Automating Your S3 File Uploads with AWS Lambda: A Simple Guide Part 1

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a powerful cloud computing platform that offers a variety of services for users to create, deploy and manage applications. AWS Lambda is a powerful tool for automating tasks in the AWS environment. One common use case for Lambda is automating S3 file uploads. By using Lambda to trigger actions in response to new file uploads, you can streamline your workflows, reduce manual tasks, and improve the overall efficiency of your data processing.

In this article, we’ll explore how to automate S3 file uploads with AWS Lambda. We’ll cover the basic concepts, as well as provide step-by-step instructions for setting up a Lambda function to respond to file uploads.

What is AWS Lambda?

AWS Lambda is a serverless computing service that lets you run your code without provisioning or managing servers. You can use Lambda to execute your code in response to events such as changes to data in S3 buckets, updates to DynamoDB tables, or API calls to Amazon Gateway. Lambda supports various programming languages, including Python, Node.js, and Java.

This service automatically scales and provisions the compute capacity needed to run the function, and can be integrated with other AWS services to build highly scalable and responsive…