We will build an example AWS Lambda function in Python that listens to an S3 bucket for audio uploads and automatically transcribes them using Amazon Transcribe.
Category: Level 100
These are posts especially made for beginners on any cloud platform.
Getting started with AWS CDK
Getting started with AWS CDK AWS CDK is here to stay. It allows you to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages. If AWS is a toolbox, CDK is the machinery to operate it. It is not for nothing that CTO of Amazon Werner Vogels spend this 15 minute video trying to outlay what… Continue reading Getting started with AWS CDK
How to use Docker in AWS Lambda?
Size. Much more size. With Docker images you can package and deploy Lambda functions as container images of up to 10 GB in size. In this way, you can also easily build and deploy larger workloads that rely on sizable dependencies, such as machine learning or data intensive workloads. In this post we will show… Continue reading How to use Docker in AWS Lambda?
☁️ Using external libraries in your Python AWS Lambda in AWS CDK
Are you including external libraries in your Python Lambda with AWS CDK? You’ll be looking to install your dependencies from your requirements.txt. How do you make sure these external libraries are available at runtime for your execution? By using @aws-cdk/AWS-lambda-python. We’ll walk through what the requirements.txt is, what the CDK construct AWS-lambda-python is and do… Continue reading ☁️ Using external libraries in your Python AWS Lambda in AWS CDK
Building you’re first AWS Lambda with Amazon EventBridge.
AWS EventBridge is an architecture changing tool, and it will transform the way you think about serverless development. It helps you build event-driven applications at scale across AWS, existing systems or SaaS apps. It shifts you’re thinking on how distributed systems work from a pipeline towards an event-based model. If you haven’t read up on… Continue reading Building you’re first AWS Lambda with Amazon EventBridge.
🌎 Build an Hello World web application in under 5 minutes with AWS Amplify
Introduction In this beginner friendly tutorial we are building an Hello World React application that we will deploy to AWS (and the internet) using AWS Amplify. By leveraging AWS Amplify we are allowing ourselves to by-pass the hardships of manually configuring default important web application tools. It doesn’t only allow us to host our web… Continue reading 🌎 Build an Hello World web application in under 5 minutes with AWS Amplify