Reduce size of serverless deploy package - amazon-web-services

I have a python script that I want to run as a lambda function on AWS. Unfortunately, the package is unzipped bigger than the allowed 250 MB, mainly due to numpy (85mb) and pandas (105mb)
I have already done the following but the size is still too big:
1) Excluded not used folders:
package:
exclude:
- testdata/**
- out/**
- etc/**
2) Zipped the python packages:
custom:
pythonRequirements:
dockerizePip: true
zip: true
If I unzip the zip file generated by serverless package I find a .requriements.zip which contains my python packages and then there is also my virtual environment in the .virtualenv/ folder which contains, again, all the python packages. I have tried to exclude the .virtualenv/../lib/python3.6/site-packages/** folder in serverless.yml, but then I get an Internal server error when calling the function.
Are there any other parameters to decrease the package size?

The .virtualenv/ directory should not be included in the zip file.
If the directory is located in the same directory as serverless.yml then it should be added to exlude in the serverless.yml file, else it gets packaged along with other files:
package:
exclude:
- ...
- .virtualenv/**
include:
- ...

(Are you sure you need pandas and numpy in a microservice? There is nothing "micro" in those libraries).
There is a way. Deploy you Lambda with Zappa https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa. It's a convenient way to write, deploy and manage your Python Lambdas anyway. But with Zappa you can specify an option called slim_handler. If set to true, most of your code will reside at S3 and will be pulled once a Lambda is executed:
AWS currently limits Lambda zip sizes to 50 megabytes. If your project
is larger than that, set slim_handler: true in your
zappa_settings.json. In this case, your fat application package will
be replaced with a small handler-only package. The handler file then
pulls the rest of the large project down from S3 at run time! The
initial load of the large project may add to startup overhead, but the
difference should be minimal on a warm lambda function. Note that this
will also eat into the memory space of your application function.

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AWS CloudFormation Package Glue Extra Python Files

I am trying to use Cloudformation package to include the glue script and extra python files from the repo to be uploaded to s3 during the package step.
For the glue script it's straightforward where I can use
Properties:
Command:
Name: pythonshell #glueetl -spark # pythonshell -python shell...
PythonVersion: 3
ScriptLocation: "../glue/test.py"
But how would I be able to do the same for extra python files? The following does not work, it seems that I could upload the file using the Include Transform but not sure how to reference it back in extra-py-files?
DefaultArguments:
"--extra-py-files":
- "../glue/test2.py"
Sadly, you can't do this. package only supports for glue:
Command.ScriptLocation property for the AWS::Glue::Job resource
Packaging DefaultArguments arguments is not supported. This means that you have to do it "manually" (e.g. create bash script) outside of CloudFormation.

Cant Import packages from layers in AWS Lambda

I know this question exists several places, but even by following different guides/answers I still cant get it to work. I have no idea what I do wrong. I have a lambda Python function on AWS where i need to do a "import requests". This is my approach so far.
Create .zip directory of packages. Locally I do:
pip3 install requests -t ./
zip -r okta_layer.zip .
Upload .zip directory to a lambda layer:
I go to the AWS console and go to lambda layers. I create a new layer based on this .zip file.
I go to my lambda python function and add the layer to the function directly form the console. I can now see the layer under "Layers" for the lambda function. Then i run the script it still complains about:
Unable to import module 'lambda_function': No module named 'requests'
I solved the problem. Apparently I needed to have a .zip folder, with a "python" folder inside, and inside that "python" folder should be all the packages.
I only had all the packages in the zip folder directly without a "python" folder ...

