> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.honeycomb.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Send Data from AWS Lambda

> Choose how to instrument your AWS Lambda functions and send telemetry to Honeycomb: the OpenTelemetry Lambda Layer or the Honeycomb Lambda Extension.

For serverless apps based on Lambda and similar platforms, observability can be challenging.
With no server to log into, clunky logging interfaces, and short, event-driven process runtimes, making sense of what is going on is often difficult.

To help with this, we recommend the following methods for sending data to Honeycomb.

<Card title="AWS-managed OpenTelemetry Lambda Layer" href="/integrations/aws/lambda/opentelemetry/">
  AWS maintains an official OpenTelemetry Lambda Layer that lets you use OpenTelemetry in your Lambda Functions and export data asynchronously from those functions.
</Card>

<Card title="Honeycomb Lambda Extension" href="/integrations/aws/lambda/honeycomb-lambda-extension/">
  If you are not ready to use OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb provides the Honeycomb Lambda Extension, which can run as a Lambda Layer or inside a container alongside your lambda function.
</Card>