Lambda

Working with Lambda Layers

When creating a zip for a Lambda Layer (Python 3.6+) you need a full path to site-packages as shown below, using python3.8 as an example. Despite the common guidance, python -m pip install packagename -t folder/path does not work.

python/lib/python3.8/site-packages

python
└── lib
    └── python3.8
        └── site-packages
            ├── aiohttp
            │   ├── __init__.py
            │   ├── ...
            ├── slack
            │   ├── __init__.py
            │   ├── ...
            ├── slackclient-2.5.0.dist-info
            │   ├── ...

The folder will be unzipped at /opt