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AWS Lambda Node Steps

Available in PagerDuty Runbook Automation Commercial products.

AWS Lambda is a serverless, event-driven compute service that lets you run code for virtually any type of application or backend service without provisioning or managing servers.

The following Lambda plugins are available for PagerDuty Runbook Automation:

Authentication

Follow the instructions outlined in the AWS Plugins Overview for Runbook Automation to authenticate with AWS.

When defining the IAM Role for Runbook Automation, be sure to include the following permissions in the Policy associated with the role:

  • lambda:InvokeFunction

Execute Lambda Function

The AWS / Lambda / Invoke plugin invokes an existing Lambda function in an AWS account in a specific region:

  • Function Name: The name of the Lambda function to invoke.
  • Event Payload: The JSON Event Data that is sent as input to the Lambda function. For more details on Lambda Event Data, click here.
  • Invocation Type: In the Advanced section, this allows you to specify whether this invocation is synchronous or asynchronous. For synchronous, select Request and for asynchronous, select Event. For more details on the differences between Event and Request, click here.
  • Qualifier: In the Advanced section, this determines the version of the Lambda function to invoke. For more information on Lambda function versions, click here.
  • Client Context: Context to provide to the Lambda handler. For more details on Lambda Context, see here.
  • Region: The AWS region where the Lambda function is located.

Invoke Lambda