Retrieving Error Information

Error handling is important for any application, and AWS Lambda is no different. AWS Lambda fully supports a standard way of handling errors for the programming language it’s written in, such as try/catch blocks. However, because AWS Lambda functions are typically used in a bigger distributed application that has specialized workflow components for handling errors, they also support other error-handling mechanisms. In this lesson, we’ll look at both ways of handling errors in an AWS Lambda application.

Catching errors in AWS Lambda

Handling errors in an AWS Lambda function can be done the same way as in any other .NET application. The following playground provides an example.