Lambda does not put message in dlq

Question

I just trying to test my DLQ for Lambda and I do not undesrtand why messages does not put on it. My code just doing 1 thing throw new Exception(\"Test\");.

Answer 1

Invoke lambda asynchronously like below, using AWS SDK.

$ aws lambda invoke --function-name my-function --invocation-type Event --payload '{ "key": "value" }' response.json { "StatusCode": 202 }

Docs - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/invocation-async.html