Hands-On Serverless Computing

Creating an alias for a Lambda function

There will be cases where you will need to create slightly different versions of your AWS Lambda function for different environments (test and production), for different environment-specific settings. To handle this use case, the AWS Lambda platform provides you with the capability to create an alias which points to one or more versions of your AWS Lambda function. Let's look at how to create an alias for your AWS Lambda function:

1. In the AWS console, from the Actions drop-down, select Create alias:

2. In the dialog window that opens up:
   • Enter the name as prod
   • Enter the description as Prod alias for ...