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Deploying and running a Python Lambda function

Deploying and running a Python Lambda function - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Deploying and running a Python Lambda function

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- [Instructor] In our last video, we created a very simple, yet ultimately powerful lambda function that allowed us to iterate over some request data and spit it out to the console. So now let's take a look at how to run that lambda in the absence of some external trigger. And this is really a great way for you to test your lambdas within the console if you don't have access to any of Amazon's testing tools that you can install locally on your machine. So let's navigate back to the AWS Management Console, and we're going to click on lambda and we'll go into our lambda functions and we'll click our LinkedIn Learning demo. And you'll see, that we have our function that we created earlier. Now, from right here, we can click the test function. Now what this allows us to do is we can create a new test event or edit an existing saved test event. We'll go ahead and create a new one. The event template doesn't really matter…

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