AWS

Specify one or more use cases for using AWS Lambda

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

  • Uploading images to S3 and tagging them or inserting information on the images to a database
  • Uploading videos to S3 and edit them or add subtitles/captions to them and store the result in S3
  • Use SNS and/or SQS to trigger functions based on notifications or messages received from these services.
  • Cron Jobs: Use Lambda together with CloudWatch events to schedule tasks/functions periodically.