Kafka + AWS lambda

Question

Is it possible to integrate AWS Lambda with Apache Kafka ? I want to put a consumer in a lambda function. When a consumer receive a message the lambda function execute.

Answer 1

Here is AWS article on scheduled lambdas.

Given your Kafka installation will be running in a VPC, best practise is to configure your Lambda to run within the VPC as well - this will simplify the security group configuration for the EC2 instances running Kafka.

Here is the AWS blog article on configuring Lambdas to run in a VPC.