Deploys Python Spacy library to an AWS Lambda layer. You can specify the region, library version, language, language model, and runtime.

spacy_lambda_layer.sh

REGION=eu-west-1
VER=2.1.8
LANG=en
MODEL=en_core_web_sm-2.1.0
RUNTIME=python3.7

MODEL_URL=https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/$MODEL/$MODEL.tar.gz

docker run -v $(pwd):/out -it lambci/lambda:build-$RUNTIME \
    pip install spacy==$VER $MODEL_URL -t /out/build/spacy/python

# remove all languages except chosen LANG
pushd build/spacy/python/spacy/lang
find . ! -name $LANG -maxdepth 1 -type d -exec rm -rf {} +
popd

pushd build/spacy
zip -r ../../spacy.zip python/
popd

aws lambda publish-layer-version \
    --layer-name Spacy \
    --region $REGION \
    --description "$VER $LANG $MODEL" \
    --zip-file fileb://spacy.zip \
    --compatible-runtimes $RUNTIME

rm -rf build *.zip

Very nice