Methods for working with Lambdas

One of the big advantages of Lambdas is that you can choose how you write and edit them. There are three main ways to do so:

• Lambda Console
• Cloud9
• On your local machine

I’m going to cover all three and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of them.

Method 1 – Lambda Console

This is the way that we have just created our first Lambda function. In the Lambda Console, we have a basic editor. It’s based on the Cloud9 IDE and works well for simple Lambda functions.

The advantages:

• It’s a good editor
• You can access it from any computer through your AWS Console

The disadvantages:

• It doesn’t seem to be very stable. Sometimes it doesn’t let you...