In this Cloud Lab, you’ll explore the concept of custom runtimes in AWS Lambda. Custom runtimes allow you to bring your runtime environment to AWS Lambda, enabling the use of any programming language or specific runtime configuration that AWS Lambda does not natively support.
In this Cloud lab, you will learn to create a custom runtime in the Lambda function. You will start the lab by creating a security group and an EC2 instance, then attach the security group to the EC2 instance. You will then use the EC2 instance to configure a PHP runtime and publish the runtime as a Lambda layer. Lastly, you will create an IAM role and a Lambda function to test the PHP custom runtime.
After completing this Cloud Lab, you can build Lambda functions with custom runtimes. This allows you to utilize programming languages and runtime setups beyond AWS Lambda’s native support. This expands the flexibility and capabilities of your serverless applications, making AWS Lambda an even more powerful and versatile tool in your development toolkit.
The following is the high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure that you will create in this Cloud Lab:
