Is there any guidance on how to use this for AWS Lambda?

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Is there any guidance on how to use this for AWS Lambda? #180

Closed geekyme closed 4 years ago

geekyme commented 4 years ago

AWS Lambda generally expects you to implement a RequestHandler:

import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.RequestHandler;
...

public class Handler implements RequestHandler<Map<String, Object>, ApiGatewayResponse> {
 ....
}

It looks like this framework is highly coupled to Spring Boot. Any ideas how I can make it work for AWS Lambda?

rampatra commented 4 years ago

I do not think that such a project is best fit for AWS Lambda. As in Lambda, there isn't always a machine running. AWS spins up a machine only on request. It can cache some stuff but starting a spring app (or any web app) every time on request will lead to a very slow response.

My suggestion would be to host it in an EC2 instance or something similar and on AWS Lambda.

Smaller/simpler tasks should be carried out in AWS Lambda.