jrbeverly / aws-lambda-remote-session

Prototype running of New-PSSession in an AWS PowerShell Lambda

AWS Lambda PowerShell Example

A simple Lambda function written in PowerShell to validate if New-PSSession can be leveraged from an AWS Lambda.

The objective of this repository was to determine if it was possible to use New-PSSession from an AWS Lambda. This would allow for modification of services like Office365 using remote sessions from AWS without requiring an ECS/EC2 container. Without a custom lambda runtime (or some way of enabling WSMan), it would be difficult to do this with a vanilla lambda execution environment. The error encountered during runtime is included below:

This parameter set requires WSMan, and no supported WSMan client library was found. WSMan is either not installed or unavailable for this system

These errors lead to the following github issues for PowerShell: PowerShell/5561 & PowerShell/11159.

The lambda function can be published by Publish-AWSPowerShellLambda -ScriptPath .\RemoteSession.ps1 -Name RemoteSession -Region us-east-1.