Learning AWS - Second Edition

Creating an AWS Lambda function

In this section, we will create a Lambda function to process Kinesis events.

For a more detailed coverage of this topic, refer to the blog by Sunil Dalal at: https://www.polyglotdeveloper.com/lambda/2017-07-05-Using-Lambda-as-Kinesis-events-processor/. Refer to Creating a .jar Deployment Package Using Maven and Eclipse IDE (Java) for more details: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/java-create-jar-pkg-maven-and-eclipse.html.

1. Create a maven project. Create an example package and key in the following Java code in a class (ProcessKinesisEvents):

package example;import java.io.IOException;import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.KinesisEvent;import com.amazonaws.services.lambda.runtime.events.KinesisEvent.KinesisEventRecord; ...