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How can I give someone else access to my AWS lambda

I have an AWS lambda which I want to co-develop with someone. How can I give them access to my AWS Lambda source and/or console?
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Hey Brandon - the easiest way is to use Amazon's Identity and Access management feature (https://aws.amazon.com/iam/).

IAM allows you to create user accounts and manage their access to the console.
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IAM seems overly complex and convoluted. I can't find a good tutorial out there and the official documentation is hard to follow. Do you know of a good IAM for beginners sort of reference? Ideally it would be as simple as sharing a google doc (click share > add person > set access level).
I figured out how to give create an IAM user by following this AWS IAM tutorial, but now I don't know how to give them access to my Lambda.
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I tried logging in as the AWS IAM user I created with the AWSLambdaFullAccess permission but the Lambda dashboard is empty. Do I need to do anything else to share the Lambda?
That should do it... try creating a dummy one just to make sure the policy works for that case.  Also, make sure you're looking in the same region (top right of the console) as where you created the other Lambda function.
I guess I just needed to wait a few minutes. It appears to be working now. Thanks Phil!

Do you know I would give someone access to the developer console as well? I'm having trouble finding any information about that. https://developer.amazon.com/
Do you mean the main one when you log in? The managed policy "ReadOnlyAccess" would at least give access to look at the various consoles.
This is the developer console I'm looking for. It's the one for testing and releasing skills and apps.

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