This is a basic sample of executing function on AWS.

You can execute it locally or deploy it to the cloud - AWS Lambda

To run this app locally please ensure that you have SAM (Serverless Application Model) installed on your machine

> sam build

and then

sam local invoke UppercaseFunction --event input.json

The input.json file contains a simple quoted string "hello" which will be uppercased and you should see the following in the output

...
END RequestId: cd119d99-1325-4453-8456-97248dd12cc7
REPORT RequestId: cd119d99-1325-4453-8456-97248dd12cc7	Init Duration: 1.03 ms	Duration: 17740.33 ms	Billed Duration: 17741 ms	Memory Size: 1024 MB	Max Memory Used: 1024 MB
"HELLO"
...

To run this app in the cloud, make sure you have AWS Account

> mvn clean install

This will generate the function-sample-aws-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT-aws.jar in the target directory.

This is the file you will use to deploy following procedure described here