Your First AWS Lambda Function In VSCode - For Beginners - Updated

❗️ In this video, we will develop and deploy a Lambda Function LOCALLY in VS Code using Serverless Framework.

🧠 Developing locally speeds up the development cycle drastically.

If you’ve tried to make a Lambda Function for more than 5 minutes you’ve run into the problem of how to actually develop and debug it. You probably tried to use the IDE in the AWS console, but quickly realized there are some drawbacks.

The good news is that Serverless Framework makes it really easy to develop Lambda functions in VS code and then deploy them.

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro
2:30 Install Serverless
4:40 Write function
10:30 Configure AWS Profile
13:20 Invoke Locally
13:40 Env Variable
15:10 Deploy
17:15 Cron
18:25 Debug in Cloud
21:40 Conclusion

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WHO AM I: I'm Dylan, a Cloud Software Engineer living in Oregon. I use my background in tech to make videos about technology that enables and grows businesses.

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[healthvative]

Feel more confident in lambda after watching this video. Thank you

[shumit]

Great video. No-nonsense, to-the-point, confident. Brilliant !! Thank you very much !!!

[shanix]

This is perfect for beginners. Well structured and explained everything without leaving you with unanswered questions.

[successezeh]

This is the tutorial I have been looking for. Thank you so much Dylan🤗🤗

[camilatereza]

Thanks. You are a great teacher and answer all my questions in only video. I can’t find this in Portuguese. I really thankful

[mrdesperate]

I ran through this tutorial and everything worked really well. Minus the fact that my lambda deploys as an S3 bucket. What gives. I can't figure out how to deploy this as a lambda....
Also thank you for the time you took making this video, really awesome beginner guide

[reylinpj]

This tutorial is amazing! thank you so much :D

[BarryMarkGee]

Great tutorial @Dylan. Clearly explained, any plans for tutorials to build out additional Lambda functions that use other AWS services? Thanks.

[codeaperture]

I subscribed to this channel because it's saving me on AWS (cloud concepts when stuck.

[schminkel]

Thanks Dylan for the updated video on Lambda Functions; it was really helpful! In addition to the content you showed, I have a question: what tool do you use for screen casting?

[savethedave]

Thank you very much for this!!! I've been on hiatus from API dev for a few months, and previously I just used AWS's Cloud9 IDE and their Lambda plugin that had a great local debugger and one-click deployment option. I knew they were deprecating that though, so I was dreading how to figure a whole new workflow to do something that already worked! But your video is straight to the point and saved me a bunch of time/stress. Just curious - do you know why AWS/Cloud9 got rid of that simple and effective tool? Their toolkits for Cloud9 and VS Code seem to have more features, but are DEFINITELY more complicated and significantly slower. It seemed like a very backward move for the supposedly customer-focused Amazon company to make, imo. I'd appreciate any thoughts you have. Thanks again!

[ronjones]

great videos! New subscriber here.... thanks! Keep it up!

[ronemchowry]

would you please make some serverless lambda x react x tailwind projects? i really like your serverless content

[XuXu-eexb]

Thank you very much for this!! I am freaking new to AWS and been exploring so long. I have a quick question: what's the difference between Severless and SAM? I would like to use SES(Simple Email Service) as a Lambda function in my service, which one you would think better fit my project? Thanks so much.

[varrions]

If im using WIX or some other platform do they need to sign up and pay montly fee or will I have to pay it every single month, or how does it work?


Regarding your video, what tools to use when building websites to clients

[ramykingoRAPFR]

perfect explained but where is the csv file

[alfredtong]

Hi, thanks for your video. Learned a lot from it.
I wondered that if I delete the event trigger(1 hour) from the Lambda website, how can I sync it to the VScode.
Does it have some command like `git pull`?

[shrek]

Why does it everyone prefer Lamda to google functions?

[ronemchowry]

also how are you getting suggestion in your console pls tell