Lambda SDK Calls No Response - amazon-web-services

Question

I am trying to do a pretty simple "hello world" in AWS Lambda. I tried a few services that only call the AWS SDK and just try to read. My callback never gets called. I have to be missing something. Any help appreciated!
var AWS = require("aws-sdk");
exports.handler = async (event) => {
// TODO implement
const response = {
statusCode: 200,
body: JSON.stringify('Hello from Lambda!'),
};
var s3 = new AWS.S3(); // confirmed this is not null
s3.listBuckets({}, function(err, data) {
// never reaches here!
if (err) console.log(err, err.stack); // an error occurred
else console.log(data); // successful response
});
return response;
};
I did create a role this lambda is using that has S3 access. :-)

Answer 1

It seems that because I chose the Node 8.x runtime, I needed to use one of those async constructs. This worked...
let AWS = require('aws-sdk');
let s3 = new AWS.S3();
exports.handler = async (event) => {
return await s3.listBuckets().promise() ;
};

Answer 2

This is a synchronization problem.
Your return response code is executed before your callback is invoked.
you'll have to put your return statement inside your callback or use async/await
Returning inside your callback:
var AWS = require("aws-sdk");
exports.handler = async (event) => {
const response = {
statusCode: 200,
body: JSON.stringify('Hello from Lambda!'),
};
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
s3.listBuckets({}, function (err, data) {
if (err) {
console.log(err, err.stack);
return {
statusCode: 500,
message: 'some error'
}
}
return response
});
}
Using async/await:
var AWS = require("aws-sdk");
exports.handler = async (event) => {
const response = {
statusCode: 200
};
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
await s3.listBuckets().promise();
return response;
}
I'd go with the async/await approach as it's much cleaner and more readable. It's also easier to work with promises than with callbacks.
EDIT: The OP claimed it didn't work. So I have decided to test it on my own. The above code works, with a very small change just to add the listed buckets to the response. Here's the final code:
var AWS = require("aws-sdk");
exports.handler = async (event) => {
const response = {
statusCode: 200
};
var s3 = new AWS.S3();
const buckets = await s3.listBuckets().promise();
response.body = JSON.stringify(buckets);
return response;
}
And here's the output in CloudWatch Logs: