks, and troubleshoot requests that resulted in an error. Your Lambda functions send trace data
to X-Ray, and X-Ray processes the data to generate a service map and searchable trace summaries.

If you've enabled X-Ray tracing in a service that invokes your function, Lambda sends traces to X-Ray
automatically. The upstream service, such as Amazon API Gateway, or an application hosted on Amazon
EC2 that is instrumented with the X-Ray SDK, samples incoming requests and adds a tracing header that
tells Lambda to send traces or not.

To trace requests that don't have a tracing header, enable active tracing in your function's configuration.

To enable active tracing

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Monitoring tools.
4. Choose Edit.
5. Under X-Ray, enable Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Pricing
X-Ray has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, X-Ray charges for trace storage
and retrieval. For details, see AWS X-Ray pricing.

Your function needs permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. When you enable active tracing in the
Lambda console, Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).
Otherwise, add the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess policy to the execution role.

X-Ray applies a sampling algorithm to ensure that tracing is efficient, while still providing a
representative sample of the requests that your application serves. The default sampling rule is 1 request
per second and 5 percent of additional requests. This sampling rate cannot be configured for Lambda
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In X-Ray, a trace records information about a request that is processed by one or more services. Services
record segments that contain layers of subsegments. Lambda records a segment for the Lambda service
that handles the invocation request, and one for the work done by the function. The function segment
comes with subsegments for Initialization, Invocation and Overhead. For more information see
Lambda execution environment lifecycle (p. 200).

The Initialization subsegment represents the init phase of the Lambda execution environment
lifecycle. During this phase, Lambda creates or unfreezes an execution environment with the resources
you have configured, downloads the function code and all layers, initializes extensions, initializes the
runtime, and runs the function's initialization code.

The Invocation subsegment represents the invoke phase where Lambda invokes the function handler.
This begins with runtime and extension registration and it ends when the runtime is ready to send the
response.

The Overhead subsegment represents the phase that occurs between the time when the runtime sends
the response and the signal for the next invoke. During this time, the runtime finishes all tasks related to
an invoke and prepares to freeze the sandbox.

Note
If your Lambda function uses provisioned concurrency (p. 87), your X-Ray trace might display a
function initialization with a very long duration.
Provisioned concurrency initializes function instances in advance, to reduce lag at the time
of invocation. Over time, provisioned concurrency refreshes these instances by creating new
instances to replace the old ones. For workloads with steady traffic, the new instances are
initialized well in advance of their first invocation. The time gap gets recorded in the X-Ray trace
as the initialization duration.

The following example shows a trace with 2 segments. Both are named my-function, but one is type
AWS::Lambda and the other is AWS::Lambda::Function. The function segment is expanded to show
its subsegments.

Important
In Lambda, you can use the X-Ray SDK to extend the Invocation subsegment with additional
subsegments for downstream calls, annotations, and metadata. You can't access the function
segment directly or record work done outside of the handler invocation scope.

See the following topics for a language-specific introduction to tracing in Lambda:

• Instrumenting Node.js code in AWS Lambda (p. 505)

• Instrumenting Python code in AWS Lambda (p. 543)
• Instrumenting Ruby code in AWS Lambda (p. 566)
• Instrumenting Java code in AWS Lambda (p. 602)
• Instrumenting Go code in AWS Lambda (p. 633)

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• Instrumenting C# code in AWS Lambda (p. 663)

For a full list of services that support active instrumentation, see Supported AWS services in the AWS X-
Ray Developer Guide.

Sections
• Execution role permissions (p. 453)
• The AWS X-Ray daemon (p. 453)
• Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API (p. 453)
• Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation (p. 454)

Execution role permissions

Lambda needs the following permissions to send trace data to X-Ray. Add them to your function's
execution role (p. 47).

• xray:PutTraceSegments
• xray:PutTelemetryRecords

These permissions are included in the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess managed policy.

The AWS X-Ray daemon

Instead of sending trace data directly to the X-Ray API, the X-Ray SDK uses a daemon process. The AWS
X-Ray daemon is an application that runs in the Lambda environment and listens for UDP traffic that
contains segments and subsegments. It buffers incoming data and writes it to X-Ray in batches, reducing
the processing and memory overhead required to trace invocations.

The Lambda runtime allows the daemon to up to 3 percent of your function's configured memory or 16
MB, whichever is greater. If your function runs out of memory during invocation, the runtime terminates
the daemon process first to free up memory.

The daemon process is fully managed by Lambda and cannot be configured by the user. All segments
generated by function invocations are recorded in the same account as the Lambda function. The
daemon cannot be configured to redirect them to any other account.

For more information, see The X-Ray daemon in the X-Ray Developer Guide.

Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API

To manage tracing configuration with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example AWS CLI command enables active tracing on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--tracing-config Mode=Active

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Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

Tracing mode is part of the version-specific configuration that is locked when you publish a version of
your function. You can't change the tracing mode on a published version.

Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

To enable active tracing on an AWS::Lambda::Function resource in an AWS CloudFormation template,
use the TracingConfig property.

Example function-inline.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
Properties:
TracingConfig:
Mode: Active
...

For an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the
Tracing property.

Example template.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Tracing: Active
...

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Orchestrating functions with Step

Functions
AWS Step Functions is an orchestration service that lets you connect Lambda functions together into
serverless workflows, called state machines. Use Step Functions to orchestrate serverless applications
workflows (for example, a store checkout process), build long-running workflows for IT automation
and human-approval use cases, or create high-volume short-duration workflows for streaming data
processing and ingestion.

Topics
• State machine application patterns (p. 455)
• Managing state machines in the Lambda console (p. 458)
• Orchestration examples with Step Functions (p. 460)

State machine application patterns

In Step Functions, you orchestrate your resources using state machines, which are defined using a JSON-
based, structured language called Amazon States Language.

Sections
• State machine components (p. 455)
• State machine application patterns (p. 455)
• Applying patterns to state machines (p. 456)
• Example branching application pattern (p. 456)

State machine components

State machines contain elements called states that make up your workflow. The logic of each state
determines which state comes next, what data to pass along, and when to terminate the workflow. A
state is referred to by its name, which can be any string, but which must be unique within the scope of
the entire state machine.

To create a state machine that uses Lambda, you need the following components:

1. An AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role for Lambda with one or more permissions policies
(such as AWSLambdaRole service permissions).
2. One or more Lambda functions (with the IAM role attached) for your specific runtime.
3. A state machine authored in Amazon States Language.

State machine application patterns

You can create complex orchestrations for state machines using application patterns such as:

• Catch and retry – Handle errors using sophisticated catch-and-retry functionality.

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• Branching – Design your workflow to choose different branches based on Lambda function output.
• Chaining – Connect functions into a series of steps, with the output of one step providing the input to
the next step.
• Parallelism – Run functions in parallel, or use dynamic parallelism to invoke a function for every
member of any array.

Applying patterns to state machines

The following shows how you can apply these application patterns to a state machine within an Amazon
States Language definition.

Catch and Retry

A Catch field and a Retry field add catch-and-retry logic to a state machine. Catch ("Type":
"Catch") is an array of objects that define a fallback state. Retry ("Type": "Retry") is an array of
objects that define a retry policy if the state encounters runtime errors.
Branching

A Choice state adds branching logic to a state machine. Choice ("Type": "Choice") is an array of
rules that determine which state the state machine transitions to next.
Chaining

A "Chaining" pattern describes multiple Lambda functions connected together in a state machine.
You can use chaining to create reusable workflow invocations from a Task ("Type": "Task") state
of a state machine.
Parallelism

A Parallel state adds parallelism logic to a state machine. You can use a Parallel state ("Type":
"Parallel") to create parallel branches of invocation in your state machine.
Dynamic parallelism

A Map state adds dynamic "for-each" loop logic to a state machine. You can use a Map state
("Type": "Map") to run a set of steps for each element of an input array in a state machine. While
the Parallel state invokes multiple branches of steps using the same input, a Map state invokes
the same steps for multiple entries of the array.

In addition to application patterns, Step Functions supports various service integration patterns,
including the ability to pause a workflow for human approval, or to call a legacy system or other third
party.

Example branching application pattern

In the following example, the WhichCoat state machine defined in the Amazon States Language (ASL)
definition shows a branching application pattern with a Choice state ("Type": "Choice"). If the
condition of one of the three Choice states is met, the Lambda function is invoked as a Task:

1. The WearHeavyCoat state invokes the wear_heavy_coat Lambda function and returns a message.
2. The WearLightJacket state invokes the wear_light_jacket Lambda function and returns a
message.
3. The None state invokes the no_jacket Lambda function and returns a message.

The WhichCoat state machine has the following structure:

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Example Example Amazon States Language definition

The following Amazon States Language definition of the WhichCoat state machine uses a Variable
context object called Weather. If one of the three conditions in StringEquals is met, the Lambda
function defined in the Resource field's Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is invoked.

{
"Comment":"Coat Indicator State Machine",
"StartAt":"WhichCoat",
"States":{
"WhichCoat":{
"Type":"Choice",
"Choices":[
{
"Variable":"$.Weather",
"StringEquals":"FREEZING",
"Next":"WearHeavyCoat"
},
{
"Variable":"$.Weather",
"StringEquals":"COOL",
"Next":"WearLightJacket"
},
{
"Variable":"$.Weather",
"StringEquals":"WARM",
"Next":"None"
}
]
},
"WearHeavyCoat":{
"Type":"Task",
"Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:01234567890:function:wear_heavy_coat",

"End":true
},

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"WearLightJacket":{
"Type":"Task",
"Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-
west-2:01234567890:function:wear_light_jacket",
"End":true
},
"None":{
"Type":"Task",
"Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:01234567890:function:no_coat",

"End":true
}
}
}

Example Example Python function

The following Lambda function in Python (wear_heavy_coat) can be invoked for the state machine
defined in the previous example. If the WhichCoat state machine equals a string value of FREEZING,
the wear_heavy_coat function is invoked from Lambda, and the user receives the message that
corresponds with the function: "You should wear a heavy coat today."

from __future__ import print_function

import datetime

def wear_heavy_coat(message, context):

print(message)

response = {}
response['Weather'] = message['Weather']
response['Timestamp'] = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H-%M-%S")
response['Message'] = 'You should wear a heavy coat today.'

return response

Example Example invocation data

The following input data runs the WearHeavyCoat state that invokes the wear_heavy_coat Lambda
function, when the Weather variable is equal to a string value of FREEZING.

{
"Weather":"FREEZING"
}

For more information, see Creating a Step Functions State Machine That Uses Lambda in the AWS Step
Functions Developer Guide.

Managing state machines in the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view details about your Step Functions state machines and the
Lambda functions that they use.

Sections
• Viewing state machine details (p. 459)

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• Editing a state machine (p. 459)

• Running a state machine (p. 459)

Viewing state machine details

The Lambda console displays a list of your state machines in the current AWS Region that contain at
least one workflow step that invokes a Lambda function.

Choose a state machine to view a graphical representation of the workflow. Steps highlighted in blue
represent Lambda functions. Use the graph controls to zoom in, zoom out, and center the graph.
Note
When a Lambda function is dynamically referenced with JsonPath in the state machine
definition, the function details cannot be shown in the Lambda console. Instead, the function
name is listed as a Dynamic reference, and the corresponding steps in the graph are grayed out.

To view state machine details

1. Open the Lambda console Step Functions state machines page.

2. Choose a state machine.
<result>

The Lambda console opens the Details page.

</result>

For more information, see Step Functions in the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide.

Editing a state machine

When you want to edit a state machine, Lambda opens the Edit definition page of the Step Functions
console.

To edit a state machine

1. Open the Lambda console Step Functions state machine page.

2. Choose a state machine.
3. Choose Edit.

The Step Functions console opens the Edit definition page.

4. Edit the state machine and choose Save.

For more information about editing state machines, see Step Functions state machine language in the
AWS Step Functions Developer Guide.

Running a state machine

When you want to run a state machine, Lambda opens the New execution page of the Step Functions
console.

To run a state machine

1. Open the Lambda console Step Functions state machines page.

2. Choose a state machine.

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3. Choose Execute.

The Step Functions console opens the New execution page.

4. (Optional) Edit the state machine and choose Start execution.

For more information about running state machines, see Step Functions state machine execution
concepts in the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide.

Orchestration examples with Step Functions

All work in your Step Functions state machine is done by Tasks. A Task performs work by using an
activity, a Lambda function, or by passing parameters to the API actions of other Supported AWS Service
Integrations for Step Functions.

Sections
• Configuring a Lambda function as a task (p. 460)
• Configuring a state machine as an event source (p. 460)
• Handling function and service errors (p. 461)
• AWS CloudFormation and AWS SAM (p. 462)

Configuring a Lambda function as a task

Step Functions can invoke Lambda functions directly from a Task state in an Amazon States Language
definition.

...
"MyStateName":{
"Type":"Task",
"Resource":"arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:01234567890:function:my_lambda_function",

"End":true
...

You can create a Task state that invokes your Lambda function with the input to the state machine or
any JSON document.

Example event.json – Input to random-error function (p. 473)

{
"max-depth": 10,
"current-depth": 0,
"error-rate": 0.05
}

Configuring a state machine as an event source

You can create a Step Functions state machine that invokes a Lambda function. The following example
shows a Task state that invokes version 1 of a function named my-function with an event payload
that has three keys. When the function returns a successful response, the state machine continues to the
next task.

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Example Example state machine

...
"Invoke": {
"Type": "Task",
"Resource": "arn:aws:states:::lambda:invoke",
"Parameters": {
"FunctionName": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function:1",
"Payload": {
"max-depth": 10,
"current-depth": 0,
"error-rate": 0.05
}
},
"Next": "NEXT_STATE",
"TimeoutSeconds": 25
}

Permissions
Your state machine needs permission to call the Lambda API to invoke a function. To grant it
permission, add the AWS managed policy AWSLambdaRole or a function-scoped inline policy
to its role. For more information, see How AWS Step Functions Works with IAM in the AWS Step
Functions Developer Guide.

The FunctionName and Payload parameters map to parameters in the Invoke (p. 840) API operation.
In addition to these, you can also specify the InvocationType and ClientContext parameters. For
example, to invoke the function asynchronously and continue to the next state without waiting for a
result, you can set InvocationType to Event:

"InvocationType": "Event"

Instead of hard-coding the event payload in the state machine definition, you can use the input from the
state machine execution. The following example uses the input specified when you run the state machine
as the event payload:

"Payload.$": "$"

You can also invoke a function asynchronously and wait for it to make a callback with the AWS SDK. To
do this, set the state's resource to arn:aws:states:::lambda:invoke.waitForTaskToken.

For more information, see Invoke Lambda with Step Functions in the AWS Step Functions Developer
Guide.

Handling function and service errors

When your function or the Lambda service returns an error, you can retry the invocation or continue to a
different state based on the error type.

The following example shows an invoke task that retries on 5XX series Lambda API exceptions
(ServiceException), throttles (TooManyRequestsException), runtime errors (Lambda.Unknown),
and a function-defined error named function.MaxDepthError. It also catches an error named
function.DoublesRolledError and continues to a state named CaughtException when it occurs.

Example Example catch and retry pattern

...
"Invoke": {
"Type": "Task",
"Resource": "arn:aws:states:::lambda:invoke",

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"Retry": [
{
"ErrorEquals": [
"function.MaxDepthError",
"Lambda.TooManyRequestsException",
"Lambda.ServiceException",
"Lambda.Unknown"
],
"MaxAttempts": 5
}
],
"Catch": [
{
"ErrorEquals": [ "function.DoublesRolledError" ],
"Next": "CaughtException"
}
],
"Parameters": {
"FunctionName": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function:1",
...

To catch or retry function errors, create a custom error type. The name of the error type must match the
errorType in the formatted error response that Lambda returns when you throw an error.

For more information on error handling in Step Functions, see Handling Error Conditions Using a Step
Functions State Machine in the AWS Step Functions Developer Guide.

AWS CloudFormation and AWS SAM

You can define state machines using a AWS CloudFormation template with AWS Serverless Application
Model (AWS SAM). Using AWS SAM, you can define the state machine inline in the template or in a
separate file. The following example shows a state machine that invokes a Lambda function that handles
errors. It refers to a function resource defined in the same template (not shown).

Example Example branching pattern in template.yml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: An AWS Lambda application that uses AWS Step Functions.
Resources:
statemachine:
Type: AWS::Serverless::StateMachine
Properties:
DefinitionSubstitutions:
FunctionArn: !GetAtt function.Arn
Payload: |
{
"max-depth": 5,
"current-depth": 0,
"error-rate": 0.2
}
Definition:
StartAt: Invoke
States:
Invoke:
Type: Task
Resource: arn:aws:states:::lambda:invoke
Parameters:
FunctionName: "${FunctionArn}"
Payload: "${Payload}"
InvocationType: Event
Retry:
- ErrorEquals:

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- function.MaxDepthError
- function.MaxDepthError
- Lambda.TooManyRequestsException
- Lambda.ServiceException
- Lambda.Unknown
IntervalSeconds: 1
MaxAttempts: 5
Catch:
- ErrorEquals:
- function.DoublesRolledError
Next: CaughtException
- ErrorEquals:
- States.ALL
Next: UncaughtException
Next: Success
CaughtException:
Type: Pass
Result: The function returned an error.
End: true
UncaughtException:
Type: Pass
Result: Invocation failed.
End: true
Success:
Type: Pass
Result: Invocation succeeded!
End: true
Events:
scheduled:
Type: Schedule
Properties:
Description: Run every minute
Schedule: rate(1 minute)
Type: STANDARD
Policies:
- AWSLambdaRole
...

This creates a state machine with the following structure:

For more information, see AWS::Serverless::StateMachine in the AWS Serverless Application Model
Developer Guide.

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Lambda sample applications

The GitHub repository for this guide includes sample applications that demonstrate the use of various
languages and AWS services. Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup,
an AWS SAM template, and supporting resources.

Node.js

Sample Lambda applications in Node.js

• blank-nodejs – A Node.js function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS X-
Ray tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.
• nodejs-apig – A function with a public API endpoint that processes an event from API Gateway and
returns an HTTP response.
• rds-mysql – A function that relays queries to a MySQL for RDS Database. This sample includes a
private VPC and database instance configured with a password in AWS Secrets Manager.
• efs-nodejs – A function that uses an Amazon EFS file system in a Amazon VPC. This sample
includes a VPC, file system, mount targets, and access point configured for use with Lambda.
• list-manager – A function processes events from an Amazon Kinesis data stream and update
aggregate lists in Amazon DynamoDB. The function stores a record of each event in a MySQL
for RDS Database in a private VPC. This sample includes a private VPC with a VPC endpoint for
DynamoDB and a database instance.
• error-processor – A Node.js function generates errors for a specified percentage of requests. A
CloudWatch Logs subscription invokes a second function when an error is recorded. The processor
function uses the AWS SDK to gather details about the request and stores them in an Amazon S3
bucket.

Python

Sample Lambda applications in Python

• blank-python – A Python function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS X-
Ray tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.

Ruby

Sample Lambda applications in Ruby

• blank-ruby – A Ruby function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS X-Ray
tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.
• Ruby Code Samples for AWS Lambda – Code samples written in Ruby that demonstrate how to
interact with AWS Lambda.

Java

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.

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• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.
• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon
S3), Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).
• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java
Class Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

Go

Lambda provides the following sample applications for the Go runtime:

Sample Lambda applications in Go

• blank-go – A Go function that shows the use of Lambda's Go libraries, logging, environment
variables, and the AWS SDK.

C#

Sample Lambda applications in C#

• blank-csharp – A C# function that shows the use of Lambda's .NET libraries, logging, environment
variables, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• ec2-spot – A function that manages spot instance requests in Amazon EC2.

PowerShell

Lambda provides the following sample applications for the PowerShell runtime:

Sample Lambda applications in PowerShell

• blank-powershell – A PowerShell function that shows the use of logging, environment variables,
and the AWS SDK.

To deploy a sample application, follow the instructions in its README file. To learn more about the
architecture and use cases of an application, read the topics in this chapter.

Topics
• Blank function sample application for AWS Lambda (p. 466)
• Error processor sample application for AWS Lambda (p. 473)
• List manager sample application for AWS Lambda (p. 478)

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Blank function

Blank function sample application for AWS

Lambda
The blank function sample application is a starter application that demonstrates common operations in
Lambda with a function that calls the Lambda API. It shows the use of logging, environment variables,
AWS X-Ray tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK. Explore this application to learn about building
Lambda functions in your programming language, or use it as a starting point for your own projects.

Variants of this sample application are available for the following languages:

Variants

• Node.js – blank-nodejs.
• Python – blank-python.
• Ruby – blank-ruby.
• Java – blank-java.
• Go – blank-go.
• C# – blank-csharp.
• PowerShell – blank-powershell.

The examples in this topic highlight code from the Node.js version, but the details are generally
applicable to all variants.

You can deploy the sample in a few minutes with the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. Follow the
instructions in the README to download, configure, and deploy it in your account.

Sections
• Architecture and handler code (p. 467)
• Deployment automation with AWS CloudFormation and the AWS CLI (p. 468)
• Instrumentation with the AWS X-Ray (p. 470)
• Dependency management with layers (p. 471)

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Architecture and handler code

The sample application consists of function code, an AWS CloudFormation template, and supporting
resources. When you deploy the sample, you use the following AWS services:

• AWS Lambda – Runs function code, sends logs to CloudWatch Logs, and sends trace data to X-Ray. The
function also calls the Lambda API to get details about the account's quotas and usage in the current
Region.
• AWS X-Ray – Collects trace data, indexes traces for search, and generates a service map.
• Amazon CloudWatch – Stores logs and metrics.
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) – Grants permission.
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) – Stores the function's deployment package during
deployment.
• AWS CloudFormation – Creates application resources and deploys function code.

Standard charges apply for each service. For more information, see AWS Pricing.

The function code shows a basic workflow for processing an event. The handler takes an Amazon Simple
Queue Service (Amazon SQS) event as input and iterates through the records that it contains, logging
the contents of each message. It logs the contents of the event, the context object, and environment
variables. Then it makes a call with the AWS SDK and passes the response back to the Lambda runtime.

Example blank-nodejs/function/index.js – Handler code

// Handler
exports.handler = async function(event, context) {
event.Records.forEach(record => {
console.log(record.body)
})
console.log('## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: ' + serialize(process.env))
console.log('## CONTEXT: ' + serialize(context))
console.log('## EVENT: ' + serialize(event))

return getAccountSettings()
}

// Use SDK client

var getAccountSettings = function(){
return lambda.getAccountSettings().promise()
}

var serialize = function(object) {

return JSON.stringify(object, null, 2)
}

The input/output types for the handler and support for asynchronous programming vary per runtime. In
this example, the handler method is async, so in Node.js this means that it must return a promise back
to the runtime. The Lambda runtime waits for the promise to be resolved and returns the response to
the invoker. If the function code or AWS SDK client return an error, the runtime formats the error into a
JSON document and returns that.

The sample application doesn't include an Amazon SQS queue to send events, but uses an event from
Amazon SQS (event.json) to illustrate how events are processed. To add an Amazon SQS queue to your
application, see Using AWS Lambda with Amazon SQS (p. 439).

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CloudFormation and the AWS CLI

Deployment automation with AWS CloudFormation

and the AWS CLI
The sample application's resources are defined in an AWS CloudFormation template and deployed with
the AWS CLI. The project includes simple shell scripts that automate the process of setting up, deploying,
invoking, and tearing down the application.

The application template uses an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) resource type to define
the model. AWS SAM simplifies template authoring for serverless applications by automating the
definition of execution roles, APIs, and other resources.

The template defines the resources in the application stack. This includes the function, its execution role,
and a Lambda layer that provides the function's library dependencies. The stack does not include the
bucket that the AWS CLI uses during deployment or the CloudWatch Logs log group.

Example blank-nodejs/template.yml – Serverless resources

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: An AWS Lambda application that calls the Lambda API.
Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
CodeUri: function/.
Description: Call the AWS Lambda API
Timeout: 10
# Function's execution role
Policies:
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- AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess
- AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-nodejs-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank sample app.
ContentUri: lib/.
CompatibleRuntimes:
- nodejs12.x

When you deploy the application, AWS CloudFormation applies the AWS SAM transform to the template
to generate an AWS CloudFormation template with standard types such as AWS::Lambda::Function
and AWS::IAM::Role.

Example processed template

{
"AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09",
"Description": "An AWS Lambda application that calls the Lambda API.",
"Resources": {
"function": {
"Type": "AWS::Lambda::Function",
"Properties": {
"Layers": [
{
"Ref": "libs32xmpl61b2"
}
],
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "Active"
},
"Code": {
"S3Bucket": "lambda-artifacts-6b000xmpl1e9bf2a",
"S3Key": "3d3axmpl473d249d039d2d7a37512db3"
},
"Description": "Call the AWS Lambda API",
"Tags": [
{
"Value": "SAM",
"Key": "lambda:createdBy"
}
],

In this example, the Code property specifies an object in an Amazon S3 bucket. This corresponds to the
local path in the CodeUri property in the project template:

CodeUri: function/.

To upload the project files to Amazon S3, the deployment script uses commands in the AWS CLI. The
cloudformation package command preprocesses the template, uploads artifacts, and replaces
local paths with Amazon S3 object locations. The cloudformation deploy command deploys the
processed template with a AWS CloudFormation change set.

Example blank-nodejs/3-deploy.sh – Package and deploy

#!/bin/bash

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set -eo pipefail

ARTIFACT_BUCKET=$(cat bucket-name.txt)
aws cloudformation package --template-file template.yml --s3-bucket $ARTIFACT_BUCKET --
output-template-file out.yml
aws cloudformation deploy --template-file out.yml --stack-name blank-nodejs --capabilities
CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM

The first time you run this script, it creates a AWS CloudFormation stack named blank-nodejs. If you
make changes to the function code or template, you can run it again to update the stack.

The cleanup script (blank-nodejs/5-cleanup.sh) deletes the stack and optionally deletes the deployment
bucket and function logs.

Instrumentation with the AWS X-Ray

The sample function is configured for tracing with AWS X-Ray. With the tracing mode set to active,
Lambda records timing information for a subset of invocations and sends it to X-Ray. X-Ray processes the
data to generate a service map that shows a client node and two service nodes:

The first service node (AWS::Lambda) represents the Lambda service, which validates the invocation
request and sends it to the function. The second node, AWS::Lambda::Function, represents the
function itself.

To record additional detail, the sample function uses the X-Ray SDK. With minimal changes to the
function code, the X-Ray SDK records details about calls made with the AWS SDK to AWS services.

Example blank-nodejs/function/index.js – Instrumentation

const AWSXRay = require('aws-xray-sdk-core')

const AWS = AWSXRay.captureAWS(require('aws-sdk'))

// Create client outside of handler to reuse

const lambda = new AWS.Lambda()

Instrumenting the AWS SDK client adds an additional node to the service map and more detail in traces.
In this example, the service map shows the sample function calling the Lambda API to get details about
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The trace shows timing details for the invocation, with subsegments for function initialization,
invocation, and overhead. The invocation subsegment has a subsegment for the AWS SDK call to the
GetAccountSettings API operation.

You can include the X-Ray SDK and other libraries in your function's deployment package, or deploy
them separately in a Lambda layer. For Node.js, Ruby, and Python, the Lambda runtime includes the AWS
SDK in the execution environment.

Dependency management with layers

You can install libraries locally and include them in the deployment package that you upload to Lambda,
but this has its drawbacks. Larger file sizes cause increased deployment times and can prevent you from
testing changes to your function code in the Lambda console. To keep the deployment package small
and avoid uploading dependencies that haven't changed, the sample app creates a Lambda layer (p. 101)
and associates it with the function.

Example blank-nodejs/template.yml – Dependency layer

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Handler: index.handler
Runtime: nodejs12.x
CodeUri: function/.
Description: Call the AWS Lambda API
Timeout: 10

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# Function's execution role

Policies:
- AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
- AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess
- AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-nodejs-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank sample app.
ContentUri: lib/.
CompatibleRuntimes:
- nodejs12.x

The 2-build-layer.sh script installs the function's dependencies with npm and places them in a
folder with the structure required by the Lambda runtime (p. 102).

Example 2-build-layer.sh – Preparing the layer

#!/bin/bash
set -eo pipefail
mkdir -p lib/nodejs
rm -rf node_modules lib/nodejs/node_modules
npm install --production
mv node_modules lib/nodejs/

The first time that you deploy the sample application, the AWS CLI packages the layer separately from
the function code and deploys both. For subsequent deployments, the layer archive is only uploaded if
the contents of the lib folder have changed.

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Error processor

Error processor sample application for AWS

Lambda
The Error Processor sample application demonstrates the use of AWS Lambda to handle events from an
Amazon CloudWatch Logs subscription (p. 302). CloudWatch Logs lets you invoke a Lambda function
when a log entry matches a pattern. The subscription in this application monitors the log group of a
function for entries that contain the word ERROR. It invokes a processor Lambda function in response.
The processor function retrieves the full log stream and trace data for the request that caused the error,
and stores them for later use.

Function code is available in the following files:

• Random error – random-error/index.js

• Processor – processor/index.js

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You can deploy the sample in a few minutes with the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. To download,
configure, and deploy it in your account, follow the instructions in the README.

Sections
• Architecture and event structure (p. 474)
• Instrumentation with AWS X-Ray (p. 475)
• AWS CloudFormation template and additional resources (p. 475)

Architecture and event structure

The sample application uses the following AWS services.

• AWS Lambda – Runs function code, sends logs to CloudWatch Logs, and sends trace data to X-Ray.
• Amazon CloudWatch Logs – Collects logs, and invokes a function when a log entry matches a filter
pattern.
• AWS X-Ray – Collects trace data, indexes traces for search, and generates a service map.
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) – Stores deployment artifacts and application output.

Standard charges apply for each service.

A Lambda function in the application generates errors randomly. When CloudWatch Logs detects the
word ERROR in the function's logs, it sends an event to the processor function for processing.

Example CloudWatch Logs message event

{
"awslogs": {
"data": "H4sIAAAAAAAAAHWQT0/DMAzFv0vEkbLYcdJkt4qVXmCDteIAm1DbZKjS
+kdpB0Jo350MhsQFyVLsZ+unl/fJWjeO5asrPgbH5..."
}
}

When it's decoded, the data contains details about the log event. The function uses these details to
identify the log stream, and parses the log message to get the ID of the request that caused the error.

Example decoded CloudWatch Logs event data

{
"messageType": "DATA_MESSAGE",
"owner": "123456789012",
"logGroup": "/aws/lambda/lambda-error-processor-randomerror-1GD4SSDNACNP4",
"logStream": "2019/04/04/[$LATEST]63311769a9d742f19cedf8d2e38995b9",
"subscriptionFilters": [
"lambda-error-processor-subscription-15OPDVQ59CG07"
],
"logEvents": [
{
"id": "34664632210239891980253245280462376874059932423703429141",
"timestamp": 1554415868243,
"message": "2019-04-04T22:11:08.243Z\t1d2c1444-efd1-43ec-
b16e-8fb2d37508b8\tERROR\n"
}
]
}

The processor function uses information from the CloudWatch Logs event to download the full log
stream and X-Ray trace for a request that caused an error. It stores both in an Amazon S3 bucket. To

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allow the log stream and trace time to finalize, the function waits for a short period of time before
accessing the data.

Instrumentation with AWS X-Ray

The application uses AWS X-Ray (p. 451) to trace function invocations and the calls that functions make
to AWS services. X-Ray uses the trace data that it receives from functions to create a service map that
helps you identify errors. The following service map shows the random error function generating errors
for some requests. It also shows the processor function calling X-Ray, CloudWatch Logs, and Amazon S3.

The two Node.js functions are configured for active tracing in the template, and are instrumented with
the AWS X-Ray SDK for Node.js in code. With active tracing, Lambda tags adds a tracing header to
incoming requests and sends a trace with timing details to X-Ray. Additionally, the random error function
uses the X-Ray SDK to record the request ID and user information in annotations. The annotations are
attached to the trace, and you can use them to locate the trace for a specific request.

The processor function gets the request ID from the CloudWatch Logs event, and uses the AWS SDK for
JavaScript to search X-Ray for that request. It uses AWS SDK clients, which are instrumented with the X-
Ray SDK, to download the trace and log stream. Then it stores them in the output bucket. The X-Ray SDK
records these calls, and they appear as subsegments in the trace.

AWS CloudFormation template and additional

resources
The application is implemented in two Node.js modules and deployed with an AWS CloudFormation
template and shell scripts. The template creates the processor function, the random error function, and
the following supporting resources.

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• Execution role – An IAM role that grants the functions permission to access other AWS services.
• Primer function – An additional function that invokes the random error function to create a log group.
• Custom resource – An AWS CloudFormation custom resource that invokes the primer function during
deployment to ensure that the log group exists.
• CloudWatch Logs subscription – A subscription for the log stream that triggers the processor function
when the word ERROR is logged.
• Resource-based policy – A permission statement on the processor function that allows CloudWatch
Logs to invoke it.
• Amazon S3 bucket – A storage location for output from the processor function.

View the application template on GitHub.

To work around a limitation of Lambda's integration with AWS CloudFormation, the template creates an
additional function that runs during deployments. All Lambda functions come with a CloudWatch Logs
log group that stores output from function executions. However, the log group isn't created until the
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To create the subscription, which depends on the existence of the log group, the application uses a third
Lambda function to invoke the random error function. The template includes the code for the primer
function inline. An AWS CloudFormation custom resource invokes it during deployment. DependsOn
properties ensure that the log stream and resource-based policy are created prior to the subscription.

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List manager

List manager sample application for AWS Lambda

The list manager sample application demonstrates the use of AWS Lambda to process records in an
Amazon Kinesis data stream. A Lambda event source mapping reads records from the stream in batches
and invokes a Lambda function. The function uses information from the records to update documents in
Amazon DynamoDB and stores the records it processes in Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon
RDS).

Clients send records to a Kinesis stream, which stores them and makes them available for processing.
The Kinesis stream is used like a queue to buffer records until they can be processed. Unlike an Amazon
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can process the same data. Records in Kinesis are also processed in order, where queue items can be
delivered out of order. Records are deleted from the stream after 7 days.

In addition to the function that processes events, the application includes a second function for
performing administrative tasks on the database. Function code is available in the following files:

• Processor – processor/index.js
• Database admin – dbadmin/index.js

You can deploy the sample in a few minutes with the AWS CLI and AWS CloudFormation. To download,
configure, and deploy it in your account, follow the instructions in the README.

Sections
• Architecture and event structure (p. 479)
• Instrumentation with AWS X-Ray (p. 480)
• AWS CloudFormation templates and additional resources (p. 483)

Architecture and event structure

The sample application uses the following AWS services:

• Kinesis – Receives events from clients and stores them temporarily for processing.
• AWS Lambda – Reads from the Kinesis stream and sends events to the function's handler code.
• DynamoDB – Stores lists generated by the application.
• Amazon RDS – Stores a copy of processed records in a relational database.
• AWS Secrets Manager – Stores the database password.
• Amazon VPC – Provides a private local network for communication between the function and
database.

Pricing
Standard charges apply for each service.

The application processes JSON documents from clients that contain information necessary to update a
list. It supports two types of list: tally and ranking. A tally contains values that are added to the current
value for key if it exists. Each entry processed for a user increases the value of a key in the specified table.

The following example shows a document that increases the xp (experience points) value for a user's
stats list.

Example record – Tally type

{
"title": "stats",
"user": "bill",
"type": "tally",
"entries": {
"xp": 83
}
}

A ranking contains a list of entries where the value is the order in which they are ranked. A ranking
can be updated with different values that overwrite the current value, instead of incrementing it. The
following example shows a ranking of favorite movies:

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Example record – Ranking type

{
"title": "favorite movies",
"user": "mike",
"type": "rank",
"entries": {
"blade runner": 1,
"the empire strikes back": 2,
"alien": 3
}
}

A Lambda event source mapping (p. 148) read records from the stream in batches and invokes the
processor function. The event that the function handler received contains an array of objects that each
contain details about a record, such as when it was received, details about the stream, and an encoded
representation of the original record document.

Example events/kinesis.json – Record

{
"Records": [
{
"kinesis": {
"kinesisSchemaVersion": "1.0",
"partitionKey": "0",
"sequenceNumber": "49598630142999655949899443842509554952738656579378741250",
"data":
"eyJ0aXRsZSI6ICJmYXZvcml0ZSBtb3ZpZXMiLCAidXNlciI6ICJyZGx5c2N0IiwgInR5cGUiOiAicmFuayIsICJlbnRyaWVzIjoge
"approximateArrivalTimestamp": 1570667770.615
},
"eventSource": "aws:kinesis",
"eventVersion": "1.0",
"eventID":
"shardId-000000000000:49598630142999655949899443842509554952738656579378741250",
"eventName": "aws:kinesis:record",
"invokeIdentityArn": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/list-manager-
processorRole-7FYXMPLH7IUS",
"awsRegion": "us-east-2",
"eventSourceARN": "arn:aws:kinesis:us-east-2:123456789012:stream/list-manager-
stream-87B3XMPLF1AZ"
},
...

When it's decoded, the data contains a record. The function uses the record to update the user's list and
an aggregate list that stores accumulated values across all users. It also stores a copy of the event in the
application's database.

Instrumentation with AWS X-Ray

The application uses AWS X-Ray (p. 451) to trace function invocations and the calls that functions
make to AWS services. X-Ray uses the trace data that it receives from functions to create a service map
that helps you identify errors. The following service map shows the function communicating with two
DynamoDB tables and a MySQL database.

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The Node.js function is configured for active tracing in the template, and is instrumented with the AWS
X-Ray SDK for Node.js in code. The X-Ray SDK records a subsegment for each call made with an AWS SDK
or MySQL client.

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The function uses the AWS SDK for JavaScript in Node.js to read and write to two tables for each record.
The primary table stores the current state of each combination of list name and user. The aggregate
table stores lists that combine data from multiple users.

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AWS CloudFormation templates and additional

resources
The application is implemented in Node.js modules and deployed with an AWS CloudFormation template
and shell scripts. The application template creates two functions, a Kinesis stream, DynamoDB tables and
the following supporting resources.

Application resources

• Execution role – An IAM role that grants the functions permission to access other AWS services.
• Lambda event source mapping – Reads records from the data stream and invokes the function.

View the application template on GitHub.

A second template, template-vpcrds.yml, creates the Amazon VPC and database resources. While it is
possible to create all of the resources in one template, separating them makes it easier to clean up the
application and allows the database to be reused with multiple applications.

Infrastructure resources

• VPC – A virtual private cloud network with private subnets, a route table, and a VPC endpoint that
allows the function to communicate with DynamoDB without an internet connection.
• Database – An Amazon RDS database instance and a subnet group that connects it to the VPC.

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Building Lambda functions with

Node.js
You can run JavaScript code with Node.js in AWS Lambda. Lambda provides runtimes (p. 195) for Node.js
that run your code to process events. Your code runs in an environment that includes the AWS SDK for
JavaScript, with credentials from an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that you manage.

Lambda supports the following Node.js runtimes.

Node.js runtimes

Name Identifier SDK for JavaScript Operating system

Node.js 14 nodejs14.x 2.880.0 Amazon Linux 2

Node.js 12 nodejs12.x 2.880.0 Amazon Linux 2

Node.js 10 nodejs10.x 2.880.0 Amazon Linux 2

Note
For end of support information about Node.js 10, see the section called “Runtime support
policy” (p. 198).

Lambda functions use an execution role (p. 47) to get permission to write logs to Amazon CloudWatch
Logs, and to access other services and resources. If you don't already have an execution role for function
development, create one.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-role.

The AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to write
logs to CloudWatch Logs.

You can add permissions to the role later, or swap it out for a different role that's specific to a single
function.

To create a Node.js function

1. Open the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.

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3. Configure the following settings:

• Name – my-function.
• Runtime – Node.js 14.x.
• Role – Choose an existing role.
• Existing role – lambda-role.
4. Choose Create function.
5. To configure a test event, choose Test.
6. For Event name, enter test.
7. Choose Create.
8. To invoke the function, choose Test.

The console creates a Lambda function with a single source file named index.js. You can edit this file
and add more files in the built-in code editor (p. 17). To save your changes, choose Save. Then, to run
your code, choose Test.
Note
The Lambda console uses AWS Cloud9 to provide an integrated development environment
in the browser. You can also use AWS Cloud9 to develop Lambda functions in your own
environment. For more information, see Working with Lambda Functions in the AWS Cloud9
user guide.

The index.js file exports a function named handler that takes an event object and a context object.
This is the handler function (p. 487) that Lambda calls when the function is invoked. The Node.js
function runtime gets invocation events from Lambda and passes them to the handler. In the function
configuration, the handler value is index.handler.

Each time you save your function code, the Lambda console creates a deployment package, which is
a .zip file archive that contains your function code. As your function development progresses, you will
want to store your function code in source control, add libraries, and automate deployments. Start by
creating a deployment package (p. 489) and updating your code at the command line.
Note
To get started with application development in your local environment, deploy one of the
sample applications available in this guide's GitHub repository.

Sample Lambda applications in Node.js

• blank-nodejs – A Node.js function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS
X-Ray tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.
• nodejs-apig – A function with a public API endpoint that processes an event from API Gateway
and returns an HTTP response.
• rds-mysql – A function that relays queries to a MySQL for RDS Database. This sample includes
a private VPC and database instance configured with a password in AWS Secrets Manager.
• efs-nodejs – A function that uses an Amazon EFS file system in a Amazon VPC. This sample
includes a VPC, file system, mount targets, and access point configured for use with Lambda.
• list-manager – A function processes events from an Amazon Kinesis data stream and update
aggregate lists in Amazon DynamoDB. The function stores a record of each event in a MySQL
for RDS Database in a private VPC. This sample includes a private VPC with a VPC endpoint for
DynamoDB and a database instance.
• error-processor – A Node.js function generates errors for a specified percentage of requests.
A CloudWatch Logs subscription invokes a second function when an error is recorded. The
processor function uses the AWS SDK to gather details about the request and stores them in
an Amazon S3 bucket.

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The function runtime passes a context object to the handler, in addition to the invocation event. The
context object (p. 494) contains additional information about the invocation, the function, and the
execution environment. More information is available from environment variables.

Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group. The function runtime sends details
about each invocation to CloudWatch Logs. It relays any logs that your function outputs (p. 496) during
invocation. If your function returns an error (p. 501), Lambda formats the error and returns it to the
invoker.

Topics
• AWS Lambda function handler in Node.js (p. 487)
• Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 489)
• Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with container images (p. 492)
• AWS Lambda context object in Node.js (p. 494)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Node.js (p. 496)
• AWS Lambda function errors in Node.js (p. 501)
• Instrumenting Node.js code in AWS Lambda (p. 505)

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AWS Lambda function handler in Node.js

The Lambda function handler is the method in your function code that processes events. When your
function is invoked, Lambda runs the handler method. When the handler exits or returns a response, it
becomes available to handle another event.

The following example function logs the contents of the event object and returns the location of the
logs.

Example index.js

exports.handler = async function(event, context) {

console.log("EVENT: \n" + JSON.stringify(event, null, 2))
return context.logStreamName
}

When you configure a function (p. 70), the value of the handler setting is the file name and the name of
the exported handler method, separated by a dot. The default in the console and for examples in this
guide is index.handler. This indicates the handler method that's exported from the index.js file.

The runtime passes three arguments to the handler method. The first argument is the event object,
which contains information from the invoker. The invoker passes this information as a JSON-formatted
string when it calls Invoke (p. 840), and the runtime converts it to an object. When an AWS service
invokes your function, the event structure varies by service (p. 257).

The second argument is the context object (p. 494), which contains information about the invocation,
function, and execution environment. In the preceding example, the function gets the name of the log
stream (p. 496) from the context object and returns it to the invoker.

The third argument, callback, is a function that you can call in non-async handlers (p. 488) to send
a response. The callback function takes two arguments: an Error and a response. When you call it,
Lambda waits for the event loop to be empty and then returns the response or error to the invoker. The
response object must be compatible with JSON.stringify.

For async handlers, you return a response, error, or promise to the runtime instead of using callback.

Async handlers
For async handlers, you can use return and throw to send a response or error, respectively. Functions
must use the async keyword to use these methods to return a response or error.

If your code performs an asynchronous task, return a promise to make sure that it finishes running. When
you resolve or reject the promise, Lambda sends the response or error to the invoker.

Example index.js file – HTTP request with async handler and promises

const https = require('https')

let url = "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/welcome.html"

exports.handler = async function(event) {

const promise = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
https.get(url, (res) => {
resolve(res.statusCode)
}).on('error', (e) => {
reject(Error(e))
})
})
return promise

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Non-async handlers

For libraries that return a promise, you can return that promise directly to the runtime.

Example index.js file – AWS SDK with async handler and promises

const AWS = require('aws-sdk')

const s3 = new AWS.S3()

exports.handler = async function(event) {

return s3.listBuckets().promise()
}

Non-async handlers
The following example function checks a URL and returns the status code to the invoker.

Example index.js file – HTTP request with callback

const https = require('https')

let url = "https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/welcome.html"

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

https.get(url, (res) => {
callback(null, res.statusCode)
}).on('error', (e) => {
callback(Error(e))
})
}

For non-async handlers, function execution continues until the event loop is empty or the function times
out. The response isn't sent to the invoker until all event loop tasks are finished. If the function times
out, an error is returned instead. You can configure the runtime to send the response immediately by
setting context.callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop (p. 494) to false.

In the following example, the response from Amazon S3 is returned to the invoker as soon as it's
available. The timeout running on the event loop is frozen, and it continues running the next time the
function is invoked.

Example index.js file – callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop

const AWS = require('aws-sdk')

const s3 = new AWS.S3()

exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

context.callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop = false
s3.listBuckets(null, callback)
setTimeout(function () {
console.log('Timeout complete.')
}, 5000)
}

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Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with .zip file

archives
Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

To create the deployment package for a .zip file archive, you can use a built-in .zip file archive utility or
any other .zip file utility (such as 7zip) for your command line tool. Note the following requirements for
using a .zip file as your deployment package:

• The .zip file contains your function's code and any dependencies used to run your function's code (if
applicable) on Lambda. If your function depends only on standard libraries, or AWS SDK libraries, you
don't need to include these libraries in your .zip file. These libraries are included with the supported
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environments.
• If the .zip file is larger than 50 MB, we recommend uploading it to your function from an Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.
• If your deployment package contains native libraries, you can build the deployment package with AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). You can use the AWS SAM CLI sam build command with
the --use-container to create your deployment package. This option builds a deployment package
inside a Docker image that is compatible with the Lambda execution environment.

For more information, see sam build in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.
• Lambda uses POSIX file permissions, so you may need to set permissions for the deployment package
folder before you create the .zip file archive.

This section describes how to create a .zip file as your deployment package, and then use the .zip file to
deploy your function code to Lambda using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 489)
• Updating a function with no dependencies (p. 489)
• Updating a function with additional dependencies (p. 490)

Prerequisites
The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

Updating a function with no dependencies

To update a function by using the Lambda API, use the UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927) operation. Create
an archive that contains your function code, and upload it using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS
CLI).

To update a Node.js function with no dependencies

1. Create a .zip file archive.

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zip function.zip index.js

2. To upload the package, use the update-function-code command.

aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://

function.zip

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "index.handler",
"CodeSha256": "Qf0hMc1I2di6YFMi9aXm3JtGTmcDbjniEuiYonYptAk=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "Active"
},
"RevisionId": "983ed1e3-ca8e-434b-8dc1-7d72ebadd83d",
...
}

Updating a function with additional dependencies

If your function depends on libraries other than the AWS SDK for JavaScript, use npm to include
them in your deployment package. Ensure that the Node.js version in your local environment matches
the Node.js version of your function. If any of the libraries use native code, use an Amazon Linux
environment to create the deployment package.

You can add the SDK for JavaScript to the deployment package if you need a newer version than the one
included on the runtime (p. 484), or to ensure that the version doesn't change in the future.

If your deployment package contains native libraries, you can build the deployment package with AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). You can use the AWS SAM CLI sam build command with the
--use-container to create your deployment package. This option builds a deployment package inside
a Docker image that is compatible with the Lambda execution environment.

For more information, see sam build in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.

As an alternative, you can create the deployment package using an Amazon EC2 instance that provides
an Amazon Linux environment. For instructions, see Using Packages and Native nodejs Modules in AWS
in the AWS compute blog.

To update a Node.js function with dependencies

1. Open a command line terminal or shell. Ensure that the Node.js version in your local environment
matches the Node.js version of your function.
2. Create a folder for the deployment package. The following steps assume that the folder is named
my-function.
3. Install libraries in the node_modules directory using the npm install command.

npm install aws-xray-sdk

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This creates a folder structure that's similar to the following:

~/my-function
### index.js
### node_modules
### async
### async-listener
### atomic-batcher
### aws-sdk
### aws-xray-sdk
### aws-xray-sdk-core

4. Create a .zip file that contains the contents of your project folder. Use the r (recursive) option to
ensure that zip compresses the subfolders.

zip -r function.zip .

5. Upload the package using the update-function-code command.

aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://

function.zip

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "index.handler",
"CodeSha256": "Qf0hMc1I2di6YFMi9aXm3JtGTmcDbjniEuiYonYptAk=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "Active"
},
"RevisionId": "983ed1e3-ca8e-434b-8dc1-7d72ebadd83d",
...
}

In addition to code and libraries, your deployment package can also contain executable files and other
resources. For more information, see Running Arbitrary Executables in AWS Lambda in the AWS Compute
Blog.

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Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with container

images
You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image (p. 248). AWS provides the following
resources to help you build a container image for your Node.js function:

• AWS base images for Lambda

These base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components that are required to
run the image on Lambda. AWS provides a Dockerfile for each of the base images to help with building
your container image.
• Open-source runtime interface clients

If you use a community or private enterprise base image, add a runtime interface client to the base
image to make it compatible with Lambda.

The workflow for a function defined as a container image includes these steps:

1. Build your container image using the resources listed in this topic.
2. Upload the image to your Amazon ECR container registry. See steps 7-9 in Create image (p. 249).
3. Create (p. 72) the Lambda function and deploy the image.

AWS base images for Node.js

AWS provides the following base images for Node.js:

Tags Runtime Operating system Dockerfile

14 NodeJS 14.x Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for Node.js 14.x on GitHub

12 NodeJS 12.x Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for Node.js 12.x on GitHub

10 NodeJS 10.x Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for Node.js 10.x on GitHub

Docker Hub repository: amazon/aws-lambda-nodejs

Amazon ECR repository: gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/nodejs

Using a Node.js base image

For instructions on how to use a Node.js base image, choose the usage tab on AWS Lambda base images
for Node.js in the Amazon ECR repository.

The instructions are also available on AWS Lambda base images for Node.js in the Docker Hub repository.

Node.js runtime interface clients

Install the runtime interface client for Node.js using the npm package manager:

npm install aws-lambda-ric

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For package details, see Lambda RIC on the npm website.

You can also download the Node.js runtime interface client from GitHub.

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AWS Lambda context object in Node.js

When Lambda runs your function, it passes a context object to the handler (p. 487). This object provides
methods and properties that provide information about the invocation, function, and execution
environment.

Context methods

• getRemainingTimeInMillis() – Returns the number of milliseconds left before the execution

times out.

Context properties

• functionName – The name of the Lambda function.

• functionVersion – The version (p. 95) of the function.
• invokedFunctionArn – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that's used to invoke the function.
Indicates if the invoker specified a version number or alias.
• memoryLimitInMB – The amount of memory that's allocated for the function.
• awsRequestId – The identifier of the invocation request.
• logGroupName – The log group for the function.
• logStreamName – The log stream for the function instance.
• identity – (mobile apps) Information about the Amazon Cognito identity that authorized the
request.
• cognitoIdentityId – The authenticated Amazon Cognito identity.
• cognitoIdentityPoolId – The Amazon Cognito identity pool that authorized the invocation.
• clientContext – (mobile apps) Client context that's provided to Lambda by the client application.
• client.installation_id
• client.app_title
• client.app_version_name
• client.app_version_code
• client.app_package_name
• env.platform_version
• env.platform
• env.make
• env.model
• env.locale
• Custom – Custom values that are set by the client application.
• callbackWaitsForEmptyEventLoop – Set to false to send the response right away when the
callback (p. 488) runs, instead of waiting for the Node.js event loop to be empty. If this is false, any
outstanding events continue to run during the next invocation.

The following example function logs context information and returns the location of the logs.

Example index.js file

exports.handler = async function(event, context) {

console.log('Remaining time: ', context.getRemainingTimeInMillis())
console.log('Function name: ', context.functionName)
return context.logStreamName

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AWS Lambda function logging in Node.js

AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and sends function metrics
to Amazon CloudWatch. Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group and a log
stream for each instance of your function. The Lambda runtime environment sends details about each
invocation to the log stream, and relays logs and other output from your function's code.

This page describes how to produce log output from your Lambda function's code, or access logs using
the AWS Command Line Interface, the Lambda console, or the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns logs (p. 496)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 497)
• Using the CloudWatch console (p. 497)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 497)
• Deleting logs (p. 500)

Creating a function that returns logs

To output logs from your function code, you can use methods on the console object, or any logging
library that writes to stdout or stderr. The following example logs the values of environment
variables and the event object.

Example index.js file – Logging

exports.handler = async function(event, context) {

console.log("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\n" + JSON.stringify(process.env, null, 2))
console.info("EVENT\n" + JSON.stringify(event, null, 2))
console.warn("Event not processed.")
return context.logStreamName
}

Example log format

START RequestId: c793869b-ee49-115b-a5b6-4fd21e8dedac Version: $LATEST

2019-06-07T19:11:20.562Z c793869b-ee49-115b-a5b6-4fd21e8dedac INFO ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
{
"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION": "$LATEST",
"AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME": "/aws/lambda/my-function",
"AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME": "2019/06/07/[$LATEST]e6f4a0c4241adcd70c262d34c0bbc85c",
"AWS_EXECUTION_ENV": "AWS_Lambda_nodejs12.x",
"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME": "my-function",
"PATH": "/var/lang/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/bin:/opt/bin",
"NODE_PATH": "/opt/nodejs/node10/node_modules:/opt/nodejs/node_modules:/var/runtime/
node_modules",
...
}
2019-06-07T19:11:20.563Z c793869b-ee49-115b-a5b6-4fd21e8dedac INFO EVENT
{
"key": "value"
}
2019-06-07T19:11:20.564Z c793869b-ee49-115b-a5b6-4fd21e8dedac WARN Event not processed.
END RequestId: c793869b-ee49-115b-a5b6-4fd21e8dedac
REPORT RequestId: c793869b-ee49-115b-a5b6-4fd21e8dedac Duration: 128.83 ms Billed Duration:
200 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 74 MB Init Duration: 166.62 ms XRAY TraceId:
1-5d9d007f-0a8c7fd02xmpl480aed55ef0 SegmentId: 3d752xmpl1bbe37e Sampled: true

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The Node.js runtime logs the START, END, and REPORT lines for each invocation. It adds a timestamp,
request ID, and log level to each entry logged by the function. The report line provides the following
details.

Report Log

• RequestId – The unique request ID for the invocation.

• Duration – The amount of time that your function's handler method spent processing the event.
• Billed Duration – The amount of time billed for the invocation.
• Memory Size – The amount of memory allocated to the function.
• Max Memory Used – The amount of memory used by the function.
• Init Duration – For the first request served, the amount of time it took the runtime to load the
function and run code outside of the handler method.
• XRAY TraceId – For traced requests, the AWS X-Ray trace ID (p. 451).
• SegmentId – For traced requests, the X-Ray segment ID.
• Sampled – For traced requests, the sampling result.

You can view logs in the Lambda console, in the CloudWatch Logs console, or from the command line.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view log output after you invoke a Lambda function. For more
information, see Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695).

Using the CloudWatch console

You can use the Amazon CloudWatch console to view logs for all Lambda function invocations.

To view logs on the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Log groups page on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the log group for your function (/aws/lambda/your-function-name).
3. Choose a log stream.

Each log stream corresponds to an instance of your function (p. 200). A log stream appears when you
update your Lambda function, and when additional instances are created to handle multiple concurrent
invocations. To find logs for a specific invocation, we recommend intrumenting your function with AWS
X-Ray. X-Ray records details about the request and the log stream in the trace.

To use a sample application that correlates logs and traces with X-Ray, see Error processor sample
application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

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You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

Example get-logs.sh script

In the same command prompt, use the following script to download the last five log events. The script
uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for the logs to
become available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-log-
events command.

Copy the contents of the following code sample and save in your Lambda project directory as get-
logs.sh.

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

#!/bin/bash

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aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --

payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

Example macOS and Linux (only)

In the same command prompt, macOS and Linux users may need to run the following command to
ensure the script is executable.

chmod -R 755 get-logs.sh

Example retrieve the last five log events

In the same command prompt, run the following script to get the last five log events.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:
26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"
}

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Deleting logs
Log groups aren't deleted automatically when you delete a function. To avoid storing logs indefinitely,
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Errors

AWS Lambda function errors in Node.js

When your code raises an error, Lambda generates a JSON representation of the error. This error
document appears in the invocation log and, for synchronous invocations, in the output.

This page describes how to view Lambda function invocation errors for the Node.js runtime using the
Lambda console and the AWS CLI.

Sections
• Syntax (p. 501)
• How it works (p. 501)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 502)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 502)
• Error handling in other AWS services (p. 503)
• What's next? (p. 504)

Syntax
Example index.js file – Reference error

exports.handler = async function() {

return x + 10
}

This code results in a reference error. Lambda catches the error and generates a JSON document with
fields for the error message, the type, and the stack trace.

{
"errorType": "ReferenceError",
"errorMessage": "x is not defined",
"trace": [
"ReferenceError: x is not defined",
" at Runtime.exports.handler (/var/task/index.js:2:3)",
" at Runtime.handleOnce (/var/runtime/Runtime.js:63:25)",
" at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)"
]
}

How it works
When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda receives the invocation request and validates the
permissions in your execution role, verifies that the event document is a valid JSON document, and
checks parameter values.

If the request passes validation, Lambda sends the request to a function instance. The Lambda
runtime (p. 195) environment converts the event document into an object, and passes it to your function
handler.

If Lambda encounters an error, it returns an exception type, message, and HTTP status code that
indicates the cause of the error. The client or service that invoked the Lambda function can handle the
error programmatically, or pass it along to an end user. The correct error handling behavior depends on
the type of application, the audience, and the source of the error.

The following list describes the range of status codes you can receive from Lambda.

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2xx

A 2xx series error with a X-Amz-Function-Error header in the response indicates a Lambda
runtime or function error. A 2xx series status code indicates that Lambda accepted the request, but
instead of an error code, Lambda indicates the error by including the X-Amz-Function-Error
header in the response.
4xx

A 4xx series error indicates an error that the invoking client or service can fix by modifying the
request, requesting permission, or by retrying the request. 4xx series errors other than 429
generally indicate an error with the request.
5xx

A 5xx series error indicates an issue with Lambda, or an issue with the function's configuration or
resources. 5xx series errors can indicate a temporary condition that can be resolved without any
action by the user. These issues can't be addressed by the invoking client or service, but a Lambda
function's owner may be able to fix the issue.

For a complete list of invocation errors, see Invoke API Errors (p. 842).

Using the Lambda console

You can invoke your function on the Lambda console by configuring a test event and viewing the output.
The output is captured in the function's execution logs and, when active tracing (p. 451) is enabled, in
AWS X-Ray.

To invoke a function on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Select New event and then choose an Event template from the dropdown list.
5. Enter a name for the test event.
6. Enter the JSON for the test event.
7. Choose Create event.
8. Choose Invoke.

The Lambda console invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) and displays the result. To see the
response, logs, and other information, expand the Details section.

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

When you invoke a Lambda function in the AWS CLI, the AWS CLI splits the response into two
documents. The AWS CLI response is displayed in your command prompt. If an error has occurred, the
response contains a FunctionError field. The invocation response or error returned by the function is
written to an output file. For example, output.json or output.txt.

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Error handling in other AWS services

The following invoke command example demonstrates how to invoke a function and write the invocation
response to an output.txt file.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

You should see the AWS CLI response in your command prompt:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"FunctionError": "Unhandled",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

You should see the function invocation response in the output.txt file. In the same command prompt,
you can also view the output in your command prompt using:

cat output.txt

You should see the invocation response in your command prompt.

{"errorType":"ReferenceError","errorMessage":"x is not defined","trace":["ReferenceError:

x is not defined"," at Runtime.exports.handler (/var/task/index.js:2:3)"," at
Runtime.handleOnce (/var/runtime/Runtime.js:63:25)"," at process._tickCallback (internal/
process/next_tick.js:68:7)"]}

Lambda also records up to 256 KB of the error object in the function's logs. For more information, see
AWS Lambda function logging in Node.js (p. 496).

Error handling in other AWS services

When another AWS service invokes your function, the service chooses the invocation type and retry
behavior. AWS services can invoke your function on a schedule, in response to a lifecycle event on a
resource, or to serve a request from a user. Some services invoke functions asynchronously and let
Lambda handle errors, while others retry or pass errors back to the user.

For example, API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API
rejects the invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an
error, or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502 error code. To customize the
error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the required format.

We recommend using AWS X-Ray to determine the source of an error and its cause. X-Ray allows you to
find out which component encountered an error, and see details about the errors. The following example
shows a function error that resulted in a 502 response from API Gateway.

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For more information, see Instrumenting Node.js code in AWS Lambda (p. 505).

What's next?
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function on the the section called
“Logging” (p. 496) page.

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Instrumenting Node.js code in AWS Lambda

Lambda integrates with AWS X-Ray to enable you to trace, debug, and optimize Lambda applications.
You can use X-Ray to trace a request as it traverses resources in your application, from the frontend
API to storage and database on the backend. By simply adding the X-Ray SDK library to your build
configuration, you can record errors and latency for any call that your function makes to an AWS service.

The X-Ray service map shows the flow of requests through your application. The following example from
the error processor (p. 473) sample application shows an application with two functions. The primary
function processes events and sometimes returns errors. The second function processes errors that
appear in the first's log group and uses the AWS SDK to call X-Ray, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch
Logs.

To trace requests that don't have a tracing header, enable active tracing in your function's configuration.

To enable active tracing

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Monitoring tools.
4. Choose Edit.
5. Under X-Ray, enable Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Pricing
X-Ray has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, X-Ray charges for trace storage
and retrieval. For details, see AWS X-Ray pricing.

