AWS just announced the release of S3 Batch Operations. This is a hotly-anticpated release that was originally announced at re:Invent 2018. With S3 Batch, you can run tasks on existing S3 objects. This will make it much easier to run previously difficult tasks like retagging S3 objects, copying objects to another bucket, or processing large numbers of objects in bulk.
In this post, we'll do a deep dive into S3 Batch. You will learn when, why, and how to use S3 Batch. First, we'll do an overview of the key elements involved in an S3 Batch job. Then, we'll walkthrough an example by doing sentiment analysis on a group of existing objects with AWS Lambda and Amazon Comprehend.