Using psycopg2 with Lambda to Update Redshift (Python)

Question

I am attempting to update Redshift from a Lambda function using python. To do this, I am attempting to combine 2 code fragments. Both fragments are functional when I run the

Answer 1

oh boy! while some of the answers may be really great and working! Just stumbled upon this https://pypi.org/project/aws-psycopg2/ and it worked like a charm for me. steps :

mkdir aws-psycopg2

cd aws-psycopg2

vi get_layer_packages.sh

export PKG_DIR="python"

rm -rf ${PKG_DIR} && mkdir -p ${PKG_DIR}

docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/foo -w /foo lambci/lambda:build-python3.6 \
    pip install -r requirements.txt --no-deps -t ${PKG_DIR}

vi requirements.txt

aws-psycopg2

then do : chmod +x get_layer_packages.sh

./get_layer_packages.sh

zip -r aws-psycopg2.zip .

upload this zip to the AWS Lambda Layer!