I'm having a hard time creating an explicit Lambda function. I'm consistently getting this error:

aws:lambda:Function (webhook-to-sqs):
    error: Error creating Lambda function: ValidationException:
        status code: 400, request id: 8c850971-e5d9-4be9-a285-5905fca34f90

with this resource:

return new aws.lambda.Function("webhook-to-sqs", {
    code: "./inc/core/processors/webhook-to-sqs.zip",
    handler: "index.handler",
    description: "write events to queue and return 200",
    runtime: "nodejs12.x",
    role: role,
    environment: {
      variables: {
        "QUEUEID": queue.arn
      }
    }
  });

As part of my troubleshooting efforts I was able to create the lambda with the AWS CLI using mostly the same settings and zip, and was able to verify its working in the console as expected. Is there anything I can do to get a more clear error message?

@swift-painter-31084 You could run Pulumi with the

--verbose

flag. But this error is from the underlying Terraform provider. I don’t know if the debug level is propagated to the provider, though. If not, it won’t help, unfortunately.

In this case --verbose didn't return anything extra. Is there any way to see the generated terraform so I could maybe try to invoke that directly and get some feedback?

@swift-painter-31084 Use the environment variable

TF_LOG=DEBUG

. Thanks for Lars’ hint: https://pulumi-community.slack.com/archives/CRFUR2DGB/p1582127509076800?thread_ts=1582127424.076300&cid=CRFUR2DGB Pulumi doesn’t generate Terraform code. It directly communicates with the underlying Terraform provider binary. The

TF_LOG

should work on the Terraform provider binaries.