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 Version   v2   v1

 Other versions for crawler [v2](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2) [v1](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v1)

- [ Introduction ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/introduction)
- [ Support us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/support-us)
- [ Requirements ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/requirements)
- [ Installation & setup ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/installation-setup)
- [ Questions and issues ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/questions-issues)
- [ Alternatives ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/alternatives)
- [ Changelog ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/changelog)
- [ About us ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/about-us)

Basic usage
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- [ Creating PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/creating-pdfs)
- [ Responding with PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/responding-with-pdfs)
- [ Formatting PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/formatting-pdfs)
- [ Saving PDFs to disks ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/saving-pdfs-to-disks)
- [ Queued PDF generation ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/queued-pdf-generation)
- [ Testing PDFs ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/testing-pdfs)
- [ Setting defaults ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/setting-defaults)

Drivers
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- [ Configuration ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/configuration)
- [ Customizing Browsershot ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/customizing-browsershot)
- [ Using the Cloudflare driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-cloudflare-driver)
- [ Using the DOMPDF driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-dompdf-driver)
- [ Generating PDFs on AWS Lambda ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/generating-pdfs-on-aws-lambda)
- [ Using the Gotenberg driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-gotenberg-driver)
- [ Using the WeasyPrint driver ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/using-the-weasyprint-driver)
- [ Custom drivers ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/drivers/custom-drivers)

Advanced usage
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- [ Creating PDFs with multiple pages ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/advanced-usage/creating-pdfs-with-multiple-pages)
- [ Using Tailwind ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/advanced-usage/using-tailwind)
- [ Extending with Macros ](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/advanced-usage/extending-with-macros)

 Generating PDFs on AWS Lambda
=============================

Generating PDFs locally can be resource intensive. If you're having to generate a lot of PDFs, or having troubles to install the necessary dependencies on your server, you may want to consider using AWS Lambda to generate your PDFs.

In order to generate PDFs on AWS Lambda, you must install these two packages in your app.

- [hammerstone/sidecar](https://hammerstone.dev/sidecar/docs/main/overview): this allows you to execute AWS Lambda functions from your Laravel application
- [wnx/sidecar-browsershot](https://github.com/stefanzweifel/sidecar-browsershot): this package contains a version of Browsershot that can run on AWS Lambda via Sidecar

With these two packages installed, you can generate PDFs on AWS Lambda like this:

```
Pdf::view('pdf.invoice', $data)
    ->onLambda()
    ->save('invoice.pdf');
```

If you want to create all PDFs in your app on Lambda, you can [set it as a default](https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-pdf/v2/basic-usage/setting-defaults) like this:

```
// typically, in a service provider

Pdf::default()->onLambda();
```