AWS Cloud9: Referencing Lambda Layer Locally

Unfortunately, AWS Cloud9 does not support Lambda layers at the moment.

AWS Cloud9 documentation says that is not supported to execute functions with layers from the AWS Resources window. But you can use sam local invoke or aws lambda on the Cloud9 terminal window. For instance

sam local invoke --event input.json --template ../template.yml <function_name>

will create a new docker image with the layer(s) dependencies that will be used to execute the lambda function. The TAG name is explained here

master:~/environment/ahdv (master) $ docker images
REPOSITORY          TAG                                    IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
samcli/lambda       nodejs8.10-03eb754e9966a1a2f789d500d   6b52bcffdc2e        About an hour ago   968MB
lambci/lambda       python3.6                              420212d009b3        3 weeks ago         1.03GB
lambci/lambda       python2.7                              7a436931435e        3 weeks ago         901MB
lambci/lambda       nodejs4.3                              c0914066d9a8        3 weeks ago         931MB
lambci/lambda       nodejs6.10                             74b405a65ed4        3 weeks ago         946MB
lambci/lambda       nodejs8.10                             edf1f613772c        3 weeks ago         960MB