# Setting Up a PowerShell Development Environment
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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.