Hands-On Serverless Computing

Real-time processing

With AWS Lambda, you can perform real-time file and stream processing. An example of real-time file processing would be to have AWS Lambda triggered whenever an object is either created or modified in an S3 bucket. Examples of this could be to resize images, create thumbnails for the images, process logs, validate the content, and create aggregations of data stored in an S3 bucket.

By combining AWS Lambda functions and Amazon Kinesis, you can process real-time stream data for applications such as transaction processing, activity tracking on a website, cleansing data, generating metrics, filtering logs, indexing logs, click stream data processing, telemetry of device data, and many more. There are many more use cases with ...