Your function needs permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. When you enable active tracing in the
Lambda console, Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).
Otherwise, add the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess policy to the execution role.

X-Ray applies a sampling algorithm to ensure that tracing is efficient, while still providing a
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per second and 5 percent of additional requests. This sampling rate cannot be configured for Lambda
functions.

When active tracing is enabled, Lambda records a trace for a subset of invocations. Lambda records two
segments, which creates two nodes on the service map. The first node represents the Lambda service
that receives the invocation request. The second node is recorded by the function's runtime (p. 30).

Configuration

The Lambda runtime sets some environment variables to configure the X-Ray SDK, including
AWS_XRAY_CONTEXT_MISSING. To set a custom context missing strategy, override the environment
variable in your function configuration to have no value, and then you can set the context missing
strategy programmatically. For more information, see Runtime environment variables (p. 80).

Example Example initialization code

const AWSXRay = require('aws-xray-sdk-core');

// Configure the context missing strategy to do nothing

AWSXRay.setContextMissingStrategy(() => {});

You can instrument your handler code to record metadata and trace downstream calls. To record detail
about calls that your handler makes to other resources and services, use the X-Ray SDK for Node.js. To
get the SDK, add the aws-xray-sdk-core package to your application's dependencies.

Example blank-nodejs/package.json

{
"name": "blank-nodejs",
"version": "1.0.0",
"private": true,
"devDependencies": {
"aws-sdk": "2.631.0",
"jest": "25.4.0"
},
"dependencies": {
"aws-xray-sdk-core": "1.1.2"
},
"scripts": {
"test": "jest"
}
}

To instrument AWS SDK clients, wrap the aws-sdk library with the captureAWS method.

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Example blank-nodejs/function/index.js – Tracing an AWS SDK client

const AWSXRay = require('aws-xray-sdk-core')

const AWS = AWSXRay.captureAWS(require('aws-sdk'))

// Create client outside of handler to reuse

const lambda = new AWS.Lambda()

// Handler
exports.handler = async function(event, context) {
event.Records.forEach(record => {
...

The following example shows a trace with 2 segments. Both are named my-function, but one is type
AWS::Lambda and the other is AWS::Lambda::Function. The function segment is expanded to show
its subsegments.

The first segment represents the invocation request processed by the Lambda service. The second
segment records the work done by your function. The function segment has 3 subsegments.

• Initialization – Represents time spent loading your function and running initialization code (p. 32).
This subsegment only appears for the first event processed by each instance of your function.
• Invocation – Represents the work done by your handler code. By instrumenting your code, you can
extend this subsegment with additional subsegments.
• Overhead – Represents the work done by the Lambda runtime to prepare to handle the next event.

You can also instrument HTTP clients, record SQL queries, and create custom subsegments with
annotations and metadata. For more information, see The X-Ray SDK for Node.js in the AWS X-Ray
Developer Guide.

Sections
• Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API (p. 507)
• Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation (p. 508)
• Storing runtime dependencies in a layer (p. 508)

Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API

To manage tracing configuration with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)

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Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example AWS CLI command enables active tracing on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--tracing-config Mode=Active

Tracing mode is part of the version-specific configuration that is locked when you publish a version of
your function. You can't change the tracing mode on a published version.

Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

To enable active tracing on an AWS::Lambda::Function resource in an AWS CloudFormation template,
use the TracingConfig property.

Example function-inline.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
Properties:
TracingConfig:
Mode: Active
...

For an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the
Tracing property.

Example template.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Tracing: Active
...

Storing runtime dependencies in a layer

If you use the X-Ray SDK to instrument AWS SDK clients your function code, your deployment package
can become quite large. To avoid uploading runtime dependencies every time you update your functions
code, package them in a Lambda layer (p. 101).

The following example shows an AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion resource that stores X-Ray SDK
for Node.js.

Example template.yml – Dependencies layer

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: function/.
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs

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...
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-nodejs-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank sample app.
ContentUri: lib/.
CompatibleRuntimes:
- nodejs12.x

With this configuration, you only update library layer if you change your runtime dependencies. The
function deployment package only contains your code. When you update your function code, upload
time is much faster than if you include dependencies in the deployment package.

Creating a layer for dependencies requires build changes to generate the layer archive prior to
deployment. For a working example, see the blank-nodejs sample application.

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Building Lambda functions with

Python
You can run Python code in AWS Lambda. Lambda provides runtimes (p. 195) for Python that run your
code to process events. Your code runs in an environment that includes the SDK for Python (Boto3), with
credentials from an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that you manage.

Lambda supports the following Python runtimes.

Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

Python runtimes

Name Identifier AWS SDK for Operating system

Python

Python 3.8 python3.8 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux 2

botocore-1.20.42

Python 3.7 python3.7 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux

botocore-1.20.42

Python 3.6 python3.6 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux

botocore-1.20.42

Python 2.7 python2.7 boto3-1.17.42 Amazon Linux

botocore-1.20.42

To create a Python function

1. Open the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. Configure the following settings:

• Name – my-function.
• Runtime – Python 3.8.
• Role – Choose an existing role.
• Existing role – lambda-role.
4. Choose Create function.
5. To configure a test event, choose Test.
6. For Event name, enter test.
7. Choose Create.
8. To invoke the function, choose Test.

The console creates a Lambda function with a single source file named lambda_function. You can edit
this file and add more files in the built-in code editor (p. 17). To save your changes, choose Save. Then, to
run your code, choose Test.

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Note
The Lambda console uses AWS Cloud9 to provide an integrated development environment
in the browser. You can also use AWS Cloud9 to develop Lambda functions in your own
environment. For more information, see Working with Lambda Functions in the AWS Cloud9
user guide.

The lambda_function file exports a function named lambda_handler that takes an event object and
a context object. This is the handler function (p. 512) that Lambda calls when the function is invoked.
The Python function runtime gets invocation events from Lambda and passes them to the handler. In the
function configuration, the handler value is lambda_function.lambda_handler.

Each time you save your function code, the Lambda console creates a deployment package, which is
a .zip file archive that contains your function code. As your function development progresses, you will
want to store your function code in source control, add libraries, and automate deployments. Start by
creating a deployment package (p. 515) and updating your code at the command line.
Note
To get started with application development in your local environment, deploy one of the
sample applications available in this guide's GitHub repository.

Sample Lambda applications in Python

• blank-python – A Python function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS
X-Ray tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.

The function runtime passes a context object to the handler, in addition to the invocation event. The
context object (p. 532) contains additional information about the invocation, the function, and the
execution environment. More information is available from environment variables.

Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group. The function runtime sends details
about each invocation to CloudWatch Logs. It relays any logs that your function outputs (p. 534) during
invocation. If your function returns an error (p. 539), Lambda formats the error and returns it to the
invoker.

Topics
• Lambda function handler in Python (p. 512)
• Deploy Python Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 515)
• Deploy Python Lambda functions with container images (p. 529)
• AWS Lambda context object in Python (p. 532)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Python (p. 534)
• AWS Lambda function errors in Python (p. 539)
• Instrumenting Python code in AWS Lambda (p. 543)

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Lambda function handler in Python

Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

The Lambda function handler is the method in your function code that processes events. When your
function is invoked, Lambda runs the handler method. When the handler exits or returns a response, it
becomes available to handle another event.

You can use the following general syntax when creating a function handler in Python:

def handler_name(event, context):

...
return some_value

Naming
The Lambda function handler name specified at the time that you create a Lambda function is derived
from:

• The name of the file in which the Lambda handler function is located.
• The name of the Python handler function.

A function handler can be any name; however, the default name in the Lambda console is
lambda_function.lambda_handler. This function handler name reflects the function name
(lambda_handler) and the file where the handler code is stored (lambda_function.py).

To change the function handler name in the Lambda console, on the Runtime settings pane, choose
Edit.

How it works
When Lambda invokes your function handler, the Lambda runtime (p. 195) passes two arguments to the
function handler:

• The first argument is the event object. An event is a JSON-formatted document that contains data for
a Lambda function to process. The Lambda runtime (p. 195) converts the event to an object and passes
it to your function code. It is usually of the Python dict type. It can also be list, str, int, float, or
the NoneType type.

The event object contains information from the invoking service. When you invoke a function, you
determine the structure and contents of the event. When an AWS service invokes your function, the
service defines the event structure. For more information about events from AWS services, see Using
AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).

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• The second argument is the context object (p. 532). A context object is passed to your function by
Lambda at runtime. This object provides methods and properties that provide information about the
invocation, function, and runtime environment.

Returning a value
Optionally, a handler can return a value. What happens to the returned value depends on the invocation
type (p. 137) and the Using AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257). For example:

• If you use the RequestResponse invocation type, such as Synchronous invocation (p. 138), AWS
Lambda returns the result of the Python function call to the client invoking the Lambda function (in
the HTTP response to the invocation request, serialized into JSON). For example, AWS Lambda console
uses the RequestResponse invocation type, so when you invoke the function on the console, the
console will display the returned value.
• If the handler returns objects that can't be serialized by json.dumps, the runtime returns an error.
• If the handler returns None, as Python functions without a return statement implicitly do, the
runtime returns null.
• If you use an Event an Asynchronous invocation (p. 140) invocation type, the value is discarded.

Examples
The following section shows examples of Python functions you can use with Lambda. If you use the
Lambda console to author your function, you do not need to attach a .zip archive file (p. 515) to run
the functions in this section. These functions use standard Python libraries which are included with the
Lambda runtime you selected. For more information, see Lambda deployment packages (p. 41).

Returning a message
The following example shows a function called lambda_handler that uses the python3.8 Lambda
runtime (p. 195). The function accepts user input of a first and last name, and returns a message that
contains data from the event it received as input.

def lambda_handler(event, context):

message = 'Hello {} {}!'.format(event['first_name'], event['last_name'])
return {
'message' : message
}

You can use the following event data to invoke the function:

{
"first_name": "John",
"last_name": "Smith"
}

The response shows the event data passed as input:

{
"message": "Hello John Smith!"
}

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Parsing a response
The following example shows a function called lambda_handler that uses the python3.8 Lambda
runtime (p. 195). The function uses event data passed by Lambda at runtime. It parses the environment
variable (p. 77) in AWS_REGION returned in the JSON response.

import os
import json

def lambda_handler(event, context):

json_region = os.environ['AWS_REGION']
return {
"statusCode": 200,
"headers": {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
},
"body": json.dumps({
"Region ": json_region
})
}

You can use any event data to invoke the function:

{
"key1": "value1",
"key2": "value2",
"key3": "value3"
}

Lambda runtimes set several environment variables during initialization. For more information on
the environment variables returned in the response at runtime, see Using AWS Lambda environment
variables (p. 77).

The function in this example depends on a successful response (in 200) from the Invoke API. For more
information on the Invoke API status, see the Invoke API Response Syntax.

Returning a calculation
The following example Lambda Python function code on GitHub shows a function called
lambda_handler that uses the python3.6 Lambda runtime (p. 195). The function accepts user input
and returns a calculation to the user.

You can use the following event data to invoke the function:

{
"action": "increment",
"number": 3
}

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Deploy .zip file archives

Deploy Python Lambda functions with .zip file

archives
Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

To create the deployment package for a .zip file archive, you can use a built-in .zip file archive utility or
any other .zip file utility (such as 7zip) for your command line tool. Note the following requirements for
using a .zip file as your deployment package:

• The .zip file contains your function's code and any dependencies used to run your function's code (if
applicable) on Lambda. If your function depends only on standard libraries, or AWS SDK libraries, you
don't need to include these libraries in your .zip file. These libraries are included with the supported
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environments.
• If the .zip file is larger than 50 MB, we recommend uploading it to your function from an Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.
• If your deployment package contains native libraries, you can build the deployment package with AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). You can use the AWS SAM CLI sam build command with
the --use-container to create your deployment package. This option builds a deployment package
inside a Docker image that is compatible with the Lambda execution environment.

For more information, see sam build in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.
• Lambda uses POSIX file permissions, so you may need to set permissions for the deployment package
folder before you create the .zip file archive.

This section describes how to create a .zip file as your deployment package, and then use the .zip file to
deploy your function code to Lambda using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 515)
• What is a runtime dependency? (p. 516)
• Tutorial: Creating a Lambda function in Python 3.8 (p. 516)
• Updating a Lambda function in Python 3.8 (p. 525)

Prerequisites
The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

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What is a runtime dependency?

A deployment package (p. 41) is required to create or update a Lambda function with or without runtime
dependencies. The deployment package acts as the source bundle to run your function's code and
dependencies (if applicable) on Lambda.

A dependency can be any package, module or other assembly dependency that is not included with the
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environment for your function's code.

The following example describes a Lambda function without runtime dependencies:

• If your function's code is in Python 3.8, and it depends only on standard Python math and logging
libraries, you don't need to include the libraries in your .zip file. These libraries are included with the
python3.8 runtime.
• If your function's code depends only on the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3), you don't need to include
the boto3 library in your .zip file. These libraries are included with the python3.8 runtime.

For a complete list of AWS SDKs, see Tools to Build on AWS.

Tutorial: Creating a Lambda function in Python 3.8

This tutorial guides you through building the code and assets to create a Lambda function in Python 3.8
using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 516)
• Creating a function without runtime dependencies (p. 517)
• Creating a function with runtime dependencies (p. 521)

Prerequisites
This section describes the tools and resources required to complete the steps in the tutorial.

Install the AWS CLI

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

Create an execution role

Your Lambda function's execution role (p. 47) is an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that
grants your function permission to access AWS services and resources. Create an execution role in IAM
with Invoke permission.

To create the execution role

1. Open a command prompt and use the create-role command to create an execution role named
lambda-ex.

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macOS/Linux

aws iam create-role --role-name lambda-ex --assume-role-policy-document

'{"Version": "2012-10-17","Statement": [{ "Effect": "Allow", "Principal":
{"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"}, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"}]}'

Windows

aws iam create-role --role-name lambda-ex --assume-role-policy-document

"{"Version": "2012-10-17","Statement": [{ "Effect": "Allow", "Principal":
{"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"}, "Action": "sts:AssumeRole"}]}"

This command produces the following output. Save the value returned in Arn.

{
"Role": {
"Path": "/",
"RoleName": "lambda-ex",
"RoleId": "AROAWNZPPVHULXRJXQJD5",
"Arn": "arn:aws:iam::your-account-id:role/lambda-ex",
"CreateDate": "2021-01-05T18:00:30Z",
"AssumeRolePolicyDocument": {
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "lambda.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "sts:AssumeRole"
}
]
}
}
}

2. Use the attach-role-policy command to add AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole permissions to the

role.

$ aws iam attach-role-policy --role-name lambda-ex --policy-arn

arn:aws:iam::aws:policy/service-role/AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole

This command produces no output.

Creating a function without runtime dependencies

A dependency can be any package, module or other assembly dependency that is not included with the
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environment for your function's code.

For more information, see What is a runtime dependency? (p. 516)

This section describes how to create a Lambda function without runtime dependencies.

Sections
• Overview (p. 518)
• Create the deployment package (p. 518)

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• Create the Lambda function (p. 519)

• Invoke the Lambda function (p. 519)
• What's next? (p. 520)
• Clean up your resources (p. 520)

Overview
In this tutorial, you use the sample code from the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) project on GitHub to
create a Lambda function using the AWS CLI. You'll learn how to:

• Set up the directory structure of a deployment package (.zip file).

• Create a deployment package for a Lambda function without any runtime dependencies.
• Use the AWS CLI to upload the deployment package and create the Lambda function.
• Invoke the Lambda function to return a mathematical calculation.

The sample code contains standard math and logging Python libraries, which are used to return
a calculation based on user input. Standard Python libraries are included with the python3.8
runtime (p. 195). Although the function's code doesn't depend on any other Python libraries and has no
additional application dependencies, Lambda still requires a deployment package to create a function.

Create the deployment package

Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

Create the .zip file that Lambda uses as your deployment package.

To create the deployment package

1. Open a command prompt and create a my-math-function project directory. For example, on
macOS:

mkdir my-math-function

2. Navigate to the my-math-function project directory.

cd my-math-function

3. Copy the contents of the sample Python code from GitHub and save it in a new file named
lambda_function.py. Your directory structure should look like this:

my-math-function$
| lambda_function.py

4. Add the lambda_function.py file to the root of the .zip file.

zip my-deployment-package.zip lambda_function.py

This generates a my-deployment-package.zip file in your project directory. The command

produces the following output:

adding: lambda_function.py (deflated 50%)

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Create the Lambda function

Lambda needs to know the runtime (p. 195) environment to use for your function's code, the
handler (p. 512) in your function code, and the execution role (p. 47) that it can use to invoke your
function.

Create the Lambda function using the execution role and deployment package that you created in the
previous steps.

To create the function

1. Navigate to the my-math-function project directory.

cd my-math-function

2. Create a function named my-math-function. Substitute the value for role with the Arn you
copied in previous steps.

aws lambda create-function --function-name my-math-function --zip-file fileb://my-

deployment-package.zip --handler lambda_function.lambda_handler --runtime python3.8 --
role arn:aws:iam::your-account-id:role/lambda-ex

This command produces the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-math-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:my-math-function",
"Runtime": "python3.8",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex",
"Handler": "lambda_function.lambda_handler",
"CodeSize": 753,
"Description": "",
"Timeout": 3,
"MemorySize": 128,
"LastModified": "2021-01-05T18:39:44.847+0000",
"CodeSha256": "82RtIE7p1ET5Od6bk4xSleJbUybUnZX52m92x/fEH84=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "PassThrough"
},
"RevisionId": "589e5115-f3c0-446c-bc62-4e05cf0a3c85",
"State": "Active",
"LastUpdateStatus": "Successful"
}

The Lambda function in this step uses a function handler of lambda_function.lambda_handler.

For more information about function handler naming conventions, see Naming (p. 512) in AWS
Lambda function handler in Python.

Invoke the Lambda function

Invoke the Lambda function synchronously (p. 138) using the event input defined for the sample code.
For more information, see How it works (p. 512) in AWS Lambda function handler in Python.

To invoke the function

• Use the invoke command.

aws lambda invoke \

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--function-name my-math-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"action": "square","number": 3}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure
this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

This command produces the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

For the RequestResponse invocation type, the status code is 200. For more information, see the
Invoke API reference.

You should see the following mathematical calculation in output.txt:

{"result": 9}

What's next?
• Learn how to update your Lambda function, see Updating a Lambda function in Python 3.8 (p. 525).
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function, see AWS Lambda function logging in
Python (p. 534).
• Explore other AWS SDK examples in Python on GitHub.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

• Use the delete-function command.

aws lambda delete-function --function-name my-function

This command produces no output.

To delete the execution role policy

• Use the delete-policy command.

aws iam delete-role-policy --role-name lambda-ex --policy-name

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To delete the execution role

• Use the delete-role command.

aws iam delete-role --role-name lambda-ex

Creating a function with runtime dependencies

A dependency can be any package, module or other assembly dependency that is not included with the
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environment for your function's code.

For more information, see What is a runtime dependency? (p. 516)

This section describes how to create a Lambda function with runtime dependencies.

Sections
• Overview (p. 521)
• Create the deployment package (p. 521)
• Create the Lambda function (p. 522)
• Invoke the Lambda function (p. 523)
• What's next? (p. 524)
• Clean up your resources (p. 524)

Overview
In this tutorial, you use sample code to create a Lambda function using the AWS CLI. The sample code
uses the requests library to get the source code for https://www.test.com/. The requests library is not
included with the python3.8 runtime (p. 195), so you install it to a package directory.

You'll learn how to:

• Set up the directory structure of a deployment package (.zip file).

• Create a deployment package for a Lambda function with runtime dependencies.
• Use the AWS CLI to upload the deployment package and create the Lambda function.
• Invoke the Lambda function to return the source code.

Create the deployment package

Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

Create the .zip file that Lambda uses as your deployment package.

To create the deployment package

1. Open a command prompt and create a my-sourcecode-function project directory. For example,
on macOS:

mkdir my-sourcecode-function

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2. Navigate to the my-sourcecode-function project directory.

cd my-sourcecode-function

3. Copy the contents of the following sample Python code and save it in a new file named
lambda_function.py:

import requests
def main(event, context):
response = requests.get("https://www.test.com/")
print(response.text)
return response.text
if __name__ == "__main__":
main('', '')

Your directory structure should look like this:

my-sourcecode-function$
| lambda_function.py

4. Install the requests library to a new package directory.

pip install --target ./package requests

5. Create a deployment package with the installed library at the root.

cd package
zip -r ../my-deployment-package.zip .

This generates a my-deployment-package.zip file in your project directory. The command

produces the following output:

adding: chardet/ (stored 0%)

adding: chardet/enums.py (deflated 58%)
...

6. Add the lambda_function.py file to the root of the zip file.

cd ..
zip -g my-deployment-package.zip lambda_function.py

Create the Lambda function

Lambda needs to know the runtime (p. 195) environment to use for your function's code, the
handler (p. 512) in your function code, and the execution role (p. 47) that it can use to invoke your
function.

Create the Lambda function using the execution role and deployment package that you created in the
previous steps.

To create the function

1. Navigate to the my-sourcecode-function project directory.

cd my-sourcecode-function

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2. Create a function named my-sourcecode-function. Substitute the value for role with the Arn
you copied in previous steps.

aws lambda create-function --function-name my-sourcecode-function --zip-file fileb://

my-deployment-package.zip --handler lambda_function.main --runtime python3.8 --
role arn:aws:iam::your-account-id:role/lambda-ex

This command produces the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-sourcecode-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:123456789012:function:my-sourcecode-
function",
"Runtime": "python3.8",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-ex",
"Handler": "lambda_function.main",
"CodeSize": 753,
"Description": "",
"Timeout": 3,
"MemorySize": 128,
"LastModified": "2021-01-11T18:39:44.847+0000",
"CodeSha256": "82RtIE7p1ET5Od6bk4xSleJbUybUnZX52m92x/fEH84=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "PassThrough"
},
"RevisionId": "589e5115-f3c0-446c-bc62-4e05cf0a3c85",
"State": "Active",
"LastUpdateStatus": "Successful"
}

The Lambda function in this step uses a function handler of lambda_function.main. For more
information about function handler naming conventions, see the section called “Naming” (p. 512) in
AWS Lambda function handler in Python.

Invoke the Lambda function

Invoke the Lambda function synchronously (p. 138) using the event input defined for the sample code.
For more information, see How it works (p. 512) in AWS Lambda function handler in Python.

To invoke the function

• Use the invoke command.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-sourcecode-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure
this option in your AWS CLI config file
.

This command produces the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"

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For the RequestResponse invocation type, the status code is 200. For more information, see the
Invoke API reference.

You should see the source code in output.txt.

What's next?
• Learn how to update your Lambda function, see Updating a Lambda function in Python 3.8 (p. 525).
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function, see AWS Lambda function logging in
Python (p. 534).
• Explore other AWS SDK examples in Python on GitHub.

Clean up your resources

You can now delete the resources that you created for this tutorial, unless you want to retain them.
By deleting AWS resources that you're no longer using, you prevent unnecessary charges to your AWS
account.

To delete the Lambda function

• Use the delete-function command.

aws lambda delete-function --function-name my-function

This command produces no output.

To delete the execution role policy

• Use the delete-policy command.

aws iam delete-role-policy --role-name lambda-ex --policy-name

AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole

To delete the execution role

• Use the delete-role command.

aws iam delete-role --role-name lambda-ex

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Updating a Lambda function in Python 3.8

This tutorial guides you through the process of installing a Python library, creating a deployment
package, and updating a Lambda function in Python 3.8 using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS
CLI).

The following steps assume that you have created a Lambda function and are updating the .zip file
used as your deployment package. If you haven't created a function yet, see the section called “Tutorial:
Create function” (p. 516).

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 525)
• Updating a function without runtime dependencies (p. 525)
• Updating a function with runtime dependencies (p. 526)
• Using a virtual environment (p. 527)

Prerequisites
The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

Updating a function without runtime dependencies

A dependency can be any package, module or other assembly dependency that is not included with the
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environment for your function's code.

For more information, see What is a runtime dependency? (p. 516).

The following steps show how to create a deployment package that contains only your function code,
and upload it to Lambda using the AWS CLI.

To update a Python function without runtime dependencies

1. Add function code files to the root of your deployment package.

~/my-function$ zip my-deployment-package.zip lambda_function.py

2. Use the fileb:// prefix to upload the binary .zip file to Lambda and update the function code.

~/my-function$ aws lambda update-function-code --function-name MyLambdaFunction --zip-

file fileb://my-deployment-package.zip
{
"FunctionName": "mylambdafunction",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:mylambdafunction",
"Runtime": "python3.8",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "lambda_function.lambda_handler",
"CodeSize": 815,
"CodeSha256": "GcZ05oeHoJi61VpQj7vCLPs8DwCXmX5sE/fE2IHsizc=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"RevisionId": "d1e983e3-ca8e-434b-8dc1-7add83d72ebd",
...

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The Lambda function in this step uses a function handler of lambda_function.lambda_handler.

For more information about function handler naming conventions, see Naming (p. 512) in AWS Lambda
function handler in Python.

Updating a function with runtime dependencies

A dependency can be any package, module or other assembly dependency that is not included with the
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environment for your function's code.

For more information, see What is a runtime dependency? (p. 516).

The following steps show how to install the requests library, create a deployment package, and upload
it to Lambda using the AWS CLI. The steps assume that you are not using a virtual environment. It also
assumes that your function code uses Python 3.8 and the python3.8 Lambda runtime (p. 195).
Note
If you are creating a deployment package used in a layer, see Including library dependencies in a
layer (p. 102).

To update a Python function with dependencies

1. Install libraries in a package directory with pip's --target option.

~/my-function$ pip install --target ./package requests

Note
To prevent distutils errors on Debian-based systems such as Ubuntu, you may need to
pass the --system option.
2. Navigate to the package directory.

cd package

3. Create a deployment package with the installed libraries at the root.

~/my-function$ zip -r ../my-deployment-package.zip .

The last command saves the deployment package to the root of the my-function directory.
4. Navigate back to the my-function directory.

cd ..

5. Add function code files to the root of your deployment package.

~/my-function$ zip -g my-deployment-package.zip lambda_function.py

After you complete this step, you should have the following directory structure:

my-deployment-package.zip$
# lambda_function.py
# __pycache__
# certifi/
# certifi-2020.6.20.dist-info/
# chardet/

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# chardet-3.0.4.dist-info/
...

6. Use the update-function-code command with the fileb:// prefix to upload the binary .zip file to
Lambda and update the function code.

~/my-function$ aws lambda update-function-code --function-name MyLambdaFunction --zip-

file fileb://my-deployment-package.zip
{
"FunctionName": "mylambdafunction",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:mylambdafunction",
"Runtime": "python3.8",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "lambda_function.lambda_handler",
"CodeSize": 2269409,
"CodeSha256": "GcZ05oeHoJi61VpQj7vCLPs8DwCXmX5sE/fE2IHsizc=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"RevisionId": "a9c05ffd-8ad6-4d22-b6cd-d34a00c1702c",
...
}

The Lambda function in this step uses a function handler of lambda_function.lambda_handler.

For more information about function handler naming conventions, see Naming (p. 512) in AWS Lambda
function handler in Python.

Using a virtual environment

A dependency can be any package, module or other assembly dependency that is not included with the
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environment for your function's code.

For more information, see What is a runtime dependency? (p. 516).

The following steps show how to install the requests library, create a deployment package, and upload
it to Lambda using the AWS CLI. It also assumes that your function code uses Python 3.8 and the
python3.8 Lambda runtime (p. 195).
Note
If you are creating a deployment package used in a layer, see Including library dependencies in a
layer (p. 102).

To update a Python function with a virtual environment

1. Activate the virtual environment. For example:

~/my-function$ source myvenv/bin/activate

2. Install libraries with pip.

(myvenv) ~/my-function$ pip install requests

3. Deactivate the virtual environment.

(myvenv) ~/my-function$ deactivate

4. Create a deployment package with the installed libraries at the root.

~/my-function$cd myvenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages
zip -r ../../../../my-deployment-package.zip .

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The last command saves the deployment package to the root of the my-function directory.
Tip
A library may appear in site-packages or dist-packages and the first folder lib or
lib64. You can use the pip show command to locate a specific package.
5. Add function code files to the root of your deployment package.

~/my-function/myvenv/lib/python3.8/site-packages$ cd ../../../../
~/my-function$ zip -g my-deployment-package.zip lambda_function.py

After you complete this step, you should have the following directory structure:

my-deployment-package.zip$
# lambda_function.py
# __pycache__
# certifi/
# certifi-2020.6.20.dist-info/
# chardet/
# chardet-3.0.4.dist-info/
...

6. Use the fileb:// prefix to upload the binary .zip file to Lambda and update the function code.

~/my-function$ aws lambda update-function-code --function-name MyLambdaFunction --zip-

file fileb://my-deployment-package.zip
{
"FunctionName": "mylambdafunction",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:mylambdafunction",
"Runtime": "python3.8",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "lambda_function.lambda_handler",
"CodeSize": 5912988,
"CodeSha256": "A2P0NUWq1J+LtSbkuP8tm9uNYqs1TAa3M76ptmZCw5g=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"RevisionId": "5afdc7dc-2fcb-4ca8-8f24-947939ca707f",
...
}

The Lambda function in this step uses a function handler of lambda_function.lambda_handler.

For more information about function handler naming conventions, see Naming (p. 512) in AWS Lambda
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Deploy Python Lambda functions with container

images
Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image (p. 248). AWS provides the following
resources to help you build a container image for your Python function:

• AWS base images for Lambda

These base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components that are required to
run the image on Lambda. AWS provides a Dockerfile for each of the base images to help with building
your container image.
• Open-source runtime interface clients

If you use a community or private enterprise base image, add a runtime interface client to the base
image to make it compatible with Lambda.

The workflow for a function defined as a container image includes these steps:

1. Build your container image using the resources listed in this topic.
2. Upload the image to your Amazon ECR container registry. See steps 7-9 in Create image (p. 249).
3. Create (p. 72) the Lambda function and deploy the image.

Topics
• AWS base images for Python (p. 529)
• Python runtime interface clients (p. 530)
• Deploying Python with an AWS base image (p. 530)
• Create a Python image from an alternative base image (p. 531)

AWS base images for Python

AWS provides the following base images for Python:

Tags Runtime Operating system Dockerfile

3, 3.8 Python 3.8 Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for Python 3.8 on GitHub

3.7 Python 3.7 Amazon Linux Dockerfile for Python 3.7 on GitHub
2018.03

3.6 Python 3.6 Amazon Linux Dockerfile for Python 3.6 on GitHub
2018.03

2, 2.7 Python 2.7 Amazon Linux Dockerfile for Python 2.7 on GitHub
2018.03

Docker Hub repository: amazon/aws-lambda-python

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Amazon ECR repository: gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/python

Python runtime interface clients

Install the runtime interface client for Python using the pip package manager:

pip install awslambdaric

For package details, see Lambda RIC on the Python Package Index (PyPI) website.

You can also download the Python runtime interface client from GitHub.

Deploying Python with an AWS base image

When you build a container image for Python using an AWS base image, you only need to copy the
python app to the container and install any dependencies.

To build and deploy a Python function with the python:3.8 base image.

1. On your local machine, create a project directory for your new function.
2. In your project directory, add a file named app.py containing your function code. The following
example shows a simple Python handler.

import sys
def handler(event, context):
return 'Hello from AWS Lambda using Python' + sys.version + '!'

3. Use a text editor to create a Dockerfile in your project directory. The following example shows the
Dockerfile for the handler that you created in the previous step.

FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/python:3.8

COPY app.py ./
CMD ["app.handler"]

4. To create the container image, follow steps 4 through 7 in Create an image from an AWS base image
for Lambda (p. ).

Adding dependencies when you create a Python image

If your Lambda function depends on external Python libraries, modify the previous procedure as follows:

1. In your project directory, add a file named requirements.txt. List each required library as a
separate line in this file.
2. Modify your Dockerfile to add the required libraries to the container image. The following example
copies the requirements file and installs the required libraries into the app directory. Do not install the
dependencies globally or in user space.

FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/python:3.8

# Create function directory

WORKDIR /app

# Install the function's dependencies

# Copy file requirements.txt from your project folder and install
# the requirements in the app directory.

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COPY requirements.txt .
RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt

# Copy handler function (from the local app directory)

COPY app.py .

# Overwrite the command by providing a different command directly in the template.

CMD ["/app/app.handler"]

Create a Python image from an alternative base

image
For an example of how to create a Python image from an Alpine base image, see Container image
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Context

AWS Lambda context object in Python

Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

When Lambda runs your function, it passes a context object to the handler (p. 512). This object provides
methods and properties that provide information about the invocation, function, and execution
environment. For more information on how the context object is passed to the function handler, see
Lambda function handler in Python (p. 512).

Context methods

• get_remaining_time_in_millis – Returns the number of milliseconds left before the execution

times out.

Context properties

• function_name – The name of the Lambda function.

• function_version – The version (p. 95) of the function.
• invoked_function_arn – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that's used to invoke the function.
Indicates if the invoker specified a version number or alias.
• memory_limit_in_mb – The amount of memory that's allocated for the function.
• aws_request_id – The identifier of the invocation request.
• log_group_name – The log group for the function.
• log_stream_name – The log stream for the function instance.
• identity – (mobile apps) Information about the Amazon Cognito identity that authorized the
request.
• cognito_identity_id – The authenticated Amazon Cognito identity.
• cognito_identity_pool_id – The Amazon Cognito identity pool that authorized the invocation.
• client_context – (mobile apps) Client context that's provided to Lambda by the client application.
• client.installation_id
• client.app_title
• client.app_version_name
• client.app_version_code
• client.app_package_name
• custom – A dict of custom values set by the mobile client application.
• env – A dict of environment information provided by the AWS SDK.

The following example shows a handler function that logs context information.

Example handler.py

import time

def lambda_handler(event, context):

print("Lambda function ARN:", context.invoked_function_arn)
print("CloudWatch log stream name:", context.log_stream_name)
print("CloudWatch log group name:", context.log_group_name)
print("Lambda Request ID:", context.aws_request_id)
print("Lambda function memory limits in MB:", context.memory_limit_in_mb)

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# We have added a 1 second delay so you can see the time remaining in
get_remaining_time_in_millis.
time.sleep(1)
print("Lambda time remaining in MS:", context.get_remaining_time_in_millis())

In addition to the options listed above, you can also use the AWS X-Ray SDK for Instrumenting Python
code in AWS Lambda (p. 543) to identify critical code paths, trace their performance and capture the
data for analysis.

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AWS Lambda function logging in Python

Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and sends function metrics
to Amazon CloudWatch. Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group and a log
stream for each instance of your function. The Lambda runtime environment sends details about each
invocation to the log stream, and relays logs and other output from your function's code.

This page describes how to produce log output from your Lambda function's code, or access logs using
the AWS Command Line Interface, the Lambda console, or the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns logs (p. 534)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 535)
• Using the CloudWatch console (p. 535)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 535)
• Deleting logs (p. 537)
• Logging library (p. 537)

Creating a function that returns logs

To output logs from your function code, you can use the print method, or any logging library that
writes to stdout or stderr. The following example logs the values of environment variables and the
event object.

Example lambda_function.py

import os

def lambda_handler(event, context):

print('## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES')
print(os.environ)
print('## EVENT')
print(event)

Example log format

START RequestId: 8f507cfc-xmpl-4697-b07a-ac58fc914c95 Version: $LATEST

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
environ({'AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME': '/aws/lambda/my-function',
'AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME': '2020/01/31/[$LATEST]3893xmpl7fac4485b47bb75b671a283c',
'AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME': 'my-function', ...})
## EVENT
{'key': 'value'}
END RequestId: 8f507cfc-xmpl-4697-b07a-ac58fc914c95
REPORT RequestId: 8f507cfc-xmpl-4697-b07a-ac58fc914c95 Duration: 15.74 ms Billed
Duration: 16 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 56 MB Init Duration: 130.49 ms
XRAY TraceId: 1-5e34a614-10bdxmplf1fb44f07bc535a1 SegmentId: 07f5xmpl2d1f6f85 Sampled:
true

The Python runtime logs the START, END, and REPORT lines for each invocation. The report line provides
the following details.

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Report Log

• RequestId – The unique request ID for the invocation.

• Duration – The amount of time that your function's handler method spent processing the event.
• Billed Duration – The amount of time billed for the invocation.
• Memory Size – The amount of memory allocated to the function.
• Max Memory Used – The amount of memory used by the function.
• Init Duration – For the first request served, the amount of time it took the runtime to load the
function and run code outside of the handler method.
• XRAY TraceId – For traced requests, the AWS X-Ray trace ID (p. 451).
• SegmentId – For traced requests, the X-Ray segment ID.
• Sampled – For traced requests, the sampling result.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view log output after you invoke a Lambda function. For more
information, see Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695).

Using the CloudWatch console

You can use the Amazon CloudWatch console to view logs for all Lambda function invocations.

To view logs on the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Log groups page on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the log group for your function (/aws/lambda/your-function-name).
3. Choose a log stream.

Each log stream corresponds to an instance of your function (p. 200). A log stream appears when you
update your Lambda function, and when additional instances are created to handle multiple concurrent
invocations. To find logs for a specific invocation, we recommend intrumenting your function with AWS
X-Ray. X-Ray records details about the request and the log stream in the trace.

To use a sample application that correlates logs and traces with X-Ray, see Error processor sample
application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

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aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

Example get-logs.sh script

In the same command prompt, use the following script to download the last five log events. The script
uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for the logs to
become available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-log-
events command.

Copy the contents of the following code sample and save in your Lambda project directory as get-
logs.sh.

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

#!/bin/bash
aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --
payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

Example macOS and Linux (only)

In the same command prompt, macOS and Linux users may need to run the following command to
ensure the script is executable.

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chmod -R 755 get-logs.sh

Example retrieve the last five log events

In the same command prompt, run the following script to get the last five log events.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:
26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"
}

Deleting logs
Log groups aren't deleted automatically when you delete a function. To avoid storing logs indefinitely,
delete the log group, or configure a retention period after which logs are deleted automatically.

Logging library
For more detailed logs, use the logging library.

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import os
import logging
logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

def lambda_handler(event, context):

logger.info('## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES')
logger.info(os.environ)
logger.info('## EVENT')
logger.info(event)

The output from logger includes the log level, timestamp, and request ID.

START RequestId: 1c8df7d3-xmpl-46da-9778-518e6eca8125 Version: $LATEST

[INFO] 2020-01-31T22:12:58.534Z 1c8df7d3-xmpl-46da-9778-518e6eca8125 ## ENVIRONMENT
VARIABLES

[INFO] 2020-01-31T22:12:58.534Z 1c8df7d3-xmpl-46da-9778-518e6eca8125

environ({'AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME': '/aws/lambda/my-function',
'AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME': '2020/01/31/[$LATEST]1bbe51xmplb34a2788dbaa7433b0aa4d',
'AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME': 'my-function', ...})

[INFO] 2020-01-31T22:12:58.535Z 1c8df7d3-xmpl-46da-9778-518e6eca8125 ## EVENT

[INFO] 2020-01-31T22:12:58.535Z 1c8df7d3-xmpl-46da-9778-518e6eca8125 {'key':

'value'}

END RequestId: 1c8df7d3-xmpl-46da-9778-518e6eca8125

REPORT RequestId: 1c8df7d3-xmpl-46da-9778-518e6eca8125 Duration: 2.75 ms Billed
Duration: 3 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 56 MB Init Duration: 113.51 ms
XRAY TraceId: 1-5e34a66a-474xmpl7c2534a87870b4370 SegmentId: 073cxmpl3e442861 Sampled:
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Errors

AWS Lambda function errors in Python

Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

When your code raises an error, Lambda generates a JSON representation of the error. This error
document appears in the invocation log and, for synchronous invocations, in the output.

This page describes how to view Lambda function invocation errors for the Python runtime using the
Lambda console and the AWS CLI.

Sections
• How it works (p. 539)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 540)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 540)
• Error handling in other AWS services (p. 541)
• Error examples (p. 541)
• Sample applications (p. 542)
• What's next? (p. 504)

How it works
When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda receives the invocation request and validates the
permissions in your execution role, verifies that the event document is a valid JSON document, and
checks parameter values.

If the request passes validation, Lambda sends the request to a function instance. The Lambda
runtime (p. 195) environment converts the event document into an object, and passes it to your function
handler.

If Lambda encounters an error, it returns an exception type, message, and HTTP status code that
indicates the cause of the error. The client or service that invoked the Lambda function can handle the
error programmatically, or pass it along to an end user. The correct error handling behavior depends on
the type of application, the audience, and the source of the error.

The following list describes the range of status codes you can receive from Lambda.

2xx

A 2xx series error with a X-Amz-Function-Error header in the response indicates a Lambda
runtime or function error. A 2xx series status code indicates that Lambda accepted the request, but
instead of an error code, Lambda indicates the error by including the X-Amz-Function-Error
header in the response.
4xx

A 4xx series error indicates an error that the invoking client or service can fix by modifying the
request, requesting permission, or by retrying the request. 4xx series errors other than 429
generally indicate an error with the request.
5xx

A 5xx series error indicates an issue with Lambda, or an issue with the function's configuration or
resources. 5xx series errors can indicate a temporary condition that can be resolved without any
action by the user. These issues can't be addressed by the invoking client or service, but a Lambda
function's owner may be able to fix the issue.

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For a complete list of invocation errors, see Invoke API Errors (p. 842).

Using the Lambda console

You can invoke your function on the Lambda console by configuring a test event and viewing the output.
The output is captured in the function's execution logs and, when active tracing (p. 451) is enabled, in
AWS X-Ray.

To invoke a function on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Select New event and then choose an Event template from the dropdown list.
5. Enter a name for the test event.
6. Enter the JSON for the test event.
7. Choose Create event.
8. Choose Invoke.

The Lambda console invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) and displays the result. To see the
response, logs, and other information, expand the Details section.

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

When you invoke a Lambda function in the AWS CLI, the AWS CLI splits the response into two
documents. The AWS CLI response is displayed in your command prompt. If an error has occurred, the
response contains a FunctionError field. The invocation response or error returned by the function is
written to an output file. For example, output.json or output.txt.

The following invoke command example demonstrates how to invoke a function and write the invocation
response to an output.txt file.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

You should see the AWS CLI response in your command prompt:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"FunctionError": "Unhandled",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"

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You should see the function invocation response in the output.txt file. In the same command prompt,
you can also view the output in your command prompt using:

cat output.txt

You should see the invocation response in your command prompt.

{"errorMessage": "'action'", "errorType": "KeyError", "stackTrace": [" File \"/var/task/

lambda_function.py\", line 36, in lambda_handler\n result = ACTIONS[event['action']]
(event['number'])\n"]}

Lambda also records up to 256 KB of the error object in the function's logs. For more information, see
AWS Lambda function logging in Python (p. 534).

Error handling in other AWS services

When another AWS service invokes your function, the service chooses the invocation type and retry
behavior. AWS services can invoke your function on a schedule, in response to a lifecycle event on a
resource, or to serve a request from a user. Some services invoke functions asynchronously and let
Lambda handle errors, while others retry or pass errors back to the user.

For example, API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API
rejects the invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an
error, or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502 error code. To customize the
error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the required format.

We recommend using AWS X-Ray to determine the source of an error and its cause. X-Ray allows you to
find out which component encountered an error, and see details about the errors. The following example
shows a function error that resulted in a 502 response from API Gateway.

For more information, see Instrumenting Python code in AWS Lambda (p. 543).

Error examples
The following section shows common errors you may receive when creating, updating, or invoking your
function using the Python Lambda runtimes (p. 195).

Example Runtime exception – ImportError

{
"errorMessage": "Unable to import module 'lambda_function': Cannot import name '_imaging'
from 'PIL' (/var/task/PIL/__init__.py)",
"errorType": "Runtime.ImportModuleError"
}

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This error is a result of using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to upload a deployment
package that contains a C or C++ library. For example, the Pillow (PIL), numpy, or pandas library.

We recommend using the AWS SAM CLI sam build command with the --use-container option to
create your deployment package. Using the AWS SAM CLI with this option creates a Docker container
with a Lambda-like environment that is compatible with Lambda.

Example JSON serialization error – Runtime.MarshalError

{
"errorMessage": "Unable to marshal response: Object of type AttributeError is not JSON
serializable",
"errorType": "Runtime.MarshalError"
}

This error can be the result of the base64-encoding mechanism you are using in your function code. For
example:

import base64
encrypted_data = base64.b64encode(payload_enc).decode("utf-8")

This error can also be the result of not specifying your .zip file as a binary file when you created or
updated your function. We recommend using the fileb:// command option to upload your deployment
package (.zip file).

aws lambda create-function --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://my-deployment-

package.zip --handler lambda_function.lambda_handler --runtime python3.8 --role
arn:aws:iam::your-account-id:role/lambda-ex

Sample applications
The GitHub repository for this guide includes sample applications that demonstrate the use of the
errors. Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup, an AWS Serverless
Application Model (AWS SAM) template, and supporting resources.

Sample Lambda applications in Python

• blank-python – A Python function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS X-Ray
tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.

What's next?
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function on the the section called
“Logging” (p. 534) page.

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Instrumenting Python code in AWS Lambda

Note
End of support for the Python 2.7 runtime starts on July 15, 2021. For more information, see
the section called “Runtime support policy” (p. 198).

Lambda integrates with AWS X-Ray to enable you to trace, debug, and optimize Lambda applications.
You can use X-Ray to trace a request as it traverses resources in your application, from the frontend
API to storage and database on the backend. By simply adding the X-Ray SDK library to your build
configuration, you can record errors and latency for any call that your function makes to an AWS service.

The X-Ray service map shows the flow of requests through your application. The following example from
the error processor (p. 473) sample application shows an application with two functions. The primary
function processes events and sometimes returns errors. The second function processes errors that
appear in the first's log group and uses the AWS SDK to call X-Ray, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch
Logs.

To trace requests that don't have a tracing header, enable active tracing in your function's configuration.

To enable active tracing

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Monitoring tools.
4. Choose Edit.
5. Under X-Ray, enable Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Pricing
X-Ray has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, X-Ray charges for trace storage
and retrieval. For details, see AWS X-Ray pricing.

Your function needs permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. When you enable active tracing in the
Lambda console, Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).
Otherwise, add the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess policy to the execution role.

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X-Ray applies a sampling algorithm to ensure that tracing is efficient, while still providing a
representative sample of the requests that your application serves. The default sampling rule is 1 request
per second and 5 percent of additional requests. This sampling rate cannot be configured for Lambda
functions.

When active tracing is enabled, Lambda records a trace for a subset of invocations. Lambda records two
segments, which creates two nodes on the service map. The first node represents the Lambda service
that receives the invocation request. The second node is recorded by the function's runtime (p. 30).

You can instrument your handler code to record metadata and trace downstream calls. To record detail
about calls that your handler makes to other resources and services, use the X-Ray SDK for Python. To
get the SDK, add the aws-xray-sdk package to your application's dependencies.

Example blank-python/function/requirements.txt

jsonpickle==1.3
aws-xray-sdk==2.4.3

To instrument AWS SDK clients, patch the boto3 library with the aws_xray_sdk.core module.

Example blank-python/function/lambda_function.py – Tracing an AWS SDK client

import boto3
from aws_xray_sdk.core import xray_recorder
from aws_xray_sdk.core import patch_all

logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)
patch_all()

client = boto3.client('lambda')
client.get_account_settings()

def lambda_handler(event, context):

logger.info('## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r' + jsonpickle.encode(dict(**os.environ)))
...

The following example shows a trace with 2 segments. Both are named my-function, but one is type
AWS::Lambda and the other is AWS::Lambda::Function. The function segment is expanded to show
its subsegments.

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The first segment represents the invocation request processed by the Lambda service. The second
segment records the work done by your function. The function segment has 3 subsegments.

• Initialization – Represents time spent loading your function and running initialization code (p. 32).
This subsegment only appears for the first event processed by each instance of your function.
• Invocation – Represents the work done by your handler code. By instrumenting your code, you can
extend this subsegment with additional subsegments.
• Overhead – Represents the work done by the Lambda runtime to prepare to handle the next event.

You can also instrument HTTP clients, record SQL queries, and create custom subsegments with
annotations and metadata. For more information, see The X-Ray SDK for Python in the AWS X-Ray
Developer Guide.

Sections
• Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API (p. 545)
• Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation (p. 545)
• Storing runtime dependencies in a layer (p. 546)

Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API

To manage tracing configuration with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example AWS CLI command enables active tracing on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--tracing-config Mode=Active

Tracing mode is part of the version-specific configuration that is locked when you publish a version of
your function. You can't change the tracing mode on a published version.

Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

To enable active tracing on an AWS::Lambda::Function resource in an AWS CloudFormation template,
use the TracingConfig property.

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Example function-inline.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
Properties:
TracingConfig:
Mode: Active
...

For an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the
Tracing property.

Example template.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Tracing: Active
...

Storing runtime dependencies in a layer

If you use the X-Ray SDK to instrument AWS SDK clients your function code, your deployment package
can become quite large. To avoid uploading runtime dependencies every time you update your functions
code, package them in a Lambda layer (p. 101).

The following example shows an AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion resource that stores X-Ray SDK
for Python.

Example template.yml – Dependencies layer

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: function/.
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs
...
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-python-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank-python sample app.
ContentUri: package/.
CompatibleRuntimes:
- python3.8

With this configuration, you only update library layer if you change your runtime dependencies. The
function deployment package only contains your code. When you update your function code, upload
time is much faster than if you include dependencies in the deployment package.

Creating a layer for dependencies requires build changes to generate the layer archive prior to
deployment. For a working example, see the blank-python sample application.

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Building Lambda functions with

Ruby
You can run Ruby code in AWS Lambda. Lambda provides runtimes (p. 195) for Ruby that run your
code to process events. Your code runs in an environment that includes the AWS SDK for Ruby, with
credentials from an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that you manage.

Lambda supports the following Ruby runtimes.

Ruby runtimes

Name Identifier SDK for Ruby Operating system

Ruby 2.7 ruby2.7 3.0.1 Amazon Linux 2

Ruby 2.5 ruby2.5 3.0.1 Amazon Linux

Note
For end of support information about Ruby 2.5, see the section called “Runtime support
policy” (p. 198).

Lambda functions use an execution role (p. 47) to get permission to write logs to Amazon CloudWatch
Logs, and to access other services and resources. If you don't already have an execution role for function
development, create one.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-role.

The AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to write
logs to CloudWatch Logs.

You can add permissions to the role later, or swap it out for a different role that's specific to a single
function.

To create a Ruby function

1. Open the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. Configure the following settings:

• Name – my-function.
• Runtime – Ruby 2.7.

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• Role – Choose an existing role.

• Existing role – lambda-role.
4. Choose Create function.
5. To configure a test event, choose Test.
6. For Event name, enter test.
7. Choose Create.
8. To invoke the function, choose Test.

The console creates a Lambda function with a single source file named lambda_function.rb. You can
edit this file and add more files in the built-in code editor (p. 17). To save your changes, choose Save.
Then, to run your code, choose Test.
Note
The Lambda console uses AWS Cloud9 to provide an integrated development environment
in the browser. You can also use AWS Cloud9 to develop Lambda functions in your own
environment. For more information, see Working with Lambda Functions in the AWS Cloud9
user guide.

The lambda_function.rb file exports a function named lambda_handler that takes an event
object and a context object. This is the handler function (p. 550) that Lambda calls when the function
is invoked. The Ruby function runtime gets invocation events from Lambda and passes them to the
handler. In the function configuration, the handler value is lambda_function.lambda_handler.

Each time you save your function code, the Lambda console creates a deployment package, which is
a .zip file archive that contains your function code. As your function development progresses, you will
want to store your function code in source control, add libraries, and automate deployments. Start by
creating a deployment package (p. 551) and updating your code at the command line.
Note
To get started with application development in your local environment, deploy one of the
sample applications available in this guide's GitHub repository.

Sample Lambda applications in Ruby

• blank-ruby – A Ruby function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS X-
Ray tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.
• Ruby Code Samples for AWS Lambda – Code samples written in Ruby that demonstrate how
to interact with AWS Lambda.

The function runtime passes a context object to the handler, in addition to the invocation event. The
context object (p. 556) contains additional information about the invocation, the function, and the
execution environment. More information is available from environment variables.

Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group. The function runtime sends details
about each invocation to CloudWatch Logs. It relays any logs that your function outputs (p. 557) during
invocation. If your function returns an error (p. 562), Lambda formats the error and returns it to the
invoker.

Topics
• AWS Lambda function handler in Ruby (p. 550)
• Deploy Ruby Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 551)
• Deploy Ruby Lambda functions with container images (p. 554)
• AWS Lambda context object in Ruby (p. 556)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Ruby (p. 557)

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• AWS Lambda function errors in Ruby (p. 562)

• Instrumenting Ruby code in AWS Lambda (p. 566)

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Handler

AWS Lambda function handler in Ruby

The Lambda function handler is the method in your function code that processes events. When your
function is invoked, Lambda runs the handler method. When the handler exits or returns a response, it
becomes available to handle another event.

In the following example, the file function.rb defines a handler method named handler. The handler
function takes two objects as input and returns a JSON document.

Example function.rb

require 'json'

def handler(event:, context:)

{ event: JSON.generate(event), context: JSON.generate(context.inspect) }
end

In your function configuration, the handler setting tells Lambda where to find the handler. For the
preceding example, the correct value for this setting is function.handler. It includes two names
separated by a dot: the name of the file and the name of the handler method.

You can also define your handler method in a class. The following example defines a handler method
named process on a class named Handler in a module named LambdaFunctions.

Example source.rb

module LambdaFunctions
class Handler
def self.process(event:,context:)
"Hello!"
end
end
end

In this case, the handler setting is source.LambdaFunctions::Handler.process.

The two objects that the handler accepts are the invocation event and context. The event is a Ruby
object that contains the payload that's provided by the invoker. If the payload is a JSON document,
the event object is a Ruby hash. Otherwise, it's a string. The context object (p. 556) has methods and
properties that provide information about the invocation, the function, and the execution environment.

The function handler is executed every time your Lambda function is invoked. Static code outside of the
handler is executed once per instance of the function. If your handler uses resources like SDK clients and
database connections, you can create them outside of the handler method to reuse them for multiple
invocations.

Each instance of your function can process multiple invocation events, but it only processes one
event at a time. The number of instances processing an event at any given time is your function's
concurrency. For more information about the Lambda execution environment, see AWS Lambda
execution environment (p. 200).

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Deploy .zip file archives

Deploy Ruby Lambda functions with .zip file

archives
Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

To create the deployment package for a .zip file archive, you can use a built-in .zip file archive utility or
any other .zip file utility (such as 7zip) for your command line tool. Note the following requirements for
using a .zip file as your deployment package:

• The .zip file contains your function's code and any dependencies used to run your function's code (if
applicable) on Lambda. If your function depends only on standard libraries, or AWS SDK libraries, you
don't need to include these libraries in your .zip file. These libraries are included with the supported
Lambda runtime (p. 195) environments.
• If the .zip file is larger than 50 MB, we recommend uploading it to your function from an Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket.
• If your deployment package contains native libraries, you can build the deployment package with AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM). You can use the AWS SAM CLI sam build command with
the --use-container to create your deployment package. This option builds a deployment package
inside a Docker image that is compatible with the Lambda execution environment.

For more information, see sam build in the AWS Serverless Application Model Developer Guide.
• Lambda uses POSIX file permissions, so you may need to set permissions for the deployment package
folder before you create the .zip file archive.

This section describes how to create a .zip file as your deployment package, and then use the .zip file to
deploy your function code to Lambda using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 551)
• Tools and libraries (p. 551)
• Updating a function with no dependencies (p. 552)
• Updating a function with additional dependencies (p. 552)

Prerequisites
The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

Tools and libraries

Lambda provides the following tools and libraries for the Ruby runtime:

Tools and libraries for Ruby

• AWS SDK for Ruby: the official AWS SDK for the Ruby programming language.

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Updating a function with no dependencies

Updating a function with no dependencies

To update a function by using the Lambda API, use the UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927) operation. Create
an archive that contains your function code, and upload it using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS
CLI).

To update a Ruby function with no dependencies

1. Create a .zip file archive.

zip function.zip function.rb

2. To upload the package, use the update-function-code command.

aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://

function.zip

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "ruby2.5",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "function.handler",
"CodeSha256": "Qf0hMc1I2di6YFMi9aXm3JtGTmcDbjniEuiYonYptAk=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "Active"
},
"RevisionId": "983ed1e3-ca8e-434b-8dc1-7d72ebadd83d",
...
}

Updating a function with additional dependencies

If your function depends on libraries other than the AWS SDK for Ruby, install them to a local directory
with Bundler, and include them in your deployment package.

To update a Ruby function with dependencies

1. Install libraries in the vendor directory using the bundle command.

bundle install --path vendor/bundle

You should see the following output:

Fetching gem metadata from https://rubygems.org/..............

Resolving dependencies...
Fetching aws-eventstream 1.0.1
Installing aws-eventstream 1.0.1
...

The --path installs the gems in the project directory instead of the system location, and sets this as
the default path for future installations. To later install gems globally, use the --system option.

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2. Create a .zip file archive.

zip -r function.zip function.rb vendor

You should see the following output:

adding: function.rb (deflated 37%)

adding: vendor/ (stored 0%)
adding: vendor/bundle/ (stored 0%)
adding: vendor/bundle/ruby/ (stored 0%)
adding: vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/ (stored 0%)
adding: vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/build_info/ (stored 0%)
adding: vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/cache/ (stored 0%)
adding: vendor/bundle/ruby/2.7.0/cache/aws-eventstream-1.0.1.gem (deflated 36%)
...

3. Update the function code.

aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://

function.zip

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "ruby2.5",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "function.handler",
"CodeSize": 300,
"CodeSha256": "Qf0hMc1I2di6YFMi9aXm3JtGTmcDbjniEuiYonYptAk=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"RevisionId": "983ed1e3-ca8e-434b-8dc1-7d72ebadd83d",
...
}

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Deploy container images

Deploy Ruby Lambda functions with container

images
You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image (p. 248). AWS provides the following
resources to help you build a container image for your Ruby function:

• AWS base images for Lambda

These base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components that are required to
run the image on Lambda. AWS provides a Dockerfile for each of the base images to help with building
your container image.
• Open-source runtime interface clients

If you use a community or private enterprise base image, add a runtime interface client to the base
image to make it compatible with Lambda.

The workflow for a function defined as a container image includes these steps:

1. Build your container image using the resources listed in this topic.
2. Upload the image to your Amazon ECR container registry. See steps 7-9 in Create image (p. 249).
3. Create (p. 72) the Lambda function and deploy the image.

AWS base images for Ruby

AWS provides the following base images for Ruby:

Tags Runtime Operating system Dockerfile

2, 2.7 Ruby 2.7 Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for Ruby 2.7 on GitHub

2.5 Ruby 2.5 Amazon Linux Dockerfile for Ruby 2.5 on GitHub
2018.03

Docker Hub repository: amazon/aws-lambda-ruby

Amazon ECR repository: gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/ruby

Using a Ruby base image

For instructions on how to use a Ruby base image, choose the usage tab on AWS Lambda base images
for Ruby in the Amazon ECR repository.

The instructions are also available on AWS Lambda base images for Ruby in the Docker Hub repository.

Ruby runtime interface clients

Install the runtime interface client for Ruby using the RubyGems.org package manager:

gem install aws_lambda_ric

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For package details, see Lambda RIC on RubyGems.org.

You can also download the Ruby runtime interface client from GitHub.

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Context

AWS Lambda context object in Ruby

When Lambda runs your function, it passes a context object to the handler (p. 550). This object provides
methods and properties that provide information about the invocation, function, and execution
environment.

Context methods

• get_remaining_time_in_millis – Returns the number of milliseconds left before the execution

times out.

Context properties

• function_name – The name of the Lambda function.

• function_version – The version (p. 95) of the function.
• invoked_function_arn – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that's used to invoke the function.
Indicates if the invoker specified a version number or alias.
• memory_limit_in_mb – The amount of memory that's allocated for the function.
• aws_request_id – The identifier of the invocation request.
• log_group_name – The log group for the function.
• log_stream_name – The log stream for the function instance.
• deadline_ms– The date that the execution times out, in Unix time milliseconds.
• identity – (mobile apps) Information about the Amazon Cognito identity that authorized the
request.
• client_context– (mobile apps) Client context that's provided to Lambda by the client application.

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AWS Lambda function logging in Ruby

AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and sends function metrics
to Amazon CloudWatch. Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group and a log
stream for each instance of your function. The Lambda runtime environment sends details about each
invocation to the log stream, and relays logs and other output from your function's code.

This page describes how to produce log output from your Lambda function's code, or access logs using
the AWS Command Line Interface, the Lambda console, or the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns logs (p. 557)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 558)
• Using the CloudWatch console (p. 558)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 559)
• Deleting logs (p. 561)

Creating a function that returns logs

To output logs from your function code, you can use puts statements, or any logging library that writes
to stdout or stderr. The following example logs the values of environment variables and the event
object.

Example lambda_function.rb

# lambda_function.rb

def handler(event:, context:)

puts "## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES"
puts ENV.to_a
puts "## EVENT"
puts event.to_a
end

For more detailed logs, use the logger library.

# lambda_function.rb

require 'logger'

def handler(event:, context:)

logger = Logger.new($stdout)
logger.info('## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES')
logger.info(ENV.to_a)
logger.info('## EVENT')
logger.info(event)
event.to_a
end

The output from logger includes the timestamp, process ID, log level, and request ID.

I, [2019-10-26T10:04:01.689856 #8] INFO 6573a3a0-2fb1-4e78-a582-2c769282e0bd -- : ## EVENT

I, [2019-10-26T10:04:01.689874 #8] INFO 6573a3a0-2fb1-4e78-a582-2c769282e0bd -- :
{"key1"=>"value1", "key2"=>"value2", "key3"=>"value3"}

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Example log format

START RequestId: 50aba555-99c8-4b21-8358-644ee996a05f Version: $LATEST

## ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION
$LATEST
AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME
/aws/lambda/my-function
AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME
2020/01/31/[$LATEST]3f34xmpl069f4018b4a773bcfe8ed3f9
AWS_EXECUTION_ENV
AWS_Lambda_ruby2.5
...
## EVENT
key
value
END RequestId: 50aba555-xmpl-4b21-8358-644ee996a05f
REPORT RequestId: 50aba555-xmpl-4b21-8358-644ee996a05f Duration: 12.96 ms Billed Duration:
13 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 48 MB Init Duration: 117.86 ms
XRAY TraceId: 1-5e34a246-2a04xmpl0fa44eb60ea08c5f SegmentId: 454xmpl46ca1c7d3 Sampled: true

The Ruby runtime logs the START, END, and REPORT lines for each invocation. The report line provides
the following details.

Report Log

• RequestId – The unique request ID for the invocation.

• Duration – The amount of time that your function's handler method spent processing the event.
• Billed Duration – The amount of time billed for the invocation.
• Memory Size – The amount of memory allocated to the function.
• Max Memory Used – The amount of memory used by the function.
• Init Duration – For the first request served, the amount of time it took the runtime to load the
function and run code outside of the handler method.
• XRAY TraceId – For traced requests, the AWS X-Ray trace ID (p. 451).
• SegmentId – For traced requests, the X-Ray segment ID.
• Sampled – For traced requests, the sampling result.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view log output after you invoke a Lambda function. For more
information, see Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695).

Using the CloudWatch console

You can use the Amazon CloudWatch console to view logs for all Lambda function invocations.

To view logs on the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Log groups page on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the log group for your function (/aws/lambda/your-function-name).
3. Choose a log stream.

Each log stream corresponds to an instance of your function (p. 200). A log stream appears when you
update your Lambda function, and when additional instances are created to handle multiple concurrent

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invocations. To find logs for a specific invocation, we recommend intrumenting your function with AWS
X-Ray. X-Ray records details about the request and the log stream in the trace.

To use a sample application that correlates logs and traces with X-Ray, see Error processor sample
application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

Example get-logs.sh script

In the same command prompt, use the following script to download the last five log events. The script
uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for the logs to

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become available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-log-
events command.

Copy the contents of the following code sample and save in your Lambda project directory as get-
logs.sh.

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

#!/bin/bash
aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --
payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

Example macOS and Linux (only)

In the same command prompt, macOS and Linux users may need to run the following command to
ensure the script is executable.

chmod -R 755 get-logs.sh

Example retrieve the last five log events

In the same command prompt, run the following script to get the last five log events.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",

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"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:
26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"
}

Deleting logs
Log groups aren't deleted automatically when you delete a function. To avoid storing logs indefinitely,
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AWS Lambda function errors in Ruby

When your code raises an error, Lambda generates a JSON representation of the error. This error
document appears in the invocation log and, for synchronous invocations, in the output.

This page describes how to view Lambda function invocation errors for the Ruby runtime using the
Lambda console and the AWS CLI.

Sections
• Syntax (p. 562)
• How it works (p. 562)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 563)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 563)
• Error handling in other AWS services (p. 564)
• Sample applications (p. 565)
• What's next? (p. 565)

Syntax
Example function.rb

def handler(event:, context:)

puts "Processing event..."
[1, 2, 3].first("two")
"Success"
end

This code results in a type error. Lambda catches the error and generates a JSON document with fields
for the error message, the type, and the stack trace.

{
"errorMessage": "no implicit conversion of String into Integer",
"errorType": "Function<TypeError>",
"stackTrace": [
"/var/task/function.rb:3:in `first'",
"/var/task/function.rb:3:in `handler'"
]
}

How it works
When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda receives the invocation request and validates the
permissions in your execution role, verifies that the event document is a valid JSON document, and
checks parameter values.

If the request passes validation, Lambda sends the request to a function instance. The Lambda
runtime (p. 195) environment converts the event document into an object, and passes it to your function
handler.

If Lambda encounters an error, it returns an exception type, message, and HTTP status code that
indicates the cause of the error. The client or service that invoked the Lambda function can handle the
error programmatically, or pass it along to an end user. The correct error handling behavior depends on
the type of application, the audience, and the source of the error.

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The following list describes the range of status codes you can receive from Lambda.

2xx

A 2xx series error with a X-Amz-Function-Error header in the response indicates a Lambda
runtime or function error. A 2xx series status code indicates that Lambda accepted the request, but
instead of an error code, Lambda indicates the error by including the X-Amz-Function-Error
header in the response.
4xx

A 4xx series error indicates an error that the invoking client or service can fix by modifying the
request, requesting permission, or by retrying the request. 4xx series errors other than 429
generally indicate an error with the request.
5xx

A 5xx series error indicates an issue with Lambda, or an issue with the function's configuration or
resources. 5xx series errors can indicate a temporary condition that can be resolved without any
action by the user. These issues can't be addressed by the invoking client or service, but a Lambda
function's owner may be able to fix the issue.

For a complete list of invocation errors, see Invoke API Errors (p. 842).

Using the Lambda console

You can invoke your function on the Lambda console by configuring a test event and viewing the output.
The output is captured in the function's execution logs and, when active tracing (p. 451) is enabled, in
AWS X-Ray.

To invoke a function on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Select New event and then choose an Event template from the dropdown list.
5. Enter a name for the test event.
6. Enter the JSON for the test event.
7. Choose Create event.
8. Choose Invoke.

The Lambda console invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) and displays the result. To see the
response, logs, and other information, expand the Details section.

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

When you invoke a Lambda function in the AWS CLI, the AWS CLI splits the response into two
documents. The AWS CLI response is displayed in your command prompt. If an error has occurred, the

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response contains a FunctionError field. The invocation response or error returned by the function is
written to an output file. For example, output.json or output.txt.

The following invoke command example demonstrates how to invoke a function and write the invocation
response to an output.txt file.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

You should see the AWS CLI response in your command prompt:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"FunctionError": "Unhandled",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

You should see the function invocation response in the output.txt file. In the same command prompt,
you can also view the output in your command prompt using:

cat output.txt

You should see the invocation response in your command prompt.

{"errorMessage":"no implicit conversion of String into

Integer","errorType":"Function<TypeError>","stackTrace":["/var/task/function.rb:3:in
`first'","/var/task/function.rb:3:in `handler'"]}

Error handling in other AWS services

When another AWS service invokes your function, the service chooses the invocation type and retry
behavior. AWS services can invoke your function on a schedule, in response to a lifecycle event on a
resource, or to serve a request from a user. Some services invoke functions asynchronously and let
Lambda handle errors, while others retry or pass errors back to the user.

For example, API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API
rejects the invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an
error, or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502 error code. To customize the
error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the required format.

We recommend using AWS X-Ray to determine the source of an error and its cause. X-Ray allows you to
find out which component encountered an error, and see details about the errors. The following example
shows a function error that resulted in a 502 response from API Gateway.

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Sample applications

For more information, see Instrumenting Ruby code in AWS Lambda (p. 566).

Sample applications
The following sample code is available for the Ruby runtime.

Sample Lambda applications in Ruby

• blank-ruby – A Ruby function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, AWS X-Ray
tracing, layers, unit tests and the AWS SDK.
• Ruby Code Samples for AWS Lambda – Code samples written in Ruby that demonstrate how to
interact with AWS Lambda.

What's next?
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function on the the section called
“Logging” (p. 557) page.

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Tracing

Instrumenting Ruby code in AWS Lambda

Lambda integrates with AWS X-Ray to enable you to trace, debug, and optimize Lambda applications.
You can use X-Ray to trace a request as it traverses resources in your application, from the frontend
API to storage and database on the backend. By simply adding the X-Ray SDK library to your build
configuration, you can record errors and latency for any call that your function makes to an AWS service.

The X-Ray service map shows the flow of requests through your application. The following example from
the error processor (p. 473) sample application shows an application with two functions. The primary
function processes events and sometimes returns errors. The second function processes errors that
appear in the first's log group and uses the AWS SDK to call X-Ray, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch
Logs.

To trace requests that don't have a tracing header, enable active tracing in your function's configuration.

To enable active tracing

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Monitoring tools.
4. Choose Edit.
5. Under X-Ray, enable Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Pricing
X-Ray has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, X-Ray charges for trace storage
and retrieval. For details, see AWS X-Ray pricing.

Your function needs permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. When you enable active tracing in the
Lambda console, Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).
Otherwise, add the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess policy to the execution role.

X-Ray applies a sampling algorithm to ensure that tracing is efficient, while still providing a
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per second and 5 percent of additional requests. This sampling rate cannot be configured for Lambda
functions.

When active tracing is enabled, Lambda records a trace for a subset of invocations. Lambda records two
segments, which creates two nodes on the service map. The first node represents the Lambda service
that receives the invocation request. The second node is recorded by the function's runtime (p. 30).

You can instrument your handler code to record metadata and trace downstream calls. To record detail
about calls that your handler makes to other resources and services, use the X-Ray SDK for Ruby. To get
the SDK, add the aws-xray-sdk package to your application's dependencies.

Example blank-ruby/function/Gemfile

# Gemfile
source 'https://rubygems.org'

gem 'aws-xray-sdk', '0.11.4'

gem 'aws-sdk-lambda', '1.39.0'
gem 'test-unit', '3.3.5'

To instrument AWS SDK clients, require the aws-xray-sdk/lambda module after creating a client in
initialization code.

Example blank-ruby/function/lambda_function.rb – Tracing an AWS SDK client

# lambda_function.rb
require 'logger'
require 'json'
require 'aws-sdk-lambda'
$client = Aws::Lambda::Client.new()
$client.get_account_settings()

require 'aws-xray-sdk/lambda'

def lambda_handler(event:, context:)

logger = Logger.new($stdout)
...

The following example shows a trace with 2 segments. Both are named my-function, but one is type
AWS::Lambda and the other is AWS::Lambda::Function. The function segment is expanded to show
its subsegments.

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The first segment represents the invocation request processed by the Lambda service. The second
segment records the work done by your function. The function segment has 3 subsegments.

• Initialization – Represents time spent loading your function and running initialization code (p. 32).
This subsegment only appears for the first event processed by each instance of your function.
• Invocation – Represents the work done by your handler code. By instrumenting your code, you can
extend this subsegment with additional subsegments.
• Overhead – Represents the work done by the Lambda runtime to prepare to handle the next event.

You can also instrument HTTP clients, record SQL queries, and create custom subsegments with
annotations and metadata. For more information, see The X-Ray SDK for Ruby in the AWS X-Ray
Developer Guide.

Sections
• Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API (p. 568)
• Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation (p. 568)
• Storing runtime dependencies in a layer (p. 569)

Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API

To manage tracing configuration with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example AWS CLI command enables active tracing on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--tracing-config Mode=Active

Tracing mode is part of the version-specific configuration that is locked when you publish a version of
your function. You can't change the tracing mode on a published version.

Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

To enable active tracing on an AWS::Lambda::Function resource in an AWS CloudFormation template,
use the TracingConfig property.

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Example function-inline.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
Properties:
TracingConfig:
Mode: Active
...

For an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the
Tracing property.

Example template.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Tracing: Active
...

Storing runtime dependencies in a layer

If you use the X-Ray SDK to instrument AWS SDK clients your function code, your deployment package
can become quite large. To avoid uploading runtime dependencies every time you update your functions
code, package them in a Lambda layer (p. 101).

The following example shows an AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion resource that stores X-Ray SDK
for Ruby.

Example template.yml – Dependencies layer

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: function/.
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs
...
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-ruby-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank-ruby sample app.
ContentUri: lib/.
CompatibleRuntimes:
- ruby2.5

With this configuration, you only update library layer if you change your runtime dependencies. The
function deployment package only contains your code. When you update your function code, upload
time is much faster than if you include dependencies in the deployment package.

Creating a layer for dependencies requires build changes to generate the layer archive prior to
deployment. For a working example, see the blank-ruby sample application.

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Building Lambda functions with Java

You can run Java code in AWS Lambda. Lambda provides runtimes (p. 195) for Java that run your code to
process events. Your code runs in an Amazon Linux environment that includes AWS credentials from an
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that you manage.

Lambda supports the following Java runtimes.

Java runtimes

Name Identifier JDK Operating system

Java 11 java11 amazon-corretto-11 Amazon Linux 2

Java 8 java8.al2 amazon-corretto-8 Amazon Linux 2

Java 8 java8 java-1.8.0-openjdk Amazon Linux

Lambda functions use an execution role (p. 47) to get permission to write logs to Amazon CloudWatch
Logs, and to access other services and resources. If you don't already have an execution role for function
development, create one.

To create an execution role

1. Open the roles page in the IAM console.

2. Choose Create role.
3. Create a role with the following properties.

• Trusted entity – Lambda.

• Permissions – AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole.
• Role name – lambda-role.

The AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole policy has the permissions that the function needs to write
logs to CloudWatch Logs.

You can add permissions to the role later, or swap it out for a different role that's specific to a single
function.

To create a Java function

1. Open the Lambda console.

2. Choose Create function.
3. Configure the following settings:

• Name – my-function.
• Runtime – Java 11.
• Role – Choose an existing role.
• Existing role – lambda-role.
4. Choose Create function.
5. To configure a test event, choose Test.

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6. For Event name, enter test.

7. Choose Create.
8. To invoke the function, choose Test.

The console creates a Lambda function with a handler class named Hello. Since Java is a compiled
language, you can't view or edit the source code in the Lambda console, but you can modify its
configuration, invoke it, and configure triggers.
Note
To get started with application development in your local environment, deploy one of the
sample applications (p. 572) available in this guide's GitHub repository.

The Hello class has a function named handleRequest that takes an event object and a context
object. This is the handler function (p. 574) that Lambda calls when the function is invoked. The Java
function runtime gets invocation events from Lambda and passes them to the handler. In the function
configuration, the handler value is example.Hello::handleRequest.

To update the function's code, you create a deployment package, which is a .zip file archive that contains
your function code. As your function development progresses, you will want to store your function
code in source control, add libraries, and automate deployments. Start by creating a deployment
package (p. 578) and updating your code at the command line.

The function runtime passes a context object to the handler, in addition to the invocation event. The
context object (p. 587) contains additional information about the invocation, the function, and the
execution environment. More information is available from environment variables.

Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group. The function runtime sends details
about each invocation to CloudWatch Logs. It relays any logs that your function outputs (p. 590) during
invocation. If your function returns an error (p. 597), Lambda formats the error and returns it to the
invoker.

Topics
• Java sample applications for AWS Lambda (p. 572)
• AWS Lambda function handler in Java (p. 574)
• Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578)
• Deploy Java Lambda functions with container images (p. 585)
• AWS Lambda context object in Java (p. 587)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Java (p. 590)
• AWS Lambda function errors in Java (p. 597)
• Instrumenting Java code in AWS Lambda (p. 602)
• Creating a deployment package using Eclipse (p. 607)

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Java sample applications for AWS Lambda

The GitHub repository for this guide provides sample applications that demonstrate the use of Java
in AWS Lambda. Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup, an AWS
CloudFormation template, and supporting resources.

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.
• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.
• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).
• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java Class
Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

Use the blank-java sample app to learn the basics, or as a starting point for your own application. It
shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, environment variables, the AWS SDK, and the AWS X-Ray SDK.
It uses a Lambda layer to package its dependencies separately from the function code, which speeds up
deployment times when you are iterating on your function code. The project requires minimal setup and
can be deployed from the command line in less than a minute.

The other sample applications show other build configurations, handler interfaces, and use cases
for services that integrate with Lambda. The java-basic sample shows a function with minimal
dependencies. You can use this sample for cases where you don't need additional libraries like the AWS
SDK, and can represent your function's input and output with standard Java types. To try a different
handler type, you can simply change the handler setting on the function.

Example java-basic/src/main/java/example/HandlerStream.java – Stream handler

// Handler value: example.HandlerStream

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public class HandlerStream implements RequestStreamHandler {

Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
@Override
public void handleRequest(InputStream inputStream, OutputStream outputStream, Context
context) throws IOException
{
LambdaLogger logger = context.getLogger();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream,
Charset.forName("US-ASCII")));
PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new
OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, Charset.forName("US-ASCII"))));
try
{
HashMap event = gson.fromJson(reader, HashMap.class);
logger.log("STREAM TYPE: " + inputStream.getClass().toString());
logger.log("EVENT TYPE: " + event.getClass().toString());
writer.write(gson.toJson(event));
...

The java-events and java-events-v1sdk samples show the use of the event types provided
by the aws-lambda-java-events library. These types represent the event documents that AWS
services (p. 257) send to your function. java-events includes handlers for types that don't require
additional dependencies. For event types like DynamodbEvent that require types from the AWS SDK for
Java, java-events-v1sdk includes the SDK in its build configuration.

Example java-events-v1sdk/src/main/java/example/HandlerDynamoDB.java – DynamoDB

records

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.DynamodbEvent;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.DynamodbEvent.DynamodbStreamRecord;
import com.amazonaws.services.dynamodbv2.model.Record;
...
// Handler value: example.HandlerDynamoDB
public class HandlerDynamoDB implements RequestHandler<DynamodbEvent, String>{
private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(HandlerDynamoDB.class);
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
@Override
public String handleRequest(DynamodbEvent event, Context context)
{
String response = new String("200 OK");
for (DynamodbStreamRecord record : event.getRecords()){
logger.info(record.getEventID());
logger.info(record.getEventName());
logger.info(record.getDynamodb().toString());
}
...

For more highlights, see the other topics in this chapter.

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AWS Lambda function handler in Java

The Lambda function handler is the method in your function code that processes events. When your
function is invoked, Lambda runs the handler method. When the handler exits or returns a response, it
becomes available to handle another event.

In the following example, a class named Handler defines a handler method named handleRequest.
The handler method takes an event and context object as input and returns a string.

Example Handler.java

package example;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.LambdaLogger
...

// Handler value: example.Handler

public class Handler implements RequestHandler<Map<String,String>, String>{
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
@Override
public String handleRequest(Map<String,String> event, Context context)
{
LambdaLogger logger = context.getLogger();
String response = new String("200 OK");
// log execution details
logger.log("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: " + gson.toJson(System.getenv()));
logger.log("CONTEXT: " + gson.toJson(context));
// process event
logger.log("EVENT: " + gson.toJson(event));
logger.log("EVENT TYPE: " + event.getClass().toString());
return response;
}
}

The Lambda runtime (p. 195) receives an event as a JSON-formatted string and converts it into an
object. It passes the event object to your function handler along with a context object that provides
details about the invocation and the function. You tell the runtime which method to invoke by setting
the handler parameter on your function's configuration.

Handler formats

• package.Class::method – Full format. For example: example.Handler::handleRequest.

• package.Class – Abbreviated format for functions that implement a handler interface (p. 576). For
example: example.Handler.

You can add initialization code (p. 32) outside of your handler method to reuse resources across multiple
invocations. When the runtime loads your handler, it runs static code and the class constructor. Resources
that are created during initialization stay in memory between invocations, and can be reused by the
handler thousands of times.

In the following example, the logger, serializer, and AWS SDK client are created when the function serves
its first event. Subsequent events served by the same function instance are much faster because those
resources already exist.

Example Handler.java – Initialization code

// Handler value: example.Handler

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public class Handler implements RequestHandler<SQSEvent, String>{

private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Handler.class);
private static final Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
private static final LambdaAsyncClient lambdaClient = LambdaAsyncClient.create();
...
@Override
public String handleRequest(SQSEvent event, Context context)
{
String response = new String();
// call Lambda API
logger.info("Getting account settings");
CompletableFuture<GetAccountSettingsResponse> accountSettings =
lambdaClient.getAccountSettings(GetAccountSettingsRequest.builder().build());
// log execution details
logger.info("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: " + gson.toJson(System.getenv()));
...

The GitHub repo for this guide provides easy-to-deploy sample applications that demonstrate a variety
of handler types. For details, see the end of this topic (p. 577).

Sections
• Choosing input and output types (p. 575)
• Handler interfaces (p. 576)
• Sample handler code (p. 577)

Choosing input and output types

You specify the type of object that the event maps to in the handler method's signature. In the
preceding example, the Java runtime deserializes the event into a type that implements the
Map<String,String> interface. String-to-string maps work for flat events like the following:

Example Event.json – Weather data

{
"temperatureK": 281,
"windKmh": -3,
"humidityPct": 0.55,
"pressureHPa": 1020
}

However, the value of each field must be a string or number. If the event includes a field that has an
object as a value, the runtime can't deserialize it and returns an error.

Choose an input type that works with the event data that your function processes. You can use a basic
type, a generic type, or a well-defined type.

Input types

• Integer, Long, Double, etc. – The event is a number with no additional formatting—for example,
3.5. The runtime converts the value into an object of the specified type.
• String – The event is a JSON string, including quotes—for example, "My string.". The runtime
converts the value (without quotes) into a String object.
• Type, Map<String,Type> etc. – The event is a JSON object. The runtime deserializes it into an object
of the specified type or interface.
• List<Integer>, List<String>, List<Object>, etc. – The event is a JSON array. The runtime
deserializes it into an object of the specified type or interface.

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• InputStream – The event is any JSON type. The runtime passes a byte stream of the document to the
handler without modification. You deserialize the input and write output to an output stream.
• Library type – For events sent by AWS services, use the types in the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578)
library.

If you define your own input type, it should be a deserializable, mutable plain old Java object (POJO),
with a default constructor and properties for each field in the event. Keys in the event that don't map to
a property as well as properties that aren't included in the event are dropped without error.

The output type can be an object or void. The runtime serializes return values into text. If the output is
an object with fields, the runtime serializes it into a JSON document. If it's a type that wraps a primitive
value, the runtime returns a text representation of that value.

Handler interfaces
The aws-lambda-java-core library defines two interfaces for handler methods. Use the provided
interfaces to simplify handler configuration and validate the handler method signature at compile time.

• com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler
• com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestStreamHandler

The RequestHandler interface is a generic type that takes two parameters: the input type and the
output type. Both types must be objects. When you use this interface, the Java runtime deserializes the
event into an object with the input type, and serializes the output into text. Use this interface when the
built-in serialization works with your input and output types.

Example Handler.java – Handler interface

// Handler value: example.Handler

public class Handler implements RequestHandler<Map<String,String>, String>{
@Override
public String handleRequest(Map<String,String> event, Context context)

To use your own serialization, implement the RequestStreamHandler interface. With this interface,
Lambda passes your handler an input stream and output stream. The handler reads bytes from the input
stream, writes to the output stream, and returns void.

The following example uses buffered reader and writer types to work with the input and output streams.
It uses the Gson library for serialization and deserialization.

Example HandlerStream.java

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestStreamHandler
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.LambdaLogger
...
// Handler value: example.HandlerStream
public class HandlerStream implements RequestStreamHandler {
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
@Override
public void handleRequest(InputStream inputStream, OutputStream outputStream, Context
context) throws IOException
{
LambdaLogger logger = context.getLogger();
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream,
Charset.forName("US-ASCII")));

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PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter(new BufferedWriter(new

OutputStreamWriter(outputStream, Charset.forName("US-ASCII"))));
try
{
HashMap event = gson.fromJson(reader, HashMap.class);
logger.log("STREAM TYPE: " + inputStream.getClass().toString());
logger.log("EVENT TYPE: " + event.getClass().toString());
writer.write(gson.toJson(event));
if (writer.checkError())
{
logger.log("WARNING: Writer encountered an error.");
}
}
catch (IllegalStateException | JsonSyntaxException exception)
{
logger.log(exception.toString());
}
finally
{
reader.close();
writer.close();
}
}
}

Sample handler code

The GitHub repository for this guide includes sample applications that demonstrate the use of various
handler types and interfaces. Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup,
an AWS SAM template, and supporting resources.

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.
• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.
• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).
• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java Class
Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

The blank-java and s3-java applications take an AWS service event as input and return a string. The
java-basic application includes several types of handlers:

• Handler.java – Takes a Map<String,String> as input.

• HandlerInteger.java – Takes an Integer as input.
• HandlerList.java – Takes a List<Integer> as input.
• HandlerStream.java – Takes an InputStream and OutputStream as input.
• HandlerString.java – Takes a String as input.
• HandlerWeatherData.java – Takes a custom type as input.

To test different handler types, just change the handler value in the AWS SAM template. For detailed
instructions, see the sample application's readme file.

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Deploy .zip file archives

Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file

archives
Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

This page describes how to create your deployment package as a .zip file or Jar file, and then use the
deployment package to deploy your function code to AWS Lambda using the AWS Command Line
Interface (AWS CLI).

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 578)
• Tools and libraries (p. 578)

Prerequisites
The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

Tools and libraries

Lambda provides the following libraries for Java functions:

• com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-core (required) – Defines handler method interfaces and the context

object that the runtime passes to the handler. If you define your own input types, this is the only
library that you need.
• com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-events – Input types for events from services that invoke Lambda
functions.
• com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-log4j2 – An appender library for Apache Log4j 2 that you can use to
add the request ID for the current invocation to your function logs (p. 590).

These libraries are available through Maven Central Repository. Add them to your build definition as
follows:

Gradle

dependencies {
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-core:1.2.1'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-events:3.1.0'
runtimeOnly 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-log4j2:1.2.0'
}

Maven

<dependencies>

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<dependency>
<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
<artifactId>aws-lambda-java-core</artifactId>
<version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
<artifactId>aws-lambda-java-events</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
<artifactId>aws-lambda-java-log4j2</artifactId>
<version>1.2.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

To create a deployment package, compile your function code and dependencies into a single .zip file or
Java Archive (JAR) file. For Gradle, use the Zip build type (p. 579). For Apache Maven, use the Maven
Shade plugin (p. 580).
Note
To keep your deployment package size small, package your function's dependencies in layers.
Layers enable you to manage your dependencies independently, can be used by multiple
functions, and can be shared with other accounts. For more information, see Creating and
sharing Lambda layers (p. 101).

You can upload your deployment package by using the Lambda console, the Lambda API, or AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM).

To upload a deployment package with the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Under Code source, choose Upload from.
4. Upload the deployment package.
5. Choose Save.

Sections
• Building a deployment package with Gradle (p. 579)
• Building a deployment package with Maven (p. 580)
• Uploading a deployment package with the Lambda API (p. 582)
• Uploading a deployment package with AWS SAM (p. 583)

Building a deployment package with Gradle

To create a deployment package with your function's code and dependencies, use the Zip build type.

Example build.gradle – Build task

task buildZip(type: Zip) {

from compileJava
from processResources
into('lib') {

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from configurations.runtimeClasspath
}
}

This build configuration produces a deployment package in the build/distributions directory.

The compileJava task compiles your function's classes. The processResources task copies the Java
project resources into their target directory, potentially processing then. The statement into('lib')
then copies dependency libraries from the build's classpath into a folder named lib.

Example build.gradle – Dependencies

dependencies {
implementation platform('software.amazon.awssdk:bom:2.10.73')
implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:lambda'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-core:1.2.1'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-events:3.1.0'
implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6'
implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.13.0'
implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.13.0'
runtimeOnly 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j18-impl:2.13.0'
runtimeOnly 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-log4j2:1.2.0'
testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.6.0'
testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.6.0'
}

Lambda loads JAR files in Unicode alphabetical order. If multiple JAR files in the lib directory contain
the same class, the first one is used. You can use the following shell script to identify duplicate classes:

Example test-zip.sh

mkdir -p expanded
unzip path/to/my/function.zip -d expanded
find ./expanded/lib -name '*.jar' | xargs -n1 zipinfo -1 | grep '.*.class' | sort | uniq -c
| sort

Building a deployment package with Maven

To build a deployment package with Maven, use the Maven Shade plugin. The plugin creates a JAR file
that contains the compiled function code and all of its dependencies.

Example pom.xml – Plugin configuration

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2</version>
<configuration>
<createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

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To build the deployment package, use the mvn package command.

[INFO] Scanning for projects...

[INFO] -----------------------< com.example:java-maven >-----------------------
[INFO] Building java-maven-function 1.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
...
[INFO] --- maven-jar-plugin:2.4:jar (default-jar) @ java-maven ---
[INFO] Building jar: target/java-maven-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-shade-plugin:3.2.2:shade (default) @ java-maven ---
[INFO] Including com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-core:jar:1.2.1 in the shaded jar.
[INFO] Including com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-events:jar:3.1.0 in the shaded jar.
[INFO] Including joda-time:joda-time:jar:2.6 in the shaded jar.
[INFO] Including com.google.code.gson:gson:jar:2.8.6 in the shaded jar.
[INFO] Replacing original artifact with shaded artifact.
[INFO] Replacing target/java-maven-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar with target/java-maven-1.0-SNAPSHOT-
shaded.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 8.321 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2020-03-03T09:07:19Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

This command generates a JAR file in the target directory.

If you use the appender library (aws-lambda-java-log4j2), you must also configure a transformer for
the Maven Shade plugin. The transformer library combines versions of a cache file that appear in both
the appender library and in Log4j.

Example pom.xml – Plugin configuration with Log4j 2 appender

<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.2.2</version>
<configuration>
<createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<phase>package</phase>
<goals>
<goal>shade</goal>
</goals>
<configuration>
<transformers>
<transformer
implementation="com.github.edwgiz.maven_shade_plugin.log4j2_cache_transformer.PluginsCacheFileTransfor
</transformer>
</transformers>
</configuration>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.edwgiz</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-shade-plugin.log4j2-cachefile-transformer</artifactId>
<version>2.13.0</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>

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Uploading a deployment package with the Lambda API

To update a function's code with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or AWS SDK, use the
UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927) API operation. For the AWS CLI, use the update-function-code
command. The following command uploads a deployment package named my-function.zip in the
current directory:

aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://my-

function.zip

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "java8",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "example.Handler",
"CodeSha256": "Qf0hMc1I2di6YFMi9aXm3JtGTmcDbjniEuiYonYptAk=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "Active"
},
"RevisionId": "983ed1e3-ca8e-434b-8dc1-7d72ebadd83d",
...
}

If your deployment package is larger than 50 MB, you can't upload it directly. Upload it to an Amazon
Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and point Lambda to the object. The following example
commands upload a deployment package to an S3 bucket named my-bucket and use it to update a
function's code:

aws s3 cp my-function.zip s3://my-bucket

You should see the following output:

upload: my-function.zip to s3://my-bucket/my-function

aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function \

--s3-bucket my-bucket --s3-key my-function.zip

You should see the following output:

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "java8",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Handler": "example.Handler",
"CodeSha256": "Qf0hMc1I2di6YFMi9aXm3JtGTmcDbjniEuiYonYptAk=",
"Version": "$LATEST",
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "Active"
},
"RevisionId": "983ed1e3-ca8e-434b-8dc1-7d72ebadd83d",
...
}

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You can use this method to upload function packages up to 250 MB (decompressed).

Uploading a deployment package with AWS SAM

You can use AWS SAM to automate deployments of your function code, configuration, and dependencies.
AWS SAM is an extension of AWS CloudFormation that provides a simplified syntax for defining
serverless applications. The following example template defines a function with a deployment package
in the build/distributions directory that Gradle uses:

Example template.yml

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: '2010-09-09'
Transform: 'AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31'
Description: An AWS Lambda application that calls the Lambda API.
Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: build/distributions/java-basic.zip
Handler: example.Handler
Runtime: java8
Description: Java function
MemorySize: 512
Timeout: 10
# Function's execution role
Policies:
- AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
- AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess
- AWSXrayWriteOnlyAccess
- AWSLambdaVPCAccessExecutionRole
Tracing: Active

To create the function, use the package and deploy commands. These commands are customizations
to the AWS CLI. They wrap other commands to upload the deployment package to Amazon S3, rewrite
the template with the object URI, and update the function's code.

The following example script runs a Gradle build and uploads the deployment package that it creates.
It creates an AWS CloudFormation stack the first time you run it. If the stack already exists, the script
updates it.

Example deploy.sh

#!/bin/bash
set -eo pipefail
aws cloudformation package --template-file template.yml --s3-bucket MY_BUCKET --output-
template-file out.yml
aws cloudformation deploy --template-file out.yml --stack-name java-basic --capabilities
CAPABILITY_NAMED_IAM

For a complete working example, see the following sample applications:

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.
• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.

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• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with
event types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).
• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java Class
Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

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Deploy container images

Deploy Java Lambda functions with container

images
You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image (p. 248). AWS provides the following
resources to help you build a container image for your Java function:

• AWS base images for Lambda

These base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components that are required to
run the image on Lambda. AWS provides a Dockerfile for each of the base images to help with building
your container image.
• Open-source runtime interface clients

If you use a community or private enterprise base image, add a runtime interface client to the base
image to make it compatible with Lambda.

The workflow for a function defined as a container image includes these steps:

1. Build your container image using the resources listed in this topic.
2. Upload the image to your Amazon ECR container registry. See steps 7-9 in Create image (p. 249).
3. Create (p. 72) the Lambda function and deploy the image.

AWS base images for Java

AWS provides the following base images for Java:

Tags Runtime Operating system Dockerfile

11 Java 11 (Corretto) Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for Java 11 on GitHub

8.al2 Java 8 (Corretto) Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for Java 8.al2 on GitHub

8 Java 8 (OpenJDK) Amazon Linux Dockerfile for Java 8 on GitHub

2018.03

Docker Hub repository: amazon/aws-lambda-java

Amazon ECR repository: gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/java

Using a Java base image

For instructions on how to use a Java base image, choose the usage tab on Lambda base images for Java
in the Amazon ECR repository.

The instructions are also available on Lambda base images for Java in the Docker Hub repository.

Java runtime interface clients

Install the runtime interface client for Java using the Apache Maven package manager. Add the following
to your pom.xml file:

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<dependency>
<groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
<artifactId>aws-lambda-java-runtime-interface-client</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0</version>
</dependency>

For package details, see Lambda RIC in Maven Central Repository.

You can also view the Java client source code in the AWS Lambda Java Support Libraries repository on
GitHub.

After your container image resides in the Amazon ECR container registry, you can create and run (p. 72)
the Lambda function.

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AWS Lambda context object in Java

When Lambda runs your function, it passes a context object to the handler (p. 574). This object provides
methods and properties that provide information about the invocation, function, and execution
environment.

Context methods

• getRemainingTimeInMillis() – Returns the number of milliseconds left before the execution

times out.
• getFunctionName() – Returns the name of the Lambda function.
• getFunctionVersion() – Returns the version (p. 95) of the function.
• getInvokedFunctionArn() – Returns the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that's used to invoke the
function. Indicates if the invoker specified a version number or alias.
• getMemoryLimitInMB() – Returns the amount of memory that's allocated for the function.
• getAwsRequestId() – Returns the identifier of the invocation request.
• getLogGroupName() – Returns the log group for the function.
• getLogStreamName() – Returns the log stream for the function instance.
• getIdentity() – (mobile apps) Returns information about the Amazon Cognito identity that
authorized the request.
• getClientContext() – (mobile apps) Returns the client context that's provided to Lambda by the
client application.
• getLogger() – Returns the logger object (p. 590) for the function.

The following example shows a function that uses the context object to access the Lambda logger.

Example Handler.java

package example;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.LambdaLogger
...

// Handler value: example.Handler

public class Handler implements RequestHandler<Map<String,String>, String>{
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
@Override
public String handleRequest(Map<String,String> event, Context context)
{
LambdaLogger logger = context.getLogger();
String response = new String("200 OK");
// log execution details
logger.log("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: " + gson.toJson(System.getenv()));
logger.log("CONTEXT: " + gson.toJson(context));
// process event
logger.log("EVENT: " + gson.toJson(event));
logger.log("EVENT TYPE: " + event.getClass().toString());
return response;
}
}

The function serializes the context object into JSON and records it in its log stream.

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Context in sample applications

Example log output

START RequestId: 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0 Version: $LATEST

...
CONTEXT:
{
"memoryLimit": 512,
"awsRequestId": "6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0",
"functionName": "java-console",
...
}
...
END RequestId: 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0
REPORT RequestId: 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0 Duration: 198.50 ms Billed Duration:
200 ms Memory Size: 512 MB Max Memory Used: 90 MB Init Duration: 524.75 ms

The interface for the context object is available in the aws-lambda-java-core library. You can implement
this interface to create a context class for testing. The following example shows a context class that
returns dummy values for most properties and a working test logger.

Example src/test/java/example/TestContext.java

package example;

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.Context;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.CognitoIdentity;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.ClientContext;
import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.LambdaLogger

public class TestContext implements Context{

public TestContext() {}
public String getAwsRequestId(){
return new String("495b12a8-xmpl-4eca-8168-160484189f99");
}
public String getLogGroupName(){
return new String("/aws/lambda/my-function");
}
...
public LambdaLogger getLogger(){
return new TestLogger();
}

For more information on logging, see AWS Lambda function logging in Java (p. 590).

Context in sample applications

The GitHub repository for this guide includes sample applications that demonstrate the use of the
context object. Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup, an AWS
Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template, and supporting resources.

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.
• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.

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Context in sample applications

• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).
• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java Class
Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

All of the sample applications have a test context class for unit tests. The java-basic application shows
you how to use the context object to get a logger. It uses SLF4J and Log4J 2 to provide a logger that
works for local unit tests.

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AWS Lambda function logging in Java

AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and sends function metrics
to Amazon CloudWatch. Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group and a log
stream for each instance of your function. The Lambda runtime environment sends details about each
invocation to the log stream, and relays logs and other output from your function's code.

This page describes how to produce log output from your Lambda function's code, or access logs using
the AWS Command Line Interface, the Lambda console, or the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns logs (p. 590)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 591)
• Using the CloudWatch console (p. 591)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 592)
• Deleting logs (p. 594)
• Advanced logging with Log4j 2 and SLF4J (p. 594)
• Sample logging code (p. 596)

Creating a function that returns logs

To output logs from your function code, you can use methods on java.lang.System, or any logging
module that writes to stdout or stderr. The aws-lambda-java-core (p. 578) library provides a logger
class named LambdaLogger that you can access from the context object. The logger class supports
multiline logs.

The following example uses the LambdaLogger logger provided by the context object.

Example Handler.java

// Handler value: example.Handler

public class Handler implements RequestHandler<Object, String>{
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
@Override
public String handleRequest(Object event, Context context)
{
LambdaLogger logger = context.getLogger();
String response = new String("SUCCESS");
// log execution details
logger.log("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: " + gson.toJson(System.getenv()));
logger.log("CONTEXT: " + gson.toJson(context));
// process event
logger.log("EVENT: " + gson.toJson(event));
return response;
}
}

Example log format

START RequestId: 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0 Version: $LATEST

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
{
"_HANDLER": "example.Handler",
"AWS_EXECUTION_ENV": "AWS_Lambda_java8",

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"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE": "512",
...
}
CONTEXT:
{
"memoryLimit": 512,
"awsRequestId": "6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0",
"functionName": "java-console",
...
}
EVENT:
{
"records": [
{
"messageId": "19dd0b57-xmpl-4ac1-bd88-01bbb068cb78",
"receiptHandle": "MessageReceiptHandle",
"body": "Hello from SQS!",
...
}
]
}
END RequestId: 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0
REPORT RequestId: 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0 Duration: 198.50 ms Billed Duration:
200 ms Memory Size: 512 MB Max Memory Used: 90 MB Init Duration: 524.75 ms

The Java runtime logs the START, END, and REPORT lines for each invocation. The report line provides
the following details:

Report Log

• RequestId – The unique request ID for the invocation.

• Duration – The amount of time that your function's handler method spent processing the event.
• Billed Duration – The amount of time billed for the invocation.
• Memory Size – The amount of memory allocated to the function.
• Max Memory Used – The amount of memory used by the function.
• Init Duration – For the first request served, the amount of time it took the runtime to load the
function and run code outside of the handler method.
• XRAY TraceId – For traced requests, the AWS X-Ray trace ID (p. 451).
• SegmentId – For traced requests, the X-Ray segment ID.
• Sampled – For traced requests, the sampling result.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view log output after you invoke a Lambda function. For more
information, see Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695).

Using the CloudWatch console

You can use the Amazon CloudWatch console to view logs for all Lambda function invocations.

To view logs on the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Log groups page on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the log group for your function (/aws/lambda/your-function-name).
3. Choose a log stream.

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Each log stream corresponds to an instance of your function (p. 200). A log stream appears when you
update your Lambda function, and when additional instances are created to handle multiple concurrent
invocations. To find logs for a specific invocation, we recommend intrumenting your function with AWS
X-Ray. X-Ray records details about the request and the log stream in the trace.

To use a sample application that correlates logs and traces with X-Ray, see Error processor sample
application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

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Example get-logs.sh script

In the same command prompt, use the following script to download the last five log events. The script
uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for the logs to
become available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-log-
events command.

Copy the contents of the following code sample and save in your Lambda project directory as get-
logs.sh.

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

#!/bin/bash
aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --
payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

Example macOS and Linux (only)

In the same command prompt, macOS and Linux users may need to run the following command to
ensure the script is executable.

chmod -R 755 get-logs.sh

Example retrieve the last five log events

In the same command prompt, run the following script to get the last five log events.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353

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},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:
26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"
}

Deleting logs
Log groups aren't deleted automatically when you delete a function. To avoid storing logs indefinitely,
delete the log group, or configure a retention period after which logs are deleted automatically.

Advanced logging with Log4j 2 and SLF4J

To customize log output, support logging during unit tests, and log AWS SDK calls, use Apache Log4j 2
with SLF4J. Log4j is a logging library for Java programs that enables you to configure log levels and use
appender libraries. SLF4J is a facade library that lets you change which library you use without changing
your function code.

To add the request ID to your function's logs, use the appender in the aws-lambda-java-log4j2 (p. 578)
library. The following example shows a Log4j 2 configuration file that adds a timestamp and request ID
to all logs.

Example src/main/resources/log4j2.xml – Appender configuration

<Configuration status="WARN">
<Appenders>
<Lambda name="Lambda">
<PatternLayout>
<pattern>%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss} %X{AWSRequestId} %-5p %c{1} - %m%n</pattern>
</PatternLayout>
</Lambda>
</Appenders>
<Loggers>
<Root level="INFO">
<AppenderRef ref="Lambda"/>
</Root>
<Logger name="software.amazon.awssdk" level="WARN" />
<Logger name="software.amazon.awssdk.request" level="DEBUG" />
</Loggers>
</Configuration>

With this configuration, each line is prepended with the date, time, request ID, log level, and class name.

Example log format with appender

START RequestId: 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0 Version: $LATEST

2020-03-18 08:52:43 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0 INFO Handler - ENVIRONMENT
VARIABLES:

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{
"_HANDLER": "example.Handler",
"AWS_EXECUTION_ENV": "AWS_Lambda_java8",
"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE": "512",
...
}
2020-03-18 08:52:43 6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0 INFO Handler - CONTEXT:
{
"memoryLimit": 512,
"awsRequestId": "6bc28136-xmpl-4365-b021-0ce6b2e64ab0",
"functionName": "java-console",
...
}

SLF4J is a facade library for logging in Java code. In your function code, you use the SLF4J logger factory
to retrieve a logger with methods for log levels like info() and warn(). In your build configuration,
you include the logging library and SLF4J adapter in the classpath. By changing the libraries in the build
configuration, you can change the logger type without changing your function code. SLF4J is required to
capture logs from the SDK for Java.

In the following example, the handler class uses SLF4J to retrieve a logger.

Example src/main/java/example/Handler.java – Logging with SLF4J

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

// Handler value: example.Handler

public class Handler implements RequestHandler<SQSEvent, String>{
private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Handler.class);
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
LambdaAsyncClient lambdaClient = LambdaAsyncClient.create();
@Override
public String handleRequest(SQSEvent event, Context context)
{
String response = new String();
// call Lambda API
logger.info("Getting account settings");
CompletableFuture<GetAccountSettingsResponse> accountSettings =
lambdaClient.getAccountSettings(GetAccountSettingsRequest.builder().build());
// log execution details
logger.info("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: {}", gson.toJson(System.getenv()));
...

The build configuration takes runtime dependencies on the Lambda appender and SLF4J adapter, and
implementation dependencies on Log4J 2.

Example build.gradle – Logging dependencies

dependencies {
implementation platform('software.amazon.awssdk:bom:2.10.73')
implementation platform('com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-bom:2.4.0')
implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:lambda'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-core'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-aws-sdk-core'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-aws-sdk-v2'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-aws-sdk-v2-instrumentor'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-core:1.2.1'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-events:3.1.0'
implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.6'
implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-api:2.13.0'
implementation 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.13.0'

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runtimeOnly 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-slf4j18-impl:2.13.0'
runtimeOnly 'com.amazonaws:aws-lambda-java-log4j2:1.2.0'
testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.6.0'
testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-engine:5.6.0'
}

When you run your code locally for tests, the context object with the Lambda logger is not available, and
there's no request ID for the Lambda appender to use. For example test configurations, see the sample
applications in the next section.

Sample logging code

The GitHub repository for this guide includes sample applications that demonstrate the use of various
logging configurations. Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup, an
AWS SAM template, and supporting resources.

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.
• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.
• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).
• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java Class
Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

The java-basic sample application shows a minimal logging configuration that supports logging
tests. The handler code uses the LambdaLogger logger provided by the context object. For tests, the
application uses a custom TestLogger class that implements the LambdaLogger interface with a Log4j
2 logger. It uses SLF4J as a facade for compatibility with the AWS SDK. Logging libraries are excluded
from build output to keep the deployment package small.

The blank-java sample application builds on the basic configuration with AWS SDK logging and the
Lambda Log4j 2 appender. It uses Log4j 2 in Lambda with custom appender that adds the invocation
request ID to each line.

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AWS Lambda function errors in Java

When your code raises an error, Lambda generates a JSON representation of the error. This error
document appears in the invocation log and, for synchronous invocations, in the output.

This page describes how to view Lambda function invocation errors for the Java runtime using the
Lambda console and the AWS CLI.

Sections
• Syntax (p. 597)
• How it works (p. 598)
• Creating a function that returns exceptions (p. 598)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 599)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 600)
• Error handling in other AWS services (p. 600)
• Sample applications (p. 601)
• What's next? (p. 601)

Syntax
In the following example, the runtime fails to deserialize the event into an object. The input is a valid
JSON type, but it doesn't match the type expected by the handler method.

Example Lambda runtime error

{
"errorMessage": "An error occurred during JSON parsing",
"errorType": "java.lang.RuntimeException",
"stackTrace": [],
"cause": {
"errorMessage": "com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidFormatException: Can not
construct instance of java.lang.Integer from String value '1000,10': not a valid Integer
value\n at [Source: lambdainternal.util.NativeMemoryAsInputStream@35fc6dc4; line: 1,
column: 1] (through reference chain: java.lang.Object[0])",
"errorType": "java.io.UncheckedIOException",
"stackTrace": [],
"cause": {
"errorMessage": "Can not construct instance of java.lang.Integer
from String value '1000,10': not a valid Integer value\n at [Source:
lambdainternal.util.NativeMemoryAsInputStream@35fc6dc4; line: 1, column: 1] (through
reference chain: java.lang.Object[0])",
"errorType": "com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidFormatException",
"stackTrace": [

"com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.exc.InvalidFormatException.from(InvalidFormatException.java:55)",

"com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext.weirdStringException(DeserializationContext.jav
...
]
}
}
}

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How it works
When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda receives the invocation request and validates the
permissions in your execution role, verifies that the event document is a valid JSON document, and
checks parameter values.

If the request passes validation, Lambda sends the request to a function instance. The Lambda
runtime (p. 195) environment converts the event document into an object, and passes it to your function
handler.

If Lambda encounters an error, it returns an exception type, message, and HTTP status code that
indicates the cause of the error. The client or service that invoked the Lambda function can handle the
error programmatically, or pass it along to an end user. The correct error handling behavior depends on
the type of application, the audience, and the source of the error.

The following list describes the range of status codes you can receive from Lambda.

2xx

A 2xx series error with a X-Amz-Function-Error header in the response indicates a Lambda
runtime or function error. A 2xx series status code indicates that Lambda accepted the request, but
instead of an error code, Lambda indicates the error by including the X-Amz-Function-Error
header in the response.
4xx

A 4xx series error indicates an error that the invoking client or service can fix by modifying the
request, requesting permission, or by retrying the request. 4xx series errors other than 429
generally indicate an error with the request.
5xx

A 5xx series error indicates an issue with Lambda, or an issue with the function's configuration or
resources. 5xx series errors can indicate a temporary condition that can be resolved without any
action by the user. These issues can't be addressed by the invoking client or service, but a Lambda
function's owner may be able to fix the issue.

For a complete list of invocation errors, see Invoke API Errors (p. 842).

Creating a function that returns exceptions

You can create a Lambda function that displays human-readable error messages to users.
Note
To test this code, you need to include InputLengthException.java in your project src folder.

Example src/main/java/example/HandlerDivide.java – Runtime exception

import java.util.List;

// Handler value: example.HandlerDivide

public class HandlerDivide implements RequestHandler<List<Integer>, Integer>{
Gson gson = new GsonBuilder().setPrettyPrinting().create();
@Override
public Integer handleRequest(List<Integer> event, Context context)
{
LambdaLogger logger = context.getLogger();
// process event
if ( event.size() != 2 )

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{
throw new InputLengthException("Input must be an array that contains 2 numbers.");
}
int numerator = event.get(0);
int denominator = event.get(1);
logger.log("EVENT: " + gson.toJson(event));
logger.log("EVENT TYPE: " + event.getClass().toString());
return numerator/denominator;
}
}

When the function throws InputLengthException, the Java runtime serializes it into the following
document.

Example error document (whitespace added)

{
"errorMessage":"Input must contain 2 numbers.",
"errorType":"java.lang.InputLengthException",
"stackTrace": [
"example.HandlerDivide.handleRequest(HandlerDivide.java:23)",
"example.HandlerDivide.handleRequest(HandlerDivide.java:14)"
]
}

In this example, InputLengthException is a RuntimeException. The RequestHandler

interface (p. 576) does not allow checked exceptions. The RequestStreamHandler interface supports
throwing IOException errors.

The return statement in the previous example can also throw a runtime exception.

return numerator/denominator;

This code can return an arithmetic error.

{"errorMessage":"/ by zero","errorType":"java.lang.ArithmeticException","stackTrace":
["example.HandlerDivide.handleRequest(HandlerDivide.java:28)","example.HandlerDivide.handleRequest(Hand

Using the Lambda console

You can invoke your function on the Lambda console by configuring a test event and viewing the output.
The output is captured in the function's execution logs and, when active tracing (p. 451) is enabled, in
AWS X-Ray.

To invoke a function on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Select New event and then choose an Event template from the dropdown list.
5. Enter a name for the test event.
6. Enter the JSON for the test event.
7. Choose Create event.
8. Choose Invoke.

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Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The Lambda console invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) and displays the result. To see the
response, logs, and other information, expand the Details section.

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

When you invoke a Lambda function in the AWS CLI, the AWS CLI splits the response into two
documents. The AWS CLI response is displayed in your command prompt. If an error has occurred, the
response contains a FunctionError field. The invocation response or error returned by the function is
written to an output file. For example, output.json or output.txt.

The following invoke command example demonstrates how to invoke a function and write the invocation
response to an output.txt file.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

You should see the AWS CLI response in your command prompt:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"FunctionError": "Unhandled",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

You should see the function invocation response in the output.txt file. In the same command prompt,
you can also view the output in your command prompt using:

cat output.txt

You should see the invocation response in your command prompt.

{"errorMessage":"Input must contain 2

numbers.","errorType":"java.lang.InputLengthException","stackTrace":
["example.HandlerDivide.handleRequest(HandlerDivide.java:23)","example.HandlerDivide.handleRequest(Han

Lambda also records up to 256 KB of the error object in the function's logs. For more information, see
AWS Lambda function logging in Java (p. 590).

Error handling in other AWS services

When another AWS service invokes your function, the service chooses the invocation type and retry
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resource, or to serve a request from a user. Some services invoke functions asynchronously and let
Lambda handle errors, while others retry or pass errors back to the user.

For example, API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API
rejects the invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an
error, or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502 error code. To customize the
error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the required format.

We recommend using AWS X-Ray to determine the source of an error and its cause. X-Ray allows you to
find out which component encountered an error, and see details about the errors. The following example
shows a function error that resulted in a 502 response from API Gateway.

For more information, see Instrumenting Java code in AWS Lambda (p. 602).

Sample applications
The GitHub repository for this guide includes sample applications that demonstrate the use of the
errors. Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup, an AWS Serverless
Application Model (AWS SAM) template, and supporting resources.

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.
• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.
• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).
• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java Class
Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

The java-basic function includes a handler (HandlerDivide) that returns a custom runtime
exception. The HandlerStream handler implements the RequestStreamHandler and can throw an
IOException checked exception.

What's next?
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function on the the section called
“Logging” (p. 590) page.

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Instrumenting Java code in AWS Lambda

Lambda integrates with AWS X-Ray to enable you to trace, debug, and optimize Lambda applications.
You can use X-Ray to trace a request as it traverses resources in your application, from the frontend
API to storage and database on the backend. By simply adding the X-Ray SDK library to your build
configuration, you can record errors and latency for any call that your function makes to an AWS service.

The X-Ray service map shows the flow of requests through your application. The following example from
the error processor (p. 473) sample application shows an application with two functions. The primary
function processes events and sometimes returns errors. The second function processes errors that
appear in the first's log group and uses the AWS SDK to call X-Ray, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch
Logs.

To trace requests that don't have a tracing header, enable active tracing in your function's configuration.

To enable active tracing

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Monitoring tools.
4. Choose Edit.
5. Under X-Ray, enable Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Pricing
X-Ray has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, X-Ray charges for trace storage
and retrieval. For details, see AWS X-Ray pricing.

Your function needs permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. When you enable active tracing in the
Lambda console, Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).
Otherwise, add the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess policy to the execution role.

X-Ray applies a sampling algorithm to ensure that tracing is efficient, while still providing a
representative sample of the requests that your application serves. The default sampling rule is 1 request

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per second and 5 percent of additional requests. This sampling rate cannot be configured for Lambda
functions.

When active tracing is enabled, Lambda records a trace for a subset of invocations. Lambda records two
segments, which creates two nodes on the service map. The first node represents the Lambda service
that receives the invocation request. The second node is recorded by the function's runtime (p. 30).

To record detail about calls that your function makes to other resources and services, add the X-Ray SDK
for Java to your build configuration. The following example shows a Gradle build configuration that
includes the libraries that enable automatic instrumentation of AWS SDK for Java 2.x clients.

Example build.gradle – Tracing dependencies

dependencies {
implementation platform('software.amazon.awssdk:bom:2.10.73')
implementation platform('com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-bom:2.4.0')
implementation 'software.amazon.awssdk:lambda'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-core'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-aws-sdk-core'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-aws-sdk-v2'
implementation 'com.amazonaws:aws-xray-recorder-sdk-aws-sdk-v2-instrumentor'
...
}

The following example shows a trace with 2 segments. Both are named my-function, but one is type
AWS::Lambda and the other is AWS::Lambda::Function. The function segment is expanded to show
its subsegments.

The first segment represents the invocation request processed by the Lambda service. The second
segment records the work done by your function. The function segment has 3 subsegments.

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• Initialization – Represents time spent loading your function and running initialization code (p. 32).
This subsegment only appears for the first event processed by each instance of your function.
• Invocation – Represents the work done by your handler code. By instrumenting your code, you can
extend this subsegment with additional subsegments.
• Overhead – Represents the work done by the Lambda runtime to prepare to handle the next event.

You can also instrument HTTP clients, record SQL queries, and create custom subsegments with
annotations and metadata. For more information, see AWS X-Ray SDK for Java in the AWS X-Ray
Developer Guide.

Sections
• Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API (p. 604)
• Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation (p. 604)
• Storing runtime dependencies in a layer (p. 605)
• Tracing in sample applications (p. 605)

Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API

To manage tracing configuration with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example AWS CLI command enables active tracing on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--tracing-config Mode=Active

Tracing mode is part of the version-specific configuration that is locked when you publish a version of
your function. You can't change the tracing mode on a published version.

Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

To enable active tracing on an AWS::Lambda::Function resource in an AWS CloudFormation template,
use the TracingConfig property.

Example function-inline.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
Properties:
TracingConfig:
Mode: Active
...

For an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the
Tracing property.

Example template.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:

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function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Tracing: Active
...

Storing runtime dependencies in a layer

If you use the X-Ray SDK to instrument AWS SDK clients your function code, your deployment package
can become quite large. To avoid uploading runtime dependencies every time you update your functions
code, package them in a Lambda layer (p. 101).

The following example shows an AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion resource that stores the SDK for
Java and X-Ray SDK for Java.

Example template.yml – Dependencies layer

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
CodeUri: build/distributions/blank-java.zip
Tracing: Active
Layers:
- !Ref libs
...
libs:
Type: AWS::Serverless::LayerVersion
Properties:
LayerName: blank-java-lib
Description: Dependencies for the blank-java sample app.
ContentUri: build/blank-java-lib.zip
CompatibleRuntimes:
- java8

With this configuration, you only update library layer if you change your runtime dependencies. The
function deployment package only contains your code. When you update your function code, upload
time is much faster than if you include dependencies in the deployment package.

Creating a layer for dependencies requires build configuration changes to generate the layer archive prior
to deployment. For a working example, see the java-basic sample application.

Tracing in sample applications

The GitHub repository for this guide includes sample applications that demonstrate the use of tracing.
Each sample application includes scripts for easy deployment and cleanup, an AWS SAM template, and
supporting resources.

Sample Lambda applications in Java

• blank-java – A Java function that shows the use of Lambda's Java libraries, logging, environment
variables, layers, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• java-basic – A minimal Java function with unit tests and variable logging configuration.
• java-events – A minimal Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that don't require the AWS SDK as a dependency, such as Amazon API Gateway.
• java-events-v1sdk – A Java function that uses the aws-lambda-java-events (p. 578) library with event
types that require the AWS SDK as a dependency (Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3),
Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon Kinesis).

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• s3-java – A Java function that processes notification events from Amazon S3 and uses the Java Class
Library (JCL) to create thumbnails from uploaded image files.

All of the sample applications have active tracing enabled for Lambda functions. The blank-java
application shows automatic instrumentation of AWS SDK for Java 2.x clients, segment management for
tests, custom subsegments, and the use of Lambda layers to store runtime dependencies.

This example from the blank-java sample application shows nodes for the Lambda service, a function,
and the Lambda API. The function calls the Lambda API to monitor storage use in Lambda.

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Creating a deployment package using Eclipse

This section shows how to package your Java code into a deployment package using Eclipse IDE and
Maven plugin for Eclipse.
Note
The AWS SDK Eclipse Toolkit provides an Eclipse plugin for you to both create a deployment
package and also upload it to create a Lambda function. If you can use Eclipse IDE as your
development environment, this plugin enables you to author Java code, create and upload a
deployment package, and create your Lambda function. For more information, see the AWS
Toolkit for Eclipse Getting Started Guide. For an example of using the toolkit for authoring
Lambda functions, see Using Lambda with the AWS toolkit for Eclipse.

Topics
• Prerequisites (p. 607)
• Create and build a project (p. 607)

Prerequisites
Install the Maven Plugin for Eclipse.

1. Start Eclipse. From the Help menu in Eclipse, choose Install New Software.
2. In the Install window, type http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases in
the Work with: box, and choose Add.
3. Follow the steps to complete the setup.

Create and build a project

In this step, you start Eclipse and create a Maven project. You will add the necessary dependencies, and
build the project. The build will produce a .jar, which is your deployment package.

1. Create a new Maven project in Eclipse.

a. From the File menu, choose New, and then choose Project.
b. In the New Project window, choose Maven Project.
c. In the New Maven Project window, choose Create a simple project, and leave other default
selections.
d. In the New Maven Project, Configure project windows, type the following Artifact information:

• Group Id: doc-examples

• Artifact Id: lambda-java-example
• Version: 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
• Packaging: jar
• Name: lambda-java-example
2. Add the aws-lambda-java-core dependency to the pom.xml file.

It provides definitions of the RequestHandler, RequestStreamHandler, and Context interfaces.

This allows you to compile code that you can use with AWS Lambda.

a. Open the context (right-click) menu for the pom.xml file, choose Maven, and then choose Add
Dependency.
b. In the Add Dependency windows, type the following values:

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Group Id: com.amazonaws

Artifact Id: aws-lambda-java-core

Version: 1.2.1
Note
If you are following other tutorial topics in this guide, the specific tutorials might
require you to add more dependencies. Make sure to add those dependencies as
required.
3. Add Java class to the project.

a. Open the context (right-click) menu for the src/main/java subdirectory in the project, choose
New, and then choose Class.
b. In the New Java Class window, type the following values:

• Package: example
• Name: Hello

Note
If you are following other tutorial topics in this guide, the specific tutorials might
recommend different package name or class name.
c. Add your Java code. If you are following other tutorial topics in this guide, add the provided
code.
4. Build the project.

Open the context (right-click) menu for the project in Package Explorer, choose Run As, and then
choose Maven Build .... In the Edit Configuration window, type package in the Goals box.
Note
The resulting .jar, lambda-java-example-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar, is not the final
standalone .jar that you can use as your deployment package. In the next step, you add the
Apache maven-shade-plugin to create the standalone .jar. For more information, go to
Apache Maven Shade plugin.
5. Add the maven-shade-plugin plugin and rebuild.

The maven-shade-plugin will take artifacts (jars) produced by the package goal (produces customer
code .jar), and created a standalone .jar that contains the compiled customer code, and the resolved
dependencies from the pom.xml.

a. Open the context (right-click) menu for the pom.xml file, choose Maven, and then choose Add
Plugin.
b. In the Add Plugin window, type the following values:

• Group Id: org.apache.maven.plugins

• Artifact Id: maven-shade-plugin
• Version: 3.2.2
c. Now build again.

This time we will create the jar as before, and then use the maven-shade-plugin to pull in
dependencies to make the standalone .jar.

i. Open the context (right-click) menu for the project, choose Run As, and then choose Maven
build ....
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ii. In the Edit Configuration windows, type package shade:shade in the Goals box.
iii. Choose Run.

You can find the resulting standalone .jar (that is, your deployment package), in the /
target subdirectory.

Open the context (right-click) menu for the /target subdirectory, choose Show In, choose
System Explorer, and you will find the lambda-java-example-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar.

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Building Lambda functions with Go

The following sections explain how common programming patterns and core concepts apply when
authoring Lambda function code in Go.

