AWS enhances the Lambda application building experience with VS Code IDE and AWS Toolkit

AWS Lambda has introduced a new getting started experience to simplify the development of Lambda-based applications using the VS Code IDE and the AWS Toolkit. This experience streamlines the code-test-deploy-debug cycle, providing a guided walkthrough that assists developers from setting up their local development environment to running their first application on the cloud and adds enhanced user experience in each step in the cycle.

When developers install the AWS Toolkit extension on their VS Code IDE, they will be greeted with this new application building experience. It guides them through the necessary tooling installations and configurations required to set up their local environment for building Lambda-based applications. Additionally, developers can choose from a curated list of sample application walkthroughs, which guide them step-by-step through coding, testing, and deploying their applications in the cloud. The developers can also take advantage of easy access buttons for one-click build, deploy-to-cloud, local or remote invoke, and integration with the AWS Infrastructure Composer, providing a visual application building experience directly from the IDE.

This new getting started experience is available to all developers with the AWS Toolkit (v3.31.0 or later) installed on their VS Code IDE. To learn more about this experience and how to get started, please refer to the blog and documentation.