With yet another chapter done, we are just one step away from the completion of this book. But before we go any further, let's summarize what we covered in this chapter!
First up, we started off by looking at a few commonly employed Lambda use cases to manage your AWS infrastructure. This comprised a use case where we leveraged simple Lambda functions to start and stop our EC2 instances during off hours, thus saving unnecessary running costs. We also explored two other infrastructure management use cases where a Lambda function is used to periodically take backups of an instance's EBS volumes as well as tag EC2 instances with some useful metadata for chargeback and governance. Lastly, we explored a use case where we leveraged a Lambda function to perform simple data transformation over a CSV file and stream that data to a DynamoDB table.
I hope this has been...