Web app hosted on cloud calling command line tools

[u0206397]

Which cloud products would be suitable for hosting a web app written in PHP that calls a binary executable tools, presumably compiled from C/C++?

I looked at AWS. Many serverless or managed sort of products do not allow executing command line tools.

Can only do this in AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance? AWS Beanstalk can do this or not? Lambda confirm cannot.

 

[davidktw]

Which cloud products would be suitable for hosting a web app written in PHP that calls a binary executable tools, presumably compiled from C/C++?

I looked at AWS. Many serverless or managed sort of products do not allow executing command line tools.

Can only do this in AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance? AWS Beanstalk can do this or not? Lambda confirm cannot.

question would be why are you not using a virtual server to host the command line tool? what kind of command line tool is it and what does it do?

you have understand the command line tool will also be executing in a context of an environment, what environment is that? what is the current directory context running the command line process? It is not about server-less or not, it is first about how your tool get executed.

https://alestic.com/2015/06/aws-lambda-shell-2/

 

[u0206397]

question would be why are you not using a virtual server to host the command line tool?

Do you mean VPS like DigitalOcean or Linode? They are similar to AWS EC2 instance right?

what kind of command line tool is it and what does it do?

It is some proprietary tool from commercial vendor that does file processing.

you have understand the command line tool will also be executing in a context of an environment, what environment is that? what is the current directory context running the command line process? It is not about server-less or not, it is first about how your tool get executed.

From what I know, the tool is statically compiled and has no dependency on other libraries, framework or environment variables. Just a single executable that takes in an input file and spits out an output file.

https://alestic.com/2015/06/aws-lambda-shell-2/

Will take a look. Thank you.

Seems like it can actually put files into the Lambda executing environment. New to me.