Lambda function scheduled to perform backups of another server on s3

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[Music] hi

in this course we're going to use lambda and s3 which are two amazon web services

offerings and also cloud formation to create a current like

service to backup some of our servers some servers that are

not in inside amazon web services so to let's take a look at the other

technologies we're going to use so first of all uh this is lambda

this is like a serverless platform so basically this is a

computer that turns on to serve our request and then turns off and we

only get the charge per millisecond so this is one of

the interesting things about lambda that we can apply to this

project and we're gonna have like a chrome service

so if you're not in case you're not familiar with chrome

let's go for the english one instead yeah so in case you're not familiar with

chron it's like a software utility to to schedule jobs

right so you can say every day at

five uh run this pros process this backup

this uh i don't know thumbnail generation for images anything

you want so what we want is to use a lambda as

a as a chrome right so we'll be able to schedule lambda

tasks and to run them let's say every day at five

every day at one every 15 minutes whenever we want

and we're only gonna get charged for that time when they run

um to use this uh we're gonna use this uh cdk

also from from amazon so what this is is a way to define this lot of terminology

basically we have cloud formation this is a way to to define resources

and so we say we need like one lambda we need like some storage

and then this can be defined with cloud formation and what

the cloud development kit is is an interface to that

using a language in our case we're going to be using typescript

so we'll see how how this looks like but basically we'll write some code

using this kit in typescript and this code

will generate cloud formation for us so we don't have to worry about that

and this cloud formation will create the necessary lambdas and the necessary

storage for the storage we're going to be using

the amazon s3 which is like the standard uh and one of

the first ones in amazon web services uh ways to to

store there's other kinds of storage but this will do for us

and what are we going to use all of this for this chrome this

scheduled process so what we want is to connect

to another server that is not on amazon and perform a backup there maybe we'll

copy some files or we'll run a command and um and export

the database and i think it's interesting because

usually in most of these examples you see

projects that are connecting to other amazon web

services instances and this is easier right

so here we'll do all the all the access for a new server all from amazon

but the other servers will be normal servers that we have somewhere else

so i think this uh this makes it a bit more interesting and um

and we're gonna learn a lot uh by doing this project