Vapor: Custom Lambda Events

Today we released laravel/vapor-core version v2.5.1 with the ability to handle custom Lambda events. To get started, implement a vapor:handle artisan command in your application with the following signature:

vapor:handle {payload}

To extract the event payload from the payload argument, you should base64_decode and json_decode the string:

Custom Lambda events allow to handle events from other AWS services, such as triggering your application each time an image is uploaded to an S3 bucket.

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