This actually has a few complexities to overcome if you were implementing this in a traditional manner. So devnull S3 bucket is exactly what you might expect, as any object that is uploaded into the bucket will be deleted. Everyone in the Unix world has heard of /dev/null, so why not a devnull S3 bucket? I found it useful for understanding how to work with Python and AWS Lambda and thought I might share that here. Having some time this week, I thought I'd explore AWS Lambda a bit, and I came up with a simple service. Once AWS announced Python with Lambda at re:Invent, it's been a lot easier for me to give it a try (although there was a hack to use Python with AWS Lambda I was just too darn lazy to try. By the way, here is a hack for Go if you're interested). One of the reasons it's taken so long for me to explore AWS Lambda is that it was only offered with Java or Node.js. What I will do is document a simple AWS Lambda function written in Python that's simple to understand, but does something more than a 'Hello World' function. It's an event-driven architecture applied to the AWS cloud, and Jeff Barr describes AWS Lambda quite well here, so I'll dispense with all the introductory stuff. Lambda paints a future where we can deploy serverless (or near serverless) applications focusing only on writing functions in response to events to build our application. Ever since AWS announced the addition of Lambda last year, it has captured the imagination of developers and operations folks alike.

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