Creating your first AWS Lambda Function

Sign in to **AWS Management Console** as an **IAM User** **Pre-requisite** - Ensure you have selected the AWS region closest to your location\ For this guide, we will be using us-east-2 (Ohio) as a preferred choice

Type **Lambda** in the search bar and click on **Lambda** to view the Lambda page

On the **Lambda** page click on **Create function** button on the right side

The Function creation wizard will open, select the **Author from scratch** option and under the **Basic information** section give the Function name as "**my-node-js-lambda**"

In the **Runtime** dropdown, select and use the latest version of Node.js

Scroll the page and click on the **Create function** button to start the creation process

The lambda function "**my-node-js-lambda**" has been successfully created

The source code is also automatically created

Click on the **Test** button in the **Code source** section

Configure test event wizard will open, under the **Test event action section**, select the **Create new event** option and Provide the **Event name** as "**FirstEvent**" Select the **Event sharing settings** option as **Private**

Scroll the page and click on **Save** button

Click on the **dropdown icon** beside the **Test** button to select the event

From the dropdown list, choose **FirstEvent**

After selecting the event, click on the **Test** button to execute the test

You can view the execution results in the **Execution results** section

You can view the **Response** below the Test Event Name in the Execution results section

You can view the **Function Logs** below the Response in the Execution results section