AppSync Image Rekognition

React app for AI image facial recognition processing.

Getting started

0. Clone the project & change into the new directory

git clone https://github.com/dabit3/appsync-image-rekognition.git

cd appsync-image-rekognition

1. Install dependencies

npm install

2. Initialize a new AWS Amplify project

amplify init

3. Add auth, storage, & AppSync services

amplify add auth

amplify add api

amplify add storage

amplify add function

amplify push

4. Update the AppSync Schema in your dashboard to the following:

type ImageData {
	data: String!
}

type Query {
	fetchImage(imageInfo: String!): ImageData
}

5. Add the new Lambda function as a data source in the AppSync API Datasources section.

6. Update the fetchImage resolver data source to use the new Lambda function as the datasource. Update the fetchImage resolver to the following:

Request mapping template

{
    "version" : "2017-02-28",
    "operation": "Invoke",
    "payload": $util.toJson($context.args)
}

Response mapping template

$util.toJson($context.result)

7. Update the Lambda function code to the following (make sure to replace the bucket name with your bucket name):

const AWS = require('aws-sdk')
AWS.config.update({region: 'us-east-1'})
var rekognition = new AWS.Rekognition()

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => {
  var params = {
    Image: {
      S3Object: {
      Bucket: "<YOURBUCKETNAME>", 
      Name: "public/" + event.imageInfo
      }
    }, 
    Attributes: [
      'ALL'
    ]
  };
 
  rekognition.detectFaces(params, function(err, data) {
   if (err) {
    callback(null, {
     data: JSON.stringify(err.stack)
    })
   } else {
    const myData = JSON.stringify(data)
    callback(null, {
        data: myData
    })
   }
 });
};

8. Add permissions to Lambda role for Rekognition as well as S3

Your final exports file should look something like this:

const config =  {
    'aws_appsync_graphqlEndpoint': 'https://yourendpoint',
    'aws_appsync_region': 'us-east-2',
    'aws_appsync_authenticationType': 'API_KEY',
    'aws_appsync_apiKey': 'APIKEY',
    'aws_user_pools': 'enable',
    'aws_cognito_region': 'us-east-2',
    'aws_user_pools_id': 'us-east-2_YOURID',
    'aws_user_pools_web_client_id': 'YOURCLIENTID',
    'aws_cognito_identity_pool_id': 'us-east-2:YOURID',
    'aws_user_files_s3_bucket': 'YOURBUCKETNAME',
    'aws_user_files_s3_bucket_region': 'us-east-1'
  }

  export default config