AWS – Avoid using User-Data/Cloud-init by utilizing Autoscaling + Cloudwatch Events + Lambda + Ansible

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/python-programming-model-handler-types.html

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/EventTypes.html#auto_scaling_event_types

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/scheduling-ssh-jobs-using-aws-lambda/

https://github.com/fugue/emulambda

https://github.com/nficano/python-lambda