Last April, I wrote a post about managing boto3 in deployed packages. (See Minimizing the size of lambdas by avoiding having boto3 and its stubs in the deployment package). This approach works when all dependencies can be set in the development section.
But, what about when dependencies are required in production? For example, we recently had to deploy a lambda that depends on awswrangler. So the technique suggested in the previous post did not work. Here I will cover a different approach that allows to remove boto3 from the package to be deployed in the example context. It is however less flexible and based on a specific technology: serverless.
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