Example how to ping another website from AWS Lambda with Zappa, file path is "scripts/management/commands/ping.py"

ping.py

import urllib.request

from django.core.management.base import BaseCommand


class Command(BaseCommand):
  """
  Example:
    zappa manage staging ping
    zappa manage staging "ping --address https://google.com"
  """
  help = "Ping given url"

  def add_arguments(self, parser):
    parser.add_argument(
      '--address',
      dest='address',
      help='Address, either IP address or host address (127.0.0.1, google.com, etc.',
      default='https://api.jetadmin.io'
    )

  def handle(self, *args, **options):
    address = options.get('address')

    print(urllib.request.urlopen(address).read())