AWS User Group Telegram Bot

AWS User Group Telegram Bot helps AWS User group members and community to get all events, updates, and resources all in on place using a telegram bot. To open the bot click here.

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Architecture

This project is developed using Serverless Framework and Deployed using AWS services. Below are the sequence of events that follow:

User interacts with the bot by sending any one of the available commands.
Telegram call the webhook which is configured for the bot.
Webhook url is a simple REST API AWS Apigateway endpoint.
A lambda function is invoked for the request.
Lambda function get the bot token from AWS Secrets Manager.
User requested information is parsed from the request body.
An response is sent back to the particular chat id using Telagram Bot API
All logs are captured in AWS Cloudwatch service.

Technology, Framework, Language and other services used

Serverless Framework
Telegram Bot API
AWS APIGateway
AWS Lambda
AWS Cloudwatch
AWS SecretsManager
AWS CloudFormation
Github Actions
TypeScript
Express

Usecase, solution, availability & scalability

One place to know about community actvities. Solves the problem statement of scattered information about AWS User Groups. Since we are using AWS serverless technology, the service is highly available, cost effective and scalable.