Call aws-cli from AWS Lambda

Question

is there ANY way to execute aws-cli inside AWS Lambda? It doesn't seem to be pre-installed. (I've checked with "which aws" via Node.js child-process, and it didn't exist.）

Answer 1

Now we can use Layers inside Lambda. Bash layer with aws-cli is available at https://github.com/gkrizek/bash-lambda-layer

handler () {
    set -e

    # Event Data is sent as the first parameter
    EVENT_DATA=$1

    # This is the Event Data
    echo $EVENT_DATA

    # Example of command usage
    EVENT_JSON=$(echo $EVENT_DATA | jq .)

    # Example of AWS command that's output will show up in CloudWatch Logs
    aws s3 ls

    # This is the return value because it's being sent to stderr (>&2)
    echo "{\"success\": true}" >&2
}