S3 Event Trigger with Lambda

Level: Beginner

Problem Statement

Suppose you have a firehose of data uploads to an S3 bucket, and want a transformation from one file type to another.

S3 Event Triggers

S3 Event Triggers allows for another AWS Service to be called when an S3 action such as PUT or DELETE occurs. In this case, we can use a Lambda which is triggered on S3 PUT events.