ImageMagick not converting pdfs anymore in AWS Lambda

Question

I\'ve had a AWS Lambda function running on S3 objects for the last 18 months and it died around a month ago after a minor update. I\'ve reverted it but it\'s still broken. I\'ve

Answer 1

I had the issue where ghostscript was no longer found.

Previously, I had referenced ghostscript via:

var gs = '/usr/bin/gs';

Since AWS lambda stopped providing that package, I went and included it directly into my lambda function which worked for me. I just downloaded the files from https://github.com/sina-masnadi/lambda-ghostscript and placed it in a folder called 'ghostscript' Then referenced it as so:

var path = require('path')
var gs = path.join(__dirname,"ghostscript","bin","gs")