AWS Cloud Development Kit - From Beginner to Professional - Serverless: Create Lambda for Event-Driven Architecture

The video tutorial covers AWS Lambda functions, focusing on their use in serverless applications. It explains how to set up a CDK project, build and deploy a Lambda function, configure runtime and environment variables, and test the function. The tutorial also discusses permissions and the automatic provisioning of IAM roles. Finally, it demonstrates how to clean up resources using CDK destroy, while retaining CloudWatch log groups for troubleshooting and compliance.

What are environment variables in the context of Lambda functions?

How does AWS CDK simplify the deployment of Lambda functions?

What happens to CloudWatch logs when a Lambda function is deleted?