Getting PIL/Pillow 4.2.1 to upload properly to AWS Lambda Py3.6

Question

Background

I have been struggling for the past few days to deploy a Lambda that uses Pillow, and I am deploying using Python 3.6. It may be noteworthy a

Answer 1

You can use a precompiled version of the PIL available here: https://github.com/Miserlou/lambda-packages

Just extract PIL folder to the deployment package and it should work.