Is it possible to rename an AWS Lambda function?

Question

I have created some Lambda functions on AWS for testing purposes (named as test_function something), then after testing I found those functions can be used in prod

Answer 1

You cannot rename the function, your only option is to follow the suggestions already provided here or create a new one and copypaste the code.

It's a good thing actually that you cannot rename it: if you were able to, it would cease to work because the policies attached to the function still point to the old name, unless you were to edit every single one of them manually, or made them generic (which is ill-advised).

However, as a best practice in terms of software development, I suggest you to always keep production and testing (staging) separate, effectively duplicating your environment.

This allows you to test stuff on a safe environment, where if you make a mistake you don't lose anything important, and when you confirm that your new features work, replicate them in production.

So in your case, you would have two lambdas, one called 'my-lambda-staging' and the other 'my-lambda-prod'. Use the ENV variables of lambdas to adapt to the current environment, so you don't need to refactor!