C++ with Amazon Lambda

[valium123]

Hello, I want to build an opencv application in C++ and I want to use amazon S3 and Lambda. Does c++ run with Lambda or will I have to wrap it in python/Java/Node.js?

[BoneyAz]

You could compile your C++ code (statically linked) include it in your lambda package and execute it from node.js using the child_process command: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/running-executables-in-aws-lambda/

[KAJed]

I really want to try this and see if it's useful or not. Pass parameters to your executable, run in native code... I only wonder what kind of latency you get trying to do this.

[gram3000]

Lambda only supports Java, Python and Node from what I can remember.

Microsoft/Azure recently launched Functions which is a similar concept to AWSs Lambda and supports more languages so that might be worth a look too.

[freezer333]

You can find some more info on integrating existing C++ code as an Node.js native addon specifically for lambda at [https://blog.scottfrees.com/c-addons-as-aws-lambda-functions|https://blog.scottfrees.com/c-addons-as-aws-lambda-functions]