Use a custom version of boto3 in AWS Lambda. Handy when a zip was deployed to Lambda containing a specific version of boto3. Without this, the default boto3 will be used because of the PATH env var precedence. this snippet would insert the current directory of the file to the path (assuming he snippet is in a file in the root of the project cont…

alarm-creator-cloudfront.py

import os, logging, sys

if os.getenv('LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT', None):  # check if we are in lambda
    # add the current folder to the path of python
    # assumes that during build time we installed in the current folder packages from a, say, requirements.txt 
    # we need this so that our packages are found before the already existing ones in the lambda environment
    print("setting the path when in lambda")   
    curr_file_dir_path = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
    print(curr_file_dir_path)
    sys.path.insert(0, curr_file_dir_path)
import boto3

print(f'boto3 version is {boto3.__version__}')