<aside> 💡 Before reading this guide, make sure you’ve read through Quickstart: How to build a Plugin to set up your sandbox plugin.

To get up and running with an example, you can clone our gif-creator example plugin on Github.

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AWS provides two services that we’ll use to deploy our Plugin:

Lambda - a serverless architecture that lets you deploy stateless functions that can scale gracefully with load

API Gateway - a no code API gateway that can asynchronously call other AWS services such as Lambda

Step 1: Create a Lambda Function

Navigate to the Lambda service in the AWS Console to create a Lambda Function.

In our example, we’ll create a Lambda Function from a Docker image uploaded to ECR:

Step 2: Create an API Gateway

Navigate to the API Gateway service in the AWS Console to create a REST API endpoint:

Step 3: Connect your Lambda function with the API

Create a POST Method to receive POST requests from Playbook: