Amazon AWS CLI not allowing valid JSON in payload parameter

Question

I am getting an error when I try and invoke a lambda function from the AWS CLI. I am using version 2 of the CLI. I understand that I should pass the --payload a

Answer 1

As @MCI said, AWS V2 defaults to base 64 input. For your case to work, simply add a --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out parameter to your command, so it'd be

aws lambda invoke --function-name testsms \
    --invocation-type Event \
    --cli-binary-format raw-in-base64-out \
    --payload '{"key": "test"}' response.json