A few days ago I decided to scan a popular freelance site for an interesting problem to solve without the intention of applying for the job, as lady luck would have it I stumbled across an interesting challenge, the client needed to copy data from an S3 bucket to Azure Blob Storage using Power Automate. Seems like a fairly easy task right ?

It’s no secret that since I began my cloud journey in late 2018 i’ve been intrigued by serverless computing. At work i’ve even gone as far as designing and implementing a few Azure Functions that are used in production. I thought now would be the perfect time to write a blog post on a practical use case for AWS Lambda.

What is Lambda ?

Lambda is a function as a service offering from AWS that allows you to focus on writing code and letting AWS provision and maintain the underlying technology stack that your code runs on. As of this current moment in time Lambda supports runtime versions for Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, C# (.NET Core), and PowerShell (.NET Core).

September was the month of Serverless, to build on that theme I decided it would be the perfect time to launch my own production-ready Serverless blog ahead of time and establish my online presence. I’ve had an interest in having my own blog for over a year, the idea of pulling off something that none of my friends have done before excited me, so now it was only a matter of time before the idea came into fruition.