Learn how I navigated setting up AWS Lambda for the first time
This article walks you through how I got started using AWS Lambdas. The article aims to show you how to set up an AWS Lambda function and also to show you my problem-solving 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 computer science and figure out a way to solve them. Being able to figure out problems yourself is a crucial skill within programming, and developing this skill is one of the main motivations of this article.
My motivation for this tutorial, and similar ones in the future, is to learn new concepts that are important for me as a data scientist. One of the most important parts of being a data scientist is continuously updating your knowledge. I realized I had a limited understanding of deploying functions to the cloud, which is important if you, for example, want to host your machine learning model. I, therefore, set out to learn how I can deploy 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 I have little prior knowledge of. This article should…