Automation With Lambda function and CloudWatch Events

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Lambdas are great. It lets you run your code without having to worry about provisioning or managing servers. You pay only for the compute time you consume. With Lambda, you can run code for various types of applications or backend services, all with zero administration. You just upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability. You can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile app.

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I created a simple workflow using AWS Lambda, CloudWatch Events, SSM Parameter Store and SNS that sends email notification when certain criteria is met on a predefined recurring schedule.

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Recently, I was preparing for the AWS Developer Associate certification. As part of the preparation, I was reading white-papers, articles, watching tutorials videos and tinkering with the AWS console to get some hands-on…