I forked @tonisuter 's great implementation of the Lambda runtime API and was able to add support for async tasks/operations as well.
I was having a crash related to (what I believe) DNS resolution, but adding the /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss_dns.so.2 lib to the layer fixed it.
However, there is still the HTTPS error to sort out.
Toni, good job on what you did!
Wanted to highlight that @jasonzurita posted about this at https://www.jasonzurita.com/websites-using-swift-and-aws-lambda 
natanrolnik had the idea of trying to build the Swift source using the AWS Lambda linux (Amazon Linux) environment to resolve the HTTPS issue. I tried this out, by using this docker image, but I run into the following error (since it looks like you are trying something similar, I am not sure if you ran into the same thing @sebsto):
bash-4.2# ./swift/utils/build-script -r
./swift/utils/build-script: note: Using toolchain default
./swift/utils/build-script: fatal error: can't find clang (please install clang-3.5 or a later version)
Here is what I did to get the above:
docker run -it --name swiftawslinux amazonlinux /bin/bash
yum install cmake ninja-build clang python uuid-dev libicu-dev icu-devtools libbsd-dev libedit-dev libxml2-dev libsqlite3-dev swig libpython-dev libncurses5-dev pkg-config libblocksruntime-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev systemtap-sdt-dev tzdata rsync
mkdir swift-source
cd !$
git clone https://github.com/apple/swift.git
./swift/utils/update-checkout --clone
./swift/utils/build-script -r
If anyone has any suggestions of what to try, that would be great!
IMHO, there are two possibilities to address the GNUTLS/HTTPS issue
I naively thought that a/ was easiest as I would deal with less dependencies issues. I am struggling on this since several days. GNUTls has so many dependencies and I am still blocked by a lib or other not being installed or correctly identified.
I tried b/ yesterday. The issue reported above by Jason is easy to work around. You need clang, cmake3 installed. I softlinked cmake -> cmake3 etc ... I am blocked further
The problem with the approcah above is that the yum install command can not find most of these dependencies :
No package uuid-dev available.
No package libicu-dev available.
No package icu-devtools available.
No package libbsd-dev available.
No package libedit-dev available.
No package libxml2-dev available.
No package libsqlite3-dev available.
Package swig-3.0.12-11.amzn2.0.3.x86_64 already installed and latest version
No package libpython-dev available.
No package libncurses5-dev available.
No package pkg-config available.
No package libblocksruntime-dev available.
No package libcurl4-openssl-dev available.
No package systemtap-sdt-dev available.
At this stage, I would love to receive help by someone use to build native Linux projects to solve teh dependency issues on a/ or b/
Wondering if it is a dead end on the Swift on AWS Lambda? I would like to help out on getting this to work. I have no idea where to start with this. Like all of you I can write the AWS Lambda Runtime API but getting it to work with API is not there
Regarding the SSL path issue discussed above by @natanrolnik and @sebsto. One potential solution might be to make a small change in swift-corelibs-foundation to allow for setting the path with an environment variable rather than relying on the default location that the Ubuntu based docker image uses. There already is support for this feature but it is limited to Android.
#if os(Android) || os(Linux)
...
if let caInfo = getenv("URLSessionCertificateAuthorityInfoFile") {
...
try! CFURLSession_easy_setopt_ptr(rawHandle, CFURLSessionOptionCAINFO, caInfo).asError()
}
#endif
We could change this line to also allow for Linux to configure the environment variable.
This would be even more convenient in a Lambda context than on Android- there itās quite hard to provide the correct file path, in practice.
I've found a way to solve the HTTPS issue by using swift-nio 2.
I prepared an open-source framework swift-sprinter Ā· GitHub to support the development of the solution I've found.
Solving the HTTPS issue allows interacting with the AWS ecosystem.
I prepared documentation and three examples you can find here LambdaSwiftSprinter.
S3Test shows how to interact with an S3 bucket by using an early version of an open-source version of aws-sdk based on nio 2.
The project is in an early stage and it's open to collaboration and I hope someone will join me.
Wow, that sounds great! CC @georgebarnett, @tomerd, @kevints
Good news! Can't wait to use it myself 
It could be interesting once it's stable to do some benchmarks to see if it's a competitive option for production use.
Update:
Well we already have some elements there about general Swift performance.
@Damien_Petrilli , I like your idea.
I've opened an issue on the library, I would be very grateful if you can help me on this.
Feel free to open a new issue if this doesn't describe your idea.
