Pandas & AWS Lambda

Question

Does anyone have a fully compiled version of pandas that is compatible with AWS Lambda?

After searching around for a few hours, I cannot seem to find what I\'m looki

Answer 1

I believe you should be able to use the recent pandas version (or likely, the one on your machine). You can create a lambda package with pandas by yourself like this,

1. First find where the pandas package is installed on your machine i.e. Open a python terminal and type

   import pandas
   pandas.__file__
   

   That should print something like '/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas/__init__.py'

2. Now copy the pandas folder from that location (in this case '/usr/local/lib/python3.4/site-packages/pandas) and place it in your repository.

3. Package your Lambda code with pandas like this:

   zip -r9 my_lambda.zip pandas/
   zip -9 my_lambda.zip my_lambda_function.py
   

You can also deploy your code to S3 and make your Lambda use the code from S3.

aws s3 cp  my_lambda.zip s3://dev-code//projectx/lambda_packages/

Here's the repo that will get you started