bluelhf / greeting-as-a-service

Greeting with the power of Rust :crab: on AWS

GaaS

Greeting-as-a-service (GaaS) implements a Rust 🦀 AWS Lambda Server Function that greets the user.

Features

• Friendly errors for invalid data
• High performance, meaning low costs
• Convention over configuration
• Easy set-up for existing AWS users

Set-up

Dependencies

• An AWS account with sufficient privileges
• Cargo Lambda
• Rust

Instructions

1. Clone the project
2. Compile it with cargo lambda build --release -o zip
3. Create a new Lambda Function in the AWS Console
   1. Select Author from Scratch
   2. Enter some function name, like greetingFunction.
   3. For a runtime, open the drop-down menu and select Custom runtime > Provide your own bootstrap on Amazon Linux 2.
   4. Check Advanced Settings > Enable Function URL.
   5. Click Create Function.
4. In your Lambda Function, click Code > Upload from > .zip file > Upload
5. Select bootstrap.zip from the target/lambda directory
6. Congratulations, your lambda function is now set up!