Lambda layers exceed quota - how to fix?

Hi Brendan,

Lambda has a 250MB Deployment package hard limit. We can see this here in our Documentation under "Deployment package (.zip file archive) size". This limit cannot be increased.

You can try to remove unneeeded packages in the Deployment package to ensure that it is within the limit. If that is not possible, the recommendation is to use Lambda with EFS as discussed here in our blog.

Please check out the whole blog but the main part that we are looking for is "Sharing large code packages with Lambda". Let us know if you may have any questions around this.

As mentioned by Lambda, total Lambda deployment size can't exceed 250MB when using the ZIP file deployment method. However, Lambda now supports also container images. Those can be up to 10GB in size. So instead of using layers, just include all the libraries in the docker image.

You can find more information about Lambda container images here.

You can use Docker with Lambda. It allows images up to 10GB in size. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/images-create.html

I've written a step-by-step guide on how to use docker with lambda - https://www.cloudtechsimplified.com/run-docker-containers-images-from-ecr-in-aws-lambda-along-with-cicd/