Learn AWS Serverless Computing

Execution environment

Let's explore some of the things that are available to us during execution. AWS publishes the current versions and kernel level of the underlying operating system in the documentation, and you can find these during execution if you really want to. Something else that's available at runtime is the SDKs for JavaScript and Python, so you don't need to bundle these with your deployment package unless you need a specific version. It's worth noting that these SDK versions can change at any time without notice, so you should continually test against the currently included version.

Depending on which runtime you choose to create your function with, there are three main execution components. You don't really need to be concerned ...