How to FaaS like a pro: 12 uncommon ways to invoke your #serverless functions on #aws [Part 1]
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Yes, this is you at the end of this article, contemplating new possibilities! [Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash]If you feel like skipping the brief introduction below, you can jump straight to the first four uncommon trigger with these shortlinks:Amazon Cognito User Pools — Users management & custom workflowsAWS Config — Event-driven configuration checksAmazon Kinesis Data Firehose — Data ingestion & validationAWS CloudFormation — IaC, Macros & custom transformsA bit of history firstWhen AWS Lambda became generally available on April 9th, 2015 it became the first Function-as-a-Service out there, and there were only a few ways you could trigger your functions besides direct invocation: Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon SNS. Three months later we got Amazon API Gateway support, (...)