Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python)
Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) is a developer toolkit to implement Serverless best practices and increase developer velocity.
Also available in Java, TypeScript, and .NET.
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Features
Core utilities such as Tracing, Logging, Metrics, and Event Handler are available across all Powertools for AWS Lambda languages. Additional utilities are subjective to each language ecosystem and customer demand.
- Tracing - Decorators and utilities to trace Lambda function handlers, and both synchronous and asynchronous functions
- Logging - Structured logging made easier, and target to enrich structured logging with key Lambda context details
- Metrics - Custom Metrics created asynchronously via CloudWatch Embedded Metric Format (EMF)
- Event handler: AppSync - AppSync event handler for Lambda Direct Resolver and Amplify GraphQL Transformer function
- Event handler: AppSync Events - AppSync Events handler for real-time WebSocket APIs with pub/sub pattern
- Event handler: API Gateway, ALB, Lambda Function URL, VPC Lattice - REST/HTTP API event handler for Lambda functions invoked via Amazon API Gateway, ALB, Lambda Function URL, and VPC Lattice
- Event handler: Agents for Amazon Bedrock - Create Agents for Amazon Bedrock, automatically generating OpenAPI schemas
- Middleware factory - Decorator factory to create your own middleware to run logic before, and after each Lambda invocation
- Parameters - Retrieve and cache parameter values from Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, AppConfig, or DynamoDB
- Batch processing - Handle partial failures for AWS SQS, Kinesis Data Streams, and DynamoDB Streams batch processing
- Typing - Static typing classes to speedup development in your IDE
- Validation - JSON Schema validator for inbound events and responses
- Event source data classes - Data classes describing the schema of common Lambda event triggers
- Parser - Data parsing and deep validation using Pydantic
- Idempotency - Convert your Lambda functions into idempotent operations which are safe to retry
- Data Masking - Protect confidential data with easy removal or encryption
- Feature Flags - A simple rule engine to evaluate when one or multiple features should be enabled depending on the input
- Streaming - Streams datasets larger than the available memory as streaming data
- Kafka - Deserialize and validate Kafka events with support for Avro, Protocol Buffers, and JSON Schema
- JMESPath Functions - Built-in JMESPath functions to easily deserialize common encoded JSON payloads in Lambda functions
Installation
With pip installed, run: pip install aws-lambda-powertools
Tutorial and Examples
- Tutorial
- Serverless Shopping cart
- Serverless Airline
- Serverless E-commerce platform
- Serverless GraphQL Nanny Booking Api
How to support Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python)?
Becoming a reference customer
Knowing which companies are using this library is important to help prioritize the project internally. If your company is using Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python), you can request to have your name and logo added to the README file by raising a Support Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) (become a reference) issue.
The following companies, among others, use Powertools:
- Alma Media
- Banxware
- Brsk
- BusPatrol
- Capital One
- Caylent
- CHS Inc.
- CPQi (Exadel Financial Services)
- CloudZero
- CyberArk
- EF Education First
- Flyweight
- globaldatanet
- Guild
- IMS
- Instil
- Jit Security
- LocalStack
- Propellor.ai
- Pushpay
- QuasiScience Limited
- Recast
- TopSport
- Transformity
- Trek10
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Sharing your work
Share what you did with Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) 💞💞. Blog post, workshops, presentation, sample apps and others. Check out what the community has already shared about Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) in this link.
Using Lambda Layer or SAR
This helps us understand who uses Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) in a non-intrusive way, and helps us gain future investments for other Powertools for AWS Lambda languages. When using Layers, you can add Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) as a dev dependency (or as part of your virtual env) to not impact the development process.
Credits
- Structured logging initial implementation from aws-lambda-logging
- Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) idea DAZN Powertools
Connect
- Powertools for AWS Lambda on Discord:
#python- Invite link - Email: aws-powertools-maintainers@amazon.com
Security disclosures
If you think you’ve found a potential security issue, please do not post it in the Issues. Instead, please follow the instructions in this link or email AWS security directly.
License
This library is licensed under the MIT-0 License. See the LICENSE file.
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