Actix Web on Lambda

Lambda & API Gateway with AWS SAM

Deploy your application with AWS SAM, using SAM CLI. Have a look at a sample role you will want to create and assign to your user.

{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "NotAction": [
                "iam:*",
                "organizations:*",
                "account:*"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "iam:CreateServiceLinkedRole",
                "iam:DeleteServiceLinkedRole",
                "iam:ListRoles",
                "iam:ListPolicies",
                "organizations:DescribeOrganization",
                "account:ListRegions"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "iam:*",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:iam::37********43:role/microservice-*-MicroServiceLambdaRole*"
        }
    ]
}

Its core has been taken from AWS-managed PowerUser. We are just assigning some additional IAM perms wih regard to concrete lambda resource. In case you are operating on a limited scope of resource, you will want to cap those permissions, adhering to the principle of least privilege.

Upon AWS credentials setup, run

make build
make package
make deploy

Get the API Gateway endpoint from the outputs sections in stdout and hit the /subsriptions POST with urlecoded form data:
Note that in case of lambda's cold-start, the latency may reach 1.5 seconds. Subsequet calls will (should) be much faster.

Important

Do not forget to clean up with make destroy to avoid unwanted costs. Alternatively, you can delete the stack via AWS Console (CloudFormation service).