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How to use AWS Fargate and Lambda for long-running processes in a Serverless app

Build an ETL job service by fetching data from a public API endpoint and dumping it into an AWS Redshift database.

Published on Jan. 11th, 2018 at https://serverless.com/blog/serverless-application-for-long-running-process-fargate-lambda/

AWS dropped so many serverless announcements at re:Invent, the community is still scrambling to make sense of them all. This post is all about AWS Fargate.

In this article, I will show you how to create an end-to-end serverless application that extracts thumbnails from video files. But, oh no, processing video files is a long-running process! Whatever will we do?

sgdan

/*
    Example for AWS SQL Server RDS instance:
    - create database
    - create login with basic permissions

    Since RDS is managed there are some restrictions when creating users and assigning
    permissions. This procedure shows how to create a database and login with combinations
    of ddl, read and write permissions.
*/
create procedure #createdbuser (

afloesch

Terraforming API Gateway to SQS queue

Example of a bare-minimum terraform script to setup an API Gateway endpoint that takes records and puts them into an SQS queue.

SQS

Start by creating the SQS queue.

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue" {