Automating AWS with Lambda, Python, and Boto3

EC2-Creating-Instance
Stopping EC2 Instances Nightly based on AWS Cloudwatch rules
Backing Up EC2 Instances
Removing Unattached EBS Volumes
De-registering Old AMIs
AWS Instance Scheduler
- The Instance Scheduler on AWS solution automates the starting and stopping of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instances. Based on this CloudFormation Template
Enabling AWS VPC Flow Logs with Automation

Create CloudWatch rule for `CreateVpc` API call.
Navigate to CloudWatch.
    Click Create rule.
    Select Event Pattern.
    Service Name: EC2
    Event Type: AWS API Call via CloudTrail
    Specific Operation: "CreateVpc"
    Note that eventName sets CreateVpc in the preview
    Click Add target.
    Select Lambda function EnableVpcFlowLogs.
    Click Configure details.
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Create a VPC, and check the Flow Logs was enable.

DynamoDB-Managing-Tables
S3-Resizing-Images
- pip install -t S3-Resizing-Images/scripts/ --platform manylinux2014_x86_64 --implementation cp --python 3.8 --only-binary=:all: --upgrade Pillow
DynamoDB-Importing-CSV
- To test we need to upload the movies.csv file to s3 bucket named: aws-lambda-csv-data
- Check the data was imported to DynamoDB table!
SQS-Triggering-Lambda
EC2-Automating-Resource-Tagging
IAM-Rotating-Access-key

Virtual environment

Create Virtual env: python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install -r requirements.txt

Terraform commands

export TF_PATH=
terraform -chdir=${TF_PATH} init
terraform -chdir=${TF_PATH} plan -var=name=
terraform -chdir=${TF_PATH} apply -var=name=

Invoking aws lambda using aws cli:

export NAME=<lambda name>
aws lambda invoke --invocation-type Event \
  --function-name ${NAME} \
  --invocation-type Event \
  --payload '{}' \
  response.json

AnselmoPfeifer/aws-automation-with-lambda

Automating AWS with Lambda, Python, and Boto3

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