AWS Lambda
by Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Serverless event-driven compute service for running code without managing servers
Authoritative Sources
Key guidance documents from authoritative organizations. Click to view the original source.
AWS recommends least-privilege IAM permissions for Lambda execution roles and provides operational guidance for secure deployments, monitoring, and concurrency controls.
Explains the Lambda execution role, resource-based policies, and how to control which services and principals can invoke functions.
Verification Commands
Commands and queries for testing and verifying security configurations.
List Lambda functions CLI
aws lambda list-functions Get function configuration (timeouts, memory, tracing) CLI
aws lambda get-function-configuration --function-name FUNCTION_NAME Inspect function resource-based policy CLI
aws lambda get-policy --function-name FUNCTION_NAME List event source mappings for a function CLI
aws lambda list-event-source-mappings --function-name FUNCTION_NAMERelated Controls
Security controls from various frameworks that relate to AWS Lambda.