Using Python and Boto3 in AWS
ACM.55 Boto3 in a Lambda Function and later in AWS Batch
Part of my series on Automating Cybersecurity Metrics. Lambda. Application Security. The Code.
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In the last post I started exploring how to request the capability to send SMS messages on AWS. If you’re embarking on that journey, you may want to read this first.
Before we jump into the next section of posts implementing some Lambda functions with Python to interact with AWS services I just wanted to quickly explain what Boto3 is for anyone who is not familiar.
AWS has a number of software development kits (SDKs) for different languages.
As you may recall when we created a Lambda function in prior posts, both in manual and automated formats, we chose a runtime. That runtime specified that we wanted to use Python and which version of Python.
