It’s been a while since I began toying with the idea of hosting Soundbot on AWS Lambda. Going with a serverless platform seemed like the perfect fit for implementing a simple assistant bot. The bot would receive a short instruction in the form of a message, the Lambda would spring into action, do whatever it had been told to, report back to the user with some sort of confirmation, and die quietly.

It was a match made in heaven: no servers to mantain, no pooling for unread messages, no load balancing; all my needs neatly taken care of by the magic of the Amazon Web Services.

And you know what? I was mostly right.