API reference - Amazon Lambda
Certificate errors when using an SDK
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API reference

This section contains the Amazon Lambda API Reference documentation. When making the API calls, you will need to authenticate your request by providing a signature. Amazon Lambda supports signature version 4. For more information, see Signature Version 4 signing process in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

For an overview of the service, see What is Amazon Lambda?.

You can use the Amazon CLI to explore the Amazon Lambda API. This guide provides several tutorials that use the Amazon CLI.

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Certificate errors when using an SDK

Because Amazon SDKs use the CA certificates from your computer, changes to the certificates on the Amazon servers can cause connection failures when you attempt to use an SDK. You can prevent these failures by keeping your computer's CA certificates and operating system up-to-date. If you encounter this issue in a corporate environment and do not manage your own computer, you might need to ask an administrator to assist with the update process. The following list shows minimum operating system and Java versions:

  • Microsoft Windows versions that have updates from January 2005 or later installed contain at least one of the required CAs in their trust list.

  • Mac OS X 10.4 with Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 5 (February 2007), Mac OS X 10.5 (October 2007), and later versions contain at least one of the required CAs in their trust list.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (March 2007), 6, and 7 and CentOS 5, 6, and 7 all contain at least one of the required CAs in their default trusted CA list.

  • Java 1.4.2_12 (May 2006), 5 Update 2 (March 2005), and all later versions, including Java 6 (December 2006), 7, and 8, contain at least one of the required CAs in their default trusted CA list.

When accessing the Amazon Lambda management console or Amazon Lambda API endpoints, whether through browsers or programmatically, you will need to ensure your client machines support any of the following CAs:

  • Amazon Root CA 1

  • Starfield Services Root Certificate Authority - G2

  • Starfield Class 2 Certification Authority

Root certificates from the first two authorities are available from Amazon trust services, but keeping your computer up-to-date is the more straightforward solution. To learn more about ACM-provided certificates, see Amazon Certificate Manager FAQs.