https://medium.com/@igliop/https-medium-com-igliop-running-a-serveless-lumen-rest-api-on-aws-lambda-804089b0852c > In this post I’ll go through the process of setting up a Lumen-powered API running as an AWS Lambda function. I’ll use the latest Lambda extension to support custom runtimes, so that the Lambda is pure PHP without the need of a NodeJS proxy. > Lumen is a “micro-framework”, meaning it’s a smaller, faster, leaner version of Laravel, which is the full web application framework. Lumen has the same foundation as Laravel, but it is built for microservices.