Developing on AWS Lambda (Part 4): Switch to the AWS NodeJS SDK v3!

George Mao
4 min readJun 3, 2021

In Part 1 of Developing on AWS Lambda, I covered the basics of developing Lambda functions with the AWS NodeJS SDK. This post was written with the NodeJS SDK version 2 in mind. In December 2020, there was a new major release of the SDK: Version 3. I’ll cover what you should know about V3.

SDK V3!

This new version of the SDK provides 3 major enhancements and a new way to interact with AWS services via the Command API. Let’s get started:

Fully modular modules…

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George Mao

Distinguished Engineer @ Capital One leading all things Serverless | Ex -AWS WW Serverless Tech Lead.