# Setting Up a PowerShell Development Environment Lambda provides a set of tools and libraries for the PowerShell runtime. For installation instructions, see [Lambda tools for PowerShell](https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-dotnet/tree/master/PowerShell) on GitHub. The AWSLambdaPSCore module includes the following cmdlets to help author and publish PowerShell Lambda functions: + **Get-AWSPowerShellLambdaTemplate** – Returns a list of getting started templates. + **New-AWSPowerShellLambda** – Creates an initial PowerShell script based on a template. + **Publish-AWSPowerShellLambda** – Publishes a given PowerShell script to Lambda. + **New-AWSPowerShellLambdaPackage** – Creates a Lambda deployment package that you can use in a CI/CD system for deployment.