An SNS primer - also Auto Routing SNS messages to different SQS

 It is a standard decoupling pattern to have publishers send their messages to an SNS owned by them. Consumers will setup SQS endpoints that subscribe to SNS and get the messages. However consider that there are many consumers all of whom are interested in different subset of messages sent by the SNS.

Step Functions - AWS Service Integrations 2

In the previous post we successfully executed dynamo db, sqs and sns interactions directly from step functions. I wanted to try some tweaks to my state machine.

SNS SQS and the multi function Lambda

So I had a use case where I needed to listen to a 4/5 different notifications and then setup a Lambda which synced it. I could setup a different Lambda for each SNS notification and then perform the operation on each message type. But I did not want so many of them around - only differing in how they read the message. Instead I chose to setup a single Lamba Function that could process all the varied notification messages.