If you’re deploying an AWS PowerShell Lambda (which is PowerShell Core 6.0) in a build pipeline, you’ll likely come across the fact that the older PowerShell docker images don’t have Dotnet Core installed. The .NET Core 3.0 .NET Core 3.0 SDK Docker images now contain PowerShell Core, but since AWS still uses .NET Core 2.1 which is in Long Term Support, you’re out of luck. Therefore if you’re deploying your lambda from your CI pipeline using docker, then you need a build environment which has:

Find yourself creating the same AWS Cloudformation stack a lot during testing? Wasting too much time repeating typing in tags? A simple post today with a quick solution. Put your stack tags and parameters into json files and use this bash wrapper script to create the cloudformation stack. This script wraps the aws cloudformation create-stack command, but lets you create the stacks again and again with different names. The benefit is the parameters and tags are pre-defined.

Watch this and then you will see why action is the better option than no action