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[Video] Quick and Effortless Testing of Kumologica-Based Lambda From Postma

4 years ago dzone.com

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Locally testing an AWS Lambda-based API is always bit of a painful task. This is primarily due to nature of interface and signature provided by AWS Lambda. AWS Lambda by default is not an API, as it just holds the workload execution of your API.

When developing your API implementation locally, you don't have an API Gateway so you need to test the Lambda by sending the AWS API Gateway event directly to your implementation for testing.