Category: AWS Lambda

Combine IaC resources and Lambda functions with the AWS CDK framework to initialize Amazon RDS scripts.

In this blog post, we discuss an operation that reduces the risk of downloading new packages from public repositories.

Automatically discover new log groups and add them as triggers to your existing Lambda functions.

Automate and consolidate IAM credential reports for your AWS accounts using a scalable infrastructure-as-code automation.

Learn how to use an AWS Lambda function and custom AWS CloudFormation resources to manage your shared S3 Event Notifications.

In this quick recap, I feature five blog posts that show how you can use custom resources to extend AWS CloudFormation templates, from start to stack cleanup, when you’re building automated deployments.

Learn how to build an AMI from an Amazon EC2 instance at CloudFormation launch time, and then use the AMI for fast bootstrapping of the Auto Scaling group instances.

Learn how to extend AWS CloudFormation by using AWS CodeBuild as a long-lived compute environment. This example is based on the AWX Quick Start.

Learn how to create robust AWS CloudFormation custom resources by using the custom resource helper (crhelper) and AWS Lambda.

AWS Lambda requires its source code to be hosted in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region as the Lambda function, which poses challenges when writing AWS CloudFormation templates that are portable across different regions. This post discusses three patterns to address that at stack.