You can consider the core LambdaSwiftSprinter package quite stable as it was ~100% tested (HelloWorld Example).
The unstable part is the one related to the nio 2.0 plugin and the aws-sdk as the related libraries are under development.
Iāve been using your runtime for a couple of months, and absolutely loving it! Iām getting 100ms round-trip times for AWS API calls but I donāt know if this is an issue with the way Iām using the AWS SDK (the open source one on Github that you reference in your examples) or something else. Any notes you could add to the Readme on performance tips would be amazing! Again, really great project!!!
Hi @mr_j_tree - do you have any code to share? Have you tried out any logging or instrumentation around performance? Whatās your code doing? Which services are you using? Weāll need more info to help diagnose.
Also if anyone here is at Re:invent this week and wants to connect and/or help move Swift on lambda forward letās chat
Hi, I've been doing some investigation into this in the last week. You can see the results in this thread DynamoDB latency is in tens of milliseconds in Lambda Ā· Issue #202 Ā· soto-project/soto Ā· GitHub. Main things to extract from this are
Hi, I'm excited to share what I've been working on for the last two months or so.
I got Swift to compile on Amazon Linux 2. You can download the binaries from my website. If you want to see how the sausage is made, all scripts and Dockerfiles are public on GitHub. I would like to automate this process in so far that after a Swift release the whole release process is automated.
Another part of the amazonlinux-swift effort is to provide Dockerimages for your convenience at DockerHub to make compiling your Swift code for Amazon Linux 2 snappy.
Even though I only made Swift compile on Amazon Linux 2, the libraries needed for running Swift are ABI compatible (pure luck, not official) with Amazon Linux 1. (Amazon Linux 1 is the operating system in which Lambdas without AWS provided runtime are executed.) Amazon Linux 1 is nearing end of life with support dropping on June 30, 2020. With this being said, AWS has to switch the underlying execution operating system to Amazon Linux 2 within the next 6 months. (They already have done that for node.js and Java)
Thanks to Swift running even on Amazon Linux 1, I have been able to create a Swift Amazon Linux Layer that links against Amazon Linux system libraries. The layer comes without any bootstrap and can be used in whatever way. You should bebe aware that you need an entrypoint (any executable named bootstrap) for execution. The Layers have already been uploaded in most AWS-Regions and are public for use in your Lambdas.
The scripts to create and distribute the Layers are part of the amazonlinux-swift project as well.
Since it is really just the Swift execution environment, it can be used with @Andrea-Scuderi's or @tonisuter's runtime. Since libFoundationNetworking links against the system's libcurl even https calls with NSURLSession are possible.
I've created my own take on an AWS Lambda runtime called swift-lambda-runtime that builds on top of SwiftNIO and AsyncHTTPClient. The interface is Swift-NIO centric enabling the use of EventLoopFutures and an integration with swift-log. It includes a short tutorial on how to get your first Lambda running on AWS.
I'd be grateful for your feedback and hope that some of you enjoy this. I'm open to new contributors to this effort, just reach out.
This is awesome, all of it! Thank you for your work on this!
I donāt currently have a use-case but Iām very interested in the NIO part of this. Was thinking of starting work on a SwiftUI-style GraphQL Server but donāt have time right now
@GalCohen I have since realised what was going on with my AWS API calls from Lambda functions. I did not fully understand the way Lambda dynamically allocates CPU depending on your memory allocation. I was allocating the bare minimum of memory in order to save cost, without realising it was reducing available CPU time. Increasing memory allocation has got my DynamoDB API calls to perform at the expected speed... in the single digit millisecond range as advertised.
Cheers - lesson learned!
I just wanted to give you folks a small update on swift-lambda-runtime: With the latest release I added event types for six different source events:
So If you want to consume a SNS message in your lambda your code would look like this:
struct SNSBody: Codable {
let name: String
let whatevar: String
}
func handleSNS(event: SNS.Event, ctx: Context) -> EventLoopFuture<Void> {
do {
let message = event.records.first!.sns
let body: SNSBody = try message.payload()
// handle your message
return ctx.eventLoop.makeSucceededFuture(Void())
}
catch {
return ctx.eventLoop.makeFailedFuture(error)
}
}
// some more setup
let runtime = try LambdaRuntime.createRuntime(eventLoopGroup: group, handler: handleSNS)
You can get an idea of how to use the events by looking at my example: EventSources. In this package you can also find a template.yaml that can give you an idea on how to setup your surroundings with aws-sam.
If you have any questions please reach out: I'm @fabianfett on twitter or just open a GitHub issue.