The Dark Side of AWS Lambda

Adam Link
Fluidity
Published in
4 min readAug 21, 2019

Earlier this week, I walked into the office and started checking our daily logs. Everything looked fine except there were a few failed Lambda deploys to development overnight. Time to dig in.

What came next was a realization of the dark side of using Lambdas heavily at a company that also follows a strong CI/CD process.

Let’s back up a bit.

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Adam Link
Fluidity

CISSP, CEH, CHFI. Passionate about cyber security and cloud infrastructure. Avid fisherman and forager of Alaska's wilderness.