Go runtimes

Name Identifier Operating system

Go 1.x go1.x Amazon Linux

Lambda provides the following tools and libraries for the Go runtime:

Tools and libraries for Go

• AWS SDK for Go: the official AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda: The implementation of the Lambda programming model for
Go. This package is used by AWS Lambda to invoke your handler (p. 611).
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambdacontext: Helpers for accessing execution context information
from the context object (p. 615).
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events: This library provides type definitions for common event
source integrations.
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/cmd/build-lambda-zip: This tool can be used to create a .zip file
archive on Windows.

For more information, see aws-lambda-go on GitHub.

Lambda provides the following sample applications for the Go runtime:

Sample Lambda applications in Go

• blank-go – A Go function that shows the use of Lambda's Go libraries, logging, environment variables,
and the AWS SDK.

Topics
• AWS Lambda function handler in Go (p. 611)
• AWS Lambda context object in Go (p. 615)
• Deploy Go Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617)
• Deploy Go Lambda functions with container images (p. 620)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Go (p. 624)
• AWS Lambda function errors in Go (p. 629)
• Instrumenting Go code in AWS Lambda (p. 633)
• Using environment variables (p. 637)

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Handler

AWS Lambda function handler in Go

The Lambda function handler is the method in your function code that processes events. When your
function is invoked, Lambda runs the handler method. When the handler exits or returns a response, it
becomes available to handle another event.

A Lambda function written in Go is authored as a Go executable. In your Lambda function code, you
need to include the github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda package, which implements the Lambda
programming model for Go. In addition, you need to implement handler function code and a main()
function.

package main

import (
"fmt"
"context"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

type MyEvent struct {

Name string `json:"name"`
}

func HandleRequest(ctx context.Context, name MyEvent) (string, error) {

return fmt.Sprintf("Hello %s!", name.Name ), nil
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(HandleRequest)
}

Note the following:

• package main: In Go, the package containing func main() must always be named main.
• import: Use this to include the libraries your Lambda function requires. In this instance, it includes:
• context: AWS Lambda context object in Go (p. 615).
• fmt: The Go Formatting object used to format the return value of your function.
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda: As mentioned previously, implements the Lambda
programming model for Go.
• func HandleRequest(ctx context.Context, name MyEvent) (string, error): This is your Lambda
handler signature and includes the code which will be executed. In addition, the parameters included
denote the following:
• ctx context.Context: Provides runtime information for your Lambda function invocation. ctx is
the variable you declare to leverage the information available via AWS Lambda context object in
Go (p. 615).
• name MyEvent: An input type with a variable name of name whose value will be returned in the
return statement.
• string, error: Returns two values: string for success and standard error information. For more
information on custom error handling, see AWS Lambda function errors in Go (p. 629).
• return fmt.Sprintf("Hello %s!", name), nil: Simply returns a formatted "Hello" greeting with the
name you supplied in the input event. nil indicates there were no errors and the function executed
successfully.
• func main(): The entry point that runs your Lambda function code. This is required.

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Lambda function handler using structured types

By adding lambda.Start(HandleRequest) between func main(){} code brackets, your Lambda

function will be executed. Per Go language standards, the opening bracket, { must be placed directly
at end the of the main function signature.

Lambda function handler using structured types

In the example above, the input type was a simple string. But you can also pass in structured events to
your function handler:

package main

import (
"fmt"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

type MyEvent struct {

Name string `json:"What is your name?"`
Age int `json:"How old are you?"`
}

type MyResponse struct {

Message string `json:"Answer:"`
}

func HandleLambdaEvent(event MyEvent) (MyResponse, error) {

return MyResponse{Message: fmt.Sprintf("%s is %d years old!", event.Name,
event.Age)}, nil
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(HandleLambdaEvent)
}

Your request would then look like this:

# request
{
"What is your name?": "Jim",
"How old are you?": 33
}

And the response would look like this:

# response
{
"Answer": "Jim is 33 years old!"
}

To be exported, field names in the event struct must be capitalized. For more information on handling
events from AWS event sources, see aws-lambda-go/events.

Valid handler signatures

You have several options when building a Lambda function handler in Go, but you must adhere to the
following rules:

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• The handler must be a function.

• The handler may take between 0 and 2 arguments. If there are two arguments, the first argument
must implement context.Context.
• The handler may return between 0 and 2 arguments. If there is a single return value, it must
implement error. If there are two return values, the second value must implement error. For
more information on implementing error-handling information, see AWS Lambda function errors in
Go (p. 629).

The following lists valid handler signatures. TIn and TOut represent types compatible with the
encoding/json standard library. For more information, see func Unmarshal to learn how these types are
deserialized.

•
func ()

•
func () error

•
func (TIn) error

•
func () (TOut, error)

•
func (context.Context) error

•
func (context.Context, TIn) error

•
func (context.Context) (TOut, error)

•
func (context.Context, TIn) (TOut, error)

Using global state

You can declare and modify global variables that are independent of your Lambda function's handler
code. In addition, your handler may declare an init function that is executed when your handler is
loaded. This behaves the same in AWS Lambda as it does in standard Go programs. A single instance of
your Lambda function will never handle multiple events simultaneously.

package main

import (
"log"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws/session"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/service/s3"
"github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/aws"
)

var invokeCount = 0
var myObjects []*s3.Object
func init() {
svc := s3.New(session.New())
input := &s3.ListObjectsV2Input{
Bucket: aws.String("examplebucket"),
}
result, _ := svc.ListObjectsV2(input)
myObjects = result.Contents

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func LambdaHandler() (int, error) {

invokeCount = invokeCount + 1
log.Print(myObjects)
return invokeCount, nil
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(LambdaHandler)
}

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Context

AWS Lambda context object in Go

When Lambda runs your function, it passes a context object to the handler (p. 611). This object provides
methods and properties with information about the invocation, function, and execution environment.

The Lambda context library provides the following global variables, methods, and properties.

Global variables

• FunctionName – The name of the Lambda function.

• FunctionVersion – The version (p. 95) of the function.
• MemoryLimitInMB – The amount of memory that's allocated for the function.
• LogGroupName – The log group for the function.
• LogStreamName – The log stream for the function instance.

Context methods

• Deadline – Returns the date that the execution times out, in Unix time milliseconds.

Context properties

• InvokedFunctionArn – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that's used to invoke the function.
Indicates if the invoker specified a version number or alias.
• AwsRequestID – The identifier of the invocation request.
• Identity – (mobile apps) Information about the Amazon Cognito identity that authorized the
request.
• ClientContext – (mobile apps) Client context that's provided to Lambda by the client application.

Accessing invoke context information

Lambda functions have access to metadata about their environment and the invocation request. This
can be accessed at Package context. Should your handler include context.Context as a parameter,
Lambda will insert information about your function into the context's Value property. Note that you
need to import the lambdacontext library to access the contents of the context.Context object.

package main

import (
"context"
"log"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambdacontext"
)

func CognitoHandler(ctx context.Context) {

lc, _ := lambdacontext.FromContext(ctx)
log.Print(lc.Identity.CognitoIdentityPoolID)
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(CognitoHandler)
}

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In the example above, lc is the variable used to consume the information that the context object
captured and log.Print(lc.Identity.CognitoIdentityPoolID) prints that information, in this
case, the CognitoIdentityPoolID.

The following example introduces how to use the context object to monitor how long your Lambda
function takes to complete. This allows you to analyze performance expectations and adjust your
function code accordingly, if needed.

package main

import (
"context"
"log"
"time"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

func LongRunningHandler(ctx context.Context) (string, error) {

deadline, _ := ctx.Deadline()
deadline = deadline.Add(-100 * time.Millisecond)
timeoutChannel := time.After(time.Until(deadline))

for {

select {

case <- timeoutChannel:

return "Finished before timing out.", nil

default:
log.Print("hello!")
time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
}
}
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(LongRunningHandler)
}

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Deploy .zip file archives

Deploy Go Lambda functions with .zip file archives

Your AWS Lambda function's code consists of scripts or compiled programs and their dependencies.
You use a deployment package to deploy your function code to Lambda. Lambda supports two types of
deployment packages: container images and .zip file archives.

This page describes how to create a .zip file as your deployment package for the Go runtime, and then
use the .zip file to deploy your function code to AWS Lambda using the AWS Command Line Interface
(AWS CLI).

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 617)
• Tools and libraries (p. 617)
• Sample applications (p. 617)
• Creating a .zip file on macOS and Linux (p. 618)
• Creating a .zip file on Windows (p. 618)

Prerequisites
The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

Tools and libraries

Lambda provides the following tools and libraries for the Go runtime:

Tools and libraries for Go

• AWS SDK for Go: the official AWS SDK for the Go programming language.
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda: The implementation of the Lambda programming model for
Go. This package is used by AWS Lambda to invoke your handler (p. 611).
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambdacontext: Helpers for accessing execution context information
from the context object (p. 615).
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/events: This library provides type definitions for common event
source integrations.
• github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/cmd/build-lambda-zip: This tool can be used to create a .zip file
archive on Windows.

For more information, see aws-lambda-go on GitHub.

Sample applications
Lambda provides the following sample applications for the Go runtime:

Sample Lambda applications in Go

• blank-go – A Go function that shows the use of Lambda's Go libraries, logging, environment variables,
and the AWS SDK.

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Creating a .zip file on macOS and Linux

The following steps demonstrate how to download the lambda library from GitHub with go get, and
compile your executable with go build.

1. Download the lambda library from GitHub.

go get github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda

2. Compile your executable.

GOOS=linux go build main.go

Setting GOOS to linux ensures that the compiled executable is compatible with the Go
runtime (p. 195), even if you compile it in a non-Linux environment.
3. (Optional) If your main package consists of multiple files, use the following go build command to
compile the package:

GOOS=linux go build main

4. (Optional) You may need to compile packages with CGO_ENABLED=0 set on Linux:

GOOS=linux CGO_ENABLED=0 go build main.go

This command creates a stable binary package for standard C library (libc) versions, which may be
different on Lambda and other devices.
5. Lambda uses POSIX file permissions, so you may need to set permissions for the deployment
package folder before you create the .zip file archive.
6. Create a deployment package by packaging the executable in a .zip file.

zip function.zip main

Creating a .zip file on Windows

The following steps demonstrate how to download the build-lambda-zip tool for Windows from GitHub
with go get, and compile your executable with go build.
Note
If you have not already done so, you must install git and then add the git executable to your
Windows %PATH% environment variable.

1. Download the build-lambda-zip tool from GitHub:

go.exe get -u github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/cmd/build-lambda-zip

2. Use the tool from your GOPATH to create a .zip file. If you have a default installation of Go, the tool
is typically in %USERPROFILE%\Go\bin. Otherwise, navigate to where you installed the Go runtime
and do one of the following:

cmd.exe

In cmd.exe, run the following:

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set GOOS=linux
go build -o main main.go
%USERPROFILE%\Go\bin\build-lambda-zip.exe -output main.zip main

PowerShell

In PowerShell, run the following:

$env:GOOS = "linux"
$env:CGO_ENABLED = "0"
$env:GOARCH = "amd64"
go build -o main main.go
~\Go\Bin\build-lambda-zip.exe -output main.zip main

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Deploy Go Lambda functions with container

images
You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image (p. 248). AWS provides the following
resources to help you build a container image for your Go function:

• AWS base images for Lambda

These base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components that are required to
run the image on Lambda. AWS provides a Dockerfile for each of the base images to help with building
your container image.
• Open-source runtime interface clients

If you use a community or private enterprise base image, add a runtime interface client to the base
image to make it compatible with Lambda.

The workflow for a function defined as a container image includes these steps:

1. Build your container image using the resources listed in this topic.
2. Upload the image to your Amazon ECR container registry. See steps 7-9 in Create image (p. 249).
3. Create (p. 72) the Lambda function and deploy the image.

Topics
• AWS base images for Go (p. 620)
• Go runtime interface clients (p. 620)
• Using the Go:1.x base image (p. 621)
• Deploying Go with the provided.al2 base image (p. 621)
• Deploying Go with an alternative base image (p. 622)

AWS base images for Go

AWS provides the following base image for Go:

Tags Runtime Operating system Dockerfile

1 Go 1.x Amazon Linux Dockerfile for Go 1.x on GitHub

2018.03

Docker Hub repository: amazon/aws-lambda-go

Amazon ECR repository: gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/go

Go runtime interface clients

AWS does not provide a separate runtime interface client for Go. The aws-lambda-go/lambda package
includes an implementation of the runtime interface.

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Using the Go:1.x base image

For instructions on how to use the base image for Go:1.x, choose the usage tab on Lambda base images
for Go in the Amazon ECR repository.

The instructions are also available on Lambda base images for Go in the Docker Hub repository.

Deploying Go with the provided.al2 base image

To build a container image for Go that runs on Amazon Linux 2, use the provided.al2 base image. For
more information about this base image, see provided in the Amazon ECR public gallery.

You include the aws-lambda-go/lambda package with your Go handler. This package implements the
programming model for Go, including the runtime interface client. The provided.al2 base image also
includes the runtime interface emulator.

To build and deploy a Go function with the provided.al2 base image.

Note that the first three steps are identical whether you deploy your function as a .zip file archive or as a
container image.

1. On your local machine, create a project directory for your new function.
2. From your project folder, run the following command to install the required Lambda Go libraries.

go get github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go

For a description of the Lambda Go libraries libraries, see Building Lambda functions with
Go (p. 610).
3. Create your Go handler code (p. 611) and include the aws-lambda-go/lambda package.
4. Use a text editor to create a Dockerfile in your project directory. The following example Dockerfile
uses the AWS provided.al2 base image.

FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/provided:al2 as build

# install compiler
RUN yum install -y golang
RUN go env -w GOPROXY=direct
# cache dependencies
ADD go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
# build
ADD . .
RUN go build -o /main
# copy artifacts to a clean image
FROM public.ecr.aws/lambda/provided:al2
COPY --from=build /main /main
ENTRYPOINT [ "/main" ]

5. Build your Docker image with the docker build command. Enter a name for the image. The
following example names the image hello-world.

docker build -t hello-world .

6. Authenticate the Docker CLI to your Amazon ECR registry.

aws ecr get-login-password --region us-east-1 | docker login --username AWS --password-
stdin 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

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7. Tag your image to match your repository name, and deploy the image to Amazon ECR using the
docker push command.

docker tag hello-world:latest 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-

world:latest
docker push 123456789012.dkr.ecr.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/hello-world:latest

Now that your container image resides in the Amazon ECR container registry, you can create (p. 72) the
Lambda function and deploy the image.

Deploying Go with an alternative base image

You can build a container image for Go from an alternative base image. The following example
Dockerfile uses alpine as the base image.

FROM alpine as build

# install build tools
RUN apk add go git
RUN go env -w GOPROXY=direct
# cache dependencies
ADD go.mod go.sum ./
RUN go mod download
# build
ADD . .
RUN go build -o /main
# copy artifacts to a clean image
FROM alpine
COPY --from=build /main /main
ENTRYPOINT [ "/main" ]

The steps are the same as described for a provided.al2 base image, with one additional consideration:
if you want to add the RIE to your image, you need to follow these additional steps before you run the
docker build command. For more information about testing your image locally with the RIE, see the
section called “Testing images” (p. 254).

To add RIE to the image

1. In your Dockerfile, replace the ENTRYPOINT instruction with the following content:

# (Optional) Add Lambda Runtime Interface Emulator and use a script in the ENTRYPOINT
for simpler local runs
ADD https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator/releases/latest/
download/aws-lambda-rie /usr/bin/aws-lambda-rie
RUN chmod 755 /usr/bin/aws-lambda-rie
COPY entry.sh /
RUN chmod 755 /entry.sh
ENTRYPOINT [ "/entry.sh" ]

2. Use a text editor to create file entry.sh in your project directory, containing the following content:

#!/bin/sh
if [ -z "${AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API}" ]; then
exec /usr/bin/aws-lambda-rie "$@"
else
exec "$@"
fi

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If you do not want to add the RIE to your image, you can test your image locally without adding RIE to
the image.

To test locally without adding RIE to the image

1. From your project directory, run the following command to download the RIE from GitHub and
install it on your local machine.

mkdir -p ~/.aws-lambda-rie && curl -Lo ~/.aws-lambda-rie/aws-lambda-rie \

https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-runtime-interface-emulator/releases/latest/download/
aws-lambda-rie \
&& chmod +x ~/.aws-lambda-rie/aws-lambda-rie

2. Run your Lambda image function using the docker run command. In the following example, /
main is the path to the function entry point.

docker run -d -v ~/.aws-lambda-rie:/aws-lambda --entrypoint /aws-lambda/aws-lambda-rie

-p 9000:8080 myfunction:latest /main

This runs the image as a container and starts up an endpoint locally at

localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations.
3. Post an event to the following endpoint using a curl command:

curl -XPOST "http://localhost:9000/2015-03-31/functions/function/invocations" -d '{}'

This command invokes the function running in the container image and returns a response.

Now that your container image resides in the Amazon ECR container registry, you can you can
create (p. 72) the Lambda function and deploy the image.

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AWS Lambda function logging in Go

AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and sends function metrics
to Amazon CloudWatch. Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group and a log
stream for each instance of your function. The Lambda runtime environment sends details about each
invocation to the log stream, and relays logs and other output from your function's code.

This page describes how to produce log output from your Lambda function's code, or access logs using
the AWS Command Line Interface, the Lambda console, or the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns logs (p. 624)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 625)
• Using the CloudWatch console (p. 625)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 625)
• Deleting logs (p. 628)

Creating a function that returns logs

To output logs from your function code, you can use methods on the fmt package, or any logging library
that writes to stdout or stderr. The following example uses the log package.

Example main.go – Logging

func handleRequest(ctx context.Context, event events.SQSEvent) (string, error) {

// event
eventJson, _ := json.MarshalIndent(event, "", " ")
log.Printf("EVENT: %s", eventJson)
// environment variables
log.Printf("REGION: %s", os.Getenv("AWS_REGION"))
log.Println("ALL ENV VARS:")
for _, element := range os.Environ() {
log.Println(element)
}

Example log format

START RequestId: dbda340c-xmpl-4031-8810-11bb609b4c71 Version: $LATEST

2020/03/27 03:40:05 EVENT: {
"Records": [
{
"messageId": "19dd0b57-b21e-4ac1-bd88-01bbb068cb78",
"receiptHandle": "MessageReceiptHandle",
"body": "Hello from SQS!",
"md5OfBody": "7b27xmplb47ff90a553787216d55d91d",
"md5OfMessageAttributes": "",
"attributes": {
"ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1523232000001",
"ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
"SenderId": "123456789012",
"SentTimestamp": "1523232000000"
},
...
2020/03/27 03:40:05 AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME=2020/03/27/
[$LATEST]569cxmplc3c34c7489e6a97ad08b4419
2020/03/27 03:40:05 AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME=blank-go-function-9DV3XMPL6XBC

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2020/03/27 03:40:05 AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE=128

2020/03/27 03:40:05 AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION=$LATEST
2020/03/27 03:40:05 AWS_EXECUTION_ENV=AWS_Lambda_go1.x
END RequestId: dbda340c-xmpl-4031-8810-11bb609b4c71
REPORT RequestId: dbda340c-xmpl-4031-8810-11bb609b4c71 Duration: 38.66 ms Billed Duration:
39 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 54 MB Init Duration: 203.69 ms
XRAY TraceId: 1-5e7d7595-212fxmpl9ee07c4884191322 SegmentId: 42ffxmpl0645f474 Sampled: true

The Go runtime logs the START, END, and REPORT lines for each invocation. The report line provides the
following details.

Report Log

• RequestId – The unique request ID for the invocation.

• Duration – The amount of time that your function's handler method spent processing the event.
• Billed Duration – The amount of time billed for the invocation.
• Memory Size – The amount of memory allocated to the function.
• Max Memory Used – The amount of memory used by the function.
• Init Duration – For the first request served, the amount of time it took the runtime to load the
function and run code outside of the handler method.
• XRAY TraceId – For traced requests, the AWS X-Ray trace ID (p. 451).
• SegmentId – For traced requests, the X-Ray segment ID.
• Sampled – For traced requests, the sampling result.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view log output after you invoke a Lambda function. For more
information, see Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695).

Using the CloudWatch console

You can use the Amazon CloudWatch console to view logs for all Lambda function invocations.

To view logs on the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Log groups page on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the log group for your function (/aws/lambda/your-function-name).
3. Choose a log stream.

Each log stream corresponds to an instance of your function (p. 200). A log stream appears when you
update your Lambda function, and when additional instances are created to handle multiple concurrent
invocations. To find logs for a specific invocation, we recommend intrumenting your function with AWS
X-Ray. X-Ray records details about the request and the log stream in the trace.

To use a sample application that correlates logs and traces with X-Ray, see Error processor sample
application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

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• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

Example get-logs.sh script

In the same command prompt, use the following script to download the last five log events. The script
uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for the logs to
become available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-log-
events command.

Copy the contents of the following code sample and save in your Lambda project directory as get-
logs.sh.

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

#!/bin/bash

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aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --

payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

Example macOS and Linux (only)

In the same command prompt, macOS and Linux users may need to run the following command to
ensure the script is executable.

chmod -R 755 get-logs.sh

Example retrieve the last five log events

In the same command prompt, run the following script to get the last five log events.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:
26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"
}

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Deleting logs
Log groups aren't deleted automatically when you delete a function. To avoid storing logs indefinitely,
delete the log group, or configure a retention period after which logs are deleted automatically.

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Errors

AWS Lambda function errors in Go

When your code raises an error, Lambda generates a JSON representation of the error. This error
document appears in the invocation log and, for synchronous invocations, in the output.

This page describes how to view Lambda function invocation errors for the Go runtime using the Lambda
console and the AWS CLI.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns exceptions (p. 629)
• How it works (p. 629)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 630)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 630)
• Error handling in other AWS services (p. 631)
• What's next? (p. 632)

Creating a function that returns exceptions

The following code sample demonstrates custom error handling that raises an exception directly from a
Lambda function and handles it directly. Note that custom errors in Go must import the errors module.

package main

import (
"errors"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

func OnlyErrors() error {

return errors.New("something went wrong!")
}

func main() {
lambda.Start(OnlyErrors)
}

Which returns the following:

{
"errorMessage": "something went wrong!",
"errorType": "errorString"
}

How it works
When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda receives the invocation request and validates the
permissions in your execution role, verifies that the event document is a valid JSON document, and
checks parameter values.

If the request passes validation, Lambda sends the request to a function instance. The Lambda
runtime (p. 195) environment converts the event document into an object, and passes it to your function
handler.

If Lambda encounters an error, it returns an exception type, message, and HTTP status code that
indicates the cause of the error. The client or service that invoked the Lambda function can handle the

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error programmatically, or pass it along to an end user. The correct error handling behavior depends on
the type of application, the audience, and the source of the error.

The following list describes the range of status codes you can receive from Lambda.

2xx

A 2xx series error with a X-Amz-Function-Error header in the response indicates a Lambda
runtime or function error. A 2xx series status code indicates that Lambda accepted the request, but
instead of an error code, Lambda indicates the error by including the X-Amz-Function-Error
header in the response.
4xx

A 4xx series error indicates an error that the invoking client or service can fix by modifying the
request, requesting permission, or by retrying the request. 4xx series errors other than 429
generally indicate an error with the request.
5xx

A 5xx series error indicates an issue with Lambda, or an issue with the function's configuration or
resources. 5xx series errors can indicate a temporary condition that can be resolved without any
action by the user. These issues can't be addressed by the invoking client or service, but a Lambda
function's owner may be able to fix the issue.

For a complete list of invocation errors, see Invoke API Errors (p. 842).

Using the Lambda console

You can invoke your function on the Lambda console by configuring a test event and viewing the output.
The output is captured in the function's execution logs and, when active tracing (p. 451) is enabled, in
AWS X-Ray.

To invoke a function on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Select New event and then choose an Event template from the dropdown list.
5. Enter a name for the test event.
6. Enter the JSON for the test event.
7. Choose Create event.
8. Choose Invoke.

The Lambda console invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) and displays the result. To see the
response, logs, and other information, expand the Details section.

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

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Error handling in other AWS services

When you invoke a Lambda function in the AWS CLI, the AWS CLI splits the response into two
documents. The AWS CLI response is displayed in your command prompt. If an error has occurred, the
response contains a FunctionError field. The invocation response or error returned by the function is
written to an output file. For example, output.json or output.txt.

The following invoke command example demonstrates how to invoke a function and write the invocation
response to an output.txt file.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

You should see the AWS CLI response in your command prompt:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"FunctionError": "Unhandled",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

You should see the function invocation response in the output.txt file. In the same command prompt,
you can also view the output in your command prompt using:

cat output.txt

You should see the invocation response in your command prompt.

Error handling in other AWS services

When another AWS service invokes your function, the service chooses the invocation type and retry
behavior. AWS services can invoke your function on a schedule, in response to a lifecycle event on a
resource, or to serve a request from a user. Some services invoke functions asynchronously and let
Lambda handle errors, while others retry or pass errors back to the user.

For example, API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API
rejects the invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an
error, or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502 error code. To customize the
error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the required format.

We recommend using AWS X-Ray to determine the source of an error and its cause. X-Ray allows you to
find out which component encountered an error, and see details about the errors. The following example
shows a function error that resulted in a 502 response from API Gateway.

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What's next?

For more information, see Instrumenting Go code in AWS Lambda (p. 633).

What's next?
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function on the the section called
“Logging” (p. 624) page.

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Tracing

Instrumenting Go code in AWS Lambda

Lambda integrates with AWS X-Ray to enable you to trace, debug, and optimize Lambda applications.
You can use X-Ray to trace a request as it traverses resources in your application, from the frontend
API to storage and database on the backend. By simply adding the X-Ray SDK library to your build
configuration, you can record errors and latency for any call that your function makes to an AWS service.

The X-Ray service map shows the flow of requests through your application. The following example from
the error processor (p. 473) sample application shows an application with two functions. The primary
function processes events and sometimes returns errors. The second function processes errors that
appear in the first's log group and uses the AWS SDK to call X-Ray, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch
Logs.

To trace requests that don't have a tracing header, enable active tracing in your function's configuration.

To enable active tracing

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Monitoring tools.
4. Choose Edit.
5. Under X-Ray, enable Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Pricing
X-Ray has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, X-Ray charges for trace storage
and retrieval. For details, see AWS X-Ray pricing.

Your function needs permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. When you enable active tracing in the
Lambda console, Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).
Otherwise, add the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess policy to the execution role.

X-Ray applies a sampling algorithm to ensure that tracing is efficient, while still providing a
representative sample of the requests that your application serves. The default sampling rule is 1 request

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per second and 5 percent of additional requests. This sampling rate cannot be configured for Lambda
functions.

When active tracing is enabled, Lambda records a trace for a subset of invocations. Lambda records two
segments, which creates two nodes on the service map. The first node represents the Lambda service
that receives the invocation request. The second node is recorded by the function's runtime (p. 30).

You can instrument your handler code to record metadata and trace downstream calls. To record detail
about calls that your handler makes to other resources and services, use the X-Ray SDK for Go. Download
the SDK from its GitHub repository with go get:

go get github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-go

To instrument AWS SDK clients, pass the client to the xray.AWS() method.

xray.AWS(s3.Client)

Then you can trace your calls by using the WithContext version of the method.

svc.ListBucketsWithContext(ctx aws.Context, input *ListBucketsInput)

The following example shows a trace with 2 segments. Both are named my-function, but one is type
AWS::Lambda and the other is AWS::Lambda::Function. The function segment is expanded to show
its subsegments.

The first segment represents the invocation request processed by the Lambda service. The second
segment records the work done by your function. The function segment has 3 subsegments.

• Initialization – Represents time spent loading your function and running initialization code (p. 32).
This subsegment only appears for the first event processed by each instance of your function.

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• Invocation – Represents the work done by your handler code. By instrumenting your code, you can
extend this subsegment with additional subsegments.
• Overhead – Represents the work done by the Lambda runtime to prepare to handle the next event.

You can also instrument HTTP clients, record SQL queries, and create custom subsegments with
annotations and metadata. For more information, see The X-Ray SDK for Go in the AWS X-Ray Developer
Guide.

Sections
• Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API (p. 635)
• Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation (p. 635)

Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API

To manage tracing configuration with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example AWS CLI command enables active tracing on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--tracing-config Mode=Active

Tracing mode is part of the version-specific configuration that is locked when you publish a version of
your function. You can't change the tracing mode on a published version.

Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

To enable active tracing on an AWS::Lambda::Function resource in an AWS CloudFormation template,
use the TracingConfig property.

Example function-inline.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
Properties:
TracingConfig:
Mode: Active
...

For an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the
Tracing property.

Example template.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Tracing: Active

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Using environment variables

To access environment variables (p. 77) in Go, use the Getenv function.

The following explains how to do this. Note that the function imports the fmt package to format the
printed results and the os package, a platform-independent system interface that allows you to access
environment variables.

package main

import (
"fmt"
"os"
"github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go/lambda"
)

func main() {
fmt.Printf("%s is %s. years old\n", os.Getenv("NAME"), os.Getenv("AGE"))

For a list of environment variables that are set by the Lambda runtime, see Defined runtime environment
variables (p. 80).

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Building Lambda functions with C#

The following sections explain how common programming patterns and core concepts apply when
authoring Lambda function code in C#.

AWS Lambda provides the following libraries for C# functions:

• Amazon.Lambda.Core – This library provides a static Lambda logger, serialization interfaces and a
context object. The Context object (AWS Lambda context object in C# (p. 652)) provides runtime
information about your Lambda function.
• Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json – This is an implementation of the serialization interface in
Amazon.Lambda.Core.
• Amazon.Lambda.Logging.AspNetCore – This provides a library for logging from ASP.NET.
• Event objects (POCOs) for several AWS services, including:
• Amazon.Lambda.APIGatewayEvents
• Amazon.Lambda.CognitoEvents
• Amazon.Lambda.ConfigEvents
• Amazon.Lambda.DynamoDBEvents
• Amazon.Lambda.KinesisEvents
• Amazon.Lambda.S3Events
• Amazon.Lambda.SQSEvents
• Amazon.Lambda.SNSEvents

These packages are available at Nuget packages.

.NET runtimes

Name Identifier Operating system

.NET Core 3.1 dotnetcore3.1 Amazon Linux 2

.NET Core 2.1 dotnetcore2.1 Amazon Linux

Note
For end of support information about .NET Core 2.1, see the section called “Runtime support
policy” (p. 198).

To get started with application development in your local environment, deploy one of the sample
applications available in this guide's GitHub repository.

Sample Lambda applications in C#

• blank-csharp – A C# function that shows the use of Lambda's .NET libraries, logging, environment
variables, AWS X-Ray tracing, unit tests, and the AWS SDK.
• ec2-spot – A function that manages spot instance requests in Amazon EC2.

Topics
• AWS Lambda function handler in C# (p. 640)
• Deploy C# Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 645)

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• Deploy .NET Lambda functions with container images (p. 651)

• AWS Lambda context object in C# (p. 652)
• AWS Lambda function logging in C# (p. 653)
• AWS Lambda function errors in C# (p. 658)
• Instrumenting C# code in AWS Lambda (p. 663)

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AWS Lambda function handler in C#

The Lambda function handler is the method in your function code that processes events. When your
function is invoked, Lambda runs the handler method. When the handler exits or returns a response, it
becomes available to handle another event.

You define a Lambda function handler as an instance or static method in a class. If you want access to
the Lambda context object, it is available by defining a method parameter of type ILambdaContext, an
interface you can use to access information about the current invocation, such as the name of the current
function, the memory limit, execution time remaining, and logging.

returnType handler-name(inputType input, ILambdaContext context) {

...
}

In the syntax, note the following:

• inputType – The first handler parameter is the input to the handler, which can be event data
(published by an event source) or custom input that you provide such as a string or any custom data
object.
• returnType – If you plan to invoke the Lambda function synchronously (using the
RequestResponse invocation type), you can return the output of your function using any of the
supported data types. For example, if you use a Lambda function as a mobile application backend, you
are invoking it synchronously. Your output data type will be serialized into JSON.

If you plan to invoke the Lambda function asynchronously (using the Event invocation type), the
returnType should be void. For example, if you use AWS Lambda with event sources such as
Amazon S3 or Amazon SNS, these event sources invoke the Lambda function using the Event
invocation type.
• ILambdaContext context – The second argument in the handler signature is optional. It provides
access to the context object (p. 652) which has information about the function and request.

Handling streams
Only the System.IO.Stream type is supported as an input parameter by default.

For example, consider the following C# example code.

using System.IO;

namespace Example
{
public class Hello
{
public Stream MyHandler(Stream stream)
{
//function logic
}
}
}

In the example C# code, the first handler parameter is the input to the handler (MyHandler), which can
be event data (published by an event source such as Amazon S3) or custom input you provide such as a
Stream (as in this example) or any custom data object. The output is of type Stream.

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Handling standard data types

All other types, as listed below, require you to specify a serializer.

• Primitive .NET types (such as string or int).

• Collections and maps - IList, IEnumerable, IList<T>, Array, IDictionary, IDictionary<TKey, TValue>
• POCO types (Plain old CLR objects)
• Predefined AWS event types
• For asynchronous invocations the return-type will be ignored by Lambda. The return type may be set
to void in such cases.
• If you are using .NET asynchronous programming, the return type can be Task and Task<T> types and
use async and await keywords. For more information, see Using async in C# functions with AWS
Lambda (p. 643).

Unless your function input and output parameters are of type System.IO.Stream, you will need to
serialize them. AWS Lambda provides a default serializer that can be applied at the assembly or method
level of your application, or you can define your own by implementing the ILambdaSerializer
interface provided by the Amazon.Lambda.Core library. For more information, see Deploy C# Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 645).

To add the default serializer attribute to a method, first add a dependency on

Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json in your .csproj file.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
<GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles>true</GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles>
<AssemblyName>AssemblyName</AssemblyName>
</PropertyGroup>

<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Core" Version="1.2.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.APIGatewayEvents" Version="2.3.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json" Version="1.8.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.1" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>

The example below illustrates the flexibility you can leverage by specifying the default Json.NET
serializer on one method and another of your choosing on a different method:

public class ProductService{

[LambdaSerializer(typeof(Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json.JsonSerializer))]
public Product DescribeProduct(DescribeProductRequest request)
{
return catalogService.DescribeProduct(request.Id);
}

[LambdaSerializer(typeof(MyJsonSerializer))]
public Customer DescribeCustomer(DescribeCustomerRequest request)
{
return customerService.DescribeCustomer(request.Id);
}
}

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Note
If you are using .NET Core 3.1, we recommend that you use the
Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.SystemTextJson serializer. This package provides a performance
improvement over Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json.

Handler signatures
When creating Lambda functions, you have to provide a handler string that tells AWS Lambda where to
look for the code to invoke. In C#, the format is:

ASSEMBLY::TYPE::METHOD where:

• ASSEMBLY is the name of the .NET assembly file for your application. When using the .NET Core CLI
to build your application, if you haven't set the assembly name using the AssemblyName property
in .csproj, the ASSEMBLY name will be the .csproj file name. For more information, see .NET Core
CLI (p. 645). In this case, let's assume the .csproj file is HelloWorldApp.csproj.
• TYPE is the full name of the handler type, which consists of the Namespace and the ClassName. In
this case Example.Hello.
• METHOD is name of the function handler, in this case MyHandler.

Ultimately, the signature will be of this format: Assembly::Namespace.ClassName::MethodName

Again, consider the following example:

using System.IO;

namespace Example
{
public class Hello
{
public Stream MyHandler(Stream stream)
{
//function logic
}
}
}

The handler string would be: HelloWorldApp::Example.Hello::MyHandler

Important
If the method specified in your handler string is overloaded, you must provide the exact
signature of the method Lambda should invoke. AWS Lambda will reject an otherwise valid
signature if the resolution would require selecting among multiple (overloaded) signatures.

Serializing Lambda functions

For any Lambda functions that use input or output types other than a Stream object, you will need to
add a serialization library to your application. You can do this in the following ways:

• Use the Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json NuGet package. This library uses JSON.NET to

handle serialization.
Note
If you are using .NET Core 3.1, we recommend that you use the
Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.SystemTextJson serializer. This package provides a performance
improvement over Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json.
• Create your own serialization library by implementing the ILambdaSerializer interface, which is
available as part of the Amazon.Lambda.Core library. The interface defines two methods:

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• T Deserialize<T>(Stream requestStream);

You implement this method to deserialize the request payload from the Invoke API into the object
that is passed to the Lambda function handler.
• T Serialize<T>(T response, Stream responseStream);.

You implement this method to serialize the result returned from the Lambda function handler into
the response payload that is returned by the Invoke API.

You use whichever serializer you wish by adding it as a dependency to your MyProject.csproj file.

...
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Core" Version="1.0.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json" Version="1.3.0" />
</ItemGroup>

You then add it to your AssemblyInfo.cs file. For example, if you are using the default Json.NET serializer,
this is what you would add:

[assembly:LambdaSerializer(typeof(Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json.JsonSerializer))]

Note
You can define a custom serialization attribute at the method level, which will override the
default serializer specified at the assembly level. For more information, see Handling standard
data types (p. 641).

Lambda function handler restrictions

Note that there are some restrictions on the handler signature.

• It may not be unsafe and use pointer types in the handler signature, though unsafe context can be
used inside the handler method and its dependencies. For more information, see unsafe (C# reference).
• It may not pass a variable number of parameters using the params keyword, or use ArgIterator as
an input or return parameter which is used to support variable number of parameters.
• The handler may not be a generic method (e.g. IList<T> Sort<T>(IList<T> input)).
• Async handlers with signature async void are not supported.

Using async in C# functions with AWS Lambda

If you know your Lambda function will require a long-running process, such as uploading large files to
Amazon S3 or reading a large stream of records from DynamoDB, you can take advantage of the async/
await pattern. When you use this signature, Lambda invokes the function synchronously and waits for
the function to return a response or for execution to time out (p. 70).

public async Task<Response> ProcessS3ImageResizeAsync(SimpleS3Event input)

{
var response = await client.DoAsyncWork(input);
return response;
}

If you use this pattern, there are some considerations you must take into account:

• AWS Lambda does not support async void methods.

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• If you create an async Lambda function without implementing the await operator, .NET will issue a
compiler warning and you will observe unexpected behavior. For example, some async actions will run
while others won't. Or some async actions won't complete before the function invocation completes.

public async Task ProcessS3ImageResizeAsync(SimpleS3Event event) // Compiler warning

{
client.DoAsyncWork(input);
}

• Your Lambda function can include multiple async calls, which can be invoked in parallel. You can
use the Task.WhenAll and Task.WhenAny methods to work with multiple tasks. To use the
Task.WhenAll method, you pass a list of the operations as an array to the method. Note that in the
example below, if you neglect to include any operation to the array, that call may return before its
operation completes.

public async Task DoesNotWaitForAllTasks1()

{
// In Lambda, Console.WriteLine goes to CloudWatch Logs.
var task1 = Task.Run(() => Console.WriteLine("Test1"));
var task2 = Task.Run(() => Console.WriteLine("Test2"));
var task3 = Task.Run(() => Console.WriteLine("Test3"));

// Lambda may return before printing "Test2" since we never wait on task2.
await Task.WhenAll(task1, task3);
}

To use the Task.WhenAny method, you again pass a list of operations as an array to the method. The
call returns as soon as the first operation completes, even if the others are still running.

public async Task DoesNotWaitForAllTasks2()

{
// In Lambda, Console.WriteLine goes to CloudWatch Logs.
var task1 = Task.Run(() => Console.WriteLine("Test1"));
var task2 = Task.Run(() => Console.WriteLine("Test2"));
var task3 = Task.Run(() => Console.WriteLine("Test3"));

// Lambda may return before printing all tests since we're only waiting for one to
finish.
await Task.WhenAny(task1, task2, task3);
}

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Deploy C# Lambda functions with .zip file archives

A .NET Core deployment package (.zip file archive) contains your function's compiled assembly along
with all of its assembly dependencies. The package also contains a proj.deps.json file. This signals
to the .NET Core runtime all of your function's dependencies and a proj.runtimeconfig.json
file, which is used to configure the runtime. The .NET command line interface (CLI) publish
command can create a folder with all of these files. By default, the proj.runtimeconfig.json
is not included because a Lambda project is typically configured to be a class library. To force the
proj.runtimeconfig.json to be written as part of the publish process, pass in the command line
argument /p:GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles=true to the publish command.

Although it is possible to create the deployment package with the dotnet publish command, we
recommend that you create the deployment package with either the .NET Core CLI (p. 645) or the AWS
Toolkit for Visual Studio (p. 648). These are tools optimized specifically for Lambda to ensure that the
lambda-project.runtimeconfig.json file exists and optimizes the package bundle, including the
removal of any non-Linux-based dependencies.

Topics
• .NET Core CLI (p. 645)
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio (p. 648)

.NET Core CLI

The .NET Core CLI offers a cross-platform way for you to create .NET-based Lambda applications. This
section assumes that you have installed the .NET Core CLI. If you haven't, see Download .NET on the
Microsoft website.

In the .NET CLI, you use the new command to create .NET projects from a command line. This is useful
if you want to create a project outside of Visual Studio. To view a list of the available project types,
open a command line and navigate to where you installed the .NET Core runtime and run the following
command:

dotnet new -all

Usage: new [options]
...
Templates Short Name Language Tags

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Console Application console [C#], F#, VB
Common/Console
Class library classlib [C#], F#, VB
Common/Library
Unit Test Project mstest [C#], F#, VB
Test/MSTest
xUnit Test Project xunit [C#], F#, VB
Test/xUnit
...
Examples:
dotnet new mvc --auth Individual
dotnet new viewstart
dotnet new --help

Lambda offers additional templates via the Amazon.Lambda.Templates nuget package. To install this
package, run the following command:

dotnet new -i Amazon.Lambda.Templates

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Once the install is complete, the Lambda templates show up as part of dotnet new. To examine details
about a template, use the help option.

dotnet new lambda.EmptyFunction --help

The lambda.EmptyFunction template supports the following options:

• --name – The name of the function

• --profile – The name of a profile in your AWS SDK for .NET credentials file
• --region – The AWS Region to create the function in

These options are saved to a file named aws-lambda-tools-defaults.json.

Create a function project with the lambda.EmptyFunction template.

dotnet new lambda.EmptyFunction --name MyFunction

Under the src/myfunction directory, examine the following files:

• aws-lambda-tools-defaults.json: This is where you specify the command line options when deploying
your Lambda function. For example:

"profile" : "default",
"region" : "us-east-2",
"configuration" : "Release",
"framework" : "netcoreapp2.1",
"function-runtime":"dotnetcore3.1",
"function-memory-size" : 256,
"function-timeout" : 30,
"function-handler" : "MyFunction::MyFunction.Function::FunctionHandler"

• Function.cs: Your Lambda handler function code. It's a C# template that includes the default
Amazon.Lambda.Core library and a default LambdaSerializer attribute. For more information
on serialization requirements and options, see Serializing Lambda functions (p. 642). It also includes a
sample function that you can edit to apply your Lambda function code.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Amazon.Lambda.Core;

// Assembly attribute to enable the Lambda function's JSON input to be converted into
a .NET class.
[assembly: LambdaSerializer(typeof(Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json.JsonSerializer))]

namespace MyFunction
{
public class Function
{

public string FunctionHandler1(string input, ILambdaContext context)

{
return input?.ToUpper();
}
}
}

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• MyFunction.csproj: An MSBuild file that lists the files and assemblies that comprise your application.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
</PropertyGroup>

<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Core" Version="1.0.0 " />
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json" Version="1.3.0" />
</ItemGroup>

</Project>

• Readme: Use this file to document your Lambda function.

Under the myfunction/test directory, examine the following files:

• myFunction.Tests.csproj: As noted previously, this is an MSBuild file that lists the files and assemblies
that comprise your test project. Note also that it includes the Amazon.Lambda.Core library, allowing
you to seamlessly integrate any Lambda templates required to test your function.

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
...

<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Core" Version="1.0.0 " />

...

• FunctionTest.cs: The same C# code template file that it is included in the src directory. Edit this file
to mirror your function's production code and test it before uploading your Lambda function to a
production environment.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

using Xunit;
using Amazon.Lambda.Core;
using Amazon.Lambda.TestUtilities;

using MyFunction;

namespace MyFunction.Tests
{
public class FunctionTest
{
[Fact]
public void TestToUpperFunction()
{

// Invoke the lambda function and confirm the string was upper cased.
var function = new Function();
var context = new TestLambdaContext();
var upperCase = function.FunctionHandler("hello world", context);

Assert.Equal("HELLO WORLD", upperCase);

}
}
}

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Once your function has passed its tests, you can build and deploy using the Amazon.Lambda.Tools .NET
Core Global Tool. To install the .NET Core Global Tool, run the following command:

dotnet tool install -g Amazon.Lambda.Tools

If you already have the tool installed, you can make sure that it is the latest version using the following
command:

dotnet tool update -g Amazon.Lambda.Tools

For more information about the Amazon.Lambda.Tools .NET Core Global Tool, see the AWS Extensions
for .NET CLI repository on GitHub.

With the Amazon.Lambda.Tools installed, you can deploy your function using the following command:

dotnet lambda deploy-function MyFunction --function-role role

After deployment, you can re-test it in a production environment using the following command, and
pass in a different value to your Lambda function handler:

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

dotnet lambda invoke-function MyFunction --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --payload

"Just Checking If Everything is OK"

If everything is successful, you see the following:

dotnet lambda invoke-function MyFunction --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --payload

"Just Checking If Everything is OK"
Payload:
"JUST CHECKING IF EVERYTHING IS OK"

Log Tail:
START RequestId: id Version: $LATEST
END RequestId: id
REPORT RequestId: id Duration: 0.99 ms Billed Duration: 1 ms Memory Size:
256 MB Max Memory Used: 12 MB

AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio

You can build .NET-based Lambda applications using the Lambda plugin to the AWS Toolkit for Visual
Studio. The toolkit is available as a Visual Studio extension.

1. Launch Microsoft Visual Studio and choose New project.

a. From the File menu, choose New, and then choose Project.
b. In the New Project window, choose Lambda Project (.NET Core), and then choose OK.
c. In the Select Blueprint window, you can select from a list of sample applications that provide
you with sample code to get started with creating a .NET-based Lambda application.
d. To create a Lambda application from scratch, choose Empty Function, and then choose Finish.
2. Review the aws-lambda-tools-defaults.json file, which is created as part of your project. You
can set the options in this file, which the Lambda tooling reads by default. The project templates
created in Visual Studio set many of these fields with default values. Note the following fields:

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• profile – The name of a profile in your AWS SDK for .NET credentials file
• function-handler – This is where the function handler is specified, which is why you don't
have to set it in the wizard. However, whenever you rename the Assembly, Namespace, Class, or
Function in your function code, you must update the corresponding fields in the aws-lambda-
tools-defaults.json file.

{
"profile":"default",
"region" : "us-east-2",
"configuration" : "Release",
"framework" : "netcoreapp2.1",
"function-runtime":"dotnetcore3.1",
"function-memory-size" : 256,
"function-timeout" : 30,
"function-handler" : "Assembly::Namespace.Class::Function"
}

3. Open the Function.cs file. You are provided with a template to implement your Lambda function
handler code.

4. Once you have written the code that represents your Lambda function, upload it by opening the
context (right-click) menu for the Project node in your application and then choosing Publish to
AWS Lambda.
5. In the Upload Lambda Function window, enter a name for the function, or select a previously
published function to republish. Then choose Next.
6. In the Advanced Function Details window, configure the following options:

• Role Name (required) – The AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role (p. 47) that Lambda
assumes when it runs your function.
• Environment – Key-value pairs that Lambda sets in the execution environment. To extend your
function's configuration outside of code, use environment variables (p. 77).
• Memory – The amount of memory available to the function at runtime. Choose an amount
between 128 MB and 10,240 MB (p. 44) in 1-MB increments.
• Timeout – The amount of time that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it. The
default is three seconds. The maximum allowed value is 900 seconds.
• VPC – If your function needs network access to resources that are not available over the internet,
configure it to connect to a virtual private cloud (VPC) (p. 111).
• DLQ – If your function is invoked asynchronously, choose a dead-letter queue (p. 145) to receive
failed invocations.

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• Enable active tracing – Sample incoming requests and trace sampled requests with AWS X-
Ray (p. 451).
7. Choose Next, and then choose Upload to deploy your application.

For more information, see Deploying an AWS Lambda Project with the .NET Core CLI.

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Deploy container images

Deploy .NET Lambda functions with container

images
You can deploy your Lambda function code as a container image (p. 248). AWS provides the following
resources to help you build a container image for your .NET function:

• AWS base images for Lambda

These base images are preloaded with a language runtime and other components that are required to
run the image on Lambda. AWS provides a Dockerfile for each of the base images to help with building
your container image.
• Open-source runtime interface clients

If you use a community or private enterprise base image, add a runtime interface client to the base
image to make it compatible with Lambda.

The workflow for a function defined as a container image includes these steps:

1. Build your container image using the resources listed in this topic.
2. Upload the image to your Amazon ECR container registry. See steps 7-9 in Create image (p. 249).
3. Create (p. 72) the Lambda function and deploy the image.

AWS base images for .NET

AWS provides the following base images for .NET:

Tags Runtime Operating system Dockerfile

5.0 .NET 5.0 Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for .NET 5.0 on GitHub

core3.1 .NET Core 3.1 Amazon Linux 2 Dockerfile for .NET 3.1 on GitHub

core2.1 .NET Core 2.1 Amazon Linux Dockerfile for .NET 2.1 on GitHub
2018.03

Docker Hub repository: amazon/aws-lambda-dotnet

Amazon ECR repository: gallery.ecr.aws/lambda/dotnet

Using a .NET base image

For instructions on how to use a .NET base image, choose the usage tab on AWS Lambda base images
for .NET in the Amazon ECR repository.

The instructions are also available on Lambda base images for .NET in the Docker Hub repository.

.NET runtime interface clients

Download the .NET runtime interface client from the AWS Lambda for .NET Core repository on GitHub.

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Context

AWS Lambda context object in C#

When Lambda runs your function, it passes a context object to the handler (p. 640). This object provides
properties with information about the invocation, function, and execution environment.

Context properties

• FunctionName – The name of the Lambda function.

• FunctionVersion – The version (p. 95) of the function.
• InvokedFunctionArn – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that's used to invoke the function.
Indicates if the invoker specified a version number or alias.
• MemoryLimitInMB – The amount of memory that's allocated for the function.
• AwsRequestId – The identifier of the invocation request.
• LogGroupName – The log group for the function.
• LogStreamName – The log stream for the function instance.
• RemainingTime (TimeSpan) – The number of milliseconds left before the execution times out.
• Identity – (mobile apps) Information about the Amazon Cognito identity that authorized the
request.
• ClientContext – (mobile apps) Client context that's provided to Lambda by the client application.
• Logger The logger object (p. 653) for the function.

The following C# code snippet shows a simple handler function that prints some of the context
information.

public async Task Handler(ILambdaContext context)

{
Console.WriteLine("Function name: " + context.FunctionName);
Console.WriteLine("RemainingTime: " + context.RemainingTime);
await Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(0.42));
Console.WriteLine("RemainingTime after sleep: " + context.RemainingTime);
}

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Logging

AWS Lambda function logging in C#

AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and sends function metrics
to Amazon CloudWatch. Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group and a log
stream for each instance of your function. The Lambda runtime environment sends details about each
invocation to the log stream, and relays logs and other output from your function's code.

This page describes how to produce log output from your Lambda function's code, or access logs using
the AWS Command Line Interface, the Lambda console, or the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns logs (p. 653)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 654)
• Using the CloudWatch console (p. 654)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 655)
• Deleting logs (p. 657)

Creating a function that returns logs

To output logs from your function code, you can use methods on the Console class, or any logging
library that writes to stdout or stderr. The following example uses the LambdaLogger class from the
Amazon.Lambda.Core (p. 638) library.

Example src/blank-csharp/Function.cs – Logging

public async Task<AccountUsage> FunctionHandler(SQSEvent invocationEvent, ILambdaContext

context)
{
GetAccountSettingsResponse accountSettings;
try
{
accountSettings = await callLambda();
}
catch (AmazonLambdaException ex)
{
throw ex;
}
AccountUsage accountUsage = accountSettings.AccountUsage;
LambdaLogger.Log("ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES: " +
JsonConvert.SerializeObject(System.Environment.GetEnvironmentVariables()));
LambdaLogger.Log("CONTEXT: " + JsonConvert.SerializeObject(context));
LambdaLogger.Log("EVENT: " + JsonConvert.SerializeObject(invocationEvent));
return accountUsage;
}

Example Log format

START RequestId: d1cf0ccb-xmpl-46e6-950d-04c96c9b1c5d Version: $LATEST

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES:
{
"AWS_EXECUTION_ENV": "AWS_Lambda_dotnetcore2.1",
"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE": "256",
"AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME": "/aws/lambda/blank-csharp-function-WU56XMPLV2XA",
"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION": "$LATEST",
"AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME": "2020/03/27/[$LATEST]5296xmpl084f411d9fb73b258393f30c",
"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME": "blank-csharp-function-WU56XMPLV2XA",

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...
EVENT:
{
"Records": [
{
"MessageId": "19dd0b57-b21e-4ac1-bd88-01bbb068cb78",
"ReceiptHandle": "MessageReceiptHandle",
"Body": "Hello from SQS!",
"Md5OfBody": "7b270e59b47ff90a553787216d55d91d",
"Md5OfMessageAttributes": null,
"EventSourceArn": "arn:aws:sqs:us-west-2:123456789012:MyQueue",
"EventSource": "aws:sqs",
"AwsRegion": "us-west-2",
"Attributes": {
"ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
"SentTimestamp": "1523232000000",
"SenderId": "123456789012",
"ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1523232000001"
},
...
END RequestId: d1cf0ccb-xmpl-46e6-950d-04c96c9b1c5d
REPORT RequestId: d1cf0ccb-xmpl-46e6-950d-04c96c9b1c5d Duration: 4157.16 ms Billed
Duration: 4200 ms Memory Size: 256 MB Max Memory Used: 99 MB Init Duration: 841.60 ms
XRAY TraceId: 1-5e7e8131-7ff0xmpl32bfb31045d0a3bb SegmentId: 0152xmpl6016310f Sampled: true

The .NET runtime logs the START, END, and REPORT lines for each invocation. The report line provides
the following details.

Report Log

• RequestId – The unique request ID for the invocation.

• Duration – The amount of time that your function's handler method spent processing the event.
• Billed Duration – The amount of time billed for the invocation.
• Memory Size – The amount of memory allocated to the function.
• Max Memory Used – The amount of memory used by the function.
• Init Duration – For the first request served, the amount of time it took the runtime to load the
function and run code outside of the handler method.
• XRAY TraceId – For traced requests, the AWS X-Ray trace ID (p. 451).
• SegmentId – For traced requests, the X-Ray segment ID.
• Sampled – For traced requests, the sampling result.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view log output after you invoke a Lambda function. For more
information, see Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695).

Using the CloudWatch console

You can use the Amazon CloudWatch console to view logs for all Lambda function invocations.

To view logs on the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Log groups page on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the log group for your function (/aws/lambda/your-function-name).
3. Choose a log stream.

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Each log stream corresponds to an instance of your function (p. 200). A log stream appears when you
update your Lambda function, and when additional instances are created to handle multiple concurrent
invocations. To find logs for a specific invocation, we recommend intrumenting your function with AWS
X-Ray. X-Ray records details about the request and the log stream in the trace.

To use a sample application that correlates logs and traces with X-Ray, see Error processor sample
application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

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Example get-logs.sh script

In the same command prompt, use the following script to download the last five log events. The script
uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for the logs to
become available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-log-
events command.

Copy the contents of the following code sample and save in your Lambda project directory as get-
logs.sh.

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

#!/bin/bash
aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --
payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

Example macOS and Linux (only)

In the same command prompt, macOS and Linux users may need to run the following command to
ensure the script is executable.

chmod -R 755 get-logs.sh

Example retrieve the last five log events

In the same command prompt, run the following script to get the last five log events.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",

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"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:
26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"
}

Deleting logs
Log groups aren't deleted automatically when you delete a function. To avoid storing logs indefinitely,
delete the log group, or configure a retention period after which logs are deleted automatically.

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Errors

AWS Lambda function errors in C#

When your code raises an error, Lambda generates a JSON representation of the error. This error
document appears in the invocation log and, for synchronous invocations, in the output.

This page describes how to view Lambda function invocation errors for the C# runtime using the Lambda
console and the AWS CLI.

Sections
• Syntax (p. 658)
• How it works (p. 660)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 661)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 661)
• Error handling in other AWS services (p. 662)
• What's next? (p. 662)

Syntax
In the initialization phase, exceptions can be thrown for invalid handler strings, a rule-breaking type or
method (see Lambda function handler restrictions (p. 643)), or any other validation method (such as
forgetting the serializer attribute and having a POCO as your input or output type). These exceptions are
of type LambdaException. For example:

{
"errorType": "LambdaException",
"errorMessage": "Invalid lambda function handler: 'http://this.is.not.a.valid.handler/'.
The valid format is 'ASSEMBLY::TYPE::METHOD'."
}

If your constructor throws an exception, the error type is also of type LambdaException, but the
exception thrown during construction is provided in the cause property, which is itself a modeled
exception object:

{
"errorType": "LambdaException",
"errorMessage": "An exception was thrown when the constructor for type
'LambdaExceptionTestFunction.ThrowExceptionInConstructor'
was invoked. Check inner exception for more details.",
"cause": {
"errorType": "TargetInvocationException",
"errorMessage": "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation.",
"stackTrace": [
"at System.RuntimeTypeHandle.CreateInstance(RuntimeType type, Boolean publicOnly,
Boolean noCheck, Boolean&canBeCached,
RuntimeMethodHandleInternal&ctor, Boolean& bNeedSecurityCheck)",
"at System.RuntimeType.CreateInstanceSlow(Boolean publicOnly, Boolean skipCheckThis,
Boolean fillCache, StackCrawlMark& stackMark)",
"at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type, Boolean nonPublic)",
"at System.Activator.CreateInstance(Type type)"
],
"cause": {
"errorType": "ArithmeticException",
"errorMessage": "Sorry, 2 + 2 = 5",
"stackTrace": [
"at LambdaExceptionTestFunction.ThrowExceptionInConstructor..ctor()"
]
}

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}
}

As the example shows, the inner exceptions are always preserved (as the cause property), and can be
deeply nested.

Exceptions can also occur during invocation. In this case, the exception type is preserved and the
exception is returned directly as the payload and in the CloudWatch logs. For example:

{
"errorType": "AggregateException",
"errorMessage": "One or more errors occurred. (An unknown web exception occurred!)",
"stackTrace": [
"at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean
includeTaskCanceledExceptions)",
"at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.GetResultCore(Boolean waitCompletionNotification)",
"at lambda_method(Closure , Stream , Stream , ContextInfo )"
],
"cause": {
"errorType": "UnknownWebException",
"errorMessage": "An unknown web exception occurred!",
"stackTrace": [
"at LambdaDemo107.LambdaEntryPoint.<GetUriResponse>d__1.MoveNext()",
"--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---",
"at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)",
"at
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task
task)",
"at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()",
"at LambdaDemo107.LambdaEntryPoint.<CheckWebsiteStatus>d__0.MoveNext()"
],
"cause": {
"errorType": "WebException",
"errorMessage": "An error occurred while sending the request. SSL peer certificate or
SSH remote key was not OK",
"stackTrace": [
"at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)",
"at System.Threading.Tasks.TaskFactory`1.FromAsyncCoreLogic(IAsyncResult iar,
Func`2 endFunction, Action`1 endAction, Task`1 promise, Boolean requiresSynchronization)",
"--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---",
"at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)",
"at
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task
task)",
"at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter`1.GetResult()",
"at LambdaDemo107.LambdaEntryPoint.<GetUriResponse>d__1.MoveNext()"
],
"cause": {
"errorType": "HttpRequestException",
"errorMessage": "An error occurred while sending the request.",
"stackTrace": [
"at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)",
"at
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task
task)",
"at System.Net.Http.HttpClient.<FinishSendAsync>d__58.MoveNext()",
"--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---",
"at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)",
"at
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task
task)",
"at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.<SendRequest>d__63.MoveNext()",
"--- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown ---",
"at System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.ThrowForNonSuccess(Task task)",

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"at
System.Runtime.CompilerServices.TaskAwaiter.HandleNonSuccessAndDebuggerNotification(Task
task)",
"at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.EndGetResponse(IAsyncResult asyncResult)"
],
"cause": {
"errorType": "CurlException",
"errorMessage": "SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK",
"stackTrace": [
"at System.Net.Http.CurlHandler.ThrowIfCURLEError(CURLcode error)",
"at
System.Net.Http.CurlHandler.MultiAgent.FinishRequest(StrongToWeakReference`1 easyWrapper,
CURLcode messageResult)"
]
}
}
}
}
}

The method in which error information is conveyed depends on the invocation type:

• RequestResponse invocation type (that is, synchronous execution): In this case, you get the error
message back.

For example, if you invoke a Lambda function using the Lambda console, the RequestResponse is
always the invocation type and the console displays the error information returned by AWS Lambda in
the Execution result section of the console.
• Event invocation type (that is, asynchronous execution): In this case AWS Lambda does not return
anything. Instead, it logs the error information in CloudWatch Logs and CloudWatch metrics.

How it works
When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda receives the invocation request and validates the
permissions in your execution role, verifies that the event document is a valid JSON document, and
checks parameter values.

If the request passes validation, Lambda sends the request to a function instance. The Lambda
runtime (p. 195) environment converts the event document into an object, and passes it to your function
handler.

If Lambda encounters an error, it returns an exception type, message, and HTTP status code that
indicates the cause of the error. The client or service that invoked the Lambda function can handle the
error programmatically, or pass it along to an end user. The correct error handling behavior depends on
the type of application, the audience, and the source of the error.

The following list describes the range of status codes you can receive from Lambda.

2xx

A 2xx series error with a X-Amz-Function-Error header in the response indicates a Lambda
runtime or function error. A 2xx series status code indicates that Lambda accepted the request, but
instead of an error code, Lambda indicates the error by including the X-Amz-Function-Error
header in the response.
4xx

A 4xx series error indicates an error that the invoking client or service can fix by modifying the
request, requesting permission, or by retrying the request. 4xx series errors other than 429
generally indicate an error with the request.

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5xx

A 5xx series error indicates an issue with Lambda, or an issue with the function's configuration or
resources. 5xx series errors can indicate a temporary condition that can be resolved without any
action by the user. These issues can't be addressed by the invoking client or service, but a Lambda
function's owner may be able to fix the issue.

