aws-lambda-php-integration

This skill provides patterns for deploying PHP and Symfony applications to AWS Lambda using the Bref framework, plus a lighter raw-PHP approach for minimal-overhead handlers. It solves the practical challenges of running PHP serverless: creating Lambda handler classes, wiring API Gateway integration, configuring SQS/SNS event triggers, and reducing cold-start latency (Bref targeting under two seconds, raw PHP under 500ms). It gives developers ready-to-adapt project structures for both Symfony-with-Bref and raw-PHP layouts.

The skill covers approach selection (a comparison table of cold start, best use, and complexity), implementation snippets for entry points, and cold-start optimization techniques such as lazy loading, disabling unused Symfony features, optimizing the Composer autoloader, and caching AWS SDK clients at the function level. It documents memory and timeout guidance, dependency configuration, and error handling. A set of reference files extends this into serverless-framework and AWS SAM deployment templates, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline), multi-stage deployments, custom domains, testing, and best practices. Deployment examples pass AWS credentials through standard CI secret mechanisms (for example GitHub Actions secrets) rather than hardcoding them.

It targets PHP and Symfony backend engineers and DevOps practitioners who are building new serverless functions, migrating existing Symfony apps to Lambda, or tuning Lambda performance. The skill declares Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, and Bash tools, meaning it can scaffold files and run build/deploy commands; the operations shown are standard serverless build and deploy steps with credentials supplied via CI secrets.