LES01-AWS100 - Create a Lambda to add 2 numbers

Cloud Service Provider

Amazon Web Services

Difficulty

Level 100 (Introductory)

Estimated Time

30 minutes

Estimated Cost

The AWS Lambda free usage tier includes 1M free requests per month and 400,000 GB-seconds of compute time per month, so feel free to explore unhinged!

Project's Author(s)

Syed Auther

Objectives

You need to complete the following:

Create an AWS Lambda with a language of your choice to add 2 numbers supplied as input and return the result.
Print the result out in the logs.

You need to answer the following:

What is Function as a service?
How many languages are supported by AWS Lambda
What is the maximum memory allocated to an AWS Lambda function?
How many ways to deploy a Lambda function?
How to write code in the cloud9 IDE?
How to test a Lambda function?
What is cloudwatch?
How to check the logs for a Lambda function?

References

Ideas

Just create a Lambda function with default settings and choose the language you want to code in, and it give you a starter hello world template , with 2 input parameters event and context,from which event will have the input data that you pass in your test call.

Tips

Use the cloud9 IDE to code the hello world Lambda initially, and then explore other deployment ideas like zip file uploads and SAM deployments