This short demo shows how you can use the power of AWS Lambda to perform complex tasks based on events. Imagine you have a motion activated camera that uploads a picture to an S3 bucket. Rather than having queues, stateful servers, and other maintenance prone activities just imagine having a function. A function that runs in the cloud whenever you upload a new picture. It checks to see if that picture contains a face and will shoot you an MMS if it does.

There are a few simple steps to get setup.

You can compile the library on any AWS Amazon Linux instance by following the instructions below or you can download the statically compiled library here: