How do we raise an event which stores the file name in SQS queue thru lambda, when a new file is uploaded in Amazon S3 bucket?

Question

How do we raise an event which stores the file name in SQS queue thru lambda, when a new file is uploaded in Amazon S3 bucket

Answer 1

AWS S3 offers a feature specifically for this use case called "Amazon S3 Event Notifications".

You can configure your S3 bucket to send out a "notification" (also called event) to a SQS queue.

Furthermore, you can fine-tune for which specific "event" you want to get a notification. You could configure the bucket to send an event to SQS only when an object with the extension .jpg was deleted for example.

You should read the very detailed documentation by AWS to find out more:

Amazon S3 Event Notifications - Amazon Simple Storage Service