From the course: AWS for Developers: Data-Driven Serverless Applications with Kinesis (2019)

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Send a message to SQS

Send a message to SQS

- [Instructor] So now we created the Queue. And we also have the lambda that does nothing, that we have created in the previous chapter. So, now this lambda needs to send a message to the Queue. So, then we can create a new lambda that will send a message to the delivery company. So let's modify a little bit this code so it's sending messages to the Queue. For sending messages to the Queue, what do we need to do is first require the aws-sdk and then we are going to use the module sqs from here. The module sqs, as the one of ses requires a region and we can pass that as a environmental variable. And then we will have a Queue name that we will need to also have as an environmental variable. Now we have set up this and then we need to start playing a little bit with this code. So we are getting our ordersFulfilled in the parameters. So, we will use that, we will go ordersFulfilled by ordersFulfilled and send a message to the Queue one by one. And also, this lambda needs to save the order…

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