Python at AWS Lambda: `requests` from botocore.vendored deprecated, but `requests` not available

Question

I\'ve got a Python script for an AWS Lambda function that does HTTP POST requests to another endpoint. Since Python\'s urllib2.request, https://docs.python.org/2/li

Answer 1

Amazon's Serverless Application Model (SAM) provides a build command that can bundle arbitrary python dependencies into the deployment artifact.

To be able to use the requests package in your code, add the dependency to your requirements.txt file:

requests==2.22.0

then run sam build to get an artifact that vendors requests. By default, your artifacts will be saved to the .aws-sam/build directory but another destination directory can be specified with the --build-dir option.

Consult SAM's documentation for more info.