For a complete list of invocation errors, see Invoke API Errors (p. 842).

Using the Lambda console

You can invoke your function on the Lambda console by configuring a test event and viewing the output.
The output is captured in the function's execution logs and, when active tracing (p. 451) is enabled, in
AWS X-Ray.

To invoke a function on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Select New event and then choose an Event template from the dropdown list.
5. Enter a name for the test event.
6. Enter the JSON for the test event.
7. Choose Create event.
8. Choose Invoke.

The Lambda console invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) and displays the result. To see the
response, logs, and other information, expand the Details section.

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

When you invoke a Lambda function in the AWS CLI, the AWS CLI splits the response into two
documents. The AWS CLI response is displayed in your command prompt. If an error has occurred, the
response contains a FunctionError field. The invocation response or error returned by the function is
written to an output file. For example, output.json or output.txt.

The following invoke command example demonstrates how to invoke a function and write the invocation
response to an output.txt file.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
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You should see the AWS CLI response in your command prompt:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"FunctionError": "Unhandled",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

You should see the function invocation response in the output.txt file. In the same command prompt,
you can also view the output in your command prompt using:

cat output.txt

You should see the invocation response in your command prompt.

Lambda also records up to 256 KB of the error object in the function's logs. For more information, see
AWS Lambda function logging in C# (p. 653).

Error handling in other AWS services

When another AWS service invokes your function, the service chooses the invocation type and retry
behavior. AWS services can invoke your function on a schedule, in response to a lifecycle event on a
resource, or to serve a request from a user. Some services invoke functions asynchronously and let
Lambda handle errors, while others retry or pass errors back to the user.

For example, API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API
rejects the invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an
error, or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502 error code. To customize the
error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the required format.

We recommend using AWS X-Ray to determine the source of an error and its cause. X-Ray allows you to
find out which component encountered an error, and see details about the errors. The following example
shows a function error that resulted in a 502 response from API Gateway.

For more information, see Instrumenting C# code in AWS Lambda (p. 663).

What's next?
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function on the the section called
“Logging” (p. 653) page.

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Tracing

Instrumenting C# code in AWS Lambda

Lambda integrates with AWS X-Ray to enable you to trace, debug, and optimize Lambda applications.
You can use X-Ray to trace a request as it traverses resources in your application, from the frontend
API to storage and database on the backend. By simply adding the X-Ray SDK library to your build
configuration, you can record errors and latency for any call that your function makes to an AWS service.

The X-Ray service map shows the flow of requests through your application. The following example from
the error processor (p. 473) sample application shows an application with two functions. The primary
function processes events and sometimes returns errors. The second function processes errors that
appear in the first's log group and uses the AWS SDK to call X-Ray, Amazon S3 and Amazon CloudWatch
Logs.

To trace requests that don't have a tracing header, enable active tracing in your function's configuration.

To enable active tracing

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Configuration and then choose Monitoring tools.
4. Choose Edit.
5. Under X-Ray, enable Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Pricing
X-Ray has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, X-Ray charges for trace storage
and retrieval. For details, see AWS X-Ray pricing.

Your function needs permission to upload trace data to X-Ray. When you enable active tracing in the
Lambda console, Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role (p. 47).
Otherwise, add the AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess policy to the execution role.

X-Ray applies a sampling algorithm to ensure that tracing is efficient, while still providing a
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per second and 5 percent of additional requests. This sampling rate cannot be configured for Lambda
functions.

When active tracing is enabled, Lambda records a trace for a subset of invocations. Lambda records two
segments, which creates two nodes on the service map. The first node represents the Lambda service
that receives the invocation request. The second node is recorded by the function's runtime (p. 30).

You can instrument your function code to record metadata and trace downstream calls. To record detail
about calls that your function makes to other resources and services, use the X-Ray SDK for .NET. To get
the SDK, add the AWSXRayRecorder packages to your project file.

Example src/blank-csharp/blank-csharp.csproj

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
<GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles>true</GenerateRuntimeConfigurationFiles>
<AWSProjectType>Lambda</AWSProjectType>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Newtonsoft.Json" Version="12.0.3" />
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Core" Version="1.1.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.SQSEvents" Version="1.1.0" />
<PackageReference Include="Amazon.Lambda.Serialization.Json" Version="1.7.0" />
<PackageReference Include="AWSSDK.Core" Version="3.3.104.38" />
<PackageReference Include="AWSSDK.Lambda" Version="3.3.108.11" />
<PackageReference Include="AWSXRayRecorder.Core" Version="2.6.2" />
<PackageReference Include="AWSXRayRecorder.Handlers.AwsSdk" Version="2.7.2" />
</ItemGroup>
</Project>

To instrument AWS SDK clients, call the RegisterXRayForAllServices method in your initialization
code.

Example src/blank-csharp/Function.cs – Initialize X-Ray

static async void initialize() {

AWSSDKHandler.RegisterXRayForAllServices();
lambdaClient = new AmazonLambdaClient();
await callLambda();
}

The following example shows a trace with 2 segments. Both are named my-function, but one is type
AWS::Lambda and the other is AWS::Lambda::Function. The function segment is expanded to show
its subsegments.

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The first segment represents the invocation request processed by the Lambda service. The second
segment records the work done by your function. The function segment has 3 subsegments.

• Initialization – Represents time spent loading your function and running initialization code (p. 32).
This subsegment only appears for the first event processed by each instance of your function.
• Invocation – Represents the work done by your handler code. By instrumenting your code, you can
extend this subsegment with additional subsegments.
• Overhead – Represents the work done by the Lambda runtime to prepare to handle the next event.

You can also instrument HTTP clients, record SQL queries, and create custom subsegments with
annotations and metadata. For more information, see The X-Ray SDK for .NET in the AWS X-Ray
Developer Guide.

Sections
• Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API (p. 665)
• Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation (p. 665)

Enabling active tracing with the Lambda API

To manage tracing configuration with the AWS CLI or AWS SDK, use the following API operations:

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)

• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)

The following example AWS CLI command enables active tracing on a function named my-function.

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name my-function \

--tracing-config Mode=Active

Tracing mode is part of the version-specific configuration that is locked when you publish a version of
your function. You can't change the tracing mode on a published version.

Enabling active tracing with AWS CloudFormation

To enable active tracing on an AWS::Lambda::Function resource in an AWS CloudFormation template,
use the TracingConfig property.

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Example function-inline.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Lambda::Function
Properties:
TracingConfig:
Mode: Active
...

For an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) AWS::Serverless::Function resource, use the
Tracing property.

Example template.yml – Tracing configuration

Resources:
function:
Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
Properties:
Tracing: Active
...

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Building Lambda functions with

PowerShell
The following sections explain how common programming patterns and core concepts apply when you
author Lambda function code in PowerShell.

.NET runtimes

Name Identifier Operating system

.NET Core 3.1 dotnetcore3.1 Amazon Linux 2

.NET Core 2.1 dotnetcore2.1 Amazon Linux

Lambda provides the following sample applications for the PowerShell runtime:

Sample Lambda applications in PowerShell

• blank-powershell – A PowerShell function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, and
the AWS SDK.

Before you get started, you must first set up a PowerShell development environment. For instructions on
how to do this, see Setting Up a PowerShell Development Environment (p. 668).

To learn about how to use the AWSLambdaPSCore module to download sample PowerShell projects
from templates, create PowerShell deployment packages, and deploy PowerShell functions to the AWS
Cloud, see Deploy PowerShell Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 669).

Topics
• Setting Up a PowerShell Development Environment (p. 668)
• Deploy PowerShell Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 669)
• AWS Lambda function handler in PowerShell (p. 672)
• AWS Lambda context object in PowerShell (p. 673)
• AWS Lambda function logging in PowerShell (p. 674)
• AWS Lambda function errors in PowerShell (p. 679)

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Setting Up a PowerShell Development

Environment
To set up your development environment for writing PowerShell scripts, do the following:

1. Install the correct version of PowerShell – Lambda's support for PowerShell is based on the cross-
platform PowerShell Core 6.0 release. This means that you can develop your PowerShell Lambda
functions on Windows, Linux, or Mac. If you don’t have this version of PowerShell installed, you can
find instructions in Installing PowerShell Core.
2. Install the .NET Core 3.1 SDK – Because PowerShell Core is built on top of .NET Core, the Lambda
support for PowerShell uses the same .NET Core 3.1 Lambda runtime for both .NET Core and
PowerShell Lambda functions. The .NET Core 3.1 SDK is used by the new Lambda PowerShell
publishing cmdlets to create the Lambda deployment package. The .NET Core 3.1 SDK is available
at .NET downloads on the Microsoft website. Be sure to install the SDK and not the runtime
installation.
3. Install the AWSLambdaPSCore module – You can install this either from the PowerShell Gallery, or
you can install it by using the following PowerShell Core shell command:

Install-Module AWSLambdaPSCore -Scope CurrentUser

4. (Optional) Install AWS Tools for PowerShell – You can install either the modularized AWS.Tools or
single-module AWSPowerShell.NetCore version in PowerShell Core 6.0 to use the Lambda API within
your PowerShell environment\. For instructions, see Installing the AWS Tools for PowerShell

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Deploy PowerShell Lambda functions with .zip file

archives
A deployment package for the PowerShell runtime contains your PowerShell script, PowerShell modules
that are required for your PowerShell script, and the assemblies needed to host PowerShell Core.

Tools and libraries

Lambda provides the following sample applications for the PowerShell runtime:

Tools and libraries for PowerShell

• AWS Lambda and AWS Tools for PowerShell: the steps to install PowerShell, the .NET Core 2.1 SDK,
and the AWSLambdaPSCore module.
• aws-lambda-dotnet: Lambda tools for Powershell on GitHub.

The AWSLambdaPSCore module has the following new cmdlets to help author and publish PowerShell
Lambda functions:

AWSLambdaPSCore cmdlets

• Get-AWSPowerShellLambdaTemplate – Returns a list of getting started templates.

• New-AWSPowerShellLambda – Creates an initial PowerShell script based on a template.
• Publish-AWSPowerShellLambda – Publishes a given PowerShell script to Lambda.
• New-AWSPowerShellLambdaPackage – Creates a Lambda deployment package that you can use in a
CI/CD system for deployment.

Sample applications
Lambda provides the following sample applications for the PowerShell runtime:

Sample Lambda applications in PowerShell

• blank-powershell – A PowerShell function that shows the use of logging, environment variables, and
the AWS SDK.

Creating the Lambda function

To get started writing and invoking a PowerShell script with Lambda, you can use the New-
AWSPowerShellLambda cmdlet to create a starter script based on a template. You can use the
Publish-AWSPowerShellLambda cmdlet to deploy your script to Lambda. Then you can test your
script either through the command line or the Lambda console.

To create a new PowerShell script, upload it, and test it, do the following:

1. To view the list of available templates, run the following command:

PS C:\> Get-AWSPowerShellLambdaTemplate

Template Description
-------- -----------

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CodeCommitTrigger Script to process AWS CodeCommit Triggers
...

2. To create a sample script based on the Basic template, run the following command:

New-AWSPowerShellLambda -ScriptName MyFirstPSScript -Template Basic

A new file named MyFirstPSScript.ps1 is created in a new subdirectory of the current directory.
The name of the directory is based on the -ScriptName parameter. You can use the -Directory
parameter to choose an alternative directory.

You can see that the new file has the following contents:

# PowerShell script file to run as a Lambda function

#
# When executing in Lambda the following variables are predefined.
# $LambdaInput - A PSObject that contains the Lambda function input data.
# $LambdaContext - An Amazon.Lambda.Core.ILambdaContext object that contains
information about the currently running Lambda environment.
#
# The last item in the PowerShell pipeline is returned as the result of the Lambda
function.
#
# To include PowerShell modules with your Lambda function, like the
AWSPowerShell.NetCore module, add a "#Requires" statement
# indicating the module and version.

#Requires -Modules @{ModuleName='AWSPowerShell.NetCore';ModuleVersion='3.3.618.0'}

# Uncomment to send the input to CloudWatch Logs

# Write-Host (ConvertTo-Json -InputObject $LambdaInput -Compress -Depth 5)

3. To see how log messages from your PowerShell script are sent to Amazon CloudWatch Logs,
uncomment the Write-Host line of the sample script.

To demonstrate how you can return data back from your Lambda functions, add a new line at the
end of the script with $PSVersionTable. This adds the $PSVersionTable to the PowerShell
pipeline. After the PowerShell script is complete, the last object in the PowerShell pipeline is the
return data for the Lambda function. $PSVersionTable is a PowerShell global variable that also
provides information about the running environment.

After making these changes, the last two lines of the sample script look like this:

Write-Host (ConvertTo-Json -InputObject $LambdaInput -Compress -Depth 5)

$PSVersionTable

4. After editing the MyFirstPSScript.ps1 file, change the directory to the script's location. Then
run the following command to publish the script to Lambda:

Publish-AWSPowerShellLambda -ScriptPath .\MyFirstPSScript.ps1 -Name MyFirstPSScript -

Region us-east-2

Note that the -Name parameter specifies the Lambda function name, which appears in the Lambda
console. You can use this function to invoke your script manually.
5. Invoke your function using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) invoke command.

> aws lambda invoke --function-name MyFirstPSScript out

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AWS Lambda function handler in PowerShell

When a Lambda function is invoked, the Lambda handler invokes the PowerShell script.

When the PowerShell script is invoked, the following variables are predefined:

• $LambdaInput – A PSObject that contains the input to the handler. This input can be event data
(published by an event source) or custom input that you provide, such as a string or any custom data
object.
• $LambdaContext – An Amazon.Lambda.Core.ILambdaContext object that you can use to access
information about the current invocation—such as the name of the current function, the memory
limit, execution time remaining, and logging.

For example, consider the following PowerShell example code.

#Requires -Modules @{ModuleName='AWSPowerShell.NetCore';ModuleVersion='3.3.618.0'}

Write-Host 'Function Name:' $LambdaContext.FunctionName

This script returns the FunctionName property that's obtained from the $LambdaContext variable.
Note
You're required to use the #Requires statement within your PowerShell scripts to indicate
the modules that your scripts depend on. This statement performs two important tasks. 1)
It communicates to other developers which modules the script uses, and 2) it identifies the
dependent modules that AWS PowerShell tools need to package with the script, as part of the
deployment. For more information about the #Requires statement in PowerShell, see About
requires. For more information about PowerShell deployment packages, see Deploy PowerShell
Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 669).
When your PowerShell Lambda function uses the AWS PowerShell cmdlets, be sure to set a
#Requires statement that references the AWSPowerShell.NetCore module, which supports
PowerShell Core—and not the AWSPowerShell module, which only supports Windows
PowerShell. Also, be sure to use version 3.3.270.0 or newer of AWSPowerShell.NetCore which
optimizes the cmdlet import process. If you use an older version, you'll experience longer cold
starts. For more information, see AWS Tools for PowerShell.

Returning data
Some Lambda invocations are meant to return data back to their caller. For example, if an invocation
was in response to a web request coming from API Gateway, then our Lambda function needs to return
back the response. For PowerShell Lambda, the last object that's added to the PowerShell pipeline is the
return data from the Lambda invocation. If the object is a string, the data is returned as is. Otherwise the
object is converted to JSON by using the ConvertTo-Json cmdlet.

For example, consider the following PowerShell statement, which adds $PSVersionTable to the
PowerShell pipeline:

$PSVersionTable

After the PowerShell script is finished, the last object in the PowerShell pipeline is the return data for
the Lambda function. $PSVersionTable is a PowerShell global variable that also provides information
about the running environment.

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AWS Lambda context object in PowerShell

When Lambda runs your function, it passes context information by making a $LambdaContext variable
available to the handler (p. 672). This variable provides methods and properties with information about
the invocation, function, and execution environment.

Context properties

• FunctionName – The name of the Lambda function.

• FunctionVersion – The version (p. 95) of the function.
• InvokedFunctionArn – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that's used to invoke the function.
Indicates if the invoker specified a version number or alias.
• MemoryLimitInMB – The amount of memory that's allocated for the function.
• AwsRequestId – The identifier of the invocation request.
• LogGroupName – The log group for the function.
• LogStreamName – The log stream for the function instance.
• RemainingTime – The number of milliseconds left before the execution times out.
• Identity – (mobile apps) Information about the Amazon Cognito identity that authorized the
request.
• ClientContext – (mobile apps) Client context that's provided to Lambda by the client application.
• Logger – The logger object (p. 674) for the function.

The following PowerShell code snippet shows a simple handler function that prints some of the context
information.

#Requires -Modules @{ModuleName='AWSPowerShell.NetCore';ModuleVersion='3.3.618.0'}

Write-Host 'Function name:' $LambdaContext.FunctionName
Write-Host 'Remaining milliseconds:' $LambdaContext.RemainingTime.TotalMilliseconds
Write-Host 'Log group name:' $LambdaContext.LogGroupName
Write-Host 'Log stream name:' $LambdaContext.LogStreamName

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AWS Lambda function logging in PowerShell

AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and sends function metrics
to Amazon CloudWatch. Your Lambda function comes with a CloudWatch Logs log group and a log
stream for each instance of your function. The Lambda runtime environment sends details about each
invocation to the log stream, and relays logs and other output from your function's code.

This page describes how to produce log output from your Lambda function's code, or access logs using
the AWS Command Line Interface, the Lambda console, or the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Creating a function that returns logs (p. 674)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 675)
• Using the CloudWatch console (p. 675)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 675)
• Deleting logs (p. 678)

Creating a function that returns logs

To output logs from your function code, you can use cmdlets on Microsoft.PowerShell.Utility , or any
logging module that writes to stdout or stderr. The following example uses Write-Host.

Example function/Handler.ps1 – Logging

#Requires -Modules @{ModuleName='AWSPowerShell.NetCore';ModuleVersion='3.3.618.0'}

Write-Host `## Environment variables
Write-Host AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION=$Env:AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION
Write-Host AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME=$Env:AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME
Write-Host AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME=$Env:AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME
Write-Host AWS_EXECUTION_ENV=$Env:AWS_EXECUTION_ENV
Write-Host AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME=$Env:AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME
Write-Host PATH=$Env:PATH
Write-Host `## Event
Write-Host (ConvertTo-Json -InputObject $LambdaInput -Compress -Depth 3)

Example log format

START RequestId: 56639408-xmpl-435f-9041-ac47ae25ceed Version: $LATEST

Importing module ./Modules/AWSPowerShell.NetCore/3.3.618.0/AWSPowerShell.NetCore.psd1
[Information] - ## Environment variables
[Information] - AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION=$LATEST
[Information] - AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME=/aws/lambda/blank-powershell-
function-18CIXMPLHFAJJ
[Information] - AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME=2020/04/01/
[$LATEST]53c5xmpl52d64ed3a744724d9c201089
[Information] - AWS_EXECUTION_ENV=AWS_Lambda_dotnetcore2.1_powershell_1.0.0
[Information] - AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME=blank-powershell-function-18CIXMPLHFAJJ
[Information] - PATH=/var/lang/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/bin:/opt/bin
[Information] - ## Event
[Information] -
{
"Records": [
{
"messageId": "19dd0b57-b21e-4ac1-bd88-01bbb068cb78",
"receiptHandle": "MessageReceiptHandle",
"body": "Hello from SQS!",
"attributes": {

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"ApproximateReceiveCount": "1",
"SentTimestamp": "1523232000000",
"SenderId": "123456789012",
"ApproximateFirstReceiveTimestamp": "1523232000001"
},
...
END RequestId: 56639408-xmpl-435f-9041-ac47ae25ceed
REPORT RequestId: 56639408-xmpl-435f-9041-ac47ae25ceed Duration: 3906.38 ms Billed
Duration: 4000 ms Memory Size: 512 MB Max Memory Used: 367 MB Init Duration: 5960.19 ms
XRAY TraceId: 1-5e843da6-733cxmple7d0c3c020510040 SegmentId: 3913xmpl20999446 Sampled: true

The .NET runtime logs the START, END, and REPORT lines for each invocation. The report line provides
the following details.

Report Log

• RequestId – The unique request ID for the invocation.

• Duration – The amount of time that your function's handler method spent processing the event.
• Billed Duration – The amount of time billed for the invocation.
• Memory Size – The amount of memory allocated to the function.
• Max Memory Used – The amount of memory used by the function.
• Init Duration – For the first request served, the amount of time it took the runtime to load the
function and run code outside of the handler method.
• XRAY TraceId – For traced requests, the AWS X-Ray trace ID (p. 451).
• SegmentId – For traced requests, the X-Ray segment ID.
• Sampled – For traced requests, the sampling result.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console to view log output after you invoke a Lambda function. For more
information, see Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695).

Using the CloudWatch console

You can use the Amazon CloudWatch console to view logs for all Lambda function invocations.

To view logs on the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Log groups page on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the log group for your function (/aws/lambda/your-function-name).
3. Choose a log stream.

Each log stream corresponds to an instance of your function (p. 200). A log stream appears when you
update your Lambda function, and when additional instances are created to handle multiple concurrent
invocations. To find logs for a specific invocation, we recommend intrumenting your function with AWS
X-Ray. X-Ray records details about the request and the log stream in the trace.

To use a sample application that correlates logs and traces with X-Ray, see Error processor sample
application for AWS Lambda (p. 473).

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

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• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

You can use the AWS CLI to retrieve logs for an invocation using the --log-type command option.
The response contains a LogResult field that contains up to 4 KB of base64-encoded logs from the
invocation.

Example retrieve a log ID

The following example shows how to retrieve a log ID from the LogResult field for a function named
my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"LogResult":
"U1RBUlQgUmVxdWVzdElkOiA4N2QwNDRiOC1mMTU0LTExZTgtOGNkYS0yOTc0YzVlNGZiMjEgVmVyc2lvb...",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

Example decode the logs

In the same command prompt, use the base64 utility to decode the logs. The following example shows
how to retrieve base64-encoded logs for my-function.

aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function out --log-type Tail \

--query 'LogResult' --output text | base64 -d

You should see the following output:

START RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Version: $LATEST

"AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "AgoJb3JpZ2luX2VjELj...", "_X_AMZN_TRACE_ID": "Root=1-5d02e5ca-
f5792818b6fe8368e5b51d50;Parent=191db58857df8395;Sampled=0"",ask/lib:/opt/lib",
END RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8
REPORT RequestId: 57f231fb-1730-4395-85cb-4f71bd2b87b8 Duration: 79.67 ms Billed
Duration: 80 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 73 MB

The base64 utility is available on Linux, macOS, and Ubuntu on Windows. macOS users may need to use
base64 -D.

Example get-logs.sh script

In the same command prompt, use the following script to download the last five log events. The script
uses sed to remove quotes from the output file, and sleeps for 15 seconds to allow time for the logs to
become available. The output includes the response from Lambda and the output from the get-log-
events command.

Copy the contents of the following code sample and save in your Lambda project directory as get-
logs.sh.

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
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#!/bin/bash
aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out --
payload '{"key": "value"}' out
sed -i'' -e 's/"//g' out
sleep 15
aws logs get-log-events --log-group-name /aws/lambda/my-function --log-stream-name $(cat
out) --limit 5

Example macOS and Linux (only)

In the same command prompt, macOS and Linux users may need to run the following command to
ensure the script is executable.

chmod -R 755 get-logs.sh

Example retrieve the last five log events

In the same command prompt, run the following script to get the last five log events.

./get-logs.sh

You should see the following output:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}
{
"events": [
{
"timestamp": 1559763003171,
"message": "START RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf Version:
$LATEST\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763003309
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tENVIRONMENT VARIABLES\r{\r \"AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION\": \"$LATEST\",\r ...",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003173,
"message": "2019-06-05T19:30:03.173Z\t4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf
\tINFO\tEVENT\r{\r \"key\": \"value\"\r}\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "END RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
},
{
"timestamp": 1559763003218,
"message": "REPORT RequestId: 4ce9340a-b765-490f-ad8a-02ab3415e2bf\tDuration:
26.73 ms\tBilled Duration: 27 ms \tMemory Size: 128 MB\tMax Memory Used: 75 MB\t\n",
"ingestionTime": 1559763018353
}
],
"nextForwardToken": "f/34783877304859518393868359594929986069206639495374241795",
"nextBackwardToken": "b/34783877303811383369537420289090800615709599058929582080"

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Deleting logs
Log groups aren't deleted automatically when you delete a function. To avoid storing logs indefinitely,
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AWS Lambda function errors in PowerShell

When your code raises an error, Lambda generates a JSON representation of the error. This error
document appears in the invocation log and, for synchronous invocations, in the output.

This page describes how to view Lambda function invocation errors for the Powershell runtime using the
Lambda console and the AWS CLI.

Sections
• Syntax (p. 679)
• How it works (p. 680)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 680)
• Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) (p. 681)
• Error handling in other AWS services (p. 681)
• What's next? (p. 682)

Syntax
Consider the following PowerShell script example statement:

throw 'The Account is not found'

When you invoke this Lambda function, it throws a terminating error, and AWS Lambda returns the
following error message:

{
"errorMessage": "The Account is not found",
"errorType": "RuntimeException"
}

Note the errorType is RuntimeException, which is the default exception thrown by PowerShell. You
can use custom error types by throwing the error like this:

throw @{'Exception'='AccountNotFound';'Message'='The Account is not found'}

The error message is serialized with errorType set to AccountNotFound:

{
"errorMessage": "The Account is not found",
"errorType": "AccountNotFound"
}

If you don't need an error message, you can throw a string in the format of an error code. The error code
format requires that the string starts with a character and only contain letters and digits afterwards, with
no spaces or symbols.

For example, if your Lambda function contains the following:

throw 'AccountNotFound'

The error is serialized like this:

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{
"errorMessage": "AccountNotFound",
"errorType": "AccountNotFound"
}

How it works
When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda receives the invocation request and validates the
permissions in your execution role, verifies that the event document is a valid JSON document, and
checks parameter values.

If the request passes validation, Lambda sends the request to a function instance. The Lambda
runtime (p. 195) environment converts the event document into an object, and passes it to your function
handler.

If Lambda encounters an error, it returns an exception type, message, and HTTP status code that
indicates the cause of the error. The client or service that invoked the Lambda function can handle the
error programmatically, or pass it along to an end user. The correct error handling behavior depends on
the type of application, the audience, and the source of the error.

The following list describes the range of status codes you can receive from Lambda.

2xx

A 2xx series error with a X-Amz-Function-Error header in the response indicates a Lambda
runtime or function error. A 2xx series status code indicates that Lambda accepted the request, but
instead of an error code, Lambda indicates the error by including the X-Amz-Function-Error
header in the response.
4xx

A 4xx series error indicates an error that the invoking client or service can fix by modifying the
request, requesting permission, or by retrying the request. 4xx series errors other than 429
generally indicate an error with the request.
5xx

A 5xx series error indicates an issue with Lambda, or an issue with the function's configuration or
resources. 5xx series errors can indicate a temporary condition that can be resolved without any
action by the user. These issues can't be addressed by the invoking client or service, but a Lambda
function's owner may be able to fix the issue.

For a complete list of invocation errors, see Invoke API Errors (p. 842).

Using the Lambda console

You can invoke your function on the Lambda console by configuring a test event and viewing the output.
The output is captured in the function's execution logs and, when active tracing (p. 451) is enabled, in
AWS X-Ray.

To invoke a function on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Test.
4. Select New event and then choose an Event template from the dropdown list.
5. Enter a name for the test event.

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6. Enter the JSON for the test event.

7. Choose Create event.
8. Choose Invoke.

The Lambda console invokes your function synchronously (p. 138) and displays the result. To see the
response, logs, and other information, expand the Details section.

Using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI)

The AWS CLI is an open-source tool that enables you to interact with AWS services using commands in
your command line shell. To complete the steps in this section, you must have the following:

• AWS CLI – Install version 2

• AWS CLI – Quick configuration with aws configure

When you invoke a Lambda function in the AWS CLI, the AWS CLI splits the response into two
documents. The AWS CLI response is displayed in your command prompt. If an error has occurred, the
response contains a FunctionError field. The invocation response or error returned by the function is
written to an output file. For example, output.json or output.txt.

The following invoke command example demonstrates how to invoke a function and write the invocation
response to an output.txt file.

aws lambda invoke \

--function-name my-function \
--cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
--payload '{"key1": "value1", "key2": "value2", "key3": "value3"}' output.txt

The cli-binary-format option is required if you are using AWS CLI version 2. You can also configure this
option in your AWS CLI config file
.

You should see the AWS CLI response in your command prompt:

{
"StatusCode": 200,
"FunctionError": "Unhandled",
"ExecutedVersion": "$LATEST"
}

You should see the function invocation response in the output.txt file. In the same command prompt,
you can also view the output in your command prompt using:

cat output.txt

You should see the invocation response in your command prompt.

Lambda also records up to 256 KB of the error object in the function's logs. For more information, see
AWS Lambda function logging in PowerShell (p. 674).

Error handling in other AWS services

When another AWS service invokes your function, the service chooses the invocation type and retry
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resource, or to serve a request from a user. Some services invoke functions asynchronously and let
Lambda handle errors, while others retry or pass errors back to the user.

For example, API Gateway treats all invocation and function errors as internal errors. If the Lambda API
rejects the invocation request, API Gateway returns a 500 error code. If the function runs but returns an
error, or returns a response in the wrong format, API Gateway returns a 502 error code. To customize the
error response, you must catch errors in your code and format a response in the required format.

We recommend using AWS X-Ray to determine the source of an error and its cause. X-Ray allows you to
find out which component encountered an error, and see details about the errors. The following example
shows a function error that resulted in a 502 response from API Gateway.

For more information, see Using AWS Lambda with AWS X-Ray (p. 451).

What's next?
• Learn how to show logging events for your Lambda function on the the section called
“Logging” (p. 674) page.

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Monitoring and troubleshooting

Lambda applications
AWS Lambda integrates with other AWS services to help you monitor and troubleshoot your Lambda
functions. Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf and reports metrics through
Amazon CloudWatch. To help you monitor your code when it runs, Lambda automatically tracks the
number of requests, the invocation duration per request, and the number of requests that result in an
error.

You can use other AWS services to troubleshoot your Lambda functions. This section describes how
to use these AWS services to monitor, trace, debug, and troubleshoot your Lambda functions and
applications.

For more information about monitoring Lambda applications, see Monitoring and observability in the
Lambda operator guide.

Sections
• Monitoring functions in the AWS Lambda console (p. 684)
• Using Lambda Insights in Amazon CloudWatch (p. 686)
• Working with AWS Lambda function metrics (p. 692)
• Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS Lambda (p. 695)
• Example workflows using other AWS services (p. 696)

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Monitoring functions in the AWS Lambda console

AWS Lambda monitors functions on your behalf and sends metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. The Lambda
console creates monitoring graphs for these metrics and shows them on the Monitoring page for each
Lambda function.

This page describes the basics of using the Lambda console to view function metrics, including total
requests, duration, and error rates.

Pricing
CloudWatch has a perpetual free tier. Beyond the free tier threshold, CloudWatch charges for metrics,
dashboards, alarms, logs, and insights. For more information, see Amazon CloudWatch pricing.

Using the Lambda console

You can use the Lambda console's monitoring dashboard to monitor your Lambda functions and
applications.

To monitor a function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Monitoring.

Types of monitoring graphs

The following section describes the monitoring graphs on the Lambda console.

Lambda monitoring graphs

• Invocations – The number of times that the function was invoked.

• Duration – The average, minimum, and maximum execution times.
• Error count and success rate (%) – The number of errors and the percentage of executions that
completed without error.
• Throttles – The number of times that execution failed due to concurrency limits.
• IteratorAge – For stream event sources, the age of the last item in the batch when Lambda received it
and invoked the function.
• Async delivery failures – The number of errors that occurred when Lambda attempted to write to a
destination or dead-letter queue.
• Concurrent executions – The number of function instances that are processing events.

Viewing graphs on the Lambda console

The following section describes how to view CloudWatch monitoring graphs on the Lambda console, and
open the CloudWatch metrics dashboard.

To view monitoring graphs for a function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.

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3. Choose Monitoring.
4. Choose from the predefined time ranges, or choose a custom time range.
5. To see the definition of a graph in CloudWatch, choose the three vertical dots, and then choose View
in metrics to open the Metrics dashboard in CloudWatch.

Viewing queries in the CloudWatch Logs console

The following section describes how to view and add reports from CloudWatch Logs Insights to a custom
dashboard on the CloudWatch Logs console.

To view reports for a function

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Monitoring.
4. Choose View logs in CloudWatch.
5. Choose View in Logs Insights.
6. Choose from the predefined time ranges, or choose a custom time range.
7. Choose Run query.
8. (Optional) Choose Save.

What's next?
• Learn about the metrics that Lambda records and sends to CloudWatch in Working with AWS Lambda
function metrics (p. 692).
• Learn how to use Lambda Insights to collect and aggregate Lambda function runtime performance
metrics and logs in Using Lambda Insights in Amazon CloudWatch (p. 686).

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Using Lambda Insights in Amazon CloudWatch

Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights collects and aggregates Lambda function runtime performance
metrics and logs for your serverless applications. This page describes how to enable and use Lambda
Insights to diagnose issues with your Lambda functions.

Sections
• How Lambda Insights monitors serverless applications (p. 686)
• Pricing (p. 686)
• Supported runtimes (p. 686)
• Enabling Lambda Insights in the Lambda console (p. 686)
• Enabling Lambda Insights programmatically (p. 687)
• Using the Lambda Insights dashboard (p. 687)
• Example workflow to detect function anomalies (p. 688)
• Example workflow using queries to troubleshoot a function (p. 690)
• What's next? (p. 685)

How Lambda Insights monitors serverless

applications
CloudWatch Lambda Insights is a monitoring and troubleshooting solution for serverless applications
running on AWS Lambda. The solution collects, aggregates, and summarizes system-level metrics
including CPU time, memory, disk and network usage. It also collects, aggregates, and summarizes
diagnostic information such as cold starts and Lambda worker shutdowns to help you isolate issues with
your Lambda functions and resolve them quickly.

Lambda Insights uses a new CloudWatch Lambda Insights extension, which is provided as a Lambda
layer (p. 101). When you enable this extension on a Lambda function for a supported runtime, it collects
system-level metrics and emits a single performance log event for every invocation of that Lambda
function. CloudWatch uses embedded metric formatting to extract metrics from the log events. For more
information, see Using AWS Lambda extensions.

The Lambda Insights layer extends the CreateLogStream and PutLogEvents for the /aws/lambda-
insights/ log group.

Pricing
For each Lambda function enabled for Lambda Insights, you only pay for what you use for metrics and
logs. For a pricing example, see Amazon CloudWatch pricing.

Supported runtimes
You can use Lambda Insights with any of the runtimes that support Lambda extensions (p. 209).

Enabling Lambda Insights in the Lambda console

You can enable Lambda Insights enhanced monitoring on new and existing Lambda functions. When
you enable Lambda Insights on a function in the Lambda console for a supported runtime, Lambda
adds the Lambda Insights extension as a layer to your function, and verifies or attempts to attach the
CloudWatchLambdaInsightsExecutionRolePolicy policy to your function’s execution role.

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Enabling Lambda Insights programmatically

To enable Lambda Insights in the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose your function.
3. Choose the Configuration tab.
4. On the Monitoring tools pane, choose Edit.
5. Under Lambda Insights, turn on Enhanced monitoring.
6. Choose Save.

Enabling Lambda Insights programmatically

You can also enable Lambda Insights using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS Serverless
Application Model (SAM) CLI, AWS CloudFormation, or the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). When you
enable Lambda Insights programmatically on a function for a supported runtime, CloudWatch attaches
the CloudWatchLambdaInsightsExecutionRolePolicy policy to your function’s execution role.

For more information, see Getting started with Lambda Insights in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Using the Lambda Insights dashboard

The Lambda Insights dashboard has two views in the CloudWatch console: the multi-function overview
and the single-function view. The multi-function overview aggregates the runtime metrics for the
Lambda functions in the current AWS account and Region. The single-function view shows the available
runtime metrics for a single Lambda function.

You can use the Lambda Insights dashboard multi-function overview in the CloudWatch console to
identify over- and under-utilized Lambda functions. You can use the Lambda Insights dashboard single-
function view in the CloudWatch console to troubleshoot individual requests.

To view the runtime metrics for all functions

1. Open the Multi-function page in the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose from the predefined time ranges, or choose a custom time range.
3. (Optional) Choose Add to dashboard to add the widgets to your CloudWatch dashboard.

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To view the runtime metrics of a single function

1. Open the Single-function page in the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose from the predefined time ranges, or choose a custom time range.
3. (Optional) Choose Add to dashboard to add the widgets to your CloudWatch dashboard.

For more information, see Creating and working with widgets on CloudWatch dashboards.

Example workflow to detect function anomalies

You can use the multi-function overview on the Lambda Insights dashboard to identify and detect
compute memory anomalies with your function. For example, if the multi-function overview indicates
that a function is using a large amount of memory, you can view detailed memory utilization metrics
in the Memory Usage pane. You can then go to the Metrics dashboard to enable anomaly detection or
create an alarm.

To enable anomaly detection for a function

1. Open the Multi-function page in the CloudWatch console.

2. Under Function summary, choose your function's name.

The single-function view opens with the function runtime metrics.

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3. On the Memory Usage pane, choose the three vertical dots, and then choose View in metrics to
open the Metrics dashboard.

4. On the Graphed metrics tab, in the Actions column, choose the first icon to enable anomaly
detection for the function.

For more information, see Using CloudWatch Anomaly Detection.

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Example workflow using queries to troubleshoot a

function
You can use the single-function view on the Lambda Insights dashboard to identify the root cause of
a spike in function duration. For example, if the multi-function overview indicates a large increase in
function duration, you can pause on or choose each function in the Duration pane to determine which
function is causing the increase. You can then go to the single-function view and review the Application
logs to determine the root cause.

To run queries on a function

1. Open the Multi-function page in the CloudWatch console.

2. In the Duration pane, choose your function to filter the duration metrics.

3. Open the Single-function page.

4. Choose the Filter metrics by function name dropdown list, and then choose your function.
5. To view the Most recent 1000 application logs, choose the Application logs tab.
6. Review the Timestamp and Message to identify the invocation request that you want to
troubleshoot.

7. To show the Most recent 1000 invocations, choose the Invocations tab.
8. Select the Timestamp or Message for the invocation request that you want to troubleshoot.

9. Choose the View logs dropdown list, and then choose View performance logs.

An autogenerated query for your function opens in the Logs Insights dashboard.
10. Choose Run query to generate a Logs message for the invocation request.

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What's next?
• Learn how to create a CloudWatch Logs dashboard in Create a Dashboard in the Amazon CloudWatch
User Guide.
• Learn how to add queries to a CloudWatch Logs dashboard in Add Query to Dashboard or Export
Query Results in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

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Working with AWS Lambda function metrics

When your function finishes processing an event, Lambda sends metrics about the invocation to Amazon
CloudWatch. You can build graphs and dashboards with these metrics in the CloudWatch console, and
set alarms to respond to changes in utilization, performance, or error rates.

This page describes the Lambda function invocation, performance, and concurrency metrics available on
the CloudWatch console.

Sections
• Viewing metrics in the CloudWatch console (p. 692)
• Types of metrics (p. 692)

Viewing metrics in the CloudWatch console

You can use the CloudWatch console to filter and sort function metrics by function name, alias, or
version.

To view metrics in the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Metrics page (AWS/Lambda namespace) on the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose a dimension.

• By Function Name (FunctionName) – View aggregate metrics for all versions and aliases of a
function.
• By Resource (Resource) – View metrics for a version or alias of a function.
• By Executed Version (ExecutedVersion) – View metrics for a combination of alias and version.
Use the ExecutedVersion dimension to compare error rates for two versions of a function that
are both targets of a weighted alias (p. 97).
• Across All Functions (none) – View aggregate metrics for all functions in the current AWS Region.
3. Choose metrics to add them to the graph.

By default, graphs use the Sum statistic for all metrics. To choose a different statistic and customize the
graph, use the options on the Graphed metrics tab.
Note
The timestamp on a metric reflects when the function was invoked. Depending on the duration
of the execution, this can be several minutes before the metric is emitted. If, for example, your
function has a 10-minute timeout, look more than 10 minutes in the past for accurate metrics.

For more information about CloudWatch, see the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Types of metrics
The following section describes the type of metrics available on the CloudWatch console.

Using invocation metrics

Invocation metrics are binary indicators of the outcome of an invocation. For example, if the function
returns an error, Lambda sends the Errors metric with a value of 1. To get a count of the number of
function errors that occurred each minute, view the Sum of the Errors metric with a period of one
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You should view the following metrics with the Sum statistic.

Invocation metrics

• Invocations – The number of times your function code is executed, including successful executions
and executions that result in a function error. Invocations aren't recorded if the invocation request is
throttled or otherwise resulted in an invocation error (p. 842). This equals the number of requests
billed.
• Errors – The number of invocations that result in a function error. Function errors include exceptions
thrown by your code and exceptions thrown by the Lambda runtime. The runtime returns errors
for issues such as timeouts and configuration errors. To calculate the error rate, divide the value of
Errors by the value of Invocations. Note that the timestamp on an error metric reflects when the
function was invoked, not when the error occurred.
• DeadLetterErrors – For asynchronous invocation (p. 140), the number of times Lambda attempts to
send an event to a dead-letter queue but fails. Dead-letter errors can occur due to permissions errors,
misconfigured resources, or size limits.
• DestinationDeliveryFailures – For asynchronous invocation, the number of times Lambda
attempts to send an event to a destination (p. 38) but fails. Delivery errors can occur due to
permissions errors, misconfigured resources, or size limits.
• Throttles – The number of invocation requests that are throttled. When all function instances are
processing requests and no concurrency is available to scale up, Lambda rejects additional requests
with TooManyRequestsException (p. 842). Throttled requests and other invocation errors don't count
as Invocations or Errors.
• ProvisionedConcurrencyInvocations – The number of times your function code is executed on
provisioned concurrency (p. 84).
• ProvisionedConcurrencySpilloverInvocations – The number of times your function code is
executed on standard concurrency when all provisioned concurrency is in use.

Using performance metrics

Performance metrics provide performance details about a single invocation. For example, the Duration
metric indicates the amount of time in milliseconds that your function spends processing an event. To
get a sense of how fast your function processes events, view these metrics with the Average or Max
statistic.

Performance metrics

• Duration – The amount of time that your function code spends processing an event. The billed
duration for an invocation is the value of Duration rounded up to the nearest millisecond.
• PostRuntimeExtensionsDuration – The cumulative amount of time that the runtime spends
running code for extensions after the function code has completed.
• IteratorAge – For event source mappings (p. 148) that read from streams, the age of the last record
in the event. The age is the amount of time between when the stream receives the record and when
the event source mapping sends the event to the function.

Duration also supports percentile statistics. Use percentiles to exclude outlier values that skew average
and maximum statistics. For example, the P95 statistic shows the maximum duration of 95 percent of
executions, excluding the slowest 5 percent.

Using concurrency metrics

Lambda reports concurrency metrics as an aggregate count of the number of instances processing events
across a function, version, alias, or AWS Region. To see how close you are to hitting concurrency limits,
view these metrics with the Max statistic.

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Concurrency metrics

• ConcurrentExecutions – The number of function instances that are processing events. If this
number reaches your concurrent executions quota (p. 44) for the Region, or the reserved concurrency
limit (p. 84) that you configured on the function, additional invocation requests are throttled.
• ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions – The number of function instances that are processing
events on provisioned concurrency (p. 84). For each invocation of an alias or version with provisioned
concurrency, Lambda emits the current count.
• ProvisionedConcurrencyUtilization – For a version or alias, the value of
ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions divided by the total amount of provisioned concurrency
allocated. For example, .5 indicates that 50 percent of allocated provisioned concurrency is in use.
• UnreservedConcurrentExecutions – For an AWS Region, the number of events that are being
processed by functions that don't have reserved concurrency.

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Function logs

Accessing Amazon CloudWatch logs for AWS

Lambda
AWS Lambda automatically monitors Lambda functions on your behalf, reporting metrics through
Amazon CloudWatch. To help you troubleshoot failures in a function, Lambda logs all requests
handled by your function and also automatically stores logs generated by your code through Amazon
CloudWatch Logs.

You can insert logging statements into your code to help you validate that your code is working as
expected. Lambda automatically integrates with CloudWatch Logs and pushes all logs from your code to
a CloudWatch Logs group associated with a Lambda function, which is named /aws/lambda/<function
name>.

You can view logs for Lambda functions using the Lambda console, the CloudWatch console, the AWS
Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), or the CloudWatch API. This page describes how to view logs using
the Lambda console.

Sections
• Prerequisites (p. 695)
• Pricing (p. 695)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 695)
• Using the AWS CLI (p. 696)
• What's next? (p. 696)

Prerequisites
Your execution role (p. 47) needs permission to upload logs to CloudWatch Logs. You can add
CloudWatch Logs permissions using an AWS managed policy provided by Lambda. For more information,
see AWS managed policies for Lambda features (p. 47).

Pricing
There is no additional charge for using Lambda logs; however, standard CloudWatch Logs charges apply.
For more information, see CloudWatch pricing.

Using the Lambda console

The following section describes how to view logs for your function on the Lambda console.

To view logs using the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Monitoring.

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A graphical representation of the metrics for the Lambda function are shown.
4. Choose View logs in CloudWatch.

Note
Logs may not be immediately available after invocation. We recommend waiting 5 to 10
minutes before checking your execution role.

Using the AWS CLI

To debug and validate that your code is working as expected, you can output logs with the standard
logging functionality for your programming language. The Lambda runtime uploads your function's log
output to CloudWatch Logs. For language-specific instructions, see the following topics:

• AWS Lambda function logging in Node.js (p. 496)

• AWS Lambda function logging in Python (p. 534)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Ruby (p. 557)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Java (p. 590)
• AWS Lambda function logging in Go (p. 624)
• AWS Lambda function logging in C# (p. 653)
• AWS Lambda function logging in PowerShell (p. 674)

What's next?
• Learn more about log groups and accessing them through the CloudWatch console in Monitoring
system, application, and custom log files in the Amazon CloudWatch User Guide.

Example workflows using other AWS services

AWS Lambda integrates with other AWS services to help you monitor, trace, debug, and troubleshoot
your Lambda functions. This page shows workflows you can use with AWS X-Ray, AWS Trusted Advisor
and CloudWatch ServiceLens to trace and troubleshoot your Lambda functions.

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Prerequisites

• Prerequisites (p. 697)

• Pricing (p. 697)
• Example AWS X-Ray workflow to view a service map (p. 698)
• Example AWS X-Ray workflow to view trace details (p. 698)
• Example AWS Trusted Advisor workflow to view recommendations (p. 699)
• What's next? (p. 699)

Prerequisites
The following section describes the steps to using AWS X-Ray and Trusted Advisor to troubleshoot your
Lambda functions.

Using AWS X-Ray

AWS X-Ray needs to be enabled on the Lambda console to complete the AWS X-Ray workflows on this
page. If your execution role does not have the required permissions, the Lambda console will attempt to
add them to your execution role.

To enable AWS X-Ray on the Lambda console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose your function.
3. Choose the Configuration tab.
4. On the Monitoring tools pane, choose Edit.
5. Under AWS X-Ray, turn on Active tracing.
6. Choose Save.

Using AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and makes recommendations on ways you can save
money, improve system availability and performance, and help close security gaps. You can use Trusted
Advisor checks to evaluate the Lambda functions and applications in your AWS account. The checks
provide recommended steps to take and resources for more information.

• For more information on AWS support plans for Trusted Advisor checks, see Support plans.
• For more information about the checks for Lambda, see AWS Trusted Advisor best practice checklist.
• For more information on how to use the Trusted Advisor console, see Get started with AWS Trusted
Advisor.
• For instructions on how to allow and deny console access to Trusted Advisor, see IAM policy examples.

Pricing
• With AWS X-Ray you pay only for what you use, based on the number of traces recorded, retrieved,
and scanned. For more information, see AWS X-Ray Pricing.
• Trusted Advisor cost optimization checks are included with AWS Business and Enterprise support
subscriptions. For more information, see AWS Trusted Advisor Pricing.

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Example AWS X-Ray workflow to view a service map

If you've enabled AWS X-Ray, you can view a ServiceLens service map on the CloudWatch console. A
service map displays your service endpoints and resources as nodes and highlights the traffic, latency,
and errors for each node and its connections.

You can choose a node to see detailed insights about the correlated metrics, logs, and traces associated
with that part of the service. This enables you to investigate problems and their effect on an application.

To view service map and traces using the CloudWatch console

1. Open the Functions page on the Lambda console.

2. Choose a function.
3. Choose Monitoring.
4. Choose View traces in X-Ray.
5. Choose Service map.
6. Choose from the predefined time ranges, or choose a custom time range.
7. To troubleshoot requests, choose a filter.

Example AWS X-Ray workflow to view trace details

If you've enabled AWS X-Ray, you can use the single-function view on the CloudWatch Lambda Insights
dashboard to show the distributed trace data of a function invocation error. For example, if the
application logs message shows an error, you can open the ServiceLens traces view to see the distributed
trace data and the other services handling the transaction.

To view trace details of a function

1. Open the single-function view in the CloudWatch console.

2. Choose the Application logs tab.
3. Use the Timestamp or Message to identify the invocation request that you want to troubleshoot.
4. To show the Most recent 1000 invocations, choose the Invocations tab.

5. Choose the Request ID column to sort entries in ascending alphabetical order.

6. In the Trace column, choose View.

The Trace details page opens in the ServiceLens traces view.

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Using Trusted Advisor to view recommendations

Example AWS Trusted Advisor workflow to view

recommendations
Trusted Advisor checks Lambda functions in all AWS Regions to identify functions with the highest
potential cost savings, and deliver actionable recommendations for optimization. It analyzes your
Lambda usage data such as function execution time, billed duration, memory used, memory configured,
timeout configuration and errors.

For example, the Lambda Functions with High Error Rate check recommends that you use AWS X-Ray or
CloudWatch to detect errors with your Lambda functions.

To check for functions with high error rates

1. Open the Trusted Advisor console.

2. Choose the Cost Optimization category.
3. Scroll down to AWS Lambda Functions with High Error Rates. Expand the section to see the results
and the recommended actions.

What's next?
• Learn more about how to integrate traces, metrics, logs, and alarms in Using ServiceLens to Monitor
the Health of Your Applications.
• Learn more about how to get a list of Trusted Advisor checks in Using Trusted Advisor as a web service.

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Security in AWS Lambda

Cloud security at AWS is the highest priority. As an AWS customer, you benefit from a data center and
network architecture that is built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.

Security is a shared responsibility between AWS and you. The shared responsibility model describes this
as security of the cloud and security in the cloud:

• Security of the cloud – AWS is responsible for protecting the infrastructure that runs AWS services in
the AWS Cloud. AWS also provides you with services that you can use securely. Third-party auditors
regularly test and verify the effectiveness of our security as part of the AWS compliance programs.
To learn about the compliance programs that apply to AWS Lambda, see AWS Services in Scope by
Compliance Program.
• Security in the cloud – Your responsibility is determined by the AWS service that you use. You are also
responsible for other factors including the sensitivity of your data, your company’s requirements, and
applicable laws and regulations.

This documentation helps you understand how to apply the shared responsibility model when using
Lambda. The following topics show you how to configure Lambda to meet your security and compliance
objectives. You also learn how to use other AWS services that help you to monitor and secure your
Lambda resources.

For more information about applying security principles to Lambda applications, see Security in the
Lambda operator guide.

Topics
• Data protection in AWS Lambda (p. 700)
• Identity and access management for Lambda (p. 702)
• Compliance validation for AWS Lambda (p. 710)
• Resilience in AWS Lambda (p. 710)
• Infrastructure security in AWS Lambda (p. 711)
• Configuration and vulnerability analysis in AWS Lambda (p. 711)

Data protection in AWS Lambda

The AWS shared responsibility model applies to data protection in AWS Lambda. As described in this
model, AWS is responsible for protecting the global infrastructure that runs all of the AWS Cloud. You
are responsible for maintaining control over your content that is hosted on this infrastructure. This
content includes the security configuration and management tasks for the AWS services that you use. For
more information about data privacy, see the Data Privacy FAQ. For information about data protection in
Europe, see the AWS Shared Responsibility Model and GDPR blog post on the AWS Security Blog.

For data protection purposes, we recommend that you protect AWS account credentials and set up
individual user accounts with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM). That way each user is given
only the permissions necessary to fulfill their job duties. We also recommend that you secure your data
in the following ways:

• Use multi-factor authentication (MFA) with each account.

• Use SSL/TLS to communicate with AWS resources. We recommend TLS 1.2 or later.
• Set up API and user activity logging with AWS CloudTrail.

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• Use AWS encryption solutions, along with all default security controls within AWS services.
• Use advanced managed security services such as Amazon Macie, which assists in discovering and
securing personal data that is stored in Amazon S3.
• If you require FIPS 140-2 validated cryptographic modules when accessing AWS through a command
line interface or an API, use a FIPS endpoint. For more information about the available FIPS endpoints,
see Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2.

We strongly recommend that you never put sensitive identifying information, such as your customers'
account numbers, into free-form fields such as a Name field. This includes when you work with Lambda
or other AWS services using the console, API, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs. Any data that you enter into
Lambda or other services might get picked up for inclusion in diagnostic logs. When you provide a URL
to an external server, don't include credentials information in the URL to validate your request to that
server.

Sections
• Encryption in transit (p. 701)
• Encryption at rest (p. 701)

Encryption in transit
Lambda API endpoints only support secure connections over HTTPS. When you manage Lambda
resources with the AWS Management Console,AWS SDK, or the Lambda API, all communication is
encrypted with Transport Layer Security (TLS).

When you connect your function to a file system (p. 126), Lambda uses Encryption in transit for all
connections.

For a full list of API endpoints, see AWS Regions and endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

Encryption at rest
You can use environment variables to store secrets securely for use with Lambda functions. Lambda
always encrypts environment variables at rest.

Additionally, you can use the following features to customize how environment variables are encrypted.

• Key configuration – On a per-function basis, you can configure Lambda to use an encryption key that
you create and manage in AWS Key Management Service. These are referred to as customer managed
customer master keys (CMKs) or customer managed keys. If you don't configure a customer managed
key, Lambda uses an AWS managed CMK named aws/lambda, which Lambda creates in your account.
• Encryption helpers – The Lambda console lets you encrypt environment variable values client side,
before sending them to Lambda. This enhances security further by preventing secrets from being
displayed unencrypted in the Lambda console, or in function configuration that's returned by the
Lambda API. The console also provides sample code that you can adapt to decrypt the values in your
function handler.

For more information, see Using AWS Lambda environment variables (p. 77).

Lambda always encrypts files that you upload to Lambda, including deployment packages (p. 12) and
layer archives (p. 101).

Amazon CloudWatch Logs and AWS X-Ray also encrypt data by default, and can be configured to use a
customer managed key. For details, see Encrypt log data in CloudWatch Logs and Data protection in AWS
X-Ray.

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Identity and access management for Lambda

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) is an AWS service that helps an administrator securely
control access to AWS resources. IAM administrators control who can be authenticated (signed in) and
authorized (have permissions) to use Lambda resources. IAM is an AWS service that you can use with no
additional charge.

Topics
• Audience (p. 702)
• Authenticating with identities (p. 702)
• Managing access using policies (p. 704)
• How AWS Lambda works with IAM (p. 706)
• AWS Lambda identity-based policy examples (p. 706)
• Troubleshooting AWS Lambda identity and access (p. 707)

Audience
How you use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) differs, depending on the work that you do in
Lambda.

Service user – If you use the Lambda service to do your job, then your administrator provides you with
the credentials and permissions that you need. As you use more Lambda features to do your work, you
might need additional permissions. Understanding how access is managed can help you request the right
permissions from your administrator. If you cannot access a feature in Lambda, see Troubleshooting AWS
Lambda identity and access (p. 707).

Service administrator – If you're in charge of Lambda resources at your company, you probably have
full access to Lambda. It's your job to determine which Lambda features and resources your employees
should access. You must then submit requests to your IAM administrator to change the permissions
of your service users. Review the information on this page to understand the basic concepts of IAM.
To learn more about how your company can use IAM with Lambda, see How AWS Lambda works with
IAM (p. 706).

IAM administrator – If you're an IAM administrator, you might want to learn details about how you can
write policies to manage access to Lambda. To view example Lambda identity-based policies that you
can use in IAM, see AWS Lambda identity-based policy examples (p. 706).

Authenticating with identities

Authentication is how you sign in to AWS using your identity credentials. For more information about
signing in using the AWS Management Console, see Signing in to the AWS Management Console as an
IAM user or root user in the IAM User Guide.

You must be authenticated (signed in to AWS) as the AWS account root user, an IAM user, or by assuming
an IAM role. You can also use your company's single sign-on authentication or even sign in using Google
or Facebook. In these cases, your administrator previously set up identity federation using IAM roles.
When you access AWS using credentials from another company, you are assuming a role indirectly.

To sign in directly to the AWS Management Console, use your password with your root user email
address or your IAM user name. You can access AWS programmatically using your root user or IAM
users access keys. AWS provides SDK and command line tools to cryptographically sign your request
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Signature Version 4, a protocol for authenticating inbound API requests. For more information about
authenticating requests, see Signature Version 4 signing process in the AWS General Reference.

Regardless of the authentication method that you use, you might also be required to provide additional
security information. For example, AWS recommends that you use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to
increase the security of your account. To learn more, see Using multi-factor authentication (MFA) in AWS
in the IAM User Guide.

AWS account root user

When you first create an AWS account, you begin with a single sign-in identity that has complete access
to all AWS services and resources in the account. This identity is called the AWS account root user and
is accessed by signing in with the email address and password that you used to create the account. We
strongly recommend that you do not use the root user for your everyday tasks, even the administrative
ones. Instead, adhere to the best practice of using the root user only to create your first IAM user. Then
securely lock away the root user credentials and use them to perform only a few account and service
management tasks.

IAM users and groups

An IAM user is an identity within your AWS account that has specific permissions for a single person or
application. An IAM user can have long-term credentials such as a user name and password or a set of
access keys. To learn how to generate access keys, see Managing access keys for IAM users in the IAM
User Guide. When you generate access keys for an IAM user, make sure you view and securely save the key
pair. You cannot recover the secret access key in the future. Instead, you must generate a new access key
pair.

An IAM group is an identity that specifies a collection of IAM users. You can't sign in as a group. You
can use groups to specify permissions for multiple users at a time. Groups make permissions easier to
manage for large sets of users. For example, you could have a group named IAMAdmins and give that
group permissions to administer IAM resources.

Users are different from roles. A user is uniquely associated with one person or application, but a role
is intended to be assumable by anyone who needs it. Users have permanent long-term credentials, but
roles provide temporary credentials. To learn more, see When to create an IAM user (instead of a role) in
the IAM User Guide.

IAM roles
An IAM role is an identity within your AWS account that has specific permissions. It is similar to an IAM
user, but is not associated with a specific person. You can temporarily assume an IAM role in the AWS
Management Console by switching roles. You can assume a role by calling an AWS CLI or AWS API
operation or by using a custom URL. For more information about methods for using roles, see Using IAM
roles in the IAM User Guide.

IAM roles with temporary credentials are useful in the following situations:

• Temporary IAM user permissions – An IAM user can assume an IAM role to temporarily take on
different permissions for a specific task.
• Federated user access – Instead of creating an IAM user, you can use existing identities from AWS
Directory Service, your enterprise user directory, or a web identity provider. These are known as
federated users. AWS assigns a role to a federated user when access is requested through an identity
provider. For more information about federated users, see Federated users and roles in the IAM User
Guide.
• Cross-account access – You can use an IAM role to allow someone (a trusted principal) in a different
account to access resources in your account. Roles are the primary way to grant cross-account access.

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However, with some AWS services, you can attach a policy directly to a resource (instead of using a role
as a proxy). To learn the difference between roles and resource-based policies for cross-account access,
see How IAM roles differ from resource-based policies in the IAM User Guide.
• Cross-service access – Some AWS services use features in other AWS services. For example, when you
make a call in a service, it's common for that service to run applications in Amazon EC2 or store objects
in Amazon S3. A service might do this using the calling principal's permissions, using a service role, or
using a service-linked role.
• Principal permissions – When you use an IAM user or role to perform actions in AWS, you are
considered a principal. Policies grant permissions to a principal. When you use some services, you
might perform an action that then triggers another action in a different service. In this case, you
must have permissions to perform both actions. To see whether an action requires additional
dependent actions in a policy, see Actions, Resources, and Condition Keys for AWS Lambda in the
Service Authorization Reference.
• Service role – A service role is an IAM role that a service assumes to perform actions on your behalf.
Service roles provide access only within your account and cannot be used to grant access to services
in other accounts. An IAM administrator can create, modify, and delete a service role from within
IAM. For more information, see Creating a role to delegate permissions to an AWS service in the IAM
User Guide.
• Service-linked role – A service-linked role is a type of service role that is linked to an AWS service.
The service can assume the role to perform an action on your behalf. Service-linked roles appear
in your IAM account and are owned by the service. An IAM administrator can view, but not edit the
permissions for service-linked roles.
• Applications running on Amazon EC2 – You can use an IAM role to manage temporary credentials
for applications that are running on an EC2 instance and making AWS CLI or AWS API requests.
This is preferable to storing access keys within the EC2 instance. To assign an AWS role to an EC2
instance and make it available to all of its applications, you create an instance profile that is attached
to the instance. An instance profile contains the role and enables programs that are running on the
EC2 instance to get temporary credentials. For more information, see Using an IAM role to grant
permissions to applications running on Amazon EC2 instances in the IAM User Guide.

To learn whether to use IAM roles or IAM users, see When to create an IAM role (instead of a user) in the
IAM User Guide.

Managing access using policies

You control access in AWS by creating policies and attaching them to IAM identities or AWS resources. A
policy is an object in AWS that, when associated with an identity or resource, defines their permissions.
You can sign in as the root user or an IAM user, or you can assume an IAM role. When you then make
a request, AWS evaluates the related identity-based or resource-based policies. Permissions in the
policies determine whether the request is allowed or denied. Most policies are stored in AWS as JSON
documents. For more information about the structure and contents of JSON policy documents, see
Overview of JSON policies in the IAM User Guide.

