Posts Tagged - Lambda

This AWS CloudFormation YAML template demonstrates how a Kinesis Data Stream stream can be implemented as Lambda Trigger in AWS CloudFormation.

Simply deploy the following template via the AWS CloudFormation console. In the designer the template looks like this:

Template:

Now we can gather the stream name from the CloudFormation stack outputs section and send a test event using the AWS CLI:

  aws kinesis put-record --stream-name <value> --data <value> --partition-key <value>

CLI Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/kinesis/put-record.html

The output should look like this:

Now you can check in the Lambda Console if the Lambda has been invoked and what has been written to the logs.

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Implement S3 Bucket Lambda triggers in AWS CloudFormation can be quite tricky because of very often circular dependencies or errors like “Unable to validate the following destination configurations” occur. But if you take notice of the following, working with S3 Lambda triggers in CloudFormation will be easier.

• First, you have to specify a name for the Bucket in the CloudFormation template, this allows you to create policies and permission without worrying about circular dependencies.
• Secondly, you have to add a DependsOn statement to the Bucket referencing the Lambda Permission, this helps you to fix “Unable to validate the following destination configurations” errors since the bucket will only get created if the Lambda Function and all necessary policies, roles and permissions are in place.

Below you will find a GitHub Gist with a working example which takes care of all tips mentioned above. In this example, created *.txt files are read from a bucket and then deleted.

Read more: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/unable-validate-destination-s3/

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