This article explains how I got started with AWS Lambdas. The goal of the article is to show you how to set up an AWS Lambda function and also show you my troubleshooting approach, figuring out how to set up a Lambda function for the first time. Hopefully this will show you how to approach new problems within computing and find a way to solve them. Being able to solve problems yourself is a crucial skill within programming, and developing this skill is one of the main motivations for this article.
My motivation for this tutorial, and similar ones in the future, is to learn new concepts that are important to me as a data scientist. One of the most important parts of being a data scientist is continually updating your knowledge. I realized that I had limited knowledge about deploying functions in the cloud, which is important if, for example, you want to host your machine learning model. Therefore, I set out to learn how I can implement functions using AWS Lamba functions. Another important motivation for this tutorial is to show you my approach to problem solving, as I will be working on a task that I have little prior knowledge of. This article should…