Administrators can use AWS JSON policies to specify who has access to what. That is, which principal can
perform actions on what resources, and under what conditions.

Every IAM entity (user or role) starts with no permissions. In other words, by default, users can
do nothing, not even change their own password. To give a user permission to do something, an
administrator must attach a permissions policy to a user. Or the administrator can add the user to a
group that has the intended permissions. When an administrator gives permissions to a group, all users
in that group are granted those permissions.

IAM policies define permissions for an action regardless of the method that you use to perform the
operation. For example, suppose that you have a policy that allows the iam:GetRole action. A user with
that policy can get role information from the AWS Management Console, the AWS CLI, or the AWS API.

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Identity-based policies
Identity-based policies are JSON permissions policy documents that you can attach to an identity, such
as an IAM user, group of users, or role. These policies control what actions users and roles can perform,
on which resources, and under what conditions. To learn how to create an identity-based policy, see
Creating IAM policies in the IAM User Guide.

Identity-based policies can be further categorized as inline policies or managed policies. Inline policies
are embedded directly into a single user, group, or role. Managed policies are standalone policies that
you can attach to multiple users, groups, and roles in your AWS account. Managed policies include AWS
managed policies and customer managed policies. To learn how to choose between a managed policy or
an inline policy, see Choosing between managed policies and inline policies in the IAM User Guide.

Resource-based policies
Resource-based policies are JSON policy documents that you attach to a resource. Examples of resource-
based policies are IAM role trust policies and Amazon S3 bucket policies. In services that support resource-
based policies, service administrators can use them to control access to a specific resource. For the
resource where the policy is attached, the policy defines what actions a specified principal can perform
on that resource and under what conditions. You must specify a principal in a resource-based policy.
Principals can include accounts, users, roles, federated users, or AWS services.

Resource-based policies are inline policies that are located in that service. You can't use AWS managed
policies from IAM in a resource-based policy.

Access control lists (ACLs)

Access control lists (ACLs) control which principals (account members, users, or roles) have permissions to
access a resource. ACLs are similar to resource-based policies, although they do not use the JSON policy
document format.

Amazon S3, AWS WAF, and Amazon VPC are examples of services that support ACLs. To learn more about
ACLs, see Access control list (ACL) overview in the Amazon Simple Storage Service Developer Guide.

Other policy types

AWS supports additional, less-common policy types. These policy types can set the maximum
permissions granted to you by the more common policy types.

• Permissions boundaries – A permissions boundary is an advanced feature in which you set the
maximum permissions that an identity-based policy can grant to an IAM entity (IAM user or role).
You can set a permissions boundary for an entity. The resulting permissions are the intersection of
entity's identity-based policies and its permissions boundaries. Resource-based policies that specify
the user or role in the Principal field are not limited by the permissions boundary. An explicit deny
in any of these policies overrides the allow. For more information about permissions boundaries, see
Permissions boundaries for IAM entities in the IAM User Guide.
• Service control policies (SCPs) – SCPs are JSON policies that specify the maximum permissions for
an organization or organizational unit (OU) in AWS Organizations. AWS Organizations is a service for
grouping and centrally managing multiple AWS accounts that your business owns. If you enable all
features in an organization, then you can apply service control policies (SCPs) to any or all of your
accounts. The SCP limits permissions for entities in member accounts, including each AWS account
root user. For more information about Organizations and SCPs, see How SCPs work in the AWS
Organizations User Guide.
• Session policies – Session policies are advanced policies that you pass as a parameter when you
programmatically create a temporary session for a role or federated user. The resulting session's
permissions are the intersection of the user or role's identity-based policies and the session policies.

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Permissions can also come from a resource-based policy. An explicit deny in any of these policies
overrides the allow. For more information, see Session policies in the IAM User Guide.

Multiple policy types

When multiple types of policies apply to a request, the resulting permissions are more complicated to
understand. To learn how AWS determines whether to allow a request when multiple policy types are
involved, see Policy evaluation logic in the IAM User Guide.

How AWS Lambda works with IAM

Before you use IAM to manage access to Lambda, you should understand what IAM features are available
to use with Lambda. To get a high-level view of how Lambda and other AWS services work with IAM, see
AWS services that work with IAM in the IAM User Guide.

For an overview of permissions, policies, and roles as they are used by Lambda, see AWS Lambda
permissions (p. 46).

AWS Lambda identity-based policy examples

By default, IAM users and roles don't have permission to create or modify Lambda resources. They also
can't perform tasks using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS API. An IAM administrator
must create IAM policies that grant users and roles permission to perform specific API operations on
the specified resources they need. The administrator must then attach those policies to the IAM users or
groups that require those permissions.

To learn how to create an IAM identity-based policy using these example JSON policy documents, see
Creating policies on the JSON tab in the IAM User Guide.

Topics
• Policy best practices (p. 706)
• Using the Lambda console (p. 707)
• Allow users to view their own permissions (p. 707)

Policy best practices

Identity-based policies are very powerful. They determine whether someone can create, access, or delete
Lambda resources in your account. These actions can incur costs for your AWS account. When you create
or edit identity-based policies, follow these guidelines and recommendations:

• Get started using AWS managed policies – To start using Lambda quickly, use AWS managed policies
to give your employees the permissions they need. These policies are already available in your account
and are maintained and updated by AWS. For more information, see Get started using permissions
with AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.
• Grant least privilege – When you create custom policies, grant only the permissions required
to perform a task. Start with a minimum set of permissions and grant additional permissions as
necessary. Doing so is more secure than starting with permissions that are too lenient and then trying
to tighten them later. For more information, see Grant least privilege in the IAM User Guide.
• Enable MFA for sensitive operations – For extra security, require IAM users to use multi-factor
authentication (MFA) to access sensitive resources or API operations. For more information, see Using
multi-factor authentication (MFA) in AWS in the IAM User Guide.
• Use policy conditions for extra security – To the extent that it's practical, define the conditions under
which your identity-based policies allow access to a resource. For example, you can write conditions to
specify a range of allowable IP addresses that a request must come from. You can also write conditions

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to allow requests only within a specified date or time range, or to require the use of SSL or MFA. For
more information, see IAM JSON policy elements: Condition in the IAM User Guide.

Using the Lambda console

To access the AWS Lambda console, you must have a minimum set of permissions. These permissions
must allow you to list and view details about the Lambda resources in your AWS account. If you create an
identity-based policy that is more restrictive than the minimum required permissions, the console won't
function as intended for entities (IAM users or roles) with that policy.

For an example policy that grants minimal access for function development, see Function
development (p. 56). In addition to Lambda APIs, the Lambda console uses other services to display
trigger configuration and let you add new triggers. If your users use Lambda with other services, they
need access to those services as well. For details on configuring other services with Lambda, see Using
AWS Lambda with other services (p. 257).

Allow users to view their own permissions

This example shows how you might create a policy that allows IAM users to view the inline and managed
policies that are attached to their user identity. This policy includes permissions to complete this action
on the console or programmatically using the AWS CLI or AWS API.

{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "ViewOwnUserInfo",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"iam:GetUserPolicy",
"iam:ListGroupsForUser",
"iam:ListAttachedUserPolicies",
"iam:ListUserPolicies",
"iam:GetUser"
],
"Resource": ["arn:aws:iam::*:user/${aws:username}"]
},
{
"Sid": "NavigateInConsole",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"iam:GetGroupPolicy",
"iam:GetPolicyVersion",
"iam:GetPolicy",
"iam:ListAttachedGroupPolicies",
"iam:ListGroupPolicies",
"iam:ListPolicyVersions",
"iam:ListPolicies",
"iam:ListUsers"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}

Troubleshooting AWS Lambda identity and access

Use the following information to help you diagnose and fix common issues that you might encounter
when working with Lambda and IAM.

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Topics
• I am not authorized to perform an action in Lambda (p. 708)
• I am not authorized to perform iam:PassRole (p. 708)
• I want to view my access keys (p. 708)
• I'm an administrator and want to allow others to access Lambda (p. 709)
• I'm an administrator and want to migrate from AWS managed policies for Lambda that will be
deprecated (p. 709)
• I want to allow people outside of my AWS account to access my Lambda resources (p. 709)

I am not authorized to perform an action in Lambda

If the AWS Management Console tells you that you're not authorized to perform an action, then you
must contact your administrator for assistance. Your administrator is the person that provided you with
your user name and password.

The following example error occurs when the mateojackson IAM user tries to use the console to view
details about a function but does not have lambda:GetFunction permissions.

User: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/mateojackson is not authorized to perform:

lambda:GetFunction on resource: my-function

In this case, Mateo asks his administrator to update his policies to allow him to access the my-function
resource using the lambda:GetFunction action.

I am not authorized to perform iam:PassRole

If you receive an error that you're not authorized to perform the iam:PassRole action, then you must
contact your administrator for assistance. Your administrator is the person that provided you with your
user name and password. Ask that person to update your policies to allow you to pass a role to Lambda.

Some AWS services allow you to pass an existing role to that service, instead of creating a new service
role or service-linked role. To do this, you must have permissions to pass the role to the service.

The following example error occurs when an IAM user named marymajor tries to use the console to
perform an action in Lambda. However, the action requires the service to have permissions granted by a
service role. Mary does not have permissions to pass the role to the service.

User: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/marymajor is not authorized to perform: iam:PassRole

In this case, Mary asks her administrator to update her policies to allow her to perform the
iam:PassRole action.

I want to view my access keys

After you create your IAM user access keys, you can view your access key ID at any time. However, you
can't view your secret access key again. If you lose your secret key, you must create a new access key pair.

Access keys consist of two parts: an access key ID (for example, AKIAIOSFODNN7EXAMPLE) and a secret
access key (for example, wJalrXUtnFEMI/K7MDENG/bPxRfiCYEXAMPLEKEY). Like a user name and
password, you must use both the access key ID and secret access key together to authenticate your
requests. Manage your access keys as securely as you do your user name and password.
Important
Do not provide your access keys to a third party, even to help find your canonical user ID. By
doing this, you might give someone permanent access to your account.

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When you create an access key pair, you are prompted to save the access key ID and secret access key in
a secure location. The secret access key is available only at the time you create it. If you lose your secret
access key, you must add new access keys to your IAM user. You can have a maximum of two access keys.
If you already have two, you must delete one key pair before creating a new one. To view instructions,
see Managing access keys in the IAM User Guide.

I'm an administrator and want to allow others to access Lambda

To allow others to access Lambda, you must create an IAM entity (user or role) for the person or
application that needs access. They will use the credentials for that entity to access AWS. You must then
attach a policy to the entity that grants them the correct permissions in Lambda.

To get started right away, see Creating your first IAM delegated user and group in the IAM User Guide.

I'm an administrator and want to migrate from AWS managed

policies for Lambda that will be deprecated
After March 1, 2021, the AWS managed policies AWSLambdaReadOnlyAccess and
AWSLambdaFullAccess will be deprecated and can no longer be attached to new IAM users. For more
information about policy deprecations, see Deprecated AWS managed policies in the IAM User Guide.

Lambda has introduced two new AWS managed policies:

• The AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess policy grants read-only access to Lambda, Lambda console

features, and other related AWS services. This policy was created by scoping down the previous policy
AWSLambdaReadOnlyAccess.
• The AWSLambda_FullAccess policy grants full access to Lambda, Lambda console features,
and other related AWS services. This policy was created by scoping down the previous policy
AWSLambdaFullAccess.

Using the AWS managed policies

We recommend using the newly launched managed policies to grant users, groups, and roles access to
Lambda; however, review the permissions granted in the policies to ensure they meet your requirements.

• To review the permissions of the AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess policy, see the

AWSLambda_ReadOnlyAccess policy page in the IAM console.
• To review the permissions of the AWSLambda_FullAccess policy, see the AWSLambda_FullAccess
policy page in the IAM console.

After reviewing the permissions, you can attach the policies to an IAM identity (groups, users, or roles).
For instructions about attaching an AWS managed policy, see Adding and removing IAM identity
permissions in the IAM User Guide.

Using customer managed policies

If you need more fine-grained access control or would like to add permissions, you can create your own
customer managed policies. For more information, see Creating policies on the JSON tab in the IAM User
Guide.

I want to allow people outside of my AWS account to access my

Lambda resources
You can create a role that users in other accounts or people outside of your organization can use to
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resource-based policies or access control lists (ACLs), you can use those policies to grant people access to
your resources.

To learn more, consult the following:

• To learn whether Lambda supports these features, see How AWS Lambda works with IAM (p. 706).
• To learn how to provide access to your resources across AWS accounts that you own, see Providing
access to an IAM user in another AWS account that you own in the IAM User Guide.
• To learn how to provide access to your resources to third-party AWS accounts, see Providing access to
AWS accounts owned by third parties in the IAM User Guide.
• To learn how to provide access through identity federation, see Providing access to externally
authenticated users (identity federation) in the IAM User Guide.
• To learn the difference between using roles and resource-based policies for cross-account access, see
How IAM roles differ from resource-based policies in the IAM User Guide.

Compliance validation for AWS Lambda

Third-party auditors assess the security and compliance of AWS Lambda as part of multiple AWS
compliance programs. These include SOC, PCI, FedRAMP, HIPAA, and others.

For a list of AWS services in scope of specific compliance programs, see AWS services in scope by
compliance program. For general information, see AWS compliance programs.

You can download third-party audit reports using AWS Artifact. For more information, see Downloading
reports in AWS artifact.

Your compliance responsibility when using Lambda is determined by the sensitivity of your data, your
company's compliance objectives, and applicable laws and regulations. AWS provides the following
resources to help with compliance:

• Security and compliance quick start guides – These deployment guides discuss architectural
considerations and provide steps for deploying security- and compliance-focused baseline
environments on AWS.
• Architecting for HIPAA security and compliance whitepaper – This whitepaper describes how
companies can use AWS to create HIPAA-compliant applications.
• AWS compliance resources – This collection of workbooks and guides might apply to your industry and
location.
• AWS Config – This AWS service assesses how well your resource configurations comply with internal
practices, industry guidelines, and regulations.
• AWS Security Hub – This AWS service provides a comprehensive view of your security state within AWS
that helps you check your compliance with security industry standards and best practices.

Resilience in AWS Lambda

The AWS global infrastructure is built around AWS Regions and Availability Zones. AWS Regions provide
multiple physically separated and isolated Availability Zones, which are connected with low-latency,
high-throughput, and highly redundant networking. With Availability Zones, you can design and operate
applications and databases that automatically fail over between Availability Zones without interruption.
Availability Zones are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than traditional single or
multiple data center infrastructures.

For more information about AWS Regions and Availability Zones, see AWS global infrastructure.

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In addition to the AWS global infrastructure, Lambda offers several features to help support your data
resiliency and backup needs.

• Versioning – You can use versioning in Lambda to save your function's code and configuration as
you develop it. Together with aliases, you can use versioning to perform blue/green and rolling
deployments. For details, see Lambda function versions (p. 95).
• Scaling – When your function receives a request while it's processing a previous request, Lambda
launches another instance of your function to handle the increased load. Lambda automatically scales
to handle 1,000 concurrent executions per Region, a quota (p. 44) that can be increased if needed. For
details, see AWS Lambda function scaling (p. 153).
• High availability – Lambda runs your function in multiple Availability Zones to ensure that it is
available to process events in case of a service interruption in a single zone. If you configure your
function to connect to a virtual private cloud (VPC) in your account, specify subnets in multiple
Availability Zones to ensure high availability. For details, see Configuring a Lambda function to access
resources in a VPC (p. 111).
• Reserved concurrency – To make sure that your function can always scale to handle additional
requests, you can reserve concurrency for it. Setting reserved concurrency for a function ensures that
it can scale to, but not exceed, a specified number of concurrent invocations. This ensures that you
don't lose requests due to other functions consuming all of the available concurrency. For details, see
Managing concurrency for a Lambda function (p. 84).
• Retries – For asynchronous invocations and a subset of invocations triggered by other services,
Lambda automatically retries on error with delays between retries. Other clients and AWS services that
invoke functions synchronously are responsible for performing retries. For details, see Error handling
and automatic retries in AWS Lambda (p. 158).
• Dead-letter queue – For asynchronous invocations, you can configure Lambda to send requests to a
dead-letter queue if all retries fail. A dead-letter queue is an Amazon SNS topic or Amazon SQS queue
that receives events for troubleshooting or reprocessing. For details, see AWS Lambda function dead-
letter queues (p. 145).

Infrastructure security in AWS Lambda

As a managed service, AWS Lambda is protected by the AWS global network security procedures that are
described in the Amazon Web Services: Overview of security processes whitepaper.

You use AWS published API calls to access Lambda through the network. Clients must support Transport
Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 or later. We recommend TLS 1.2 or later. Clients must also support cipher suites
with perfect forward secrecy (PFS) such as Ephemeral Diffie-Hellman (DHE) or Elliptic Curve Ephemeral
Diffie-Hellman (ECDHE). Most modern systems such as Java 7 and later support these modes.

Additionally, requests must be signed by using an access key ID and a secret access key that is associated
with an IAM principal. Or you can use the AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) to generate temporary
security credentials to sign requests.

Configuration and vulnerability analysis in AWS

Lambda
AWS Lambda provides runtimes (p. 195) that run your function code in an Amazon Linux–based
execution environment. Lambda is responsible for keeping software in the runtime and execution
environment up to date, releasing new runtimes for new languages and frameworks, and deprecating
runtimes when the underlying software is no longer supported.

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If you use additional libraries with your function, you're responsible for updating the libraries. You can
include additional libraries in the deployment package (p. 12), or in layers (p. 101) that you attach to
your function. You can also build custom runtimes (p. 236) and use layers to share them with other
accounts.

Lambda deprecates runtimes when the software on the runtime or its execution environment reaches
end of life. When Lambda deprecates a runtime, you're responsible for migrating your functions to a
supported runtime for the same language or framework. For details, see Runtime support policy (p. 198).

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Troubleshooting issues in Lambda

The following topics provide troubleshooting advice for errors and issues that you might encounter
when using the Lambda API, console, or tools. If you find an issue that is not listed here, you can use the
Feedback button on this page to report it.

For more troubleshooting advice and answers to common support questions, visit the AWS Knowledge
Center.

For more information about debugging and troubleshooting Lambda applications, see Debugging in the
Lambda operator guide.

Topics
• Troubleshoot deployment issues in Lambda (p. 713)
• Troubleshoot invocation issues in Lambda (p. 715)
• Troubleshoot execution issues in Lambda (p. 719)
• Troubleshoot networking issues in Lambda (p. 721)
• Troubleshoot container image issues in Lambda (p. 721)

Troubleshoot deployment issues in Lambda

When you update your function, Lambda deploys the change by launching new instances of the function
with the updated code or settings. Deployment errors prevent the new version from being used and can
arise from issues with your deployment package, code, permissions, or tools.

When you deploy updates to your function directly with the Lambda API or with a client such as the AWS
CLI, you can see errors from Lambda directly in the output. If you use services like AWS CloudFormation,
AWS CodeDeploy, or AWS CodePipeline, look for the response from Lambda in the logs or event stream
for that service.

General: Permission is denied / Cannot load such file

Error: EACCES: permission denied, open '/var/task/index.js'

Error: cannot load such file -- function

Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/task/function.py'

The Lambda runtime needs permission to read the files in your deployment package. You can use the
chmod command to change the file mode. The following example commands make all files and folders in
the current directory readable by any user.

chmod 644 $(find . -type f)

chmod 755 $(find . -type d)

General: Error occurs when calling the

UpdateFunctionCode
Error: An error occurred (RequestEntityTooLargeException) when calling the UpdateFunctionCode operation

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Amazon S3: Error Code PermanentRedirect.

When you upload a deployment package or layer archive directly to Lambda, the size of the ZIP
file is limited to 50 MB. To upload a larger file, store it in Amazon S3 and use the S3Bucket and
S3Key (p. 928) parameters.
Note
When you upload a file directly with the AWS CLI, AWS SDK, or otherwise, the binary ZIP file is
converted to base64, which increases its size by about 30%. To allow for this, and the size of
other parameters in the request, the actual request size limit that Lambda applies is larger. Due
to this, the 50 MB limit is approximate.

Amazon S3: Error Code PermanentRedirect.

Error: Error occurred while GetObject. S3 Error Code: PermanentRedirect. S3 Error Message: The bucket is in
this region: us-east-2. Please use this region to retry the request

When you upload a function's deployment package from an Amazon S3 bucket, the bucket must be in
the same Region as the function. This issue can occur when you specify an Amazon S3 object in a call to
UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927), or use the package and deploy commands in the AWS CLI or AWS SAM
CLI. Create a deployment artifact bucket for each Region where you develop applications.

General: Cannot find, cannot load, unable to import,

class not found, no such file or directory
Error: Cannot find module 'function'

Error: cannot load such file -- function

Error: Unable to import module 'function'

Error: Class not found: function.Handler

Error: fork/exec /var/task/function: no such file or directory

Error: Unable to load type 'Function.Handler' from assembly 'Function'.

The name of the file or class in your function's handler configuration doesn't match your code. See the
following entry for more information.

General: Undefined method handler

Error: index.handler is undefined or not exported

Error: Handler 'handler' missing on module 'function'

Error: undefined method `handler' for #<LambdaHandler:0x000055b76ccebf98>

Error: No public method named handleRequest with appropriate method signature found on class
function.Handler

Error: Unable to find method 'handleRequest' in type 'Function.Handler' from assembly 'Function'

The name of the handler method in your function's handler configuration doesn't match your code. Each
runtime defines a naming convention for handlers, such as filename.methodname. The handler is the
method in your function's code that the runtime runs when your function is invoked.

For some languages, Lambda provides a library with an interface that expects a handler method to have
a specific name. For details about handler naming for each language, see the following topics.

• Building Lambda functions with Node.js (p. 484)

• Building Lambda functions with Python (p. 510)

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or RequestEntityTooLargeException

• Building Lambda functions with Ruby (p. 547)

• Building Lambda functions with Java (p. 570)
• Building Lambda functions with Go (p. 610)
• Building Lambda functions with C# (p. 638)
• Building Lambda functions with PowerShell (p. 667)

Lambda: InvalidParameterValueException or
RequestEntityTooLargeException
Error: InvalidParameterValueException: Lambda was unable to configure your environment variables
because the environment variables you have provided exceeded the 4KB limit. String measured:
{"A1":"uSFeY5cyPiPn7AtnX5BsM...

Error: RequestEntityTooLargeException: Request must be smaller than 5120 bytes for the
UpdateFunctionConfiguration operation

The maximum size of the variables object that is stored in the function's configuration must not exceed
4096 bytes. This includes key names, values, quotes, commas, and brackets. The total size of the HTTP
request body is also limited.

{
"FunctionName": "my-function",
"FunctionArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-east-2:123456789012:function:my-function",
"Runtime": "nodejs12.x",
"Role": "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:role/lambda-role",
"Environment": {
"Variables": {
"BUCKET": "my-bucket",
"KEY": "file.txt"
}
},
...
}

In this example, the object is 39 characters and takes up 39 bytes when it's stored (without white
space) as the string {"BUCKET":"my-bucket","KEY":"file.txt"}. Standard ASCII characters in
environment variable values use one byte each. Extended ASCII and Unicode characters can use between
2 bytes and 4 bytes per character.

Lambda: InvalidParameterValueException
Error: InvalidParameterValueException: Lambda was unable to configure your environment variables
because the environment variables you have provided contains reserved keys that are currently not
supported for modification.

Lambda reserves some environment variable keys for internal use. For example, AWS_REGION is used
by the runtime to determine the current Region and cannot be overridden. Other variables, like PATH,
are used by the runtime but can be extended in your function configuration. For a full list, see Defined
runtime environment variables (p. 80).

Troubleshoot invocation issues in Lambda

When you invoke a Lambda function, Lambda validates the request and checks for scaling capacity
before sending the event to your function or, for asynchronous invocation, to the event queue.

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IAM: lambda:InvokeFunction not authorized

Invocation errors can be caused by issues with request parameters, event structure, function settings,
user permissions, resource permissions, or limits.

If you invoke your function directly, you see any invocation errors in the response from Lambda. If you
invoke your function asynchronously with an event source mapping or through another service, you
might find errors in logs, a dead-letter queue, or a failed-event destination. Error handling options and
retry behavior vary depending on how you invoke your function and on the type of error.

For a list of error types that the Invoke operation can return, see Invoke (p. 840).

IAM: lambda:InvokeFunction not authorized

Error: User: arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/developer is not authorized to perform:
lambda:InvokeFunction on resource: my-function

Your AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) user, or the role that you assume, must have
permission to invoke a function. This requirement also applies to Lambda functions and other compute
resources that invoke functions. Add the AWS managed policy AWSLambdaRole to your IAM user, or add
a custom policy that allows the lambda:InvokeFunction action on the target function.
Note
Unlike other Lambda API operations, the name of the IAM action (lambda:InvokeFunction)
doesn't match the name of the API operation (Invoke) for invoking a function.

For more information, see AWS Lambda permissions (p. 46).

Lambda: Operation cannot be performed

ResourceConflictException
Error: ResourceConflictException: The operation cannot be performed at this time. The function is currently
in the following state: Pending

When you connect a function to a virtual private cloud (VPC) at the time of creation, the function enters
a Pending state while Lambda creates elastic network interfaces. During this time, you can't invoke or
modify your function. If you connect your function to a VPC after creation, you can invoke it while the
update is pending, but you can't modify its code or configuration.

For more information, see Monitoring the state of a function with the Lambda API (p. 151).

Lambda: Function is stuck in Pending

Error: A function is stuck in the Pending state for several minutes.

If a function is stuck in the Pending state for more than six minutes, call one of the following API
operations to unblock it:

• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)

• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)
• PublishVersion (p. 883)

Lambda cancels the pending operation and puts the function into the Failed state. You can then delete
the function and recreate it, or attempt another update.

Lambda: One function is using all concurrency

Issue: One function is using all of the available concurrency, causing other functions to be throttled.

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General: Cannot invoke function
with other accounts or services

To divide your AWS account's available concurrency in an AWS Region into pools, use reserved
concurrency (p. 84). Reserved concurrency ensures that a function can always scale to its assigned
concurrency, and that it doesn't scale beyond its assigned concurrency.

General: Cannot invoke function with other accounts

or services
Issue: You can invoke your function directly, but it doesn't run when another service or account invokes it.

You grant other services (p. 257) and accounts permission to invoke a function in the function's resource-
based policy (p. 51). If the invoker is in another account, that user must also have permission to invoke
functions (p. 56).

General: Function invocation is looping

Issue: Function is invoked continuously in a loop.

This typically occurs when your function manages resources in the same AWS service that triggers it. For
example, it's possible to create a function that stores an object in an Amazon Simple Storage Service
(Amazon S3) bucket that's configured with a notification that invokes the function again (p. 407). To stop
the function from running, on the function configuration page (p. 70), choose Throttle. Then, identify
the code path or configuration error that caused the recursive invocation.

Lambda: Alias routing with provisioned concurrency

Issue: Provisioned concurrency spillover invocations during alias routing.

Lambda uses a simple probabilistic model to distribute the traffic between the two function versions.
At low traffic levels, you might see a high variance between the configured and actual percentage
of traffic on each version. If your function uses provisioned concurrency, you can avoid spillover
invocations (p. 692) by configuring a higher number of provisioned concurrency instances during the
time that alias routing is active.

Lambda: Cold starts with provisioned concurrency

Issue: You see cold starts after enabling provisioned concurrency.

When the number of concurrent executions on a function is less than or equal to the configured level of
provisioned concurrency (p. 87), there shouldn't be any cold starts. To help you confirm if provisioned
concurrency is operating normally, do the following:

• Check that provisioned concurrency is enabled (p. 87) on the function version or alias.
Note
Provisioned concurrency is not configurable on the $LATEST version (p. 72).
• Ensure that your triggers invoke the correct function version or alias. For example, if you're using
Amazon API Gateway, check that API Gateway invokes the function version or alias with provisioned
concurrency, not $LATEST. To confirm that provisioned concurrency is being used, you can check the
ProvisionedConcurrencyInvocations Amazon CloudWatch metric (p. 692). A non-zero value indicates
that the function is processing invocations on initialized execution environments.
• Determine whether your function concurrency exceeds the configured level of provisioned concurrency
by checking the ProvisionedConcurrencySpilloverInvocations CloudWatch metric (p. 692). A non-zero
value indicates that all provisioned concurrency is in use and some invocation occurred with a cold
start.

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• Check your invocation frequency (p. 44) (requests per second). Functions with provisioned concurrency
have a maximum rate of 10 requests per second per provisioned concurrency. For example, a function
configured with 100 provisioned concurrency. For example, a function configured with 100 provisioned
concurrency can handle 1,000 requests per second. If the invocation rate exceeds 1,000 requests per
second, some cold starts can occur.

Note
There is a known issue in which the first invocation on an initialized execution environment
reports a non-zero Init Duration metric in CloudWatch Logs, even though no cold start has
occurred. We're developing a fix to correct the reporting to CloudWatch Logs.

Lambda: Latency variability with provisioned

concurrency
Issue: You see latency variability on the first invocation after enabling provisioned concurrency.

Depending on your function's runtime and memory configuration, it's possible to see some latency
variability on the first invocation on an initialized execution environment. For example, .NET and other
JIT runtimes can lazily load resources on the first invocation, leading to some latency variability (typically
tens of milliseconds). This variability is more apparent on 128-MiB functions. You mitigate this by
increasing the function's configured memory.

Lambda: Cold starts with new versions

Issue: You see cold starts while deploying new versions of your function.

When you update a function alias, Lambda automatically shifts provisioned concurrency to the new
version based on the weights configured on the alias.

Error: KMSDisabledException: Lambda was unable to decrypt the environment variables because the KMS
key used is disabled. Please check the function's KMS key settings.

This error can occur if your AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key is disabled, or if the grant that
allows Lambda to use the key is revoked. If the grant is missing, configure the function to use a different
key. Then, reassign the custom key to recreate the grant.

EFS: Function could not mount the EFS file system

Error: EFSMountFailureException: The function could not mount the EFS file system with access point
arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:us-east-2:123456789012:access-point/fsap-015cxmplb72b405fd.

The mount request to the function's file system (p. 126) was rejected. Check the function's permissions,
and confirm that its file system and access point exist and are ready for use.

EFS: Function could not connect to the EFS file

system
Error: EFSMountConnectivityException: The function couldn't connect to the Amazon EFS file system with
access point arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:us-east-2:123456789012:access-point/fsap-015cxmplb72b405fd.
Check your network configuration and try again.

The function couldn't establish a connection to the function's file system (p. 126) with the NFS protocol
(TCP port 2049). Check the security group and routing configuration for the VPC's subnets.

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the EFS file system due to timeout

EFS: Function could not mount the EFS file system

due to timeout
Error: EFSMountTimeoutException: The function could not mount the EFS file system with access point
{arn:aws:elasticfilesystem:us-east-2:123456789012:access-point/fsap-015cxmplb72b405fd} due to mount
time out.

The function could connect to the function's file system (p. 126), but the mount operation timed out. Try
again after a short time and consider limiting the function's concurrency (p. 84) to reduce load on the file
system.

Lambda: Lambda detected an IO process that was

taking too long
EFSIOException: This function instance was stopped because Lambda detected an IO process that was
taking too long.

A previous invocation timed out and Lambda couldn't terminate the function handler. This issue can
occur when an attached file system runs out of burst credits and the baseline throughput is insufficient.
To increase throughput, you can increase the size of the file system or use provisioned throughput. For
more information, see Throughput (p. 352).

Troubleshoot execution issues in Lambda

When the Lambda runtime runs your function code, the event might be processed on an instance of the
function that's been processing events for some time, or it might require a new instance to be initialized.
Errors can occur during function initialization, when your handler code processes the event, or when your
function returns (or fails to return) a response.

Function execution errors can be caused by issues with your code, function configuration, downstream
resources, or permissions. If you invoke your function directly, you see function errors in the response
from Lambda. If you invoke your function asynchronously, with an event source mapping, or through
another service, you might find errors in logs, a dead-letter queue, or an on-failure destination. Error
handling options and retry behavior vary depending on how you invoke your function and on the type of
error.

When your function code or the Lambda runtime return an error, the status code in the response from
Lambda is 200 OK. The presence of an error in the response is indicated by a header named X-Amz-
Function-Error. 400 and 500-series status codes are reserved for invocation errors (p. 715).

Lambda: Execution takes too long

Issue: Function execution takes too long.

If your code takes much longer to run in Lambda than on your local machine, it may be constrained
by the memory or processing power available to the function. Configure the function with additional
memory (p. 70) to increase both memory and CPU.

Lambda: Logs or traces don't appear

Issue: Logs don't appear in CloudWatch Logs.

Issue: Traces don't appear in AWS X-Ray.

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Lambda: The function returns before execution finishes

Your function needs permission to call CloudWatch Logs and X-Ray. Update its execution role (p. 47) to
grant it permission. Add the following managed policies to enable logs and tracing.

• AWSLambdaBasicExecutionRole
• AWSXRayDaemonWriteAccess

When you add permissions to your function, make an update to its code or configuration as well. This
forces running instances of your function, which have out-of-date credentials, to stop and be replaced.

Lambda: The function returns before execution

finishes
Issue: (Node.js) Function returns before code finishes executing

Many libraries, including the AWS SDK, operate asynchronously. When you make a network call or
perform another operation that requires waiting for a response, libraries return an object called a
promise that tracks the progress of the operation in the background.

To wait for the promise to resolve into a response, use the await keyword. This blocks your handler code
from executing until the promise is resolved into an object that contains the response. If you don't need
to use the data from the response in your code, you can return the promise directly to the runtime.

Some libraries don't return promises but can be wrapped in code that does. For more information, see
AWS Lambda function handler in Node.js (p. 487).

AWS SDK: Versions and updates

Issue: The AWS SDK included on the runtime is not the latest version

Issue: The AWS SDK included on the runtime updates automatically

Runtimes for scripting languages include the AWS SDK and are periodically updated to the latest
version. The current version for each runtime is listed on runtimes page (p. 195). To use a newer version
of the AWS SDK, or to lock your functions to a specific version, you can bundle the library with your
function code, or create a Lambda layer (p. 101). For details on creating a deployment package with
dependencies, see the following topics:

• Deploy Node.js Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 489)
• Deploy Python Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 515)
• Deploy Ruby Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 551)
• Deploy Java Lambda functions with .zip or JAR file archives (p. 578)
• Deploy Go Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 617)
• Deploy C# Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 645)
• Deploy PowerShell Lambda functions with .zip file archives (p. 669)

Python: Libraries load incorrectly

Issue: (Python) Some libraries don't load correctly from the deployment package

Libraries with extension modules written in C or C++ must be compiled in an environment with the same
processor architecture as Lambda (Amazon Linux). For more information, see Deploy Python Lambda
functions with .zip file archives (p. 515).

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Networking

Troubleshoot networking issues in Lambda

By default, Lambda runs your functions in an internal virtual private cloud (VPC) with connectivity to
AWS services and the internet. To access local network resources, you can configure your function to
connect to a VPC in your account (p. 111). When you use this feature, you manage the function's internet
access and network connectivity with VPC resources.

Network connectivity errors can result from issues in routing configuration, security group rules, role
permissions, network address translation, or the availability of resources such as IP addresses or network
interfaces. They may result in a specific error or, if a request can't reach its destination, a timeout.

VPC: Function loses internet access or times out

Issue: Function loses internet access after connecting to a VPC

Error: Error: connect ETIMEDOUT 176.32.98.189:443

Error: Error: Task timed out after 10.00 seconds

When you connect a function to a VPC, all outbound requests go through your VPC. To connect to the
internet, configure your VPC to send outbound traffic from the function's subnet to a NAT gateway in a
public subnet. For more information and sample VPC configurations, see Internet and service access for
VPC-connected functions (p. 116).

VPC: Function needs access to AWS services without

using the internet
Issue: Function needs access to AWS services without using the internet

To connect to AWS services from a private subnet with no internet access, use VPC endpoints. For a
sample template with VPC endpoints for DynamoDB and Amazon S3, see ??? (p. 116).

VPC: Limit was reached for the function's VPC

Error: ENILimitReachedException: The elastic network interface limit was reached for the function's VPC.

When you connect a function to a VPC, Lambda creates an elastic network interface for each
combination of subnet and security group attached to the function. These network interfaces are limited
to 250 per VPC, but this limit can be increased. To request an increase, use the Support Center console.

Troubleshoot container image issues in Lambda

Container: Error occurs on runtime InvalidEntrypoint
Issue: You receive a Runtime.ExitError error message, or an error message with "errorType":
"Runtime.InvalidEntrypoint".

Verify that the ENTRYPOINT to your container image includes the absolute path as the location. Also
verify that the image does not contain a symlink as the ENTRYPOINT.

Lambda: System provisioning additonal capacity

Error: “Error: We currently do not have sufficient capacity in the region you requested. Our system will be
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CloudFormation: ENTRYPOINT is being
overridden with a null or empty value

Retry the function invocation. If the retry fails, validate that the files required to run the function code
can be read by any user. Lambda defines a default Linux user with least-privileged permissions. You need
to verify that your application code does not rely on files that are restricted by other Linux users for
execution.

CloudFormation: ENTRYPOINT is being overridden

with a null or empty value
Error: You are using an AWS CloudFormation template, and your container ENTRYPOINT is being
overridden with a null or empty value.

Review the ImageConfig resource in the AWS CloudFormation template. If you declare an
ImageConfig resource in your template, you must provide non-empty values for all three of the
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AWS Lambda releases

The following table describes the important changes to the AWS Lambda Developer Guide since May
2018. For notification about updates to this documentation, subscribe to the RSS feed.

update-history-change update-history-description update-history-date

Lambda Extensions API General availability for May 24, 2021

Lambda extensions. Use
extensions to augment your
Lambda functions. You can use
extensions provided by Lambda
Partners, or you can create your
own Lambda extensions. For
details, see Lambda Extensions
API.

New Lambda console The Lambda console has March 2, 2021

experience (p. 723) been redesigned to improve
performance and consistency.

Node.js 14 runtime Lambda now supports a new January 27, 2021

runtime for Node.js 14. Node.js
14 uses Amazon Linux 2. For
details, see Building Lambda
functions with Node.js.

Lambda container images Lambda now supports functions December 1, 2020

defined as container images. You
can combine the flexibility of
container tooling with the agility
and operational simplicity of
Lambda to build applications.
For details, see Using container
images with Lambda.

Code signing for Lambda Lambda now supports code November 23, 2020
functions signing. Administrators can
configure Lambda functions
to accept only signed code on
deployment. Lambda checks
the signatures to ensure that
the code is not altered or
tampered. Additionally, Lambda
ensures that the code is signed
by trusted developers before
accepting the deployment. For
details, see Configuring code
signing for Lambda.

Preview: Lambda Runtime Logs Lambda now supports the November 12, 2020
API Runtime Logs API. Lambda
extensions can use the Logs API
to subscribe to log streams in
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details, see Lambda Runtime

Logs API.

New event source to for Amazon Lambda now supports Amazon November 5, 2020
MQ MQ as an event source. Use a
Lambda function to process
records from your Amazon MQ
message broker. For details, see
Using Lambda with Amazon MQ.

Preview: Lambda Extensions API Use Lambda extensions October 8, 2020

to augment your Lambda
functions. You can use
extensions provided by Lambda
Partners, or you can create your
own Lambda extensions. For
details, see Lambda Extensions
API.

Support for Java 8 and custom Lambda now supports Java 8 August 12, 2020
runtimes on AL2 and custom runtimes on Amazon
Linux 2. For details, see Lambda
runtimes.

New event source for Amazon Lambda now supports Amazon August 11, 2020
Managed Streaming for Apache MSK as an event source. Use a
Kafka Lambda function with Amazon
MSK to process records in a
Kafka topic. For details, see
Using Lambda with Amazon
MSK.

IAM condition keys for Amazon You can now use Lambda- August 10, 2020
VPC settings specific condition keys for VPC
settings. For example, you can
require that all functions in your
organization are connected to
a VPC. You can also specify the
subnets and security groups
that the function's users can
and can't use. For details,
see Configuring VPC for IAM
functions.

Concurrency settings for Kinesis You can now use the following July 7, 2020
HTTP/2 stream consumers concurrency settings for
Kinesis consumers with
enhanced fan-out (HTTP/2
streams): ParallelizationFactor,
MaximumRetryAttempts,
MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds,
DestinationConfig, and
BisectBatchOnFunctionError. For
details, see Using AWS Lambda
with Amazon Kinesis.

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Batch window for Kinesis You can now configure June 18, 2020
HTTP/2 stream consumers a batch window
(MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds)
for HTTP/2 streams. Lambda
reads records from the stream
until it has gathered a full
batch, or until the batch window
expires. For details, see Using
AWS Lambda with Amazon
Kinesis.

Support for Amazon EFS file You can now connect an Amazon June 16, 2020
systems EFS file system to your Lambda
functions for shared network
file access. For details, see
Configuring file system access
for Lambda functions.

AWS CDK sample applications in The Lambda console now June 1, 2020
the Lambda console includes sample applications
that use the AWS Cloud
Development Kit (CDK) for
TypeScript. The AWS CDK is a
framework that enables you
to define your application
resources in TypeScript, Python,
Java, or .NET. For a tutorial
on creating applications, see
Creating an application with
continuous delivery in the
Lambda console.

Support for .NET Core 3.1.0 AWS Lambda now supports March 31, 2020
runtime in AWS Lambda the .NET Core 3.1.0 runtime. For
details, see .NET Core CLI.

Support for API Gateway HTTP Updated and expanded March 23, 2020
APIs documentation for using
Lambda with API Gateway,
including support for HTTP APIs.
Added a sample application
that creates an API and function
with AWS CloudFormation. For
details, see Using Lambda with
Amazon API Gateway.

Ruby 2.7 A new runtime is available for February 19, 2020

Ruby 2.7, ruby2.7, which is
the first Ruby runtime to use
Amazon Linux 2. For details, see
Building Lambda functions with
Ruby.

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Concurrency metrics Lambda now reports the February 18, 2020

ConcurrentExecutions
metric for all functions, aliases,
and versions. You can view
a graph for this metric on
the monitoring page for
your function. Previously,
ConcurrentExecutions was
only reported at the account
level and for functions that
use reserved concurrency.
For details, see AWS Lambda
function metrics.

Update to function states Function states are now January 24, 2020
enforced for all functions by
default. When you connect
a function to a VPC, Lambda
creates shared elastic network
interfaces. This enables
your function to scale up
without creating additional
network interfaces. During
this time, you can't perform
additional operations on the
function, including updating its
configuration and publishing
versions. In some cases,
invocation is also impacted.
Details about a function's
current state are available from
the Lambda API.

This update is being released

in phases. For details, see
Updated Lambda states lifecycle
for VPC networking on the
AWS Compute Blog. For more
information about states, see
AWS Lambda function states.

Updates to function Added reason codes January 20, 2020

configuration API output to StateReasonCode
(InvalidSubnet,
InvalidSecurityGroup) and
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode
(SubnetOutOfIPAddresses,
InvalidSubnet,
InvalidSecurityGroup) for
functions that connect to a
VPC. For more information
about states, see AWS Lambda
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Provisioned concurrency You can now allocate December 3, 2019

provisioned concurrency for
a function version or alias.
Provisioned concurrency
enables a function to scale
without fluctuations in latency.
For details, see Managing
concurrency for a Lambda
function.

Create a database proxy You can now use the Lambda December 3, 2019
console to create a database
proxy for a Lambda function.
A database proxy enables
a function to reach high
concurrency levels without
exhausting database
connections. For details, see
Configuring database access for
a Lambda function.

Percentiles support for the You can now filter the duration November 26, 2019
duration metric metric based on percentiles.
For details, see AWS Lambda
metrics.

Increased concurrency for A new option for DynamoDB November 25, 2019
stream event sources stream and Kinesis stream event
source mappings enables you to
process more than one batch at
a time from each shard. When
you increase the number of
concurrent batches per shard,
your function's concurrency can
be up to 10 times the number
of shards in your stream. For
details, see Lambda event source
mapping.

Function states When you create or update a November 25, 2019

function, it enters a pending
state while Lambda provisions
resources to support it. If you
connect your function to a
VPC, Lambda can create a
shared elastic network interface
right away, instead of creating
network interfaces when your
function is invoked. This results
in better performance for
VPC-connected functions, but
might require an update to your
automation. For details, see AWS
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Error handling options for New configuration options are November 25, 2019
asynchronous invocation available for asynchronous
invocation. You can configure
Lambda to limit retries and set a
maximum event age. For details,
see Configuring error handling
for asynchronous invocation.

Error handling for stream event New configuration options November 25, 2019
sources are available for event source
mappings that read from
streams. You can configure
DynamoDB stream and Kinesis
stream event source mappings
to limit retries and set a
maximum record age. When
errors occur, you can configure
the event source mapping to
split batches before retrying,
and to send invocation records
for failed batches to a queue or
topic. For details, see Lambda
event source mapping.

Destinations for asynchronous You can now configure Lambda November 25, 2019
invocation to send records of asynchronous
invocations to another service.
Invocation records contain
details about the event, context,
and function response. You can
send invocation records to an
SQS queue, SNS topic, Lambda
function, or EventBridge event
bus. For details, see Configuring
destinations for asynchronous
invocation.

New runtimes for Node.js, New runtimes are available for November 18, 2019
Python, and Java Node.js 12, Python 3.8, and
Java 11. For details, see Lambda
runtimes.

FIFO queue support for Amazon You can now create an event November 18, 2019
SQS event sources source mapping that reads from
a first-in, first-out (FIFO) queue.
Previously, only standard queues
were supported. For details, see
Using Lambda with Amazon
SQS.

Create applications in the Application creation in the October 31, 2019

Lambda console Lambda console is now generally
available. For instructions, see
Creating an application with
continuous delivery in the
Lambda console.

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Create applications in the You can now create a Lambda October 3, 2019
Lambda console (beta) application with an integrated
continuous delivery pipeline
in the Lambda console. The
console provides sample
applications that you can use
as a starting point for your own
project. Choose between AWS
CodeCommit and GitHub for
source control. Each time you
push changes to your repository,
the included pipeline builds and
deploys them automatically.
For instructions, see Creating
an application with continuous
delivery in the Lambda console.

Performance improvements for Lambda now uses a new type September 3, 2019
VPC-connected functions of elastic network interface
that is shared by all functions
in a virtual private cloud (VPC)
subnet. When you connect a
function to a VPC, Lambda
creates a network interface for
each combination of security
group and subnet that you
choose. When the shared
network interfaces are available,
the function no longer needs
to create additional network
interfaces as it scales up.
This dramatically improves
startup times. For details, see
Configuring a Lambda function
to access resources in a VPC.

Stream batch settings You can now configure a batch August 29, 2019
window for Amazon DynamoDB
and Amazon Kinesis event
source mappings. Configure
a batch window of up to five
minutes to buffer incoming
records until a full batch is
available. This reduces the
number of times that your
function is invoked when the
stream is less active.

CloudWatch Logs Insights The monitoring page in June 18, 2019

integration the Lambda console now
includes reports from Amazon
CloudWatch Logs Insights. For
details, see Monitoring functions
in the AWS Lambda console.

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Amazon Linux 2018.03 The Lambda execution May 21, 2019

environment is being updated
to use Amazon Linux 2018.03.
For details, see Execution
environment.

Node.js 10 A new runtime is available for May 13, 2019

Node.js 10, nodejs10.x. This
runtime uses Node.js 10.15
and will be updated with the
latest point release of Node.js 10
periodically. Node.js 10 is also
the first runtime to use Amazon
Linux 2. For details, see Building
Lambda functions with Node.js.

GetLayerVersionByArn API Use the GetLayerVersionByArn April 25, 2019

API to download layer
version information with
the version ARN as input.
Compared to GetLayerVersion,
GetLayerVersionByArn lets you
use the ARN directly instead of
parsing it to get the layer name
and version number.

Ruby AWS Lambda now supports November 29, 2018

Ruby 2.5 with a new runtime.
For details, see Building Lambda
functions with Ruby.

Layers With Lambda layers, you can November 29, 2018

package and deploy libraries,
custom runtimes, and other
dependencies separately from
your function code. Share your
layers with your other accounts
or the whole world. For details,
see Lambda layers.

Custom runtimes Build a custom runtime to November 29, 2018

run Lambda functions in your
favorite programming language.
For details, see Custom Lambda
runtimes.

Application Load Balancer Elastic Load Balancing now November 29, 2018
triggers supports Lambda functions as
a target for Application Load
Balancers. For details, see Using
Lambda with application load
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Use Kinesis HTTP/2 stream You can use Kinesis HTTP/2 November 19, 2018
consumers as a trigger data stream consumers to send
events to AWS Lambda. Stream
consumers have dedicated read
throughput from each shard
in your data stream and use
HTTP/2 to minimize latency. For
details, see Using Lambda with
Kinesis.

Python 3.7 AWS Lambda now supports November 19, 2018

Python 3.7 with a new runtime.
For more information, see
Building Lambda functions with
Python.

Payload limit increase for The maximum payload size November 16, 2018
asynchronous function for asynchronous invocations
invocation increased from 128 KB to
256 KB, which matches the
maximum message size from an
Amazon SNS trigger. For details,
see Lambda quotas.

AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region AWS Lambda is now available November 12, 2018
in the AWS GovCloud (US-East)
Region.

Moved AWS SAM topics to a A number of topics were October 25, 2018
separate Developer Guide focused on building serverless
applications using the AWS
Serverless Application Model
(AWS SAM). These topics have
been moved to AWS Serverless
Application Model developer
guide.

View Lambda applications in the You can view the status of October 11, 2018
console your Lambda applications
on the Applications page in
the Lambda console. This
page shows the status of the
AWS CloudFormation stack. It
includes links to pages where
you can view more information
about the resources in the stack.
You can also view aggregate
metrics for the application
and create custom monitoring
dashboards.

Function execution timeout limit To allow for long-running October 10, 2018
functions, the maximum
configurable execution timeout
increased from 5 minutes to 15
minutes. For details, see Lambda
limits.

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Support for PowerShell Core AWS Lambda now supports September 11, 2018
language in AWS Lambda the PowerShell Core language.
For more information, see
Programming model for
authoring Lambda functions in
PowerShell.

Support for .NET Core 2.1.0 AWS Lambda now supports July 9, 2018
runtime in AWS Lambda the .NET Core 2.1.0 runtime. For
more information, see .NET Core
CLI.

Updates now available over RSS You can now subscribe to an RSS July 5, 2018
feed to follow releases for this
guide.

Support for Amazon SQS as AWS Lambda now supports June 28, 2018
event source Amazon Simple Queue Service
(Amazon SQS) as an event
source. For more information,
see Invoking Lambda functions.

China (Ningxia) Region AWS Lambda is now available June 28, 2018
in the China (Ningxia) Region.
For more information about
Lambda Regions and endpoints,
see Regions and endpoints in the
AWS General Reference.

Earlier updates
The following table describes the important changes in each release of the AWS Lambda Developer Guide
before June 2018.

Change Description Date

Runtime support for AWS Lambda now supports Node.js runtime version 8.10. April 2,
Node.js runtime 8.10 For more information, see Building Lambda functions with 2018
Node.js (p. 484).

Function and alias AWS Lambda now supports revision IDs on your function January 25,
revision IDs versions and aliases. You can use these IDs to track and apply 2018
conditional updates when you are updating your function
version or alias resources.

Runtime support for Go AWS Lambda has added runtime support for Go and .NET 2.0. January 15,
and .NET 2.0 For more information, see Building Lambda functions with 2018
Go (p. 610) and Building Lambda functions with C# (p. 638).

Console Redesign AWS Lambda has introduced a new Lambda console to November
simplify your experience and added a Cloud9 Code Editor to 30,2017
enhance your ability debug and revise your function code.
For more information, see Creating functions using the AWS
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Change Description Date

Setting Concurrency AWS Lambda now supports setting concurrency limits on November
Limits on Individual individual functions. For more information, see Managing 30,2017
Functions concurrency for a Lambda function (p. 84).

Shifting Traffic with AWS Lambda now supports shifting traffic with aliases. For November
Aliases more information, see Rolling deployments for Lambda 28, 2017
functions (p. 187).

Gradual Code AWS Lambda now supports safely deploying new versions of November
Deployment your Lambda function by leveraging Code Deploy. For more 28, 2017
information, see Gradual code deployment.

China (Beijing) Region AWS Lambda is now available in the China (Beijing) Region. November
For more information about Lambda regions and endpoints, 9, 2017
see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

Introducing SAM Local AWS Lambda introduces SAM Local (now known as SAM August 11,
CLI), a AWS CLI tool that provides an environment for you 2017
to develop, test, and analyze your serverless applications
locally before uploading them to the Lambda runtime. For
more information, see Testing and debugging serverless
applications.

Canada (Central) Region AWS Lambda is now available in the Canada (Central) Region. June 22,
For more information about Lambda regions and endpoints, 2017
see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

South America (São AWS Lambda is now available in the South America (São June 6,
Paulo) Region Paulo) Region. For more information about Lambda regions 2017
and endpoints, see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General
Reference.

AWS Lambda support Lambda introduces support for X-Ray, which allows you to April 19,
for AWS X-Ray. detect, analyze, and optimize performance issues with your 2017
Lambda applications. For more information, see Using AWS
Lambda with AWS X-Ray (p. 451).

Asia Pacific (Mumbai) AWS Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) March 28,
Region Region. For more information about Lambda regions and 2017
endpoints, see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General
Reference.

AWS Lambda now AWS Lambda added support for Node.js runtime v6.10. March 22,
supports Node.js For more information, see Building Lambda functions with 2017
runtime v6.10 Node.js (p. 484).

Europe (London) Region AWS Lambda is now available in the Europe (London) Region. February 1,
For more information about Lambda regions and endpoints, 2017
see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

AWS Lambda support AWS Lambda added support for C#. For more information, see December
for the .NET runtime, Building Lambda functions with C# (p. 638). 3, 2016
Lambda@Edge
(Preview), Dead Letter Lambda@Edge allows you to run Lambda functions at the
Queues and automated AWS Edge locations in response to CloudFront events. For
deployment of more information, see Using AWS Lambda with CloudFront
serverless applications. Lambda@Edge (p. 305).

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Change Description Date

AWS Lambda adds Using Lambda and Amazon Lex, you can quickly build November
Amazon Lex as a chat bots for various services like Slack and Facebook. For 30, 2016
supported event source. more information, see Using AWS Lambda with Amazon
Lex (p. 386).

US West (N. California) AWS Lambda is now available in the US West (N. California) November
Region Region. For more information about Lambda regions and 21, 2016
endpoints, see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General
Reference.

Introduced the AWS AWS SAM: You can now use the AWS SAM to define the syntax November
SAM for creating and for expressing resources within a serverless application. 18, 2016
deploying Lambda- In order to deploy your application, simply specify the
based applications and resources you need as part of your application, along with
using environment their associated permissions policies in a AWS CloudFormation
variables for Lambda template file (written in either JSON or YAML), package your
function configuration deployment artifacts, and deploy the template. For more
settings. information, see AWS Lambda applications (p. 174).

Environment variables: You can use environment variables

to specify configuration settings for your Lambda function
outside of your function code. For more information, see Using
AWS Lambda environment variables (p. 77).

Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Seoul) August 29,
Region Region. For more information about Lambda regions and 2016
endpoints, see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General
Reference.

Asia Pacific (Sydney) Lambda is now available in the Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region. June 23,
Region For more information about Lambda regions and endpoints, 2016
see Regions and endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

Updates to the Lambda The Lambda console has been updated to simplify the role- June 23,
console creation process. For more information, see Create a Lambda 2016
function with the console (p. 9).

AWS Lambda now AWS Lambda added support for Node.js runtime v4.3. For April 07,
supports Node.js more information, see Building Lambda functions with 2016
runtime v4.3 Node.js (p. 484).

Europe (Frankfurt) Lambda is now available in the Europe (Frankfurt) region. For March 14,
region more information about Lambda regions and endpoints, see 2016
Regions and endpoints in the AWS General Reference.

VPC support You can now configure a Lambda function to access resources February
in your VPC. For more information, see Configuring a Lambda 11, 2016
function to access resources in a VPC (p. 111).

Lambda runtime has The execution environment (p. 195) has been updated. November
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Change Description Date

Versioning support, You can now develop your Lambda function code using October
Python for Python. For more information, see Building Lambda functions 08, 2015
developing code for with Python (p. 510).
Lambdafunctions,
scheduled events, and Versioning: You can maintain one or more versions of your
increase in execution Lambda function. Versioning allows you to control which
time Lambda function version is executed in different environments
(for example, development, testing, or production). For more
information, see Lambda function versions (p. 95).

Scheduled events: You can also set up Lambda to invoke your

code on a regular, scheduled basis using the Lambda console.
You can specify a fixed rate (number of hours, days, or weeks)
or you can specify a cron expression. For an example, see
Using AWS Lambda with Amazon CloudWatch Events (p. 295).

Increase in execution time: You can now set up your Lambda

functions to run for up to five minutes allowing longer
running functions such as large volume data ingestion and
processing jobs.

Support for DynamoDB DynamoDB Streams is now generally available and you can July 14,
Streams use it in all the regions where DynamoDB is available. You can 2015
enable DynamoDB Streams for your table and use a Lambda
function as a trigger for the table. Triggers are custom actions
you take in response to updates made to the DynamoDB table.
For an example walkthrough, see Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda
with Amazon DynamoDB streams (p. 324) .

Lambda now supports Until now, to invoke your Lambda function from your web, July 09,
invoking Lambda mobile, or IoT application you needed the AWS SDKs (for 2015
functions with REST- example, AWS SDK for Java, AWS SDK for Android, or AWS
compatible clients. SDK for iOS). Now, Lambda supports invoking a Lambda
function with REST-compatible clients through a customized
API that you can create using Amazon API Gateway. You
can send requests to your Lambda function endpoint URL.
You can configure security on the endpoint to allow open
access, leverage AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
to authorize access, or use API keys to meter access to your
Lambda functions by others.

For an example Getting Started exercise, see Using AWS

Lambda with Amazon API Gateway (p. 261).

For more information about the Amazon API Gateway, see

https://aws.amazon.com/api-gateway/.

The Lambda console Lambda console provides a set of blueprints. Each blueprint July 09,
now provides blueprints provides a sample event source configuration and sample code 2015
to easily create Lambda for your Lambda function that you can use to easily create
functions and test them. Lambda-based applications. All of the Lambda Getting Started
exercises now use the blueprints. For more information, see
Getting started with Lambda (p. 8).

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Earlier updates

Change Description Date

Lambda now supports You can now author Lambda code in Java. For more June 15,
Java to author your information, see Building Lambda functions with Java (p. 570). 2015
Lambda functions.

Lambda now supports You can upload a Lambda function deployment package (.zip May 28,
specifying an Amazon file) to an Amazon S3 bucket in the same region where you 2015
S3 object as the want to create a Lambda function. Then, you can specify the
function .zip when bucket name and object key name when you create or update
creating or updating a a Lambda function.
Lambda function.

Lambda now generally Lambda is now generally available for production use. The April 9,
available with added release also introduces new features that make it easier to 2015
support for mobile build mobile, tablet, and Internet of Things (IoT) backends
backends using Lambda that scale automatically without provisioning or
managing infrastructure. Lambda now supports both real-time
(synchronous) and asynchronous events. Additional features
include easier event source configuration and management.
The permission model and the programming model have been
simplified by the introduction of resource policies for your
Lambda functions.

The documentation has been updated accordingly. For

information, see the following topics:

Getting started with Lambda (p. 8)

AWS Lambda

Preview release Preview release of the AWS Lambda Developer Guide. November
13, 2014

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Actions

API reference
This section contains the AWS Lambda API Reference documentation. When making the API calls, you
will need to authenticate your request by providing a signature. AWS Lambda supports signature version
4. For more information, see Signature Version 4 signing process in the Amazon Web Services General
Reference.

For an overview of the service, see What is AWS Lambda? (p. 1).

You can use the AWS CLI to explore the AWS Lambda API. This guide provides several tutorials that use
the AWS CLI.

Topics

• Actions (p. 737)

• Data Types (p. 950)

Actions
The following actions are supported:

• AddLayerVersionPermission (p. 739)

• AddPermission (p. 743)
• CreateAlias (p. 747)
• CreateCodeSigningConfig (p. 751)
• CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)
• CreateFunction (p. 763)
• DeleteAlias (p. 775)
• DeleteCodeSigningConfig (p. 777)
• DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779)
• DeleteFunction (p. 784)
• DeleteFunctionCodeSigningConfig (p. 786)
• DeleteFunctionConcurrency (p. 788)
• DeleteFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 790)
• DeleteLayerVersion (p. 792)
• DeleteProvisionedConcurrencyConfig (p. 794)
• GetAccountSettings (p. 796)
• GetAlias (p. 798)
• GetCodeSigningConfig (p. 801)
• GetEventSourceMapping (p. 803)
• GetFunction (p. 808)
• GetFunctionCodeSigningConfig (p. 812)
• GetFunctionConcurrency (p. 815)
• GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
• GetFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 824)
• GetLayerVersion (p. 827)

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• GetLayerVersionByArn (p. 830)

• GetLayerVersionPolicy (p. 833)
• GetPolicy (p. 835)
• GetProvisionedConcurrencyConfig (p. 837)
• Invoke (p. 840)
• InvokeAsync (p. 846)
• ListAliases (p. 848)
• ListCodeSigningConfigs (p. 851)
• ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853)
• ListFunctionEventInvokeConfigs (p. 856)
• ListFunctions (p. 859)
• ListFunctionsByCodeSigningConfig (p. 863)
• ListLayers (p. 865)
• ListLayerVersions (p. 867)
• ListProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs (p. 870)
• ListTags (p. 873)
• ListVersionsByFunction (p. 875)
• PublishLayerVersion (p. 879)
• PublishVersion (p. 883)
• PutFunctionCodeSigningConfig (p. 891)
• PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894)
• PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 897)
• PutProvisionedConcurrencyConfig (p. 901)
• RemoveLayerVersionPermission (p. 904)
• RemovePermission (p. 906)
• TagResource (p. 908)
• UntagResource (p. 910)
• UpdateAlias (p. 912)
• UpdateCodeSigningConfig (p. 916)
• UpdateEventSourceMapping (p. 919)
• UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927)
• UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936)
• UpdateFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 947)

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AddLayerVersionPermission
Adds permissions to the resource-based policy of a version of an AWS Lambda layer. Use this action
to grant layer usage permission to other accounts. You can grant permission to a single account, all
accounts in an organization, or all AWS accounts.

