AWS Patterns

Serverless and managed service patterns for AWS production workloads.

Lambda Best Practices

// Cold start optimization: keep handler thin, initialize outside handler
import { DynamoDBClient } from '@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb'
import { DynamoDBDocumentClient, GetCommand } from '@aws-sdk/lib-dynamodb'

// Initialized ONCE per container (reused across invocations)
const client = DynamoDBDocumentClient.from(new DynamoDBClient({}))

export const handler = async (event: APIGatewayProxyEvent) => {
  try {
    const userId = event.pathParameters?.id
    if (!userId) {
      return { statusCode: 400, body: JSON.stringify({ error: 'Missing user ID' }) }
    }

    const result = await client.send(new GetCommand({
      TableName: process.env.USERS_TABLE!,
      Key: { pk: `USER#${userId}`, sk: `PROFILE` }
    }))

    if (!result.Item) {
      return { statusCode: 404, body: JSON.stringify({ error: 'User not found' }) }
    }

    return {
      statusCode: 200,
      headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
      body: JSON.stringify(result.Item)
    }
  } catch (err) {
    console.error('Handler error:', err)
    return { statusCode: 500, body: JSON.stringify({ error: 'Internal server error' }) }
  }
}

S3 Event Processing

// S3 → Lambda: process uploaded files
import { S3Client, GetObjectCommand } from '@aws-sdk/client-s3'

const s3 = new S3Client({})

export const handler = async (event: S3Event) => {
  for (const record of event.Records) {
    const bucket = record.s3.bucket.name
    const key = decodeURIComponent(record.s3.object.key.replace(/\+/g, ' '))
    const size = record.s3.object.size

    // Guard: skip non-image files or oversized uploads
    if (size > 10_000_000) {
      console.warn(`Skipping oversized file: ${key} (${size} bytes)`)
      continue
    }