Serverless Telegram bot on AWS Lambda

Intro

This is a simple template of echo Telegram chatbot written in Python 3 and deployed to AWS Lambda using Serverless framework. You can find the tutorial of how to deploy it here

Requirements

1. Python 3
2. Node.js v6.5.0 or later
3. AWS account with Admin rights

Deploying

Install Serverless framework:

npm install -g serverless

Export credentials:

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<Access key ID>
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<Secret access key>
export TELEGRAM_TOKEN=<Your Telegram Token>

Install pip requirements:

pip install -r requirements.txt -t vendored

Deploy to AWS:

serverless deploy

P.S.

If you need more complex solution, take a look on this example: https://github.com/Andrii-D/telegram-stepfunctions-bot/