To revoke permission, call RemoveLayerVersionPermission (p. 904) with the statement ID that you
specified when you added it.

Request Syntax
POST /2018-10-31/layers/LayerName/versions/VersionNumber/policy?RevisionId=RevisionId
HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"Action": "string",
"OrganizationId": "string",
"Principal": "string",
"StatementId": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

LayerName (p. 739)

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the layer.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: Yes
RevisionId (p. 739)

Only update the policy if the revision ID matches the ID specified. Use this option to avoid modifying
a policy that has changed since you last read it.
VersionNumber (p. 739)

The version number.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Action (p. 739)

The API action that grants access to the layer. For example, lambda:GetLayerVersion.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 22.

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Pattern: lambda:GetLayerVersion

Required: Yes
OrganizationId (p. 739)

With the principal set to *, grant permission to all accounts in the specified organization.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 34.

Pattern: o-[a-z0-9]{10,32}

Required: No
Principal (p. 739)

An account ID, or * to grant layer usage permission to all accounts in an organization, or all AWS
accounts (if organizationId is not specified). For the last case, make sure that you really do want
all AWS accounts to have usage permission to this layer.

Type: String

Pattern: \d{12}|\*|arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*):iam::\d{12}:root

Required: Yes
StatementId (p. 739)

An identifier that distinguishes the policy from others on the same layer version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: ([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: Yes

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json

{
"RevisionId": "string",
"Statement": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

RevisionId (p. 740)

A unique identifier for the current revision of the policy.

Type: String

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Statement (p. 740)

The permission statement.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PolicyLengthExceededException

The permissions policy for the resource is too large. Learn more

HTTP Status Code: 400

PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript

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• AWS SDK for PHP V3

• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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AddPermission
Grants an AWS service or another account permission to use a function. You can apply the policy at the
function level, or specify a qualifier to restrict access to a single version or alias. If you use a qualifier, the
invoker must use the full Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of that version or alias to invoke the function.

To grant permission to another account, specify the account ID as the Principal. For AWS services,
the principal is a domain-style identifier defined by the service, like s3.amazonaws.com or
sns.amazonaws.com. For AWS services, you can also specify the ARN of the associated resource as the
SourceArn. If you grant permission to a service principal without specifying the source, other accounts
could potentially configure resources in their account to invoke your Lambda function.

This action adds a statement to a resource-based permissions policy for the function. For more
information about function policies, see Lambda Function Policies.

Request Syntax
POST /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/policy?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"Action": "string",
"EventSourceToken": "string",
"Principal": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"SourceAccount": "string",
"SourceArn": "string",
"StatementId": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 743)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 743)

Specify a version or alias to add permissions to a published version of the function.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

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Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Action (p. 743)

The action that the principal can use on the function. For example, lambda:InvokeFunction or
lambda:GetFunction.

Type: String

Pattern: (lambda:[*]|lambda:[a-zA-Z]+|[*])

Required: Yes
EventSourceToken (p. 743)

For Alexa Smart Home functions, a token that must be supplied by the invoker.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9._\-]+

Required: No
Principal (p. 743)

The AWS service or account that invokes the function. If you specify a service, use SourceArn or
SourceAccount to limit who can invoke the function through that service.

Type: String

Pattern: [^\s]+

Required: Yes
RevisionId (p. 743)

Only update the policy if the revision ID matches the ID that's specified. Use this option to avoid
modifying a policy that has changed since you last read it.

Type: String

Required: No
SourceAccount (p. 743)

For Amazon S3, the ID of the account that owns the resource. Use this together with SourceArn to
ensure that the resource is owned by the specified account. It is possible for an Amazon S3 bucket to
be deleted by its owner and recreated by another account.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 12.

Pattern: \d{12}

Required: No

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SourceArn (p. 743)

For AWS services, the ARN of the AWS resource that invokes the function. For example, an Amazon
S3 bucket or Amazon SNS topic.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No
StatementId (p. 743)

A statement identifier that differentiates the statement from others in the same policy.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: ([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: Yes

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json

{
"Statement": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Statement (p. 745)

The permission statement that's added to the function policy.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PolicyLengthExceededException

The permissions policy for the resource is too large. Learn more

HTTP Status Code: 400

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PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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CreateAlias
Creates an alias for a Lambda function version. Use aliases to provide clients with a function identifier
that you can update to invoke a different version.

You can also map an alias to split invocation requests between two versions. Use the RoutingConfig
parameter to specify a second version and the percentage of invocation requests that it receives.

Request Syntax
POST /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/aliases HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"Description": "string",
"FunctionVersion": "string",
"Name": "string",
"RoutingConfig": {
"AdditionalVersionWeights": {
"string" : number
}
}
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 747)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Description (p. 747)

A description of the alias.

Type: String

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Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
FunctionVersion (p. 747)

The function version that the alias invokes.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)

Required: Yes
Name (p. 747)

The name of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: Yes
RoutingConfig (p. 747)

The routing configuration of the alias.

Type: AliasRoutingConfiguration (p. 956) object

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json

{
"AliasArn": "string",
"Description": "string",
"FunctionVersion": "string",
"Name": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"RoutingConfig": {
"AdditionalVersionWeights": {
"string" : number
}
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

AliasArn (p. 748)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the alias.

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Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Description (p. 748)

A description of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

FunctionVersion (p. 748)

The function version that the alias invokes.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
Name (p. 748)

The name of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)
RevisionId (p. 748)

A unique identifier that changes when you update the alias.

Type: String
RoutingConfig (p. 748)

The routing configuration of the alias.

Type: AliasRoutingConfiguration (p. 956) object

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

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ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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CreateCodeSigningConfig

CreateCodeSigningConfig
Creates a code signing configuration. A code signing configuration defines a list of allowed signing
profiles and defines the code-signing validation policy (action to be taken if deployment validation
checks fail).

Request Syntax
POST /2020-04-22/code-signing-configs/ HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"AllowedPublishers": {
"SigningProfileVersionArns": [ "string" ]
},
"CodeSigningPolicies": {
"UntrustedArtifactOnDeployment": "string"
},
"Description": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AllowedPublishers (p. 751)

Signing profiles for this code signing configuration.

Type: AllowedPublishers (p. 957) object

Required: Yes
CodeSigningPolicies (p. 751)

The code signing policies define the actions to take if the validation checks fail.

Type: CodeSigningPolicies (p. 960) object

Required: No
Description (p. 751)

Descriptive name for this code signing configuration.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201

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Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSigningConfig": {
"AllowedPublishers": {
"SigningProfileVersionArns": [ "string" ]
},
"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string",
"CodeSigningConfigId": "string",
"CodeSigningPolicies": {
"UntrustedArtifactOnDeployment": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"LastModified": "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSigningConfig (p. 751)

The code signing configuration.

Type: CodeSigningConfig (p. 958) object

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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CreateEventSourceMapping
Creates a mapping between an event source and an AWS Lambda function. Lambda reads items from the
event source and triggers the function.

For details about each event source type, see the following topics. In particular, each of the topics
describes the required and optional parameters for the specific event source.

• Configuring a Dynamo DB stream as an event source

• Configuring a Kinesis stream as an event source
• Configuring an SQS queue as an event source
• Configuring an MQ broker as an event source
• Configuring MSK as an event source
• Configuring Self-Managed Apache Kafka as an event source

The following error handling options are only available for stream sources (DynamoDB and Kinesis):

• BisectBatchOnFunctionError - If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry.
• DestinationConfig - Send discarded records to an Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic.
• MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds - Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is
infinite (-1). When set to infinite (-1), failed records are retried until the record expires
• MaximumRetryAttempts - Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is
infinite (-1). When set to infinite (-1), failed records are retried until the record expires.
• ParallelizationFactor - Process multiple batches from each shard concurrently.

Request Syntax
POST /2015-03-31/event-source-mappings/ HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"BatchSize": number,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": boolean,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"Enabled": boolean,
"EventSourceArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"FunctionResponseTypes": [ "string" ],
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number,
"ParallelizationFactor": number,
"Queues": [ "string" ],
"SelfManagedEventSource": {
"Endpoints": {
"string" : [ "string" ]
}
},
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [

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{
"Type": "string",
"URI": "string"
}
],
"StartingPosition": "string",
"StartingPositionTimestamp": number,
"Topics": [ "string" ],
"TumblingWindowInSeconds": number
}

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

BatchSize (p. 754)

The maximum number of items to retrieve in a single batch.

• Amazon Kinesis - Default 100. Max 10,000.
• Amazon DynamoDB Streams - Default 100. Max 1,000.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service - Default 10. For standard queues the max is 10,000. For FIFO
queues the max is 10.
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka - Default 100. Max 10,000.
• Self-Managed Apache Kafka - Default 100. Max 10,000.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Required: No
BisectBatchOnFunctionError (p. 754)

(Streams only) If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
DestinationConfig (p. 754)

(Streams only) An Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic destination for discarded records.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

Required: No
Enabled (p. 754)

If true, the event source mapping is active. Set to false to pause polling and invocation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
EventSourceArn (p. 754)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the event source.

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• Amazon Kinesis - The ARN of the data stream or a stream consumer.

• Amazon DynamoDB Streams - The ARN of the stream.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service - The ARN of the queue.
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka - The ARN of the cluster.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No
FunctionName (p. 754)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Version or Alias ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-
west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction:PROD.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it's limited
to 64 characters in length.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
FunctionResponseTypes (p. 754)

(Streams only) A list of current response type enums applied to the event source mapping.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Valid Values: ReportBatchItemFailures

Required: No
MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds (p. 754)

(Streams and SQS standard queues) The maximum amount of time to gather records before
invoking the function, in seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 300.

Required: No
MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds (p. 754)

(Streams only) Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is infinite (-1).

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Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 604800.

Required: No
MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 754)

(Streams only) Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is infinite (-1).
When set to infinite (-1), failed records will be retried until the record expires.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 10000.

Required: No
ParallelizationFactor (p. 754)

(Streams only) The number of batches to process from each shard concurrently.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Required: No
Queues (p. 754)

(MQ) The name of the Amazon MQ broker destination queue to consume.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [\s\S]*

Required: No
SelfManagedEventSource (p. 754)

The Self-Managed Apache Kafka cluster to send records.

Type: SelfManagedEventSource (p. 995) object

Required: No
SourceAccessConfigurations (p. 754)

An array of the authentication protocol, or the VPC components to secure your event source.

Type: Array of SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996) objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 22 items.

Required: No
StartingPosition (p. 754)

The position in a stream from which to start reading. Required for Amazon Kinesis, Amazon
DynamoDB, and Amazon MSK Streams sources. AT_TIMESTAMP is only supported for Amazon
Kinesis streams.

Type: String

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Valid Values: TRIM_HORIZON | LATEST | AT_TIMESTAMP

Required: No
StartingPositionTimestamp (p. 754)

With StartingPosition set to AT_TIMESTAMP, the time from which to start reading, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No
Topics (p. 754)

The name of the Kafka topic.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 249.

Pattern: ^[^.]([a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+)

Required: No
TumblingWindowInSeconds (p. 754)

(Streams only) The duration in seconds of a processing window. The range is between 1 second up to
900 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 900.

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 202
Content-type: application/json

{
"BatchSize": number,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": boolean,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"EventSourceArn": "string",
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionResponseTypes": [ "string" ],
"LastModified": number,
"LastProcessingResult": "string",
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number,
"ParallelizationFactor": number,

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"Queues": [ "string" ],
"SelfManagedEventSource": {
"Endpoints": {
"string" : [ "string" ]
}
},
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [
{
"Type": "string",
"URI": "string"
}
],
"StartingPosition": "string",
"StartingPositionTimestamp": number,
"State": "string",
"StateTransitionReason": "string",
"Topics": [ "string" ],
"TumblingWindowInSeconds": number,
"UUID": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 202 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

BatchSize (p. 758)

The maximum number of items to retrieve in a single batch.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

BisectBatchOnFunctionError (p. 758)

(Streams only) If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry. The default value is
false.

Type: Boolean
DestinationConfig (p. 758)

(Streams only) An Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic destination for discarded records.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

EventSourceArn (p. 758)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the event source.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
FunctionArn (p. 758)

The ARN of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

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FunctionResponseTypes (p. 758)

(Streams only) A list of current response type enums applied to the event source mapping.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Valid Values: ReportBatchItemFailures

LastModified (p. 758)

The date that the event source mapping was last updated or that its state changed, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
LastProcessingResult (p. 758)

The result of the last Lambda invocation of your function.

Type: String
MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds (p. 758)

(Streams and Amazon SQS standard queues) The maximum amount of time to gather records before
invoking the function, in seconds. The default value is zero.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 300.

MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds (p. 758)

(Streams only) Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is -1, which sets the
maximum age to infinite. When the value is set to infinite, Lambda never discards old records.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 604800.

MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 758)

(Streams only) Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is -1, which
sets the maximum number of retries to infinite. When MaximumRetryAttempts is infinite, Lambda
retries failed records until the record expires in the event source.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 10000.

ParallelizationFactor (p. 758)

(Streams only) The number of batches to process concurrently from each shard. The default value is
1.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Queues (p. 758)

(Amazon MQ) The name of the Amazon MQ broker destination queue to consume.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

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Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [\s\S]*
SelfManagedEventSource (p. 758)

The self-managed Apache Kafka cluster for your event source.

Type: SelfManagedEventSource (p. 995) object

SourceAccessConfigurations (p. 758)

An array of the authentication protocol, VPC components, or virtual host to secure and define your
event source.

Type: Array of SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996) objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 22 items.

StartingPosition (p. 758)

The position in a stream from which to start reading. Required for Amazon Kinesis, Amazon
DynamoDB, and Amazon MSK stream sources. AT_TIMESTAMP is supported only for Amazon Kinesis
streams.

Type: String

Valid Values: TRIM_HORIZON | LATEST | AT_TIMESTAMP

StartingPositionTimestamp (p. 758)

With StartingPosition set to AT_TIMESTAMP, the time from which to start reading, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
State (p. 758)

The state of the event source mapping. It can be one of the following: Creating, Enabling,
Enabled, Disabling, Disabled, Updating, or Deleting.

Type: String
StateTransitionReason (p. 758)

Indicates whether a user or Lambda made the last change to the event source mapping.

Type: String
Topics (p. 758)

The name of the Kafka topic.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 249.

Pattern: ^[^.]([a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+)
TumblingWindowInSeconds (p. 758)

(Streams only) The duration in seconds of a processing window. The range is 1–900 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 900.

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UUID (p. 758)

The identifier of the event source mapping.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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CreateFunction
Creates a Lambda function. To create a function, you need a deployment package and an execution role.
The deployment package is a .zip file archive or container image that contains your function code. The
execution role grants the function permission to use AWS services, such as Amazon CloudWatch Logs for
log streaming and X-Ray for request tracing.

You set the package type to Image if the deployment package is a container image. For a container
image, the code property must include the URI of a container image in the Amazon ECR registry. You do
not need to specify the handler and runtime properties.

You set the package type to Zip if the deployment package is a .zip file archive. For a .zip file archive,
the code property specifies the location of the .zip file. You must also specify the handler and runtime
properties.

When you create a function, Lambda provisions an instance of the function and its supporting resources.
If your function connects to a VPC, this process can take a minute or so. During this time, you can't
invoke or modify the function. The State, StateReason, and StateReasonCode fields in the response
from GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817) indicate when the function is ready to invoke. For more
information, see Function States.

A function has an unpublished version, and can have published versions and aliases. The unpublished
version changes when you update your function's code and configuration. A published version is a
snapshot of your function code and configuration that can't be changed. An alias is a named resource
that maps to a version, and can be changed to map to a different version. Use the Publish parameter to
create version 1 of your function from its initial configuration.

The other parameters let you configure version-specific and function-level settings. You can
modify version-specific settings later with UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936). Function-level
settings apply to both the unpublished and published versions of the function, and include tags
(TagResource (p. 908)) and per-function concurrency limits (PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894)).

You can use code signing if your deployment package is a .zip file archive. To enable code signing
for this function, specify the ARN of a code-signing configuration. When a user attempts to deploy a
code package with UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927), Lambda checks that the code package has a valid
signature from a trusted publisher. The code-signing configuration includes set set of signing profiles,
which define the trusted publishers for this function.

If another account or an AWS service invokes your function, use AddPermission (p. 743) to grant
permission by creating a resource-based IAM policy. You can grant permissions at the function level, on a
version, or on an alias.

To invoke your function directly, use Invoke (p. 840). To invoke your function in response to events in
other AWS services, create an event source mapping (CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754)), or configure a
function trigger in the other service. For more information, see Invoking Functions.

Request Syntax
POST /2015-03-31/functions HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"Code": {
"ImageUri": "string",
"S3Bucket": "string",
"S3Key": "string",
"S3ObjectVersion": "string",
"ZipFile": blob
},

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"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string",
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"Layers": [ "string" ],
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"Publish": boolean,
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"Tags": {
"string" : "string"
},
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ]
}
}

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Code (p. 763)

The code for the function.

Type: FunctionCode (p. 972) object

Required: Yes
CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 763)

To enable code signing for this function, specify the ARN of a code-signing configuration. A code-
signing configuration includes a set of signing profiles, which define the trusted publishers for this
function.

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Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}

Required: No
DeadLetterConfig (p. 763)

A dead letter queue configuration that specifies the queue or topic where Lambda sends
asynchronous events when they fail processing. For more information, see Dead Letter Queues.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Required: No
Description (p. 763)

A description of the function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
Environment (p. 763)

Environment variables that are accessible from function code during execution.

Type: Environment (p. 964) object

Required: No
FileSystemConfigs (p. 763)

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

Required: No
FunctionName (p. 763)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

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Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Handler (p. 763)

The name of the method within your code that Lambda calls to execute your function. The format
includes the file name. It can also include namespaces and other qualifiers, depending on the
runtime. For more information, see Programming Model.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+

Required: No
ImageConfig (p. 763)

Container image configuration values that override the values in the container image Dockerfile.

Type: ImageConfig (p. 982) object

Required: No
KMSKeyArn (p. 763)

The ARN of the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that's used to encrypt your function's
environment variables. If it's not provided, AWS Lambda uses a default service key.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()

Required: No
Layers (p. 763)

A list of function layers to add to the function's execution environment. Specify each layer by its
ARN, including the version.

Type: Array of strings

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+

Required: No
MemorySize (p. 763)

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime. Increasing the function memory also
increases its CPU allocation. The default value is 128 MB. The value can be any multiple of 1 MB.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

Required: No
PackageType (p. 763)

The type of deployment package. Set to Image for container image and set Zip for ZIP archive.

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Type: String

Valid Values: Zip | Image

Required: No
Publish (p. 763)

Set to true to publish the first version of the function during creation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
Role (p. 763)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function's execution role.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+

Required: Yes
Runtime (p. 763)

The identifier of the function's runtime.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2

Required: No
Tags (p. 763)

A list of tags to apply to the function.

Type: String to string map

Required: No
Timeout (p. 763)

The amount of time that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it. The default is 3
seconds. The maximum allowed value is 900 seconds. For additional information, see Lambda
execution environment.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No
TracingConfig (p. 763)

Set Mode to Active to sample and trace a subset of incoming requests with X-Ray.

Type: TracingConfig (p. 997) object

Required: No

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VpcConfig (p. 763)

For network connectivity to AWS resources in a VPC, specify a list of security groups and subnets
in the VPC. When you connect a function to a VPC, it can only access resources and the internet
through that VPC. For more information, see VPC Settings.

Type: VpcConfig (p. 999) object

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}

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],
"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSha256 (p. 768)

The SHA256 hash of the function's deployment package.

Type: String
CodeSize (p. 768)

The size of the function's deployment package, in bytes.

Type: Long
DeadLetterConfig (p. 768)

The function's dead letter queue.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Description (p. 768)

The function's description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Environment (p. 768)

The function's environment variables.

Type: EnvironmentResponse (p. 966) object

FileSystemConfigs (p. 768)

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

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Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

FunctionArn (p. 768)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionName (p. 768)

The name of the function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Handler (p. 768)

The function that Lambda calls to begin executing your function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+
ImageConfigResponse (p. 768)

The function's image configuration values.

Type: ImageConfigResponse (p. 984) object

KMSKeyArn (p. 768)

The KMS key that's used to encrypt the function's environment variables. This key is only returned if
you've configured a customer managed CMK.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()
LastModified (p. 768)

The date and time that the function was last updated, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-
DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String
LastUpdateStatus (p. 768)

The status of the last update that was performed on the function. This is first set to Successful
after function creation completes.

Type: String

Valid Values: Successful | Failed | InProgress

LastUpdateStatusReason (p. 768)

The reason for the last update that was performed on the function.

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Type: String
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode (p. 768)

The reason code for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: EniLimitExceeded | InsufficientRolePermissions |

InvalidConfiguration | InternalError | SubnetOutOfIPAddresses |
InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted | ImageAccessDenied |
InvalidImage
Layers (p. 768)

The function's layers.

Type: Array of Layer (p. 985) objects

MasterArn (p. 768)

For Lambda@Edge functions, the ARN of the master function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
MemorySize (p. 768)

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

PackageType (p. 768)

The type of deployment package. Set to Image for container image and set Zip for .zip file archive.

Type: String

Valid Values: Zip | Image

RevisionId (p. 768)

The latest updated revision of the function or alias.

Type: String
Role (p. 768)

The function's execution role.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+
Runtime (p. 768)

The runtime environment for the Lambda function.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1

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| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |

provided.al2
SigningJobArn (p. 768)

The ARN of the signing job.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
SigningProfileVersionArn (p. 768)

The ARN of the signing profile version.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
State (p. 768)

The current state of the function. When the state is Inactive, you can reactivate the function by
invoking it.

Type: String

Valid Values: Pending | Active | Inactive | Failed

StateReason (p. 768)

The reason for the function's current state.

Type: String
StateReasonCode (p. 768)

The reason code for the function's current state. When the code is Creating, you can't invoke or
modify the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: Idle | Creating | Restoring | EniLimitExceeded |

InsufficientRolePermissions | InvalidConfiguration | InternalError |
SubnetOutOfIPAddresses | InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted
| ImageAccessDenied | InvalidImage
Timeout (p. 768)

The amount of time in seconds that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

TracingConfig (p. 768)

The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration.

Type: TracingConfigResponse (p. 998) object

Version (p. 768)

The version of the Lambda function.

Type: String

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Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
VpcConfig (p. 768)

The function's networking configuration.

Type: VpcConfigResponse (p. 1000) object

Errors
CodeSigningConfigNotFoundException

The specified code signing configuration does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

CodeStorageExceededException

You have exceeded your maximum total code size per account. Learn more

HTTP Status Code: 400

CodeVerificationFailedException

The code signature failed one or more of the validation checks for signature mismatch or expiry, and
the code signing policy is set to ENFORCE. Lambda blocks the deployment.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidCodeSignatureException

The code signature failed the integrity check. Lambda always blocks deployment if the integrity
check fails, even if code signing policy is set to WARN.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteAlias
Deletes a Lambda function alias.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/aliases/Name HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 775)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Name (p. 775)

The name of the alias.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

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Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteCodeSigningConfig

DeleteCodeSigningConfig
Deletes the code signing configuration. You can delete the code signing configuration only if no function
is using it.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2020-04-22/code-signing-configs/CodeSigningConfigArn HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 777)

The The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the code signing configuration.

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

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ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteEventSourceMapping

DeleteEventSourceMapping
Deletes an event source mapping. You can get the identifier of a mapping from the output of
ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853).

When you delete an event source mapping, it enters a Deleting state and might not be completely
deleted for several seconds.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2015-03-31/event-source-mappings/UUID HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

UUID (p. 779)

The identifier of the event source mapping.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 202
Content-type: application/json

{
"BatchSize": number,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": boolean,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"EventSourceArn": "string",
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionResponseTypes": [ "string" ],
"LastModified": number,
"LastProcessingResult": "string",
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number,
"ParallelizationFactor": number,
"Queues": [ "string" ],
"SelfManagedEventSource": {
"Endpoints": {
"string" : [ "string" ]
}
},
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [

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{
"Type": "string",
"URI": "string"
}
],
"StartingPosition": "string",
"StartingPositionTimestamp": number,
"State": "string",
"StateTransitionReason": "string",
"Topics": [ "string" ],
"TumblingWindowInSeconds": number,
"UUID": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 202 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

BatchSize (p. 779)

The maximum number of items to retrieve in a single batch.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

BisectBatchOnFunctionError (p. 779)

(Streams only) If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry. The default value is
false.

Type: Boolean
DestinationConfig (p. 779)

(Streams only) An Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic destination for discarded records.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

EventSourceArn (p. 779)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the event source.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
FunctionArn (p. 779)

The ARN of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionResponseTypes (p. 779)

(Streams only) A list of current response type enums applied to the event source mapping.

Type: Array of strings

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Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Valid Values: ReportBatchItemFailures

LastModified (p. 779)

The date that the event source mapping was last updated or that its state changed, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
LastProcessingResult (p. 779)

The result of the last Lambda invocation of your function.

Type: String
MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds (p. 779)

(Streams and Amazon SQS standard queues) The maximum amount of time to gather records before
invoking the function, in seconds. The default value is zero.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 300.

MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds (p. 779)

(Streams only) Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is -1, which sets the
maximum age to infinite. When the value is set to infinite, Lambda never discards old records.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 604800.

MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 779)

(Streams only) Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is -1, which
sets the maximum number of retries to infinite. When MaximumRetryAttempts is infinite, Lambda
retries failed records until the record expires in the event source.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 10000.

ParallelizationFactor (p. 779)

(Streams only) The number of batches to process concurrently from each shard. The default value is
1.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Queues (p. 779)

(Amazon MQ) The name of the Amazon MQ broker destination queue to consume.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [\s\S]*

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SelfManagedEventSource (p. 779)

The self-managed Apache Kafka cluster for your event source.

Type: SelfManagedEventSource (p. 995) object

SourceAccessConfigurations (p. 779)

An array of the authentication protocol, VPC components, or virtual host to secure and define your
event source.

Type: Array of SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996) objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 22 items.

StartingPosition (p. 779)

The position in a stream from which to start reading. Required for Amazon Kinesis, Amazon
DynamoDB, and Amazon MSK stream sources. AT_TIMESTAMP is supported only for Amazon Kinesis
streams.

Type: String

Valid Values: TRIM_HORIZON | LATEST | AT_TIMESTAMP

StartingPositionTimestamp (p. 779)

With StartingPosition set to AT_TIMESTAMP, the time from which to start reading, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
State (p. 779)

The state of the event source mapping. It can be one of the following: Creating, Enabling,
Enabled, Disabling, Disabled, Updating, or Deleting.

Type: String
StateTransitionReason (p. 779)

Indicates whether a user or Lambda made the last change to the event source mapping.

Type: String
Topics (p. 779)

The name of the Kafka topic.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 249.

Pattern: ^[^.]([a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+)
TumblingWindowInSeconds (p. 779)

(Streams only) The duration in seconds of a processing window. The range is 1–900 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 900.

UUID (p. 779)

The identifier of the event source mapping.

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Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceInUseException

The operation conflicts with the resource's availability. For example, you attempted to update
an EventSource Mapping in CREATING, or tried to delete a EventSource mapping currently in the
UPDATING state.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteFunction
Deletes a Lambda function. To delete a specific function version, use the Qualifier parameter.
Otherwise, all versions and aliases are deleted.

To delete Lambda event source mappings that invoke a function, use

DeleteEventSourceMapping (p. 779). For AWS services and resources that invoke your function directly,
delete the trigger in the service where you originally configured it.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 784)

The name of the Lambda function or version.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:1 (with version).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 784)

Specify a version to delete. You can't delete a version that's referenced by an alias.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

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Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteFunctionCodeSigningConfig

DeleteFunctionCodeSigningConfig
Removes the code signing configuration from the function.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2020-06-30/functions/FunctionName/code-signing-config HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 786)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors
CodeSigningConfigNotFoundException

The specified code signing configuration does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

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HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteFunctionConcurrency
Removes a concurrent execution limit from a function.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2017-10-31/functions/FunctionName/concurrency HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 788)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

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HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteFunctionEventInvokeConfig

DeleteFunctionEventInvokeConfig
Deletes the configuration for asynchronous invocation for a function, version, or alias.

To configure options for asynchronous invocation, use PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 897).

Request Syntax
DELETE /2019-09-25/functions/FunctionName/event-invoke-config?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 790)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 790)

A version number or alias name.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

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Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteLayerVersion

DeleteLayerVersion
Deletes a version of an AWS Lambda layer. Deleted versions can no longer be viewed or added to
functions. To avoid breaking functions, a copy of the version remains in Lambda until no functions refer
to it.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2018-10-31/layers/LayerName/versions/VersionNumber HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

LayerName (p. 792)

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the layer.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: Yes
VersionNumber (p. 792)

The version number.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors
ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeleteProvisionedConcurrencyConfig

DeleteProvisionedConcurrencyConfig
Deletes the provisioned concurrency configuration for a function.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2019-09-30/functions/FunctionName/provisioned-concurrency?Qualifier=Qualifier
HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 794)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 794)

The version number or alias name.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

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Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetAccountSettings
Retrieves details about your account's limits and usage in an AWS Region.

Request Syntax
GET /2016-08-19/account-settings/ HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request does not use any URI parameters.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"AccountLimit": {
"CodeSizeUnzipped": number,
"CodeSizeZipped": number,
"ConcurrentExecutions": number,
"TotalCodeSize": number,
"UnreservedConcurrentExecutions": number
},
"AccountUsage": {
"FunctionCount": number,
"TotalCodeSize": number
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

AccountLimit (p. 796)

Limits that are related to concurrency and code storage.

Type: AccountLimit (p. 952) object

AccountUsage (p. 796)

The number of functions and amount of storage in use.

Type: AccountUsage (p. 953) object

Errors
ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

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HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetAlias
Returns details about a Lambda function alias.

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/aliases/Name HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 798)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Name (p. 798)

The name of the alias.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"AliasArn": "string",
"Description": "string",
"FunctionVersion": "string",

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"Name": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"RoutingConfig": {
"AdditionalVersionWeights": {
"string" : number
}
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

AliasArn (p. 798)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the alias.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Description (p. 798)

A description of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

FunctionVersion (p. 798)

The function version that the alias invokes.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
Name (p. 798)

The name of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)
RevisionId (p. 798)

A unique identifier that changes when you update the alias.

Type: String
RoutingConfig (p. 798)

The routing configuration of the alias.

Type: AliasRoutingConfiguration (p. 956) object

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Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetCodeSigningConfig

GetCodeSigningConfig
Returns information about the specified code signing configuration.

Request Syntax
GET /2020-04-22/code-signing-configs/CodeSigningConfigArn HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 801)

The The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the code signing configuration.

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSigningConfig": {
"AllowedPublishers": {
"SigningProfileVersionArns": [ "string" ]
},
"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string",
"CodeSigningConfigId": "string",
"CodeSigningPolicies": {
"UntrustedArtifactOnDeployment": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"LastModified": "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSigningConfig (p. 801)

The code signing configuration

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Type: CodeSigningConfig (p. 958) object

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetEventSourceMapping
Returns details about an event source mapping. You can get the identifier of a mapping from the output
of ListEventSourceMappings (p. 853).

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/event-source-mappings/UUID HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

UUID (p. 803)

The identifier of the event source mapping.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"BatchSize": number,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": boolean,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"EventSourceArn": "string",
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionResponseTypes": [ "string" ],
"LastModified": number,
"LastProcessingResult": "string",
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number,
"ParallelizationFactor": number,
"Queues": [ "string" ],
"SelfManagedEventSource": {
"Endpoints": {
"string" : [ "string" ]
}
},
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [
{
"Type": "string",
"URI": "string"

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}
],
"StartingPosition": "string",
"StartingPositionTimestamp": number,
"State": "string",
"StateTransitionReason": "string",
"Topics": [ "string" ],
"TumblingWindowInSeconds": number,
"UUID": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

BatchSize (p. 803)

The maximum number of items to retrieve in a single batch.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

BisectBatchOnFunctionError (p. 803)

(Streams only) If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry. The default value is
false.

Type: Boolean
DestinationConfig (p. 803)

(Streams only) An Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic destination for discarded records.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

EventSourceArn (p. 803)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the event source.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
FunctionArn (p. 803)

The ARN of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionResponseTypes (p. 803)

(Streams only) A list of current response type enums applied to the event source mapping.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Valid Values: ReportBatchItemFailures

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LastModified (p. 803)

The date that the event source mapping was last updated or that its state changed, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
LastProcessingResult (p. 803)

The result of the last Lambda invocation of your function.

Type: String
MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds (p. 803)

(Streams and Amazon SQS standard queues) The maximum amount of time to gather records before
invoking the function, in seconds. The default value is zero.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 300.

MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds (p. 803)

(Streams only) Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is -1, which sets the
maximum age to infinite. When the value is set to infinite, Lambda never discards old records.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 604800.

MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 803)

(Streams only) Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is -1, which
sets the maximum number of retries to infinite. When MaximumRetryAttempts is infinite, Lambda
retries failed records until the record expires in the event source.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 10000.

ParallelizationFactor (p. 803)

(Streams only) The number of batches to process concurrently from each shard. The default value is
1.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Queues (p. 803)

(Amazon MQ) The name of the Amazon MQ broker destination queue to consume.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [\s\S]*
SelfManagedEventSource (p. 803)

The self-managed Apache Kafka cluster for your event source.

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Type: SelfManagedEventSource (p. 995) object

SourceAccessConfigurations (p. 803)

An array of the authentication protocol, VPC components, or virtual host to secure and define your
event source.

Type: Array of SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996) objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 22 items.

StartingPosition (p. 803)

The position in a stream from which to start reading. Required for Amazon Kinesis, Amazon
DynamoDB, and Amazon MSK stream sources. AT_TIMESTAMP is supported only for Amazon Kinesis
streams.

Type: String

Valid Values: TRIM_HORIZON | LATEST | AT_TIMESTAMP

StartingPositionTimestamp (p. 803)

With StartingPosition set to AT_TIMESTAMP, the time from which to start reading, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
State (p. 803)

The state of the event source mapping. It can be one of the following: Creating, Enabling,
Enabled, Disabling, Disabled, Updating, or Deleting.

Type: String
StateTransitionReason (p. 803)

Indicates whether a user or Lambda made the last change to the event source mapping.

Type: String
Topics (p. 803)

The name of the Kafka topic.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 249.

Pattern: ^[^.]([a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+)
TumblingWindowInSeconds (p. 803)

(Streams only) The duration in seconds of a processing window. The range is 1–900 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 900.

UUID (p. 803)

The identifier of the event source mapping.

Type: String

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Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetFunction
Returns information about the function or function version, with a link to download the deployment
package that's valid for 10 minutes. If you specify a function version, only details that are specific to that
version are returned.

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 808)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 808)

Specify a version or alias to get details about a published version of the function.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"Code": {
"ImageUri": "string",
"Location": "string",
"RepositoryType": "string",

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"ResolvedImageUri": "string"
},
"Concurrency": {
"ReservedConcurrentExecutions": number
},
"Configuration": {
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}
],
"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
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"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"
}
},
"Tags": {
"string" : "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Code (p. 808)

The deployment package of the function or version.

Type: FunctionCodeLocation (p. 974) object

Concurrency (p. 808)

The function's reserved concurrency.

Type: Concurrency (p. 961) object

Configuration (p. 808)

The configuration of the function or version.

Type: FunctionConfiguration (p. 975) object

Tags (p. 808)

The function's tags.

Type: String to string map

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

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TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetFunctionCodeSigningConfig
Returns the code signing configuration for the specified function.

Request Syntax
GET /2020-06-30/functions/FunctionName/code-signing-config HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 812)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 812)

The The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the code signing configuration.

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Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}
FunctionName (p. 812)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++

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• AWS SDK for Go

• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetFunctionConcurrency
Returns details about the reserved concurrency configuration for a function. To set a concurrency limit
for a function, use PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894).

Request Syntax
GET /2019-09-30/functions/FunctionName/concurrency HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 815)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"ReservedConcurrentExecutions": number
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

ReservedConcurrentExecutions (p. 815)

The number of simultaneous executions that are reserved for the function.

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Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetFunctionConfiguration

GetFunctionConfiguration
Returns the version-specific settings of a Lambda function or version. The output includes
only options that can vary between versions of a function. To modify these settings, use
UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936).

To get all of a function's details, including function-level settings, use GetFunction (p. 808).

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/configuration?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 817)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 817)

Specify a version or alias to get details about a published version of the function.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,

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"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}
],
"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"

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}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSha256 (p. 817)

The SHA256 hash of the function's deployment package.

Type: String
CodeSize (p. 817)

The size of the function's deployment package, in bytes.

Type: Long
DeadLetterConfig (p. 817)

The function's dead letter queue.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Description (p. 817)

The function's description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Environment (p. 817)

The function's environment variables.

Type: EnvironmentResponse (p. 966) object

FileSystemConfigs (p. 817)

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

FunctionArn (p. 817)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionName (p. 817)

The name of the function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

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Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Handler (p. 817)

The function that Lambda calls to begin executing your function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+
ImageConfigResponse (p. 817)

The function's image configuration values.

Type: ImageConfigResponse (p. 984) object

KMSKeyArn (p. 817)

The KMS key that's used to encrypt the function's environment variables. This key is only returned if
you've configured a customer managed CMK.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()
LastModified (p. 817)

The date and time that the function was last updated, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-
DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String
LastUpdateStatus (p. 817)

The status of the last update that was performed on the function. This is first set to Successful
after function creation completes.

Type: String

Valid Values: Successful | Failed | InProgress

LastUpdateStatusReason (p. 817)

The reason for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode (p. 817)

The reason code for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: EniLimitExceeded | InsufficientRolePermissions |

InvalidConfiguration | InternalError | SubnetOutOfIPAddresses |
InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted | ImageAccessDenied |
InvalidImage
Layers (p. 817)

The function's layers.

Type: Array of Layer (p. 985) objects

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MasterArn (p. 817)

For Lambda@Edge functions, the ARN of the master function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
MemorySize (p. 817)

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

PackageType (p. 817)

The type of deployment package. Set to Image for container image and set Zip for .zip file archive.

Type: String

Valid Values: Zip | Image

RevisionId (p. 817)

The latest updated revision of the function or alias.

Type: String
Role (p. 817)

The function's execution role.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+
Runtime (p. 817)

The runtime environment for the Lambda function.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
SigningJobArn (p. 817)

The ARN of the signing job.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
SigningProfileVersionArn (p. 817)

The ARN of the signing profile version.

Type: String

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Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
State (p. 817)

The current state of the function. When the state is Inactive, you can reactivate the function by
invoking it.

Type: String

Valid Values: Pending | Active | Inactive | Failed

StateReason (p. 817)

The reason for the function's current state.

Type: String
StateReasonCode (p. 817)

The reason code for the function's current state. When the code is Creating, you can't invoke or
modify the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: Idle | Creating | Restoring | EniLimitExceeded |

InsufficientRolePermissions | InvalidConfiguration | InternalError |
SubnetOutOfIPAddresses | InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted
| ImageAccessDenied | InvalidImage
Timeout (p. 817)

The amount of time in seconds that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

TracingConfig (p. 817)

The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration.

Type: TracingConfigResponse (p. 998) object

Version (p. 817)

The version of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
VpcConfig (p. 817)

The function's networking configuration.

Type: VpcConfigResponse (p. 1000) object

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

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HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetFunctionEventInvokeConfig

GetFunctionEventInvokeConfig
Retrieves the configuration for asynchronous invocation for a function, version, or alias.

To configure options for asynchronous invocation, use PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 897).

Request Syntax
GET /2019-09-25/functions/FunctionName/event-invoke-config?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 824)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 824)

A version number or alias name.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"

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}
},
"FunctionArn": "string",
"LastModified": number,
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

DestinationConfig (p. 824)

A destination for events after they have been sent to a function for processing.

Destinations
• Function - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a Lambda function.
• Queue - The ARN of an SQS queue.
• Topic - The ARN of an SNS topic.
• Event Bus - The ARN of an Amazon EventBridge event bus.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

FunctionArn (p. 824)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
LastModified (p. 824)

The date and time that the configuration was last updated, in Unix time seconds.

Type: Timestamp
MaximumEventAgeInSeconds (p. 824)

The maximum age of a request that Lambda sends to a function for processing.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 60. Maximum value of 21600.

MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 824)

The maximum number of times to retry when the function returns an error.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 2.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

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HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetLayerVersion
Returns information about a version of an AWS Lambda layer, with a link to download the layer archive
that's valid for 10 minutes.

Request Syntax
GET /2018-10-31/layers/LayerName/versions/VersionNumber HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

LayerName (p. 827)

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the layer.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: Yes
VersionNumber (p. 827)

The version number.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CompatibleRuntimes": [ "string" ],
"Content": {
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"Location": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
},
"CreatedDate": "string",
"Description": "string",
"LayerArn": "string",
"LayerVersionArn": "string",
"LicenseInfo": "string",
"Version": number
}

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Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CompatibleRuntimes (p. 827)

The layer's compatible runtimes.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 15 items.

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
Content (p. 827)

Details about the layer version.

Type: LayerVersionContentOutput (p. 988) object

CreatedDate (p. 827)

The date that the layer version was created, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String
Description (p. 827)

The description of the version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

LayerArn (p. 827)

The ARN of the layer.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+
LayerVersionArn (p. 827)

The ARN of the layer version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+
LicenseInfo (p. 827)

The layer's software license.

Type: String

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Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512.

Version (p. 827)

The version number.

Type: Long

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetLayerVersionByArn
Returns information about a version of an AWS Lambda layer, with a link to download the layer archive
that's valid for 10 minutes.

Request Syntax
GET /2018-10-31/layers?find=LayerVersion&Arn=Arn HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Arn (p. 830)

The ARN of the layer version.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CompatibleRuntimes": [ "string" ],
"Content": {
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"Location": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
},
"CreatedDate": "string",
"Description": "string",
"LayerArn": "string",
"LayerVersionArn": "string",
"LicenseInfo": "string",
"Version": number
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

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CompatibleRuntimes (p. 830)

The layer's compatible runtimes.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 15 items.

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
Content (p. 830)

Details about the layer version.

Type: LayerVersionContentOutput (p. 988) object

CreatedDate (p. 830)

The date that the layer version was created, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String
Description (p. 830)

The description of the version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

LayerArn (p. 830)

The ARN of the layer.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+
LayerVersionArn (p. 830)

The ARN of the layer version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+
LicenseInfo (p. 830)

The layer's software license.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512.

Version (p. 830)

The version number.

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Type: Long

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetLayerVersionPolicy

GetLayerVersionPolicy
Returns the permission policy for a version of an AWS Lambda layer. For more information, see
AddLayerVersionPermission (p. 739).

Request Syntax
GET /2018-10-31/layers/LayerName/versions/VersionNumber/policy HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

LayerName (p. 833)

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the layer.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: Yes
VersionNumber (p. 833)

The version number.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"Policy": "string",
"RevisionId": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Policy (p. 833)

The policy document.

Type: String

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RevisionId (p. 833)

A unique identifier for the current revision of the policy.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetPolicy

GetPolicy
Returns the resource-based IAM policy for a function, version, or alias.

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/policy?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 835)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 835)

Specify a version or alias to get the policy for that resource.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"Policy": "string",
"RevisionId": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

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The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Policy (p. 835)

The resource-based policy.

Type: String
RevisionId (p. 835)

A unique identifier for the current revision of the policy.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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GetProvisionedConcurrencyConfig

GetProvisionedConcurrencyConfig
Retrieves the provisioned concurrency configuration for a function's alias or version.

Request Syntax
GET /2019-09-30/functions/FunctionName/provisioned-concurrency?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 837)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 837)

The version number or alias name.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"AllocatedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"AvailableProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"LastModified": "string",
"RequestedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"Status": "string",

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"StatusReason": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

AllocatedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions (p. 837)

The amount of provisioned concurrency allocated.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

AvailableProvisionedConcurrentExecutions (p. 837)

The amount of provisioned concurrency available.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

LastModified (p. 837)

The date and time that a user last updated the configuration, in ISO 8601 format.

Type: String
RequestedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions (p. 837)

The amount of provisioned concurrency requested.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Status (p. 837)

The status of the allocation process.

Type: String

Valid Values: IN_PROGRESS | READY | FAILED

StatusReason (p. 837)

For failed allocations, the reason that provisioned concurrency could not be allocated.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigNotFoundException

The specified configuration does not exist.

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HTTP Status Code: 404

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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Invoke

Invoke
Invokes a Lambda function. You can invoke a function synchronously (and wait for the response), or
asynchronously. To invoke a function asynchronously, set InvocationType to Event.

For synchronous invocation, details about the function response, including errors, are included in the
response body and headers. For either invocation type, you can find more information in the execution
log and trace.

When an error occurs, your function may be invoked multiple times. Retry behavior varies by error type,
client, event source, and invocation type. For example, if you invoke a function asynchronously and it
returns an error, Lambda executes the function up to two more times. For more information, see Retry
Behavior.

For asynchronous invocation, Lambda adds events to a queue before sending them to your function.
If your function does not have enough capacity to keep up with the queue, events may be lost.
Occasionally, your function may receive the same event multiple times, even if no error occurs. To retain
events that were not processed, configure your function with a dead-letter queue.

The status code in the API response doesn't reflect function errors. Error codes are reserved
for errors that prevent your function from executing, such as permissions errors, limit
errors, or issues with your function's code and configuration. For example, Lambda returns
TooManyRequestsException if executing the function would cause you to exceed a concurrency
limit at either the account level (ConcurrentInvocationLimitExceeded) or function level
(ReservedFunctionConcurrentInvocationLimitExceeded).

For functions with a long timeout, your client might be disconnected during synchronous invocation
while it waits for a response. Configure your HTTP client, SDK, firewall, proxy, or operating system to
allow for long connections with timeout or keep-alive settings.

This operation requires permission for the lambda:InvokeFunction action.

Request Syntax
POST /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/invocations?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1
X-Amz-Invocation-Type: InvocationType
X-Amz-Log-Type: LogType
X-Amz-Client-Context: ClientContext

Payload

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

ClientContext (p. 840)

Up to 3583 bytes of base64-encoded data about the invoking client to pass to the function in the
context object.
FunctionName (p. 840)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.

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• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
InvocationType (p. 840)

Choose from the following options.

• RequestResponse (default) - Invoke the function synchronously. Keep the connection open until
the function returns a response or times out. The API response includes the function response and
additional data.
• Event - Invoke the function asynchronously. Send events that fail multiple times to the function's
dead-letter queue (if it's configured). The API response only includes a status code.
• DryRun - Validate parameter values and verify that the user or role has permission to invoke the
function.

Valid Values: Event | RequestResponse | DryRun

LogType (p. 840)

Set to Tail to include the execution log in the response.

Valid Values: None | Tail

Qualifier (p. 840)

Specify a version or alias to invoke a published version of the function.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request accepts the following binary data.

Payload (p. 840)

The JSON that you want to provide to your Lambda function as input.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 StatusCode
X-Amz-Function-Error: FunctionError
X-Amz-Log-Result: LogResult
X-Amz-Executed-Version: ExecutedVersion

Payload

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back the following HTTP response.

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StatusCode (p. 841)

The HTTP status code is in the 200 range for a successful request. For the RequestResponse
invocation type, this status code is 200. For the Event invocation type, this status code is 202. For
the DryRun invocation type, the status code is 204.

The response returns the following HTTP headers.

ExecutedVersion (p. 841)

The version of the function that executed. When you invoke a function with an alias, this indicates
which version the alias resolved to.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
FunctionError (p. 841)

If present, indicates that an error occurred during function execution. Details about the error are
included in the response payload.
LogResult (p. 841)

The last 4 KB of the execution log, which is base64 encoded.

The response returns the following as the HTTP body.

Payload (p. 841)

The response from the function, or an error object.

Errors
EC2AccessDeniedException

Need additional permissions to configure VPC settings.

HTTP Status Code: 502

EC2ThrottledException

AWS Lambda was throttled by Amazon EC2 during Lambda function initialization using the
execution role provided for the Lambda function.

HTTP Status Code: 502

EC2UnexpectedException

AWS Lambda received an unexpected EC2 client exception while setting up for the Lambda function.

HTTP Status Code: 502

EFSIOException

An error occured when reading from or writing to a connected file system.

HTTP Status Code: 410

EFSMountConnectivityException

The function couldn't make a network connection to the configured file system.

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HTTP Status Code: 408

EFSMountFailureException

The function couldn't mount the configured file system due to a permission or configuration issue.

HTTP Status Code: 403

EFSMountTimeoutException

The function was able to make a network connection to the configured file system, but the mount
operation timed out.

HTTP Status Code: 408

ENILimitReachedException

AWS Lambda was not able to create an elastic network interface in the VPC, specified as part of
Lambda function configuration, because the limit for network interfaces has been reached.

HTTP Status Code: 502

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRequestContentException

The request body could not be parsed as JSON.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRuntimeException

The runtime or runtime version specified is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 502

InvalidSecurityGroupIDException

The Security Group ID provided in the Lambda function VPC configuration is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 502

InvalidSubnetIDException

The Subnet ID provided in the Lambda function VPC configuration is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 502

InvalidZipFileException

AWS Lambda could not unzip the deployment package.

HTTP Status Code: 502

KMSAccessDeniedException

Lambda was unable to decrypt the environment variables because KMS access was denied. Check the
Lambda function's KMS permissions.

HTTP Status Code: 502

KMSDisabledException

Lambda was unable to decrypt the environment variables because the KMS key used is disabled.
Check the Lambda function's KMS key settings.

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HTTP Status Code: 502

KMSInvalidStateException

Lambda was unable to decrypt the environment variables because the KMS key used is in an invalid
state for Decrypt. Check the function's KMS key settings.

HTTP Status Code: 502

KMSNotFoundException

Lambda was unable to decrypt the environment variables because the KMS key was not found.
Check the function's KMS key settings.

HTTP Status Code: 502

RequestTooLargeException

The request payload exceeded the Invoke request body JSON input limit. For more information, see
Limits.

HTTP Status Code: 413

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ResourceNotReadyException

The function is inactive and its VPC connection is no longer available. Wait for the VPC connection to
reestablish and try again.

HTTP Status Code: 502

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

SubnetIPAddressLimitReachedException

AWS Lambda was not able to set up VPC access for the Lambda function because one or more
configured subnets has no available IP addresses.

HTTP Status Code: 502

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

UnsupportedMediaTypeException

The content type of the Invoke request body is not JSON.

HTTP Status Code: 415

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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InvokeAsync
This action has been deprecated.
Important
For asynchronous function invocation, use Invoke (p. 840).

Invokes a function asynchronously.

Request Syntax
POST /2014-11-13/functions/FunctionName/invoke-async/ HTTP/1.1

InvokeArgs

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 846)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following binary data.

InvokeArgs (p. 846)

The JSON that you want to provide to your Lambda function as input.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 Status

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back the following HTTP response.

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Status (p. 846)

The status code.

Errors
InvalidRequestContentException

The request body could not be parsed as JSON.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidRuntimeException

The runtime or runtime version specified is not supported.

HTTP Status Code: 502

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListAliases
Returns a list of aliases for a Lambda function.

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/aliases?
FunctionVersion=FunctionVersion&Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 848)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
FunctionVersion (p. 848)

Specify a function version to only list aliases that invoke that version.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
Marker (p. 848)

Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of
results.
MaxItems (p. 848)

Limit the number of aliases returned.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200

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Content-type: application/json

{
"Aliases": [
{
"AliasArn": "string",
"Description": "string",
"FunctionVersion": "string",
"Name": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"RoutingConfig": {
"AdditionalVersionWeights": {
"string" : number
}
}
}
],
"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Aliases (p. 848)

A list of aliases.

Type: Array of AliasConfiguration (p. 954) objects

NextMarker (p. 848)

The pagination token that's included if more results are available.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListCodeSigningConfigs
Returns a list of code signing configurations. A request returns up to 10,000 configurations per call. You
can use the MaxItems parameter to return fewer configurations per call.

Request Syntax
GET /2020-04-22/code-signing-configs/?Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

Marker (p. 851)

Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of
results.
MaxItems (p. 851)

Maximum number of items to return.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSigningConfigs": [
{
"AllowedPublishers": {
"SigningProfileVersionArns": [ "string" ]
},
"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string",
"CodeSigningConfigId": "string",
"CodeSigningPolicies": {
"UntrustedArtifactOnDeployment": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"LastModified": "string"
}
],
"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

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CodeSigningConfigs (p. 851)

The code signing configurations

Type: Array of CodeSigningConfig (p. 958) objects

NextMarker (p. 851)

The pagination token that's included if more results are available.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListEventSourceMappings
Lists event source mappings. Specify an EventSourceArn to only show event source mappings for a
single event source.

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/event-source-mappings/?
EventSourceArn=EventSourceArn&FunctionName=FunctionName&Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems
HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

EventSourceArn (p. 853)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the event source.

• Amazon Kinesis - The ARN of the data stream or a stream consumer.
• Amazon DynamoDB Streams - The ARN of the stream.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service - The ARN of the queue.
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka - The ARN of the cluster.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
FunctionName (p. 853)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Version or Alias ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-
west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction:PROD.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it's limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Marker (p. 853)

A pagination token returned by a previous call.

MaxItems (p. 853)

The maximum number of event source mappings to return.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

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Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"EventSourceMappings": [
{
"BatchSize": number,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": boolean,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"EventSourceArn": "string",
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionResponseTypes": [ "string" ],
"LastModified": number,
"LastProcessingResult": "string",
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number,
"ParallelizationFactor": number,
"Queues": [ "string" ],
"SelfManagedEventSource": {
"Endpoints": {
"string" : [ "string" ]
}
},
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [
{
"Type": "string",
"URI": "string"
}
],
"StartingPosition": "string",
"StartingPositionTimestamp": number,
"State": "string",
"StateTransitionReason": "string",
"Topics": [ "string" ],
"TumblingWindowInSeconds": number,
"UUID": "string"
}
],
"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

EventSourceMappings (p. 854)

A list of event source mappings.

Type: Array of EventSourceMappingConfiguration (p. 967) objects

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NextMarker (p. 854)

A pagination token that's returned when the response doesn't contain all event source mappings.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListFunctionEventInvokeConfigs
Retrieves a list of configurations for asynchronous invocation for a function.

To configure options for asynchronous invocation, use PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 897).

Request Syntax
GET /2019-09-25/functions/FunctionName/event-invoke-config/list?
Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 856)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Marker (p. 856)

Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of
results.
MaxItems (p. 856)

The maximum number of configurations to return.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 50.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

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"FunctionEventInvokeConfigs": [
{
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"FunctionArn": "string",
"LastModified": number,
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number
}
],
"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

FunctionEventInvokeConfigs (p. 856)

A list of configurations.

Type: Array of FunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 980) objects

NextMarker (p. 856)

The pagination token that's included if more results are available.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListFunctions
Returns a list of Lambda functions, with the version-specific configuration of each. Lambda returns up to
50 functions per call.

Set FunctionVersion to ALL to include all published versions of each function in addition to the
unpublished version.
Note
The ListFunctions action returns a subset of the FunctionConfiguration (p. 975) fields.
To get the additional fields (State, StateReasonCode, StateReason, LastUpdateStatus,
LastUpdateStatusReason, LastUpdateStatusReasonCode) for a function or version, use
GetFunction (p. 808).

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/functions/?
FunctionVersion=FunctionVersion&Marker=Marker&MasterRegion=MasterRegion&MaxItems=MaxItems
HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionVersion (p. 859)

Set to ALL to include entries for all published versions of each function.

Valid Values: ALL

Marker (p. 859)

Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of
results.
MasterRegion (p. 859)

For Lambda@Edge functions, the AWS Region of the master function. For example, us-east-1
filters the list of functions to only include Lambda@Edge functions replicated from a master
function in US East (N. Virginia). If specified, you must set FunctionVersion to ALL.

Pattern: ALL|[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}
MaxItems (p. 859)

The maximum number of functions to return in the response. Note that ListFunctions returns a
maximum of 50 items in each response, even if you set the number higher.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

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{
"Functions": [
{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}
],
"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
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},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"
}
}
],
"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Functions (p. 859)

A list of Lambda functions.

Type: Array of FunctionConfiguration (p. 975) objects

NextMarker (p. 859)

The pagination token that's included if more results are available.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2

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• AWS SDK for JavaScript

• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListFunctionsByCodeSigningConfig

ListFunctionsByCodeSigningConfig
List the functions that use the specified code signing configuration. You can use this method prior to
deleting a code signing configuration, to verify that no functions are using it.

Request Syntax
GET /2020-04-22/code-signing-configs/CodeSigningConfigArn/functions?
Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 863)

The The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the code signing configuration.

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}

Required: Yes
Marker (p. 863)

Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of
results.
MaxItems (p. 863)

Maximum number of items to return.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"FunctionArns": [ "string" ],
"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

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FunctionArns (p. 863)

The function ARNs.

Type: Array of strings

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
NextMarker (p. 863)

The pagination token that's included if more results are available.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListLayers
Lists AWS Lambda layers and shows information about the latest version of each. Specify a runtime
identifier to list only layers that indicate that they're compatible with that runtime.

Request Syntax
GET /2018-10-31/layers?CompatibleRuntime=CompatibleRuntime&Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems
HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

CompatibleRuntime (p. 865)

A runtime identifier. For example, go1.x.

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
Marker (p. 865)

A pagination token returned by a previous call.

MaxItems (p. 865)

The maximum number of layers to return.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 50.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"Layers": [
{
"LatestMatchingVersion": {
"CompatibleRuntimes": [ "string" ],
"CreatedDate": "string",
"Description": "string",
"LayerVersionArn": "string",
"LicenseInfo": "string",
"Version": number
},
"LayerArn": "string",
"LayerName": "string"
}
],

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"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Layers (p. 865)

A list of function layers.

Type: Array of LayersListItem (p. 986) objects

NextMarker (p. 865)

A pagination token returned when the response doesn't contain all layers.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListLayerVersions
Lists the versions of an AWS Lambda layer. Versions that have been deleted aren't listed. Specify a
runtime identifier to list only versions that indicate that they're compatible with that runtime.

Request Syntax
GET /2018-10-31/layers/LayerName/versions?
CompatibleRuntime=CompatibleRuntime&Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

CompatibleRuntime (p. 867)

A runtime identifier. For example, go1.x.

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
LayerName (p. 867)

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the layer.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: Yes
Marker (p. 867)

A pagination token returned by a previous call.

MaxItems (p. 867)

The maximum number of versions to return.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 50.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"LayerVersions": [
{
"CompatibleRuntimes": [ "string" ],

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"CreatedDate": "string",
"Description": "string",
"LayerVersionArn": "string",
"LicenseInfo": "string",
"Version": number
}
],
"NextMarker": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

LayerVersions (p. 867)

A list of versions.

Type: Array of LayerVersionsListItem (p. 989) objects

NextMarker (p. 867)

A pagination token returned when the response doesn't contain all versions.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET

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• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs
Retrieves a list of provisioned concurrency configurations for a function.

Request Syntax
GET /2019-09-30/functions/FunctionName/provisioned-concurrency?
List=ALL&Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 870)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Marker (p. 870)

Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of
results.
MaxItems (p. 870)

Specify a number to limit the number of configurations returned.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 50.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"NextMarker": "string",
"ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs": [
{

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"AllocatedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"AvailableProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"FunctionArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"RequestedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"Status": "string",
"StatusReason": "string"
}
]
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

NextMarker (p. 870)

The pagination token that's included if more results are available.

Type: String
ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigs (p. 870)

A list of provisioned concurrency configurations.

Type: Array of ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigListItem (p. 993) objects

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET

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• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListTags
Returns a function's tags. You can also view tags with GetFunction (p. 808).

Request Syntax
GET /2017-03-31/tags/ARN HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

ARN (p. 873)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"Tags": {
"string" : "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

Tags (p. 873)

The function's tags.

Type: String to string map

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

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HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ListVersionsByFunction

ListVersionsByFunction
Returns a list of versions, with the version-specific configuration of each. Lambda returns up to 50
versions per call.

Request Syntax
GET /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/versions?Marker=Marker&MaxItems=MaxItems HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 875)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Marker (p. 875)

Specify the pagination token that's returned by a previous request to retrieve the next page of
results.
MaxItems (p. 875)

The maximum number of versions to return. Note that ListVersionsByFunction returns a

maximum of 50 items in each response, even if you set the number higher.

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"NextMarker": "string",
"Versions": [

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{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}
],
"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {

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"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"
}
}
]
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

NextMarker (p. 875)

The pagination token that's included if more results are available.

Type: String
Versions (p. 875)

A list of Lambda function versions.

Type: Array of FunctionConfiguration (p. 975) objects

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go

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• AWS SDK for Java V2

• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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PublishLayerVersion
Creates an AWS Lambda layer from a ZIP archive. Each time you call PublishLayerVersion with the
same layer name, a new version is created.

Add layers to your function with CreateFunction (p. 763) or UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936).

Request Syntax
POST /2018-10-31/layers/LayerName/versions HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"CompatibleRuntimes": [ "string" ],
"Content": {
"S3Bucket": "string",
"S3Key": "string",
"S3ObjectVersion": "string",
"ZipFile": blob
},
"Description": "string",
"LicenseInfo": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

LayerName (p. 879)

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the layer.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CompatibleRuntimes (p. 879)

A list of compatible function runtimes. Used for filtering with ListLayers (p. 865) and
ListLayerVersions (p. 867).

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 15 items.

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
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Required: No
Content (p. 879)

The function layer archive.

Type: LayerVersionContentInput (p. 987) object

Required: Yes
Description (p. 879)

The description of the version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
LicenseInfo (p. 879)

The layer's software license. It can be any of the following:

• An SPDX license identifier. For example, MIT.
• The URL of a license hosted on the internet. For example, https://opensource.org/
licenses/MIT.
• The full text of the license.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512.

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json

{
"CompatibleRuntimes": [ "string" ],
"Content": {
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"Location": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
},
"CreatedDate": "string",
"Description": "string",
"LayerArn": "string",
"LayerVersionArn": "string",
"LicenseInfo": "string",
"Version": number
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

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CompatibleRuntimes (p. 880)

The layer's compatible runtimes.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 15 items.

