Access AWS lambda context in wing

[eladcon]

Use Case

I want to access some information that is available on the context variable passed to the handler (E.g. access function name or request id in AWS)

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[Chriscbr]

Maybe we can start by exposing the info through an API like

bring aws;

new cloud.Function(inflight (msg: str) => {
  let ctx = aws.context; // or aws.getContext();
});

[eladb]

Sounds good, but I'd go with aws.Function.context() to associate with Lambda functions

[monadabot]

Congrats! :rocket: This was released in Wing 0.74.2.