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.
Tag: AWS CDK
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
✅ This is how you could structure your AWS CDK project
In this post we will walk through how you can structure your AWS CDK projects so that it makes sense for others. In short, we want to limit the amount of WTFs/minute of your AWS CDK code. 🎓 At the end of this post You will have a better understanding of the possibilities of structuring… Continue reading ✅ This is how you could structure your AWS CDK project
💸 Deploy low cost ECS tasks based on SQS queue size with AWS CDK
In this post we are using AWS CDK to build a system that scales up and down based on the amount of messages in the SQS queue. It allows users to do REST-API calls to an Amazon API Gateway endpoint from their applications or computers. This will add a new item to the SQS queue.… Continue reading 💸 Deploy low cost ECS tasks based on SQS queue size with AWS CDK