Python code that makes a http call to specified url. This may be used to create a AWS Python 3.8 Lambda Function to test the network connectivity to a remote site.

urlopen.py

import logging
from urllib.request import urlopen

logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.INFO)

SITE = 'http://www.google.com'

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    response = urlopen(SITE) 
    logger.info(response.read().decode("utf-8"));