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Use UpdateAlias with a CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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There are more AWS SDK examples available in the AWS Doc SDK Examples GitHub repo.

Use UpdateAlias with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use UpdateAlias.

CLI
AWS CLI

To update a function alias

The following update-alias example updates the alias named LIVE to point to version 3 of the my-function Lambda function.

aws lambda update-alias \ --function-name my-function \ --function-version 3 \ --name LIVE

Output:

{ "FunctionVersion": "3", "Name": "LIVE", "AliasArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function:LIVE", "RevisionId": "594f41fb-b85f-4c20-95c7-6ca5f2a92c93", "Description": "alias for live version of function" }

For more information, see Configuring AWS Lambda Function Aliases in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide.

  • For API details, see UpdateAlias in AWS CLI Command Reference.

PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This example updates the Configuration of an existing Lambda function Alias. It updates the RoutingConfiguration value to shift 60% (0.6) of traffic to version 1

Update-LMAlias -FunctionName "MylambdaFunction123" -Description " Alias for version 2" -FunctionVersion 2 -Name "newlabel1" -RoutingConfig_AdditionalVersionWeight @{Name="1";Value="0.6}
  • For API details, see UpdateAlias in AWS Tools for PowerShell Cmdlet Reference.

AWS CLI

To update a function alias

The following update-alias example updates the alias named LIVE to point to version 3 of the my-function Lambda function.

aws lambda update-alias \ --function-name my-function \ --function-version 3 \ --name LIVE

Output:

{ "FunctionVersion": "3", "Name": "LIVE", "AliasArn": "arn:aws:lambda:us-west-2:123456789012:function:my-function:LIVE", "RevisionId": "594f41fb-b85f-4c20-95c7-6ca5f2a92c93", "Description": "alias for live version of function" }

For more information, see Configuring AWS Lambda Function Aliases in the AWS Lambda Developer Guide.

  • For API details, see UpdateAlias in AWS CLI Command Reference.

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