Process New Item with DynamoDB Streams & Lambda

 

Process New Item with DynamoDB Streams & Lambda

DynamoDB is a service by AWS which provides a fully managed Key-Value database service by AWS which provides fast and predictable performance with compatible scalability.

AWS Lambda is a service by AWS which lets you run your code without managing the servers, you pay only for the compute time you consume. With Lambda service, you can run code for virtually any type of app or backend services, all with zero administration. here you just have to upload your code and Lambda takes care of everything required to run and scale your code with high availability and durability. Also, you can set up your code to automatically trigger from other AWS services or call it directly from any web or mobile application.

In this activity guide, we will learn how to create an AWS Lambda trigger to process a stream from a DynamoDB table.