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AWS Lambda now offers seamless development with Kiro and Cursor too!

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Hi, it's Shii! Today I found a nice update for serverless developers using Lambda, so let me walk you through it!

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What was announced?

Over on AWS What's New, AWS announced that the AWS Lambda console's console-to-IDE integration now extends to Kiro and Cursor. Until now, this integration only worked with Visual Studio Code (VS Code), and now it's available for these two IDEs as well.

The story so far

The Lambda console has had a "console-to-IDE" feature that lets you take code you wrote in the console and continue developing it in your local IDE. Until now, though, this only worked with VS Code, so developers using Kiro or Cursor couldn't take advantage of it.

What changes

With this update, developers who use Kiro or Cursor day to day can now move from the console straight into local development too.

  • You can follow a guided setup to start local development while preserving your existing code and configuration
  • You get a seamless transition between cloud and local development environments
  • You can easily convert your application into an AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) template using Kiro or Cursor

The SAM template conversion is especially useful: it makes it easier to bring functions you quickly built in the console into your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices and CI/CD pipelines.

Dive Deep

Getting started is simple.

  • Click the "Open in Kiro" or "Open in Cursor" button in the Lambda console's Code tab, or in the Getting Started popup when creating a new function
  • Your function then automatically opens in the selected IDE on your local device

This feature is available in all commercial AWS Regions where Lambda is available, at no additional cost. It extends the same console-to-IDE framework that already existed for VS Code to Kiro and Cursor. For more details, check the Lambda developer guide.

Wrap-up

  • The Lambda console's console-to-IDE integration now supports Kiro and Cursor
  • You can move to local development through a guided setup while keeping your code and configuration
  • You can convert applications into AWS SAM templates using Kiro or Cursor
  • Available in all commercial regions where Lambda runs, at no extra cost
  • Start from the "Open in Kiro" or "Open in Cursor" button in the Code tab or the new function popup

If you're a serverless developer who works in Kiro or Cursor, this is a small but genuinely welcome update!

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