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Sync between publish and subscribe to iot topic in AWS Lambda

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Hi folks, Hope you are well and safe and also hope that this questions don't gonna be an already asked question.

I'm here to ask a brief explanation on how can I write in AWS Lambda function a sync mechanism. I mean: I'm writing a .py script that, when is triggered, publish a message to a topic. When the IoT things receive the message on published on this topic, react publishing response on another topic. Well, at this point, I want to receive the published message from IoT thing in same lambda function that was firstly triggered from outside. Is it possible or I need to use AWS IoT rules in order to trigger a different AWS Lambda function?

Best regards.

Topics
Internet of Things (IoT)ServerlessCompute
Tags
AWS IoT CoreAWS LambdaInternet of Things (IoT)AWS IoT Events
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English
m_piffari
asked 2 years ago489 views
1 Answer
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If by "same lambda function" you mean the same invokation of a function, then no. But you could trigger a different invokation of the same function for this different purpose. Usually though you would trigger a different function for better code structure and least-privilege security configuration. Either way it sounds like you might want to share state between invokations - DynamoDB is a common way to do it.

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skinsman
answered 2 years ago
  • m_piffari
    2 years ago

    Thanks @skinsman.

    Yes, trigger different invokation of the same function seems the solution. The next problem, in this approach, could be: how can I hold the context that invoke firstly the Lambda function in order to give a response to it when I receive the second trigger?

    I mean, how can I keep the http connection alive, and reuse after second trigger?

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