Mastering AWS Lambda Layers

Mastering AWS Lambda Layers
Mastering AWS Lambda Layers

CLOUD LABS

Mastering AWS Lambda Layers

In this Cloud Lab, you will learn to deploy Lambda functions with conventional deployment packages and layers, enabling you to perform tasks like API calls, sentiment analysis, and processing image text from an S3 bucket.

8 Tasks

intermediate

1hr 30m

Certificate of Completion

Desktop OnlyDevice is not compatible.
No Setup Required
Amazon Web Services

Learning Objectives

The ability to create and deploy AWS Lambda functions with external libraries
The ability to use Lambda layers for efficient dependency management in serverless computing
Hands-on experience sharing and reusing dependencies across multiple Lambda functions
Hands-on experience performing API calls and text processing with enhanced Lambda function with layers

Technologies
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Lambda logoLambda
API Gateway logoAPI Gateway
S3 logoS3
Cloud Lab Overview

AWS Lambda, provided by Amazon Web Services, is a serverless platform that helps code execution without the need to manage underlying servers. 

You’ll start by creating a Lambda function with Python, incorporating the requests library to enable API interactions. Then, you will package and deploy this function with its dependencies. Next, you will optimize by creating a Lambda layer with the requests library, allowing for more efficient code editing and package management. You’ll also delve into sentiment analysis by adding the textblob library to a Lambda layer and applying this to analyze text data. Finally, you’ll learn to share this textblob layer across multiple Lambda functions, including the analysis of the text from an image stored in an S3 bucket.

By the end of this Cloud Lab, you will have gained practical experience in integrating and managing Lambda layers within AWS Lambda functions.

The following is the high-level architecture diagram of the infrastructure you will create in this Cloud Lab:

Architecture diagram
Architecture diagram

Cloud Lab Tasks
1.Introduction
Getting Started
2.Lambda with Deployment Package
Create a Lambda Function and Fetch API Details
Create a Deployment Package
3.Lambda Function with Layers
Reduce the Package Size and Enable Code Edit
Focus on Core Logic with Lambda Layers
Share Dependencies across Lambda Functions
4.Conclusion
Clean Up
Wrap Up
Labs Rules Apply
Stay within resource usage requirements.
Do not engage in cryptocurrency mining.
Do not engage in or encourage activity that is illegal.

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