It looks like SQS is only used for the out-of-band return path. The execution is triggered with the AWS SDK's invoke async option: https://github.com/mentum/la

It looks like SQS is only used for the out-of-band return path. The execution is triggered with the AWS SDK's invoke async option: https://github.com/mentum/lambdaws/blob/master/lib/LambdaHelper.js#L154 https://github.com/mentum/lambdaws/blob/master/lib/LambdaHel... Documentation on this option: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/walkthrough-custom-events-invoke.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/walkthrough-cust...