Building ASP.NET Core Web API using AWS Lambda

 

Pre-requisites

• An active AWS account
• Visual Studio
• AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
• ASP.NET Core 6 or higher

Steps

Create ASP.NET Core Web API project.

Install Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer.Hosting NuGet package.

Add a call to AddAWSLambdaHostingmethod when services are defined in your application.

C#

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// Add AWS Lambda support. builder.Services.AddAWSLambdaHosting(LambdaEventSource.HttpApi); var app = builder.Build();

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Read more Introducing the .NET 6 runtime for AWS Lambda

Open .csproj file and add the following tag in the PropertyGroup section.

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<AWSProjectType>Lambda</AWSProjectType>