101. Package and Distribute Lambda Functions for fun and profit
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Today we embark on a fascinating journey into the world of AWS Lambda functions and how to make them accessible to the public. In a recent use case, involving the creation of a public Lambda function for AWS users, we asked ourselves some interesting questions. How can you securely, cost-effectively, and conveniently publish AWS resources, especially Lambda functions, for others to use? And... can we possibly make some money out of this?
Join us as we explore various options and share our findings for making your AWS resources available to the world. We dive into the Serverless Application Repository (SAR), an AWS treasure trove for publishing resources. And SAR isn't the only way! We also discuss alternatives like CloudFormation templates, GitHub publishing, Terraform modules, and container images. We explore the pros and cons of these methods and debate the implications in terms of cost, security, and ease of use. Finally, we touch on the AWS Marketplace as a platform to monetize your AWS resources.
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🔖 Chapters:
00:00 Intro to Package and Distribute Lambda Functions 00:53 Our use case for distributing an open-source Lambda function 02:53 SAR (Serverless Application Repository) 06:36 Hosting plain CloudFormation templates, one-click URLs, and CloudFormation registry 10:18 Using Terraform with GitHub or the Terraform Registry 13:04 Packaging Lambdas using OCI containers 13:14 The cost of hosting everything in your own S3 bucket 16:12 Making money from ready-made serverless solutions (AWS Marketplace) 17:25 Summary and wrap-up
In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
- Our previous episode about HTTP Lambdas (including an overview of Rest vs HTTP API Gateways): https://awsbites.com/74-function-urls-vs-api-gateway/
- Example of publicly accessible Lambda code using CloudFormation templates on GitHub: https://github.com/eoinsha/public-s3-lambda-code-example
- AWS SAR (Serverless Application Repository): https://aws.amazon.com/serverless/serverlessrepo/
- The Terraform Registry: https://registry.terraform.io/
- AWS Marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace
- "Selling an AMI and a CloudFormation template as an alternative to SaaS" by Cloudonaut: https://cloudonaut.io/selling-ami-cloudformation-alternative-saas/
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