Slides from my talk at the DevTalks Romania event in Bucharest on 8th June 2017. Getting Started with AWS Lambda & the Serverless Cloud

1. Getting started with AWS Lambda
& the Serverless Cloud
Ian Massingham
Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS
ianm@amazon.com
@IanMmmm

2. AWS Compute offerings
AWS Lambda
Serverless compute platform
for stateless code execution
in response to events
Amazon ECS
Container management
service for running Docker
on a managed cluster of EC2
Amazon EC2
Virtual servers in
the Cloud

3. Continuous
scaling
No servers to
manage
Never pay for idle
– no cold servers
Benefits of AWS Lambda

4. Pay-per request
• Buy compute time in
100 ms increments
• Low request charge
• No hourly, daily, or
monthly minimums
• No per-device fees
Never pay for idle!
Free Tier
1 million requests and 400,000 GBs of
compute every month, for every customer

5. Using AWS Lambda
Bring your own code
• Node.js, Java, Python, C#
• Bring your own libraries
(even native ones)
Simple resource model
• Select power rating from 128
MB to 1.5 GB
• CPU & network allocated
proportionately
• Metrics provide actual usage
Flexible authorization
• Securely grant access to
resources, including VPCs
• Fine-grained control over
who can call your functions
Flexible use
• Call or send events
• Integrated with other AWS
services
• Build whole serverless
ecosystems

6. Using AWS Lambda
Programming model
• AWS SDK built in
• Lambda is the front end
• Use processes, threads, /
tmp, sockets normally
Stateless
• Persist data using Amazon
S3, ElastiCache, RDS or non-
relational databases
• No affinity to infrastructure
(can’t “log in to the box”)
Authoring functions
• Author directly using the
console WYSIWYG editor
• Package code as a .zip and
upload to Lambda or S3
• Plugins for Eclipse and
Visual Studio
• Command line tools
Monitoring and logging
• Built-in metrics for requests,
errors, latency, and throttles
• Built-in logs in Amazon
CloudWatch Logs

7. Key usage scenarios
Data Triggers
Customise behaviour
on data updates in S3,
SNS & more
Control systems
Customize responses and
response workflows to state
changes within AWS
Serverless backends
Execute server side
backend logic in a cross
platform fashion
Big data
Realtime processing
of streaming data
updates using Kinesis

8. DEMO : AWS CodeStar +
AWS Lambda
for Serverless Web Apps

9. Features of AWS CodeStar
✓ Project Templates
✓ Team Access Management
with AWS IAM
✓ Managed Build Service with
AWS Code Build
✓ Unified Project Dashboard
using Amazon CloudWatch
monitoring service
✓ Issue tracking and project
management tool in
dashboard via integrated
Atlassian JIRA Software
✓ AWS CodeCommit for Secure
Hosted Git Repository
✓ Automated App Deployments
with AWS CodeDeploy and
AWS CloudFormation
✓ Integration of AWS
CodePipeline for Automated
Continuous Delivery Pipeline

10. Lambda + S3

11. Dynamic data ingestion using S3+Lambda
Amazon S3 AWS Lambda
processes the
object
Amazon S3
New object
uploaded
Amazon
DynamoDB
Stores
processed
object to S3
Updates filemetadata toDynamoDB

12. Customers running S3+Lambda pipelines
AWS
Lambda
Indexing
tables or
notifications
Apply custom logic to process content
being uploaded into Amazon S3
• Watermarking / thumbnail creation
• Transcoding
• Indexing and de-duplication
• Aggregation and filtering
• Pre processing
• Content validation
• WAF updates
Amazon S3
Bucket
Events
Processed
files

13. Lambda + Kinesis

14. Real time stream processing with Kinesis+Lambda
Amazon
Kinesis
AWS Lambda
processes the
stream
Amazon
CloudWatch Logs
Amazon SNS
Compress
data &
dump
to CW
-Logs
Filter data andalert SNS onmatch
New data
available

15. Customers using real-time processing pipelines
AWS Lambda
Aggregate
statistics
Real-time
analytics
Kinesis Stream
Apply custom logic to process data
being uploaded through Kinesis stream
• Client activity tracking
• Metrics generation
• Data cleansing
• Log filtering
• Indexing and searching
• Log routing
• Live alarms and notifications

16. Lambda Powered APIs

17. An API Call Flow
Internet
Mobile Apps
Websites
Services
AWS Lambda
functions
AWS
API Gateway
Cache
Endpoints on
Amazon EC2
Any other publicly
accessible endpointAmazon CloudWatch
Monitoring
Amazon
CloudFront
Amazon
API Gateway

18. Lambda + Cognito & Mobile Apps

19. Building Mobile Backends with Lambda
• Lambda as the backend logic for mobile
applications.
• Easy Personalization
– … for devices
– … for end users

20. Other Use Cases

22. Scheduled Event (CRON)
• Dev/QA Environments: Stop running instances at 19:00 h
and Start it again at 8:00 between Monday to Friday.
• Log cleanup
• Batching up statistics
• Alarm clock
• Infrastructure automation
• Backup scheduler

23. Backup and Disaster Recovery
• Cross-region replication to multiple regions.
• Off-site backups.
• Validation of those backups is difficult to scale.
• Set rules on Lambda that defines what needs to be backup and
checks
• Validates and raise alarms in case of failure.

24. Thank You. Got questions?
Ian Massingham
Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS
ianm@amazon.com
@IanMmmm

25. Appendix