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
Content (p. 880)

Details about the layer version.

Type: LayerVersionContentOutput (p. 988) object

CreatedDate (p. 880)

The date that the layer version was created, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String
Description (p. 880)

The description of the version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

LayerArn (p. 880)

The ARN of the layer.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+
LayerVersionArn (p. 880)

The ARN of the layer version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+
LicenseInfo (p. 880)

The layer's software license.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512.

Version (p. 880)

The version number.

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Type: Long

Errors
CodeStorageExceededException

You have exceeded your maximum total code size per account. Learn more

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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PublishVersion
Creates a version from the current code and configuration of a function. Use versions to create a
snapshot of your function code and configuration that doesn't change.

AWS Lambda doesn't publish a version if the function's configuration and code haven't changed since the
last version. Use UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927) or UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936) to update
the function before publishing a version.

Clients can invoke versions directly or with an alias. To create an alias, use CreateAlias (p. 747).

Request Syntax
POST /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/versions HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"Description": "string",
"RevisionId": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 883)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CodeSha256 (p. 883)

Only publish a version if the hash value matches the value that's specified. Use this option to avoid
publishing a version if the function code has changed since you last updated it. You can get the hash
for the version that you uploaded from the output of UpdateFunctionCode (p. 927).

Type: String

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Required: No
Description (p. 883)

A description for the version to override the description in the function configuration.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
RevisionId (p. 883)

Only update the function if the revision ID matches the ID that's specified. Use this option to avoid
publishing a version if the function configuration has changed since you last updated it.

Type: String

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 201
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",

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"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}
],
"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 201 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSha256 (p. 884)

The SHA256 hash of the function's deployment package.

Type: String
CodeSize (p. 884)

The size of the function's deployment package, in bytes.

Type: Long
DeadLetterConfig (p. 884)

The function's dead letter queue.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Description (p. 884)

The function's description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

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Environment (p. 884)

The function's environment variables.

Type: EnvironmentResponse (p. 966) object

FileSystemConfigs (p. 884)

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

FunctionArn (p. 884)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionName (p. 884)

The name of the function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Handler (p. 884)

The function that Lambda calls to begin executing your function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+
ImageConfigResponse (p. 884)

The function's image configuration values.

Type: ImageConfigResponse (p. 984) object

KMSKeyArn (p. 884)

The KMS key that's used to encrypt the function's environment variables. This key is only returned if
you've configured a customer managed CMK.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()
LastModified (p. 884)

The date and time that the function was last updated, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-
DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String

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LastUpdateStatus (p. 884)

The status of the last update that was performed on the function. This is first set to Successful
after function creation completes.

Type: String

Valid Values: Successful | Failed | InProgress

LastUpdateStatusReason (p. 884)

The reason for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode (p. 884)

The reason code for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: EniLimitExceeded | InsufficientRolePermissions |

InvalidConfiguration | InternalError | SubnetOutOfIPAddresses |
InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted | ImageAccessDenied |
InvalidImage
Layers (p. 884)

The function's layers.

Type: Array of Layer (p. 985) objects

MasterArn (p. 884)

For Lambda@Edge functions, the ARN of the master function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
MemorySize (p. 884)

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

PackageType (p. 884)

The type of deployment package. Set to Image for container image and set Zip for .zip file archive.

Type: String

Valid Values: Zip | Image

RevisionId (p. 884)

The latest updated revision of the function or alias.

Type: String
Role (p. 884)

The function's execution role.

Type: String

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Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+
Runtime (p. 884)

The runtime environment for the Lambda function.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
SigningJobArn (p. 884)

The ARN of the signing job.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
SigningProfileVersionArn (p. 884)

The ARN of the signing profile version.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
State (p. 884)

The current state of the function. When the state is Inactive, you can reactivate the function by
invoking it.

Type: String

Valid Values: Pending | Active | Inactive | Failed

StateReason (p. 884)

The reason for the function's current state.

Type: String
StateReasonCode (p. 884)

The reason code for the function's current state. When the code is Creating, you can't invoke or
modify the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: Idle | Creating | Restoring | EniLimitExceeded |

InsufficientRolePermissions | InvalidConfiguration | InternalError |
SubnetOutOfIPAddresses | InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted
| ImageAccessDenied | InvalidImage
Timeout (p. 884)

The amount of time in seconds that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

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TracingConfig (p. 884)

The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration.

Type: TracingConfigResponse (p. 998) object

Version (p. 884)

The version of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
VpcConfig (p. 884)

The function's networking configuration.

Type: VpcConfigResponse (p. 1000) object

Errors
CodeStorageExceededException

You have exceeded your maximum total code size per account. Learn more

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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PutFunctionCodeSigningConfig
Update the code signing configuration for the function. Changes to the code signing configuration take
effect the next time a user tries to deploy a code package to the function.

Request Syntax
PUT /2020-06-30/functions/FunctionName/code-signing-config HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 891)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 891)

The The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the code signing configuration.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}

Required: Yes

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Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 892)

The The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the code signing configuration.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}
FunctionName (p. 892)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Errors
CodeSigningConfigNotFoundException

The specified code signing configuration does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

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ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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PutFunctionConcurrency
Sets the maximum number of simultaneous executions for a function, and reserves capacity for that
concurrency level.

Concurrency settings apply to the function as a whole, including all published versions and the
unpublished version. Reserving concurrency both ensures that your function has capacity to process
the specified number of events simultaneously, and prevents it from scaling beyond that level. Use
GetFunction (p. 808) to see the current setting for a function.

Use GetAccountSettings (p. 796) to see your Regional concurrency limit. You can reserve concurrency
for as many functions as you like, as long as you leave at least 100 simultaneous executions unreserved
for functions that aren't configured with a per-function limit. For more information, see Managing
Concurrency.

Request Syntax
PUT /2017-10-31/functions/FunctionName/concurrency HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"ReservedConcurrentExecutions": number
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 894)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ReservedConcurrentExecutions (p. 894)

The number of simultaneous executions to reserve for the function.

Type: Integer

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Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: Yes

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"ReservedConcurrentExecutions": number
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

ReservedConcurrentExecutions (p. 895)

The number of concurrent executions that are reserved for this function. For more information, see
Managing Concurrency.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig

PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig
Configures options for asynchronous invocation on a function, version, or alias. If a configuration
already exists for a function, version, or alias, this operation overwrites it. If you exclude any settings,
they are removed. To set one option without affecting existing settings for other options, use
UpdateFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 947).

By default, Lambda retries an asynchronous invocation twice if the function returns an error. It retains
events in a queue for up to six hours. When an event fails all processing attempts or stays in the
asynchronous invocation queue for too long, Lambda discards it. To retain discarded events, configure a
dead-letter queue with UpdateFunctionConfiguration (p. 936).

To send an invocation record to a queue, topic, function, or event bus, specify a destination. You can
configure separate destinations for successful invocations (on-success) and events that fail all processing
attempts (on-failure). You can configure destinations in addition to or instead of a dead-letter queue.

Request Syntax
PUT /2019-09-25/functions/FunctionName/event-invoke-config?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 897)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

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Qualifier (p. 897)

A version number or alias name.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

DestinationConfig (p. 897)

A destination for events after they have been sent to a function for processing.

Destinations
• Function - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a Lambda function.
• Queue - The ARN of an SQS queue.
• Topic - The ARN of an SNS topic.
• Event Bus - The ARN of an Amazon EventBridge event bus.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

Required: No
MaximumEventAgeInSeconds (p. 897)

The maximum age of a request that Lambda sends to a function for processing.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 60. Maximum value of 21600.

Required: No
MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 897)

The maximum number of times to retry when the function returns an error.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 2.

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}

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},
"FunctionArn": "string",
"LastModified": number,
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

DestinationConfig (p. 898)

A destination for events after they have been sent to a function for processing.

Destinations
• Function - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a Lambda function.
• Queue - The ARN of an SQS queue.
• Topic - The ARN of an SNS topic.
• Event Bus - The ARN of an Amazon EventBridge event bus.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

FunctionArn (p. 898)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
LastModified (p. 898)

The date and time that the configuration was last updated, in Unix time seconds.

Type: Timestamp
MaximumEventAgeInSeconds (p. 898)

The maximum age of a request that Lambda sends to a function for processing.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 60. Maximum value of 21600.

MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 898)

The maximum number of times to retry when the function returns an error.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 2.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

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HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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PutProvisionedConcurrencyConfig

PutProvisionedConcurrencyConfig
Adds a provisioned concurrency configuration to a function's alias or version.

Request Syntax
PUT /2019-09-30/functions/FunctionName/provisioned-concurrency?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 901)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 901)

The version number or alias name.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

ProvisionedConcurrentExecutions (p. 901)

The amount of provisioned concurrency to allocate for the version or alias.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

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Required: Yes

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 202
Content-type: application/json

{
"AllocatedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"AvailableProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"LastModified": "string",
"RequestedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions": number,
"Status": "string",
"StatusReason": "string"
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 202 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

AllocatedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions (p. 902)

The amount of provisioned concurrency allocated.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

AvailableProvisionedConcurrentExecutions (p. 902)

The amount of provisioned concurrency available.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

LastModified (p. 902)

The date and time that a user last updated the configuration, in ISO 8601 format.

Type: String
RequestedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions (p. 902)

The amount of provisioned concurrency requested.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Status (p. 902)

The status of the allocation process.

Type: String

Valid Values: IN_PROGRESS | READY | FAILED

StatusReason (p. 902)

For failed allocations, the reason that provisioned concurrency could not be allocated.

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Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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RemoveLayerVersionPermission
Removes a statement from the permissions policy for a version of an AWS Lambda layer. For more
information, see AddLayerVersionPermission (p. 739).

Request Syntax
DELETE /2018-10-31/layers/LayerName/versions/VersionNumber/policy/StatementId?
RevisionId=RevisionId HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

LayerName (p. 904)

The name or Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the layer.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: Yes
RevisionId (p. 904)

Only update the policy if the revision ID matches the ID specified. Use this option to avoid modifying
a policy that has changed since you last read it.
StatementId (p. 904)

The identifier that was specified when the statement was added.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: ([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: Yes
VersionNumber (p. 904)

The version number.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

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Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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RemovePermission
Revokes function-use permission from an AWS service or another account. You can get the ID of the
statement from the output of GetPolicy (p. 835).

Request Syntax
DELETE /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/policy/StatementId?
Qualifier=Qualifier&RevisionId=RevisionId HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 906)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 906)

Specify a version or alias to remove permissions from a published version of the function.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)
RevisionId (p. 906)

Only update the policy if the revision ID matches the ID that's specified. Use this option to avoid
modifying a policy that has changed since you last read it.
StatementId (p. 906)

Statement ID of the permission to remove.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 100.

Pattern: ([a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+)

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

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Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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TagResource

TagResource
Adds tags to a function.

Request Syntax
POST /2017-03-31/tags/ARN HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"Tags": {
"string" : "string"
}
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

ARN (p. 908)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

Tags (p. 908)

A list of tags to apply to the function.

Type: String to string map

Required: Yes

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

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HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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UntagResource
Removes tags from a function.

Request Syntax
DELETE /2017-03-31/tags/ARN?tagKeys=TagKeys HTTP/1.1

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

ARN (p. 910)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
TagKeys (p. 910)

A list of tag keys to remove from the function.

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request does not have a request body.

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 204

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 204 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

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HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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UpdateAlias
Updates the configuration of a Lambda function alias.

Request Syntax
PUT /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/aliases/Name HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"Description": "string",
"FunctionVersion": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"RoutingConfig": {
"AdditionalVersionWeights": {
"string" : number
}
}
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 912)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Name (p. 912)

The name of the alias.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

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Description (p. 912)

A description of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
FunctionVersion (p. 912)

The function version that the alias invokes.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)

Required: No
RevisionId (p. 912)

Only update the alias if the revision ID matches the ID that's specified. Use this option to avoid
modifying an alias that has changed since you last read it.

Type: String

Required: No
RoutingConfig (p. 912)

The routing configuration of the alias.

Type: AliasRoutingConfiguration (p. 956) object

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"AliasArn": "string",
"Description": "string",
"FunctionVersion": "string",
"Name": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"RoutingConfig": {
"AdditionalVersionWeights": {
"string" : number
}
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

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AliasArn (p. 913)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the alias.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Description (p. 913)

A description of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

FunctionVersion (p. 913)

The function version that the alias invokes.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
Name (p. 913)

The name of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)
RevisionId (p. 913)

A unique identifier that changes when you update the alias.

Type: String
RoutingConfig (p. 913)

The routing configuration of the alias.

Type: AliasRoutingConfiguration (p. 956) object

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

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ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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UpdateCodeSigningConfig
Update the code signing configuration. Changes to the code signing configuration take effect the next
time a user tries to deploy a code package to the function.

Request Syntax
PUT /2020-04-22/code-signing-configs/CodeSigningConfigArn HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"AllowedPublishers": {
"SigningProfileVersionArns": [ "string" ]
},
"CodeSigningPolicies": {
"UntrustedArtifactOnDeployment": "string"
},
"Description": "string"
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

CodeSigningConfigArn (p. 916)

The The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the code signing configuration.

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

AllowedPublishers (p. 916)

Signing profiles for this code signing configuration.

Type: AllowedPublishers (p. 957) object

Required: No
CodeSigningPolicies (p. 916)

The code signing policy.

Type: CodeSigningPolicies (p. 960) object

Required: No
Description (p. 916)

Descriptive name for this code signing configuration.

Type: String

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Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSigningConfig": {
"AllowedPublishers": {
"SigningProfileVersionArns": [ "string" ]
},
"CodeSigningConfigArn": "string",
"CodeSigningConfigId": "string",
"CodeSigningPolicies": {
"UntrustedArtifactOnDeployment": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"LastModified": "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSigningConfig (p. 917)

The code signing configuration

Type: CodeSigningConfig (p. 958) object

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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UpdateEventSourceMapping

UpdateEventSourceMapping
Updates an event source mapping. You can change the function that AWS Lambda invokes, or pause
invocation and resume later from the same location.

The following error handling options are only available for stream sources (DynamoDB and Kinesis):

• BisectBatchOnFunctionError - If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry.
• DestinationConfig - Send discarded records to an Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic.
• MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds - Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is
infinite (-1). When set to infinite (-1), failed records are retried until the record expires
• MaximumRetryAttempts - Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is
infinite (-1). When set to infinite (-1), failed records are retried until the record expires.
• ParallelizationFactor - Process multiple batches from each shard concurrently.

Request Syntax
PUT /2015-03-31/event-source-mappings/UUID HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"BatchSize": number,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": boolean,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"Enabled": boolean,
"FunctionName": "string",
"FunctionResponseTypes": [ "string" ],
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number,
"ParallelizationFactor": number,
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [
{
"Type": "string",
"URI": "string"
}
],
"TumblingWindowInSeconds": number
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

UUID (p. 919)

The identifier of the event source mapping.

Required: Yes

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Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

BatchSize (p. 919)

The maximum number of items to retrieve in a single batch.

• Amazon Kinesis - Default 100. Max 10,000.
• Amazon DynamoDB Streams - Default 100. Max 1,000.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service - Default 10. For standard queues the max is 10,000. For FIFO
queues the max is 10.
• Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka - Default 100. Max 10,000.
• Self-Managed Apache Kafka - Default 100. Max 10,000.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Required: No
BisectBatchOnFunctionError (p. 919)

(Streams only) If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
DestinationConfig (p. 919)

(Streams only) An Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic destination for discarded records.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

Required: No
Enabled (p. 919)

If true, the event source mapping is active. Set to false to pause polling and invocation.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
FunctionName (p. 919)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - MyFunction.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction.
• Version or Alias ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-
west-2:123456789012:function:MyFunction:PROD.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:MyFunction.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it's limited
to 64 characters in length.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

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Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
FunctionResponseTypes (p. 919)

(Streams only) A list of current response type enums applied to the event source mapping.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Valid Values: ReportBatchItemFailures

Required: No
MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds (p. 919)

(Streams and SQS standard queues) The maximum amount of time to gather records before
invoking the function, in seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 300.

Required: No
MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds (p. 919)

(Streams only) Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is infinite (-1).

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 604800.

Required: No
MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 919)

(Streams only) Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is infinite (-1).
When set to infinite (-1), failed records will be retried until the record expires.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 10000.

Required: No
ParallelizationFactor (p. 919)

(Streams only) The number of batches to process from each shard concurrently.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Required: No
SourceAccessConfigurations (p. 919)

An array of the authentication protocol, or the VPC components to secure your event source.

Type: Array of SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996) objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 22 items.

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Required: No
TumblingWindowInSeconds (p. 919)

(Streams only) The duration in seconds of a processing window. The range is between 1 second up to
900 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 900.

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 202
Content-type: application/json

{
"BatchSize": number,
"BisectBatchOnFunctionError": boolean,
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"EventSourceArn": "string",
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionResponseTypes": [ "string" ],
"LastModified": number,
"LastProcessingResult": "string",
"MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number,
"ParallelizationFactor": number,
"Queues": [ "string" ],
"SelfManagedEventSource": {
"Endpoints": {
"string" : [ "string" ]
}
},
"SourceAccessConfigurations": [
{
"Type": "string",
"URI": "string"
}
],
"StartingPosition": "string",
"StartingPositionTimestamp": number,
"State": "string",
"StateTransitionReason": "string",
"Topics": [ "string" ],
"TumblingWindowInSeconds": number,
"UUID": "string"
}

Response Elements
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The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

BatchSize (p. 922)

The maximum number of items to retrieve in a single batch.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

BisectBatchOnFunctionError (p. 922)

(Streams only) If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry. The default value is
false.

Type: Boolean
DestinationConfig (p. 922)

(Streams only) An Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic destination for discarded records.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

EventSourceArn (p. 922)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the event source.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
FunctionArn (p. 922)

The ARN of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionResponseTypes (p. 922)

(Streams only) A list of current response type enums applied to the event source mapping.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

Valid Values: ReportBatchItemFailures

LastModified (p. 922)

The date that the event source mapping was last updated or that its state changed, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
LastProcessingResult (p. 922)

The result of the last Lambda invocation of your function.

Type: String
MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds (p. 922)

(Streams and Amazon SQS standard queues) The maximum amount of time to gather records before
invoking the function, in seconds. The default value is zero.

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Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 300.

MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds (p. 922)

(Streams only) Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is -1, which sets the
maximum age to infinite. When the value is set to infinite, Lambda never discards old records.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 604800.

MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 922)

(Streams only) Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is -1, which
sets the maximum number of retries to infinite. When MaximumRetryAttempts is infinite, Lambda
retries failed records until the record expires in the event source.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 10000.

ParallelizationFactor (p. 922)

(Streams only) The number of batches to process concurrently from each shard. The default value is
1.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Queues (p. 922)

(Amazon MQ) The name of the Amazon MQ broker destination queue to consume.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [\s\S]*
SelfManagedEventSource (p. 922)

The self-managed Apache Kafka cluster for your event source.

Type: SelfManagedEventSource (p. 995) object

SourceAccessConfigurations (p. 922)

An array of the authentication protocol, VPC components, or virtual host to secure and define your
event source.

Type: Array of SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996) objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 22 items.

StartingPosition (p. 922)

The position in a stream from which to start reading. Required for Amazon Kinesis, Amazon
DynamoDB, and Amazon MSK stream sources. AT_TIMESTAMP is supported only for Amazon Kinesis
streams.

Type: String

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Valid Values: TRIM_HORIZON | LATEST | AT_TIMESTAMP

StartingPositionTimestamp (p. 922)

With StartingPosition set to AT_TIMESTAMP, the time from which to start reading, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp
State (p. 922)

The state of the event source mapping. It can be one of the following: Creating, Enabling,
Enabled, Disabling, Disabled, Updating, or Deleting.

Type: String
StateTransitionReason (p. 922)

Indicates whether a user or Lambda made the last change to the event source mapping.

Type: String
Topics (p. 922)

The name of the Kafka topic.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 249.

Pattern: ^[^.]([a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+)
TumblingWindowInSeconds (p. 922)

(Streams only) The duration in seconds of a processing window. The range is 1–900 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 900.

UUID (p. 922)

The identifier of the event source mapping.

Type: String

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceInUseException

The operation conflicts with the resource's availability. For example, you attempted to update
an EventSource Mapping in CREATING, or tried to delete a EventSource mapping currently in the
UPDATING state.

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HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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UpdateFunctionCode
Updates a Lambda function's code. If code signing is enabled for the function, the code package must be
signed by a trusted publisher. For more information, see Configuring code signing.

The function's code is locked when you publish a version. You can't modify the code of a published
version, only the unpublished version.
Note
For a function defined as a container image, Lambda resolves the image tag to an image digest.
In Amazon ECR, if you update the image tag to a new image, Lambda does not automatically
update the function.

Request Syntax
PUT /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/code HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"DryRun": boolean,
"ImageUri": "string",
"Publish": boolean,
"RevisionId": "string",
"S3Bucket": "string",
"S3Key": "string",
"S3ObjectVersion": "string",
"ZipFile": blob
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 927)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

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DryRun (p. 927)

Set to true to validate the request parameters and access permissions without modifying the
function code.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
ImageUri (p. 927)

URI of a container image in the Amazon ECR registry.

Type: String

Required: No
Publish (p. 927)

Set to true to publish a new version of the function after updating the code. This has the same effect
as calling PublishVersion (p. 883) separately.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
RevisionId (p. 927)

Only update the function if the revision ID matches the ID that's specified. Use this option to avoid
modifying a function that has changed since you last read it.

Type: String

Required: No
S3Bucket (p. 927)

An Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region as your function. The bucket can be in a different
AWS account.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 63.

Pattern: ^[0-9A-Za-z\.\-_]*(?<!\.)$

Required: No
S3Key (p. 927)

The Amazon S3 key of the deployment package.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No
S3ObjectVersion (p. 927)

For versioned objects, the version of the deployment package object to use.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No

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ZipFile (p. 927)

The base64-encoded contents of the deployment package. AWS SDK and AWS CLI clients handle the
encoding for you.

Type: Base64-encoded binary data object

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}
],

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"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSha256 (p. 929)

The SHA256 hash of the function's deployment package.

Type: String
CodeSize (p. 929)

The size of the function's deployment package, in bytes.

Type: Long
DeadLetterConfig (p. 929)

The function's dead letter queue.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Description (p. 929)

The function's description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Environment (p. 929)

The function's environment variables.

Type: EnvironmentResponse (p. 966) object

FileSystemConfigs (p. 929)

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

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Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

FunctionArn (p. 929)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionName (p. 929)

The name of the function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Handler (p. 929)

The function that Lambda calls to begin executing your function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+
ImageConfigResponse (p. 929)

The function's image configuration values.

Type: ImageConfigResponse (p. 984) object

KMSKeyArn (p. 929)

The KMS key that's used to encrypt the function's environment variables. This key is only returned if
you've configured a customer managed CMK.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()
LastModified (p. 929)

The date and time that the function was last updated, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-
DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String
LastUpdateStatus (p. 929)

The status of the last update that was performed on the function. This is first set to Successful
after function creation completes.

Type: String

Valid Values: Successful | Failed | InProgress

LastUpdateStatusReason (p. 929)

The reason for the last update that was performed on the function.

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Type: String
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode (p. 929)

The reason code for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: EniLimitExceeded | InsufficientRolePermissions |

InvalidConfiguration | InternalError | SubnetOutOfIPAddresses |
InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted | ImageAccessDenied |
InvalidImage
Layers (p. 929)

The function's layers.

Type: Array of Layer (p. 985) objects

MasterArn (p. 929)

For Lambda@Edge functions, the ARN of the master function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
MemorySize (p. 929)

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

PackageType (p. 929)

The type of deployment package. Set to Image for container image and set Zip for .zip file archive.

Type: String

Valid Values: Zip | Image

RevisionId (p. 929)

The latest updated revision of the function or alias.

Type: String
Role (p. 929)

The function's execution role.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+
Runtime (p. 929)

The runtime environment for the Lambda function.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1

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| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |

provided.al2
SigningJobArn (p. 929)

The ARN of the signing job.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
SigningProfileVersionArn (p. 929)

The ARN of the signing profile version.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
State (p. 929)

The current state of the function. When the state is Inactive, you can reactivate the function by
invoking it.

Type: String

Valid Values: Pending | Active | Inactive | Failed

StateReason (p. 929)

The reason for the function's current state.

Type: String
StateReasonCode (p. 929)

The reason code for the function's current state. When the code is Creating, you can't invoke or
modify the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: Idle | Creating | Restoring | EniLimitExceeded |

InsufficientRolePermissions | InvalidConfiguration | InternalError |
SubnetOutOfIPAddresses | InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted
| ImageAccessDenied | InvalidImage
Timeout (p. 929)

The amount of time in seconds that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

TracingConfig (p. 929)

The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration.

Type: TracingConfigResponse (p. 998) object

Version (p. 929)

The version of the Lambda function.

Type: String

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Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
VpcConfig (p. 929)

The function's networking configuration.

Type: VpcConfigResponse (p. 1000) object

Errors
CodeSigningConfigNotFoundException

The specified code signing configuration does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

CodeStorageExceededException

You have exceeded your maximum total code size per account. Learn more

HTTP Status Code: 400

CodeVerificationFailedException

The code signature failed one or more of the validation checks for signature mismatch or expiry, and
the code signing policy is set to ENFORCE. Lambda blocks the deployment.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidCodeSignatureException

The code signature failed the integrity check. Lambda always blocks deployment if the integrity
check fails, even if code signing policy is set to WARN.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

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HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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UpdateFunctionConfiguration
Modify the version-specific settings of a Lambda function.

When you update a function, Lambda provisions an instance of the function and its supporting resources.
If your function connects to a VPC, this process can take a minute. During this time, you can't modify
the function, but you can still invoke it. The LastUpdateStatus, LastUpdateStatusReason, and
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode fields in the response from GetFunctionConfiguration (p. 817)
indicate when the update is complete and the function is processing events with the new configuration.
For more information, see Function States.

These settings can vary between versions of a function and are locked when you publish a version. You
can't modify the configuration of a published version, only the unpublished version.

To configure function concurrency, use PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894). To grant invoke permissions to
an account or AWS service, use AddPermission (p. 743).

Request Syntax
PUT /2015-03-31/functions/FunctionName/configuration HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"Layers": [ "string" ],
"MemorySize": number,
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"VpcConfig": {
"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ]
}
}

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URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 936)

The name of the Lambda function.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function.
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

The length constraint applies only to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited
to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

DeadLetterConfig (p. 936)

A dead letter queue configuration that specifies the queue or topic where Lambda sends
asynchronous events when they fail processing. For more information, see Dead Letter Queues.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Required: No
Description (p. 936)

A description of the function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
Environment (p. 936)

Environment variables that are accessible from function code during execution.

Type: Environment (p. 964) object

Required: No
FileSystemConfigs (p. 936)

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

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Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

Required: No
Handler (p. 936)

The name of the method within your code that Lambda calls to execute your function. The format
includes the file name. It can also include namespaces and other qualifiers, depending on the
runtime. For more information, see Programming Model.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+

Required: No
ImageConfig (p. 936)

Container image configuration values that override the values in the container image Dockerfile.

Type: ImageConfig (p. 982) object

Required: No
KMSKeyArn (p. 936)

The ARN of the AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key that's used to encrypt your function's
environment variables. If it's not provided, AWS Lambda uses a default service key.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()

Required: No
Layers (p. 936)

A list of function layers to add to the function's execution environment. Specify each layer by its
ARN, including the version.

Type: Array of strings

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+

Required: No
MemorySize (p. 936)

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime. Increasing the function memory also
increases its CPU allocation. The default value is 128 MB. The value can be any multiple of 1 MB.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

Required: No
RevisionId (p. 936)

Only update the function if the revision ID matches the ID that's specified. Use this option to avoid
modifying a function that has changed since you last read it.

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Type: String

Required: No
Role (p. 936)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function's execution role.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+

Required: No
Runtime (p. 936)

The identifier of the function's runtime.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2

Required: No
Timeout (p. 936)

The amount of time that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it. The default is 3
seconds. The maximum allowed value is 900 seconds. For additional information, see Lambda
execution environment.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No
TracingConfig (p. 936)

Set Mode to Active to sample and trace a subset of incoming requests with X-Ray.

Type: TracingConfig (p. 997) object

Required: No
VpcConfig (p. 936)

For network connectivity to AWS resources in a VPC, specify a list of security groups and subnets
in the VPC. When you connect a function to a VPC, it can only access resources and the internet
through that VPC. For more information, see VPC Settings.

Type: VpcConfig (p. 999) object

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

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{
"CodeSha256": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"DeadLetterConfig": {
"TargetArn": "string"
},
"Description": "string",
"Environment": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"Variables": {
"string" : "string"
}
},
"FileSystemConfigs": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"LocalMountPath": "string"
}
],
"FunctionArn": "string",
"FunctionName": "string",
"Handler": "string",
"ImageConfigResponse": {
"Error": {
"ErrorCode": "string",
"Message": "string"
},
"ImageConfig": {
"Command": [ "string" ],
"EntryPoint": [ "string" ],
"WorkingDirectory": "string"
}
},
"KMSKeyArn": "string",
"LastModified": "string",
"LastUpdateStatus": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReason": "string",
"LastUpdateStatusReasonCode": "string",
"Layers": [
{
"Arn": "string",
"CodeSize": number,
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string"
}
],
"MasterArn": "string",
"MemorySize": number,
"PackageType": "string",
"RevisionId": "string",
"Role": "string",
"Runtime": "string",
"SigningJobArn": "string",
"SigningProfileVersionArn": "string",
"State": "string",
"StateReason": "string",
"StateReasonCode": "string",
"Timeout": number,
"TracingConfig": {
"Mode": "string"
},
"Version": "string",
"VpcConfig": {

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"SecurityGroupIds": [ "string" ],
"SubnetIds": [ "string" ],
"VpcId": "string"
}
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

CodeSha256 (p. 939)

The SHA256 hash of the function's deployment package.

Type: String
CodeSize (p. 939)

The size of the function's deployment package, in bytes.

Type: Long
DeadLetterConfig (p. 939)

The function's dead letter queue.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Description (p. 939)

The function's description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Environment (p. 939)

The function's environment variables.

Type: EnvironmentResponse (p. 966) object

FileSystemConfigs (p. 939)

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

FunctionArn (p. 939)

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
FunctionName (p. 939)

The name of the function.

Type: String

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Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
Handler (p. 939)

The function that Lambda calls to begin executing your function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+
ImageConfigResponse (p. 939)

The function's image configuration values.

Type: ImageConfigResponse (p. 984) object

KMSKeyArn (p. 939)

The KMS key that's used to encrypt the function's environment variables. This key is only returned if
you've configured a customer managed CMK.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()
LastModified (p. 939)

The date and time that the function was last updated, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-
DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String
LastUpdateStatus (p. 939)

The status of the last update that was performed on the function. This is first set to Successful
after function creation completes.

Type: String

Valid Values: Successful | Failed | InProgress

LastUpdateStatusReason (p. 939)

The reason for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode (p. 939)

The reason code for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: EniLimitExceeded | InsufficientRolePermissions |

InvalidConfiguration | InternalError | SubnetOutOfIPAddresses |
InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted | ImageAccessDenied |
InvalidImage
Layers (p. 939)

The function's layers.

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Type: Array of Layer (p. 985) objects

MasterArn (p. 939)

For Lambda@Edge functions, the ARN of the master function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
MemorySize (p. 939)

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

PackageType (p. 939)

The type of deployment package. Set to Image for container image and set Zip for .zip file archive.

Type: String

Valid Values: Zip | Image

RevisionId (p. 939)

The latest updated revision of the function or alias.

Type: String
Role (p. 939)

The function's execution role.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+
Runtime (p. 939)

The runtime environment for the Lambda function.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2
SigningJobArn (p. 939)

The ARN of the signing job.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
SigningProfileVersionArn (p. 939)

The ARN of the signing profile version.

Type: String

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Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)
State (p. 939)

The current state of the function. When the state is Inactive, you can reactivate the function by
invoking it.

Type: String

Valid Values: Pending | Active | Inactive | Failed

StateReason (p. 939)

The reason for the function's current state.

Type: String
StateReasonCode (p. 939)

The reason code for the function's current state. When the code is Creating, you can't invoke or
modify the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: Idle | Creating | Restoring | EniLimitExceeded |

InsufficientRolePermissions | InvalidConfiguration | InternalError |
SubnetOutOfIPAddresses | InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted
| ImageAccessDenied | InvalidImage
Timeout (p. 939)

The amount of time in seconds that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

TracingConfig (p. 939)

The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration.

Type: TracingConfigResponse (p. 998) object

Version (p. 939)

The version of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)
VpcConfig (p. 939)

The function's networking configuration.

Type: VpcConfigResponse (p. 1000) object

Errors
CodeSigningConfigNotFoundException

The specified code signing configuration does not exist.

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HTTP Status Code: 404

CodeVerificationFailedException

The code signature failed one or more of the validation checks for signature mismatch or expiry, and
the code signing policy is set to ENFORCE. Lambda blocks the deployment.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidCodeSignatureException

The code signature failed the integrity check. Lambda always blocks deployment if the integrity
check fails, even if code signing policy is set to WARN.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

PreconditionFailedException

The RevisionId provided does not match the latest RevisionId for the Lambda function or alias. Call
the GetFunction or the GetAlias API to retrieve the latest RevisionId for your resource.

HTTP Status Code: 412

ResourceConflictException

The resource already exists, or another operation is in progress.

HTTP Status Code: 409

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3

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UpdateFunctionConfiguration

• AWS SDK for Python

• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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UpdateFunctionEventInvokeConfig

UpdateFunctionEventInvokeConfig
Updates the configuration for asynchronous invocation for a function, version, or alias.

To configure options for asynchronous invocation, use PutFunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 897).

Request Syntax
POST /2019-09-25/functions/FunctionName/event-invoke-config?Qualifier=Qualifier HTTP/1.1
Content-type: application/json

{
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number
}

URI Request Parameters

The request uses the following URI parameters.

FunctionName (p. 947)

The name of the Lambda function, version, or alias.

Name formats
• Function name - my-function (name-only), my-function:v1 (with alias).
• Function ARN - arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function.
• Partial ARN - 123456789012:function:my-function.

You can append a version number or alias to any of the formats. The length constraint applies only
to the full ARN. If you specify only the function name, it is limited to 64 characters in length.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: Yes
Qualifier (p. 947)

A version number or alias name.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (|[a-zA-Z0-9$_-]+)

Request Body
The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

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DestinationConfig (p. 947)

A destination for events after they have been sent to a function for processing.

Destinations
• Function - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a Lambda function.
• Queue - The ARN of an SQS queue.
• Topic - The ARN of an SNS topic.
• Event Bus - The ARN of an Amazon EventBridge event bus.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

Required: No
MaximumEventAgeInSeconds (p. 947)

The maximum age of a request that Lambda sends to a function for processing.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 60. Maximum value of 21600.

Required: No
MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 947)

The maximum number of times to retry when the function returns an error.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 2.

Required: No

Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-type: application/json

{
"DestinationConfig": {
"OnFailure": {
"Destination": "string"
},
"OnSuccess": {
"Destination": "string"
}
},
"FunctionArn": "string",
"LastModified": number,
"MaximumEventAgeInSeconds": number,
"MaximumRetryAttempts": number
}

Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.

The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.

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DestinationConfig (p. 948)

A destination for events after they have been sent to a function for processing.

Destinations
• Function - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a Lambda function.
• Queue - The ARN of an SQS queue.
• Topic - The ARN of an SNS topic.
• Event Bus - The ARN of an Amazon EventBridge event bus.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

FunctionArn (p. 948)

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?
LastModified (p. 948)

The date and time that the configuration was last updated, in Unix time seconds.

Type: Timestamp
MaximumEventAgeInSeconds (p. 948)

The maximum age of a request that Lambda sends to a function for processing.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 60. Maximum value of 21600.

MaximumRetryAttempts (p. 948)

The maximum number of times to retry when the function returns an error.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 2.

Errors
InvalidParameterValueException

One of the parameters in the request is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

ResourceNotFoundException

The resource specified in the request does not exist.

HTTP Status Code: 404

ServiceException

The AWS Lambda service encountered an internal error.

HTTP Status Code: 500

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Data Types

TooManyRequestsException

The request throughput limit was exceeded.

HTTP Status Code: 429

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS Command Line Interface

• AWS SDK for .NET
• AWS SDK for C++
• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for JavaScript
• AWS SDK for PHP V3
• AWS SDK for Python
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

Data Types
The following data types are supported:

• AccountLimit (p. 952)

• AccountUsage (p. 953)
• AliasConfiguration (p. 954)
• AliasRoutingConfiguration (p. 956)
• AllowedPublishers (p. 957)
• CodeSigningConfig (p. 958)
• CodeSigningPolicies (p. 960)
• Concurrency (p. 961)
• DeadLetterConfig (p. 962)
• DestinationConfig (p. 963)
• Environment (p. 964)
• EnvironmentError (p. 965)
• EnvironmentResponse (p. 966)
• EventSourceMappingConfiguration (p. 967)
• FileSystemConfig (p. 971)
• FunctionCode (p. 972)
• FunctionCodeLocation (p. 974)
• FunctionConfiguration (p. 975)
• FunctionEventInvokeConfig (p. 980)
• ImageConfig (p. 982)
• ImageConfigError (p. 983)
• ImageConfigResponse (p. 984)
• Layer (p. 985)

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• LayersListItem (p. 986)

• LayerVersionContentInput (p. 987)
• LayerVersionContentOutput (p. 988)
• LayerVersionsListItem (p. 989)
• OnFailure (p. 991)
• OnSuccess (p. 992)
• ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigListItem (p. 993)
• SelfManagedEventSource (p. 995)
• SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996)
• TracingConfig (p. 997)
• TracingConfigResponse (p. 998)
• VpcConfig (p. 999)
• VpcConfigResponse (p. 1000)

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AccountLimit

AccountLimit
Limits that are related to concurrency and storage. All file and storage sizes are in bytes.

Contents
CodeSizeUnzipped

The maximum size of a function's deployment package and layers when they're extracted.

Type: Long

Required: No
CodeSizeZipped

The maximum size of a deployment package when it's uploaded directly to Lambda. Use Amazon S3
for larger files.

Type: Long

Required: No
ConcurrentExecutions

The maximum number of simultaneous function executions.

Type: Integer

Required: No
TotalCodeSize

The amount of storage space that you can use for all deployment packages and layer archives.

Type: Long

Required: No
UnreservedConcurrentExecutions

The maximum number of simultaneous function executions, minus the capacity that's reserved for
individual functions with PutFunctionConcurrency (p. 894).

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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AccountUsage

AccountUsage
The number of functions and amount of storage in use.

Contents
FunctionCount

The number of Lambda functions.

Type: Long

Required: No
TotalCodeSize

The amount of storage space, in bytes, that's being used by deployment packages and layer archives.

Type: Long

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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AliasConfiguration

AliasConfiguration
Provides configuration information about a Lambda function alias.

Contents
AliasArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the alias.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
Description

A description of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
FunctionVersion

The function version that the alias invokes.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)

Required: No
Name

The name of the alias.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: (?!^[0-9]+$)([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)

Required: No
RevisionId

A unique identifier that changes when you update the alias.

Type: String

Required: No
RoutingConfig

The routing configuration of the alias.

Type: AliasRoutingConfiguration (p. 956) object

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Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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AliasRoutingConfiguration

AliasRoutingConfiguration
The traffic-shifting configuration of a Lambda function alias.

Contents
AdditionalVersionWeights

The second version, and the percentage of traffic that's routed to it.

Type: String to double map

Key Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Key Pattern: [0-9]+

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.0. Maximum value of 1.0.

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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AllowedPublishers

AllowedPublishers
List of signing profiles that can sign a code package.

Contents
SigningProfileVersionArns

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for each of the signing profiles. A signing profile defines a
trusted user who can sign a code package.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 20 items.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: Yes

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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CodeSigningConfig

CodeSigningConfig
Details about a Code signing configuration.

Contents
AllowedPublishers

List of allowed publishers.

Type: AllowedPublishers (p. 957) object

Required: Yes
CodeSigningConfigArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Code signing configuration.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-z]+-
\d{1}:\d{12}:code-signing-config:csc-[a-z0-9]{17}

Required: Yes
CodeSigningConfigId

Unique identifer for the Code signing configuration.

Type: String

Pattern: csc-[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]{17}

Required: Yes
CodeSigningPolicies

The code signing policy controls the validation failure action for signature mismatch or expiry.

Type: CodeSigningPolicies (p. 960) object

Required: Yes
Description

Code signing configuration description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
LastModified

The date and time that the Code signing configuration was last modified, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-
MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String

Required: Yes

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See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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CodeSigningPolicies

CodeSigningPolicies
Code signing configuration policies specify the validation failure action for signature mismatch or expiry.

Contents
UntrustedArtifactOnDeployment

Code signing configuration policy for deployment validation failure. If you set the policy to
Enforce, Lambda blocks the deployment request if signature validation checks fail. If you set the
policy to Warn, Lambda allows the deployment and creates a CloudWatch log.

Default value: Warn

Type: String

Valid Values: Warn | Enforce

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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Concurrency

Concurrency
Contents
ReservedConcurrentExecutions

The number of concurrent executions that are reserved for this function. For more information, see
Managing Concurrency.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DeadLetterConfig

DeadLetterConfig
The dead-letter queue for failed asynchronous invocations.

Contents
TargetArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of an Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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DestinationConfig

DestinationConfig
A configuration object that specifies the destination of an event after Lambda processes it.

Contents
OnFailure

The destination configuration for failed invocations.

Type: OnFailure (p. 991) object

Required: No
OnSuccess

The destination configuration for successful invocations.

Type: OnSuccess (p. 992) object

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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Environment

Environment
A function's environment variable settings. You can use environment variables to adjust your function's
behavior without updating code. An environment variable is a pair of strings that are stored in a
function's version-specific configuration.

Contents
Variables

Environment variable key-value pairs. For more information, see Using Lambda environment
variables.

Type: String to string map

Key Pattern: [a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z0-9_])+

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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EnvironmentError

EnvironmentError
Error messages for environment variables that couldn't be applied.

Contents
ErrorCode

The error code.

Type: String

Required: No
Message

The error message.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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EnvironmentResponse

EnvironmentResponse
The results of an operation to update or read environment variables. If the operation is successful, the
response contains the environment variables. If it failed, the response contains details about the error.

Contents
Error

Error messages for environment variables that couldn't be applied.

Type: EnvironmentError (p. 965) object

Required: No
Variables

Environment variable key-value pairs.

Type: String to string map

Key Pattern: [a-zA-Z]([a-zA-Z0-9_])+

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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EventSourceMappingConfiguration

EventSourceMappingConfiguration
A mapping between an AWS resource and a Lambda function. For details, see
CreateEventSourceMapping (p. 754).

Contents
BatchSize

The maximum number of items to retrieve in a single batch.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10000.

Required: No
BisectBatchOnFunctionError

(Streams only) If the function returns an error, split the batch in two and retry. The default value is
false.

Type: Boolean

Required: No
DestinationConfig

(Streams only) An Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic destination for discarded records.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

Required: No
EventSourceArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the event source.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No
FunctionArn

The ARN of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
FunctionResponseTypes

(Streams only) A list of current response type enums applied to the event source mapping.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 1 item.

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Valid Values: ReportBatchItemFailures

Required: No
LastModified

The date that the event source mapping was last updated or that its state changed, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No
LastProcessingResult

The result of the last Lambda invocation of your function.

Type: String

Required: No
MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds

(Streams and Amazon SQS standard queues) The maximum amount of time to gather records before
invoking the function, in seconds. The default value is zero.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 300.

Required: No
MaximumRecordAgeInSeconds

(Streams only) Discard records older than the specified age. The default value is -1, which sets the
maximum age to infinite. When the value is set to infinite, Lambda never discards old records.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 604800.

Required: No
MaximumRetryAttempts

(Streams only) Discard records after the specified number of retries. The default value is -1, which
sets the maximum number of retries to infinite. When MaximumRetryAttempts is infinite, Lambda
retries failed records until the record expires in the event source.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of -1. Maximum value of 10000.

Required: No
ParallelizationFactor

(Streams only) The number of batches to process concurrently from each shard. The default value is
1.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1. Maximum value of 10.

Required: No

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EventSourceMappingConfiguration

Queues

(Amazon MQ) The name of the Amazon MQ broker destination queue to consume.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1000.

Pattern: [\s\S]*

Required: No
SelfManagedEventSource

The self-managed Apache Kafka cluster for your event source.

Type: SelfManagedEventSource (p. 995) object

Required: No
SourceAccessConfigurations

An array of the authentication protocol, VPC components, or virtual host to secure and define your
event source.

Type: Array of SourceAccessConfiguration (p. 996) objects

Array Members: Minimum number of 0 items. Maximum number of 22 items.

Required: No
StartingPosition

The position in a stream from which to start reading. Required for Amazon Kinesis, Amazon
DynamoDB, and Amazon MSK stream sources. AT_TIMESTAMP is supported only for Amazon Kinesis
streams.

Type: String

Valid Values: TRIM_HORIZON | LATEST | AT_TIMESTAMP

Required: No
StartingPositionTimestamp

With StartingPosition set to AT_TIMESTAMP, the time from which to start reading, in Unix time
seconds.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No
State

The state of the event source mapping. It can be one of the following: Creating, Enabling,
Enabled, Disabling, Disabled, Updating, or Deleting.

Type: String

Required: No
StateTransitionReason

Indicates whether a user or Lambda made the last change to the event source mapping.

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Type: String

Required: No
Topics

The name of the Kafka topic.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Fixed number of 1 item.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 249.

Pattern: ^[^.]([a-zA-Z0-9\-_.]+)

Required: No
TumblingWindowInSeconds

(Streams only) The duration in seconds of a processing window. The range is 1–900 seconds.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 900.

Required: No
UUID

The identifier of the event source mapping.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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FileSystemConfig

FileSystemConfig
Details about the connection between a Lambda function and an Amazon EFS file system.

Contents
Arn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the Amazon EFS access point that provides access to the file
system.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: arn:aws[a-zA-Z-]*:elasticfilesystem:[a-z]{2}((-gov)|(-iso(b?)))?-[a-
z]+-\d{1}:\d{12}:access-point/fsap-[a-f0-9]{17}

Required: Yes
LocalMountPath

The path where the function can access the file system, starting with /mnt/.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 160.

Pattern: ^/mnt/[a-zA-Z0-9-_.]+$

Required: Yes

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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FunctionCode

FunctionCode
The code for the Lambda function. You can specify either an object in Amazon S3, upload a .zip file
archive deployment package directly, or specify the URI of a container image.

Contents
ImageUri

URI of a container image in the Amazon ECR registry.

Type: String

Required: No
S3Bucket

An Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region as your function. The bucket can be in a different
AWS account.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 63.

Pattern: ^[0-9A-Za-z\.\-_]*(?<!\.)$

Required: No
S3Key

The Amazon S3 key of the deployment package.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No
S3ObjectVersion

For versioned objects, the version of the deployment package object to use.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No
ZipFile

The base64-encoded contents of the deployment package. AWS SDK and AWS CLI clients handle the
encoding for you.

Type: Base64-encoded binary data object

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

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• AWS SDK for Go

• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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FunctionCodeLocation
Details about a function's deployment package.

Contents
ImageUri

URI of a container image in the Amazon ECR registry.

Type: String

Required: No
Location

A presigned URL that you can use to download the deployment package.

Type: String

Required: No
RepositoryType

The service that's hosting the file.

Type: String

Required: No
ResolvedImageUri

The resolved URI for the image.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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FunctionConfiguration

FunctionConfiguration
Details about a function's configuration.

Contents
CodeSha256

The SHA256 hash of the function's deployment package.

Type: String

Required: No
CodeSize

The size of the function's deployment package, in bytes.

Type: Long

Required: No
DeadLetterConfig

The function's dead letter queue.

Type: DeadLetterConfig (p. 962) object

Required: No
Description

The function's description.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
Environment

The function's environment variables.

Type: EnvironmentResponse (p. 966) object

Required: No
FileSystemConfigs

Connection settings for an Amazon EFS file system.

Type: Array of FileSystemConfig (p. 971) objects

Array Members: Maximum number of 1 item.

Required: No
FunctionArn

The function's Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Type: String

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FunctionConfiguration

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
FunctionName

The name of the function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 170.

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:)?([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:)?
(\d{12}:)?(function:)?([a-zA-Z0-9-_\.]+)(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
Handler

The function that Lambda calls to begin executing your function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 128.

Pattern: [^\s]+

Required: No
ImageConfigResponse

The function's image configuration values.

Type: ImageConfigResponse (p. 984) object

Required: No
KMSKeyArn

The KMS key that's used to encrypt the function's environment variables. This key is only returned if
you've configured a customer managed CMK.

Type: String

Pattern: (arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:[a-z0-9-.]+:.*)|()

Required: No
LastModified

The date and time that the function was last updated, in ISO-8601 format (YYYY-MM-
DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD).

Type: String

Required: No
LastUpdateStatus

The status of the last update that was performed on the function. This is first set to Successful
after function creation completes.

Type: String

Valid Values: Successful | Failed | InProgress

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Required: No
LastUpdateStatusReason

The reason for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String

Required: No
LastUpdateStatusReasonCode

The reason code for the last update that was performed on the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: EniLimitExceeded | InsufficientRolePermissions |

InvalidConfiguration | InternalError | SubnetOutOfIPAddresses |
InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted | ImageAccessDenied |
InvalidImage

Required: No
Layers

The function's layers.

Type: Array of Layer (p. 985) objects

Required: No
MasterArn

For Lambda@Edge functions, the ARN of the master function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
MemorySize

The amount of memory available to the function at runtime.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 128. Maximum value of 10240.

Required: No
PackageType

The type of deployment package. Set to Image for container image and set Zip for .zip file archive.

Type: String

Valid Values: Zip | Image

Required: No
RevisionId

The latest updated revision of the function or alias.

Type: String

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Required: No
Role

The function's execution role.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:iam::\d{12}:role/?[a-zA-Z_0-9+=,.@\-_/]+

Required: No
Runtime

The runtime environment for the Lambda function.

Type: String

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2

Required: No
SigningJobArn

The ARN of the signing job.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No
SigningProfileVersionArn

The ARN of the signing profile version.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No
State

The current state of the function. When the state is Inactive, you can reactivate the function by
invoking it.

Type: String

Valid Values: Pending | Active | Inactive | Failed

Required: No
StateReason

The reason for the function's current state.

Type: String

Required: No

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FunctionConfiguration

StateReasonCode

The reason code for the function's current state. When the code is Creating, you can't invoke or
modify the function.

Type: String

Valid Values: Idle | Creating | Restoring | EniLimitExceeded |

InsufficientRolePermissions | InvalidConfiguration | InternalError |
SubnetOutOfIPAddresses | InvalidSubnet | InvalidSecurityGroup | ImageDeleted
| ImageAccessDenied | InvalidImage

Required: No
Timeout

The amount of time in seconds that Lambda allows a function to run before stopping it.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No
TracingConfig

The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration.

Type: TracingConfigResponse (p. 998) object

Required: No
Version

The version of the Lambda function.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Pattern: (\$LATEST|[0-9]+)

Required: No
VpcConfig

The function's networking configuration.

Type: VpcConfigResponse (p. 1000) object

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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FunctionEventInvokeConfig

FunctionEventInvokeConfig
Contents
DestinationConfig

A destination for events after they have been sent to a function for processing.

Destinations
• Function - The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a Lambda function.
• Queue - The ARN of an SQS queue.
• Topic - The ARN of an SNS topic.
• Event Bus - The ARN of an Amazon EventBridge event bus.

Type: DestinationConfig (p. 963) object

Required: No
FunctionArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
LastModified

The date and time that the configuration was last updated, in Unix time seconds.

Type: Timestamp

Required: No
MaximumEventAgeInSeconds

The maximum age of a request that Lambda sends to a function for processing.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 60. Maximum value of 21600.

Required: No
MaximumRetryAttempts

The maximum number of times to retry when the function returns an error.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0. Maximum value of 2.

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ImageConfig

ImageConfig
Configuration values that override the container image Dockerfile settings. See Container settings.

Contents
Command

Specifies parameters that you want to pass in with ENTRYPOINT.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 1500 items.

Required: No
EntryPoint

Specifies the entry point to their application, which is typically the location of the runtime
executable.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 1500 items.

Required: No
WorkingDirectory

Specifies the working directory.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 1000.

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ImageConfigError

ImageConfigError
Error response to GetFunctionConfiguration.

Contents
ErrorCode

Error code.

Type: String

Required: No
Message

Error message.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ImageConfigResponse

ImageConfigResponse
Response to GetFunctionConfiguration request.

Contents
Error

Error response to GetFunctionConfiguration.

Type: ImageConfigError (p. 983) object

Required: No
ImageConfig

Configuration values that override the container image Dockerfile.

Type: ImageConfig (p. 982) object

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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Layer

Layer
An AWS Lambda layer.

Contents
Arn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function layer.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+

Required: No
CodeSize

The size of the layer archive in bytes.

Type: Long

Required: No
SigningJobArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a signing job.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No
SigningProfileVersionArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for a signing profile version.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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LayersListItem

LayersListItem
Details about an AWS Lambda layer.

Contents
LatestMatchingVersion

The newest version of the layer.

Type: LayerVersionsListItem (p. 989) object

Required: No
LayerArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the function layer.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: No
LayerName

The name of the layer.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: (arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)|
[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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LayerVersionContentInput

LayerVersionContentInput
A ZIP archive that contains the contents of an AWS Lambda layer. You can specify either an Amazon S3
location, or upload a layer archive directly.

Contents
S3Bucket

The Amazon S3 bucket of the layer archive.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 3. Maximum length of 63.

Pattern: ^[0-9A-Za-z\.\-_]*(?<!\.)$

Required: No
S3Key

The Amazon S3 key of the layer archive.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No
S3ObjectVersion

For versioned objects, the version of the layer archive object to use.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 1024.

Required: No
ZipFile

The base64-encoded contents of the layer archive. AWS SDK and AWS CLI clients handle the
encoding for you.

Type: Base64-encoded binary data object

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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LayerVersionContentOutput

LayerVersionContentOutput
Details about a version of an AWS Lambda layer.

Contents
CodeSha256

The SHA-256 hash of the layer archive.

Type: String

Required: No
CodeSize

The size of the layer archive in bytes.

Type: Long

Required: No
Location

A link to the layer archive in Amazon S3 that is valid for 10 minutes.

Type: String

Required: No
SigningJobArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of a signing job.

Type: String

Required: No
SigningProfileVersionArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for a signing profile version.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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LayerVersionsListItem

LayerVersionsListItem
Details about a version of an AWS Lambda layer.

Contents
CompatibleRuntimes

The layer's compatible runtimes.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 15 items.

Valid Values: nodejs | nodejs4.3 | nodejs6.10 | nodejs8.10 | nodejs10.x |

nodejs12.x | nodejs14.x | java8 | java8.al2 | java11 | python2.7 | python3.6
| python3.7 | python3.8 | dotnetcore1.0 | dotnetcore2.0 | dotnetcore2.1
| dotnetcore3.1 | nodejs4.3-edge | go1.x | ruby2.5 | ruby2.7 | provided |
provided.al2

Required: No
CreatedDate

The date that the version was created, in ISO 8601 format. For example,
2018-11-27T15:10:45.123+0000.

Type: String

Required: No
Description

The description of the version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 256.

Required: No
LayerVersionArn

The ARN of the layer version.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 140.

Pattern: arn:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:lambda:[a-zA-Z0-9-]+:\d{12}:layer:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+:
[0-9]+

Required: No
LicenseInfo

The layer's open-source license.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Maximum length of 512.

Required: No

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Version

The version number.

Type: Long

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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OnFailure

OnFailure
A destination for events that failed processing.

Contents
Destination

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the destination resource.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 350.

Pattern: ^$|arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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OnSuccess
A destination for events that were processed successfully.

Contents
Destination

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the destination resource.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 0. Maximum length of 350.

Pattern: ^$|arn:(aws[a-zA-Z0-9-]*):([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+:([a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-
\d{1})?:(\d{12})?:(.*)

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigListItem

ProvisionedConcurrencyConfigListItem
Details about the provisioned concurrency configuration for a function alias or version.

Contents
AllocatedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions

The amount of provisioned concurrency allocated.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: No
AvailableProvisionedConcurrentExecutions

The amount of provisioned concurrency available.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 0.

Required: No
FunctionArn

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the alias or version.

Type: String

Pattern: arn:(aws[a-zA-Z-]*)?:lambda:[a-z]{2}(-gov)?-[a-z]+-\d{1}:
\d{12}:function:[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+(:(\$LATEST|[a-zA-Z0-9-_]+))?

Required: No
LastModified

The date and time that a user last updated the configuration, in ISO 8601 format.

Type: String

Required: No
RequestedProvisionedConcurrentExecutions

The amount of provisioned concurrency requested.

Type: Integer

Valid Range: Minimum value of 1.

Required: No
Status

The status of the allocation process.

Type: String

Valid Values: IN_PROGRESS | READY | FAILED

Required: No

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StatusReason

For failed allocations, the reason that provisioned concurrency could not be allocated.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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SelfManagedEventSource

SelfManagedEventSource
The self-managed Apache Kafka cluster for your event source.

Contents
Endpoints

The list of bootstrap servers for your Kafka brokers in the following format:
"KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS": ["abc.xyz.com:xxxx","abc2.xyz.com:xxxx"].

Type: String to array of strings map

Map Entries: Maximum number of 2 items.

Valid Keys: KAFKA_BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS

Array Members: Minimum number of 1 item. Maximum number of 10 items.

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 300.

Pattern: ^(([a-zA-Z0-9]|[a-zA-Z0-9][a-zA-Z0-9\-]*[a-zA-Z0-9])\.)*([A-Za-z0-9]|
[A-Za-z0-9][A-Za-z0-9\-]*[A-Za-z0-9]):[0-9]{1,5}

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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SourceAccessConfiguration

SourceAccessConfiguration
To secure and define access to your event source, you can specify the authentication protocol, VPC
components, or virtual host.

Contents
Type

The type of authentication protocol, VPC components, or virtual host for your event source. For
example: "Type":"SASL_SCRAM_512_AUTH".
• BASIC_AUTH - (Amazon MQ) The AWS Secrets Manager secret that stores your broker credentials.
• VPC_SUBNET - The subnets associated with your VPC. Lambda connects to these subnets to fetch
data from your self-managed Apache Kafka cluster.
• VPC_SECURITY_GROUP - The VPC security group used to manage access to your self-managed
Apache Kafka brokers.
• SASL_SCRAM_256_AUTH - The Secrets Manager ARN of your secret key used for SASL SCRAM-256
authentication of your self-managed Apache Kafka brokers.
• SASL_SCRAM_512_AUTH - The Secrets Manager ARN of your secret key used for SASL SCRAM-512
authentication of your self-managed Apache Kafka brokers.
• VIRTUAL_HOST - (Amazon MQ) The name of the virtual host in your RabbitMQ broker. Lambda
uses this RabbitMQ host as the event source.

Type: String

Valid Values: BASIC_AUTH | VPC_SUBNET | VPC_SECURITY_GROUP |

SASL_SCRAM_512_AUTH | SASL_SCRAM_256_AUTH | VIRTUAL_HOST

Required: No
URI

The value for your chosen configuration in Type. For example: "URI":
"arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-east-1:01234567890:secret:MyBrokerSecretName".

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 200.

Pattern: [a-zA-Z0-9-\/*:_+=.@-]*

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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TracingConfig

TracingConfig
The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration. To sample and record incoming requests, set Mode to
Active.

Contents
Mode

The tracing mode.

Type: String

Valid Values: Active | PassThrough

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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TracingConfigResponse

TracingConfigResponse
The function's AWS X-Ray tracing configuration.

Contents
Mode

The tracing mode.

Type: String

Valid Values: Active | PassThrough

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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VpcConfig

VpcConfig
The VPC security groups and subnets that are attached to a Lambda function. For more information, see
VPC Settings.

Contents
SecurityGroupIds

A list of VPC security groups IDs.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 5 items.

Required: No
SubnetIds

A list of VPC subnet IDs.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 16 items.

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

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VpcConfigResponse

VpcConfigResponse
The VPC security groups and subnets that are attached to a Lambda function.

Contents
SecurityGroupIds

A list of VPC security groups IDs.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 5 items.

Required: No
SubnetIds

A list of VPC subnet IDs.

Type: Array of strings

Array Members: Maximum number of 16 items.

Required: No
VpcId

The ID of the VPC.

Type: String

Required: No

See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

• AWS SDK for C++

• AWS SDK for Go
• AWS SDK for Java V2
• AWS SDK for Ruby V3

Certificate errors when using an SDK

Because AWS SDKs use the CA certificates from your computer, changes to the certificates on the AWS
servers can cause connection failures when you attempt to use an SDK. You can prevent these failures by
keeping your computer's CA certificates and operating system up-to-date. If you encounter this issue in a
corporate environment and do not manage your own computer, you might need to ask an administrator
to assist with the update process. The following list shows minimum operating system and Java versions:

• Microsoft Windows versions that have updates from January 2005 or later installed contain at least
one of the required CAs in their trust list.
• Mac OS X 10.4 with Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 5 (February 2007), Mac OS X 10.5 (October 2007),
and later versions contain at least one of the required CAs in their trust list.

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Certificate errors when using an SDK

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (March 2007), 6, and 7 and CentOS 5, 6, and 7 all contain at least one of
the required CAs in their default trusted CA list.
• Java 1.4.2_12 (May 2006), 5 Update 2 (March 2005), and all later versions, including Java 6 (December
2006), 7, and 8, contain at least one of the required CAs in their default trusted CA list.

When accessing the AWS Lambda management console or AWS Lambda API endpoints, whether through
browsers or programmatically, you will need to ensure your client machines support any of the following
CAs:

• Amazon Root CA 1
• Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2
• Starfield Class 2 Certification Authority

Root certificates from the first two authorities are available from Amazon trust services, but keeping
your computer up-to-date is the more straightforward solution. To learn more about ACM-provided
certificates, see AWS Certificate Manager FAQs.

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AWS glossary
For the latest AWS terminology, see the AWS glossary in the AWS General Reference.

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