How do you write to the file system of an aws lambda instance?

Question

I am unsuccessfully trying to write to the file system of an aws lambda instance. The docs say that a standard lambda instance has 512mb of space available at /tmp/

Answer 1

So the answer lies in the context.fail() or context.succeed() functions. Being completely new to the world of aws and lambda I was ignorant to the fact that calling any of these methods stops execution of the lambda instance.

According to the docs:

The context.succeed() method signals successful execution and returns a string.

By eliminating these and only calling them after I had run all the code that I wanted, everything worked well.