Compress Images Using AWS Lambda and S3

Loading large image files on your webiste is not only bandwidth intensive but it also negatively affects SEO. You can use software such as Adobe Photoshop to manually compress your images before storing them but that's a time consuming process so why not do this automatically. In this blog I will show you how you can use AWS Lambda and Amazon S3 to automatically compress images that have been uploaded to an S3 bucket and display them in your Laravel application.## Prerequisites For this demo you will need the following: * An AWS Account## Create the IAM Policy & Role