AWS Lambda : How to use Pillow library?

Question

I'm trying to create an AWS lambda function in order to create a thumbnail of my uploaded images. My script is running well locally, I followed this tutorial to deploy my function but I have a problem with the Pillow library, indeed when I'm testing my function I can see this following log :

Answer 1

Include libjpeg.so in your lambda package, but also some changes are required in the file. Assuming If you do this “pip install module-name -t”, do this:

cd into/your/local/lambda/package/dir

cp -L $(ldd PIL/_imaging.so|grep libjpeg|awk '{print $3}') PIL/

patchelf --set-rpath PIL PIL/_imaging.so

# zip, deploy and test the package

This script works for Pillow version 3.2.0.