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[austingrove]

Hello,
Thanks for making this tutorial.
I have zipped the php and bootstrap file in a cloud9 environment. I am on "Creating Dependencies".

1. The text says "In an Amazon Linux environment compatible with the Lambda execution environment", can you clarify on this?
2. How will I be sending the package out of cloud9 and make useful for lambda? Is that what the "Publish to Lambda layers" commands do? Do I need to edit the commands at all?

[bls20AWS]

1. Essentially it means launching and compiling PHP in an EC2 instance that uses the same Amazon Machine Image (AMI) from the underlying Lambda Execution Environment. If you are using a cloud 9 environment then that should be sufficient, this blog post has more info on the particulars : https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/aws-lambda-custom-runtime-for-php-a-practical-example/
2. Once you have zipped the runtime up (in the directory structure shown) you will use the AWS CLI to publish this ZIP file to a Lambda Layer. you will then configure your PHP Lambda function to use this Layer. You shouldn't need to change the commands.

[austingrove]

This helps immensely. Thank you so much