Workaround after removal of vendored version of botocore

Question

Customer uses botocore.vendored that are impacted by the upcoming changes:

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/developer/removing-the-vendored-version-of-requests-from-botocore/

In their words:
The main problem is that when using python in a Lambda, you were not able to import requests, hence us using botocore.vendored.

Do you know how to use requests now when in a Lambda function?

AWS-User-2274324 · Accepted Answer

You can create a Lambda Layer for the requests library:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/configuration-layers.html

or you can include your dependencies within your Lambda artifact upon upload, which would look something like:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-python-how-to-create-deployment-package.html#python-package-dependencies

In the second route, you would just include the version of requests in the requirement file before you run pip.

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