Creating Lambda triggers

The Lambda function can be configured in response to events. AWS provides a list of triggers that support lots of events. These triggers belong to their associated AWS services.

You can add a trigger to your Lambda function from the triggers section.

I am going to slightly modify the hello world Lambda function. Here, we are printing the request ID, which is received in the context object as an aws_request_id attribute. It also prints the timestamp:

Now, we are going to add a trigger to our Lambda function that will execute our Lambda function every minute.

The following screenshot shows the Add trigger flow, where ...

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