Serverless File Uploads using S3 and Lambda

By Dustin Ward

The serverless approach allows your application to use a presigned URL and upload directly to Amazon S3. This offloads all the bandwidth and compute requirements away from your application, and instead relies on the massive scalability of S3. This walkthrough shows how to implement an uploading solution for a broader application. You can use this…

The S3-to-Lambda Serverless Design Pattern

By Dustin Ward

The S3-to-Lambda serverless design pattern can become a flexible core for your serverless applications. In this pattern, you configure S3 to notify Lambda when events happen, to run your custom code. This video shows how this works in detail, reviewing the characteristics of both services, and how to use the integration for building highly scalable…

Serverless Speech-to-Text using S3 and Lambda

By Dustin Ward

See how you can use bring automated speech-to-text into your applications with minimal code. This solution uses Amazon Transcribe to automatically convert mp4 audio clips into text. This type of serverless application can analyze customer support calls, for example, and create a sentiment analysis using Amazon Comprehend. The walkthrough application takes the transcribed text and…

Serverless Workflows using S3 and Lambda

By Dustin Ward

AWS Step Functions allows to represent complex business logic flows in your application without using custom code. You can trigger Step Functions workflows from S3 events, enabling you to build scalable state machine easily. This design can be used for all sorts of practical business use-cases. For example, saving a signed customer contract from an…