Serverless Programming Cookbook

Step 2 - Provisioning Lambda (AWS CLI)

Go through the following steps to deploy and invoke the lambda. Refer to previous recipes or code files if you need more details on any of the steps. You can also follow Your first Lambda with AWS CLI recipe in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Serverless Computing on AWS and use CloudFormation for Lambda provisioning:

1. Run mvn clean package from inside the Lambda project root folder to create the Uber JAR.
2. Upload the Uber JAR to S3.
3. Create a role called lambda-alexa-simple-intro-role for the lambda, with an appropriate trust relationship definition.
4. Create a policy for basic logging permissions and attach it to the role.
5. Create the lambda function as follows:

aws lambda create-function \ --function-name ...