A company hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket. Once uploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata, which takes less than 5 seconds. The volume and frequency of the uploads varies from a few files each hour to hundreds of concurrent uploads. The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost-effective architecture that will meet these requirements. What should the solutions architect recommend?

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A company hosts an application used to upload files to an Amazon S3 bucket. Once uploaded, the files are processed to extract metadata, which takes less than 5 seconds. The volume and frequency of the uploads varies from a few files each hour to hundreds of concurrent uploads. The company has asked a solutions architect to design a cost-effective architecture that will meet these requirements. What should the solutions architect recommend?

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Using an S3 event notification to trigger an AWS Lambda function is cost-effective and scalable for processing files as they are uploaded to the S3 bucket. Lambda can handle varying loads and is suitable for tasks that take a short amount of time, like extracting metadata.

A Company Hosts an Application Used to Upload Files to an Amazon