google cloud functions command to package without deploying

I must be missing something because I cant find this option here: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/beta/functions/deploy
I want to package and upload my function to a bucket: --stage-bucket
But not actually deploy the function
I'm going to deploy multiple functions (different handlers) from the same package with a Deployment Manager template: type: 'gcp-types/cloudfunctions-v1:projects.locations.functions'
gcloud beta functions deploy insists on packaging AND deploying the function.
Where is the gcloud beta functions package command?
Here is an example of the DM template I plan to run:
resources:
- name: resource-name
type: 'gcp-types/cloudfunctions-v1:projects.locations.functions'
properties:
labels:
testlabel1: testlabel1value
testlabel2: testlabel2value
parent: projects/my-project/locations/us-central1
location: us-central1
function: function-name
sourceArchiveUrl: 'gs://my-bucket/some-zip-i-uploaded.zip'
environmentVariables:
test: '123'
entryPoint: handler
httpsTrigger: {}
timeout: 60s
availableMemoryMb: 256
runtime: nodejs8
EDIT: I realized I have another question. When I upload a zip does that zip need to include dependencies? Do I have to do npm install or pip install first and include those packages in the zip or does cloud functions read my requirements.txt and packages.json and do that for me?
The SDK CLI does not provide a command to package your function.
This link will provide you with detail on how to zip your files together. There are just two points to follow:
File type should be a zip file.
File size should not exceed 100MB limit.
Then you need to call an API, which returns a Signed URL to upload the package.
Once uploaded you can specify the URL minus the extra parameters as the location.
There is no gcloud functions command to "package" your deployment, presumably because this amounts to just creating a zip file and putting it into the right place, then referencing that place.
Probably the easiest way to do this is to generate a zip file and copy it into a GCS bucket, then set the sourceArchiveUrl on the template to the correct location.
There are 2 other methods:
You can point to source code in source repository (this would use the sourceRepository part of the template).
You can get a direct url (using this API) to upload a ZIP file to using a PUT request, upload the code there, and then pass this same URL to the signedUploadUrl on the template. This is the method discussed in #John's answer. It does not require you to do any signing yourself, and likewise does not require you to create your own bucket to store the code in (the "Signed URL" refers to a private cloud functions location).
At least with the two zip file methods you do not need to include the (publicly available) dependencies -- the package.json (or requirements.txt) file will be processed by cloud functions to install them. I don't know about the SourceRepository method but I would expect it would work similarly. There's documentation about how cloud functions installs dependencies during deployment of a function for node and python.

Sam local Invoke lambda with local layer error "unable to import package"

When using 'Sam local invoke'to invoke a lambda locally , which relies on a layer built locally as well, the function cannot find the module which is part of the layer.
I am getting the error "unable to import package" error while invoking my lambda locally using 'sam local invoke FUNCTIONNAME'. Those packages are already present in layer(zipped folder). Is their any way to test these lamdas locally which are having python dependency zipped into layer.
START RequestId: 083247f2-3011-428c-a529-50eba6d668f2 Version: $LATEST
Unable to import module 'getnext': No module named 'apiconfig'
END RequestId: 083247f2-3011-428c-a529-50eba6d668f2
REPORT RequestId: 083247f2-3011-428c-a529-50eba6d668f2 Duration: 12 ms Billed Duration: 100 ms Memory Size: 128 MB Max Memory Used: 19 MB
'apiconfig' module is already present in layer.zip
Expectation is all the layer modules should get downloaded at some temp location while doing 'sam local invoke' so that it can take all the packages and run the lamda, and hence i tried using --layer-cache-basedir DIRECTORY flag too but still getting the same error, although the docker file is getting generated at DIRECTORY path. Also,Even though i have not provided --skip-pull-image flag it is still showing requested to skip pull images. Added --force-image-build flag too
error
To support Lambda layers, SAM CLI replicates the AWS layer process locally by downloading all associated layers and caching them on your development machine. This happens the first time you run sam local invoke or the first time you execute your Lambda functions using sam local start-lambda or sam local start-api
Two specific flags in SAM CLI are helpful when you’re working with Lambda layers locally –layer-cache-basedir and –force-image-build aws docs
For Googlers:
Requested to skip pull images does not matter in this case
Make sure your local layer is a directory, not a zip file
Make sure the modules exists in /opt folder by using code within lambda function
Make sure you are referring to the right path in template.yaml
I did the above in sequence and found it was a silly mistake.

aws: .net Core: zip the built code and copy to s3 output bucket

I am a .net developer and using a .net core 2.x application to build and upload the release code to s3 bucket. later that code will be used to deploy to ec2 instance.
I am new to CI/CD using aws and in learning phase.
In order to create CI/CD for my sample project, I gone through some aws tutorials and was able to create the following buildspec.yml file. Using that file I am able to run the successful build.
The problem comes in the phase UPLOAD_ARTIFACTS. I am unable to understand how to create a zip file that will be used to upload to the s3 bucket specified in the build project.
My buildspec.yml files contains the following code, Please help me finding what is wrong or what I am missing.
version: 0.2
phases:
build:
commands:
- dotnet restore
- dotnet build
artifacts:
files:
- target/cicdrepo.zip
- .\bin\Debug\netcoreapp2.1\*
I think I have to add post_build and some commands that will generate the zip file. But don't know the commands.
Following is the output image from the build logs.
your file is good all what you need to do is to create a S3 bucket then
you need to configure your CodeBuild to generate zip (or not) your artifacts for you, and to store it to s3.
this is the step you need to configure:
Edit:
if you want all your files to be copied on the root of your Zip file you can use:
artifacts:
files:
- ...
discard-paths: yes