How to Use Libraries in AWS Lambdas - Python Layer Example (Requests)

Terminal Steps:
mkdir python
cd python
pip3 install [library-name-here] -t .
cd ..

[ImChrisCastro]

Sorry! My powershell window was very small and probably hard to read lol. Here are the templated commands you want to run for this process, if you are using Python:

Terminal Steps:
mkdir python
cd python
pip3 install [library-name-here] -t .
cd ..
zip -r python.zip python

ADDITIONALLY, another commenter let me know that the command 'pip install requests "urllib3<2" -t . --upgrade' may be now needed in order to get this working as intended.

[felipetmota]

Simple, fast, and shows many tips in the video. Normally I was getting errors after creating the .zip in the windows, not on WSL. Top man!

[magicat]

So glad I found this. You explained it very clearly, and I could follow along and get a test layer going in my account. Now to figure out how to automate this ...

[brittanymorris]

Just wanted to send a big thanks for this! I spent two days figuring out why I was getting the import module error. I tried zipping it in different ways and had no luck. I'm new to this so I was stuck. Until I say this video and the comment below pip install requests "urllib3<2" -t . --upgrade. fixed my issue on the first try!

[purplishjen]

Finally, a Lambda Layer that works!!! Thank you so much. I have been trying to figure this out the whole day.

[SunilMakkar]

dude its so hard to find a great video on this topic... great job!

[TheOfficialMovmnt]

You're a life saver! Thank you. You've gained a new subscriber.

[SayWhatYouNeedTSay]

You are so funny and smart. I loved your tutorial.

[genewachtel]

Hi Chris I spent all day trying to figure out how to install packages. I found your video and was hoping it would be the solution. I followed each step, but still get errors when trying to install pandas and run. Is there any common issues that you can think of not covered in the video?

[iago-neres]

Thank you Chris. Good video and explanation, straight to the point.

[ANKITAKUMARI-hqh]

Hi May i know how you are connecting to your shell before creating directory . please comment

[matthewshedden]

Thank you very much good sir, all the way from Scotland 🙌

[felipe.arce]

What about heavy libraries? Like Spacy.

[danibri]

Thank you very much Chris, your video helped me a lot, keep it up. Here’s a new follower.

[async]

thanks Chris! just an update: it seems like now you need to use pip install requests "urllib3<2" -t . --upgrade, so that it works correctly in AWS

[MarianaCárdenas-qv]

Finally a tutorial that actually works!

[AndersonOozie]

Have you been able to make a layer for pyodbc that works with mssql server? The latest I see that anyone has made is for python 3.9, but I can't for the life of me get it to work with python 3.11

[touficanid]

Thank you so much !! I needed this urgently !!

[malwaredev]

awesome video. Thank you for this simple video! this was exactly what I needed. Bro

[ErinClayton-xcpf]

thank you for this simple video! this was exactly what I needed.