Python at AWS Lambda: `requests` from botocore.vendored deprecated, but `requests` not available

Question

I\'ve got a Python script for an AWS Lambda function that does HTTP POST requests to another endpoint. Since Python\'s urllib2.request, https://docs.python.org/2/li

Answer 1

Check out the instructions here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/python-package.html#python-package-dependencies

All you need to do is download the requests module locally, then include it in your Lambda function deployment package (ZIP archive).

Example (if all your Lambda function consisted of was a single Python module + requests module):

$ pip install --target ./package requests
$ cd package
$ zip -r9 ${OLDPWD}/function.zip .
$ cd $OLDPWD
$ zip -g function.zip lambda_function.py
$ aws lambda update-function-code --function-name my-function --zip-file fileb://function.zip