AWS lambda: No module named 'cfnresponse'

Question

I have deployed an AWS lambda which contains:

import json
import boto3
import cfnresponse
import urllib.request
from botocore.exceptions import ClientError

         


        

Answer 1

Cfnresponse is just available in lambda by default with python 2.7. Probably you are using 3.6.

Answer 2

Did you specify your function's source code in ZipFile? If you specify an actual zip file, that module won't be included.

When you use the ZipFile property to specify your function's source code and that function interacts with an AWS CloudFormation custom resource, you can load the cfn-response module to send responses to those resources. The module contains a send method, which sends a response object to a custom resource by way of an Amazon S3 presigned URL (the ResponseURL).

If you need to use an actual zip file, or this doesn't work for any other reason, you can include the module yourself. Its source code is available in the link you provided. For Python 3 it's:

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from botocore.vendored import requests
import json

SUCCESS = "SUCCESS"
FAILED = "FAILED"

def send(event, context, responseStatus, responseData, physicalResourceId=None, noEcho=False):
    responseUrl = event['ResponseURL']

    print(responseUrl)

    responseBody = {}
    responseBody['Status'] = responseStatus
    responseBody['Reason'] = 'See the details in CloudWatch Log Stream: ' + context.log_stream_name
    responseBody['PhysicalResourceId'] = physicalResourceId or context.log_stream_name
    responseBody['StackId'] = event['StackId']
    responseBody['RequestId'] = event['RequestId']
    responseBody['LogicalResourceId'] = event['LogicalResourceId']
    responseBody['NoEcho'] = noEcho
    responseBody['Data'] = responseData

    json_responseBody = json.dumps(responseBody)

    print("Response body:\n" + json_responseBody)

    headers = {
        'content-type' : '',
        'content-length' : str(len(json_responseBody))
    }

    try:
        response = requests.put(responseUrl,
                                data=json_responseBody,
                                headers=headers)
        print("Status code: " + response.reason)
    except Exception as e:
        print("send(..) failed executing requests.put(..): " + str(e))