aws sam and lambda commands

aws.md

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 05.    `aws ec2 describe-instances --profile user-name` (shows you config profile for a given user on a given AWS service, ec2 in this example)
 06.    `aws iam upload-server-certificate --server-certificate-name STAR_example_com --certificate-body file://STAR_example_com.crt --private-key file://star_example_com.pem --certificate-chain file://ca-chain-amazon.crt --path /cloudfront/*/` (uploads an SSL certificate to AWS IAM service)
 07.    `aws iam update-server-certificate` (updates AWS IAM SSL certificates)
-08.    `aws iam get-server-certificate --server-certificate-name STAR_example_com` (gets you the details of a current SSL certificate)
+08.    `aws iam get-server-certificate --server-certificate-name STAR_example_com` (gets you the details of a current SSL certificate)
+
+## AWS Lambda
+
+01.    `aws lambda create-alias --function-name your-function-name-here --description "alias for live version of function" --function-version 1 --name your-alias-name-here` (creates an alias for your functions, so you can push new versions up easily)
+02.    `aws lambda update-alias --function-name your-function-name-here --function-version 3 --name your-alias-name-here` (update alias versions of function name)
+
+
+### AWS SAM CLI
+
+01.   `sam --version` (gets version of SAM)
+02.   `sam build` (downloads dependencies and runtime you need, ie. Node for JS)
+03.   `sam local start-api` (sets up a local endpoint for testing an API, defaults to running on `localhost:3000`)
+`sam generate-event` (mock sample payloads from event sources) 
+04.   `sam package --template-file template.yaml --output-template packaged-template.yaml --s3-bucket your-bucket-here` (how to packge up a serverless function for deployment)
+05.   `sam deploy --template-file packaged-template.yaml --stack-name your-stack-here --capabilities SNAKE_CASE_HERE` (moves the built package into the 'action' environment in AWS, so it's basically ready to receive invocations from events)
+06.   `sam invoke` (literally invokes a Lambda function one time)
+07.   `sam start-lambda` (starts the endpoint for local testing)