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

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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

For anyone else also new to aws python and running into this issue, you can use the layers feature, and there are existing layers here you can link to and this worked for me.

https://github.com/keithrozario/Klayers

Pillow specifically on us-east-1:

arn:aws:lambda:us-east-1:770693421928:layer:Klayers-python38-Pillow:2