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Allow Arcpy to be loaded and executed through AWS Lambda.

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05-31-2021 11:59 PM
Status: Closed
MJames
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New Contributor III

Maybe this is already possible and I have just missed it, but it would be great to be able to load and execute arcpy using AWS Lambda. Currently similar functionality can be achieved using AWS EC2 but its not really the same and honestly seems like a lot of overkill if you just want to be able to execute functions that use arcpy.

I think if this was implemented the possibilities would be almost endless.

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ShaunWalbridge
by Esri Regular Contributor
‎08-13-2021 08:25 PM
Status changed to: Closed

Unfortunately, the ArcPy package requires a full product installation (like ArcGIS Pro, Server or Desktop), and the Python layer can't be used in the absence of the rest of that stack because it is in many cases a thin wrapper around the underlying implementation in the core software. This stack is too large to fit into a Lamba instance, and isn't something we can directly address.

That said, you can use the ArcGIS API for Python in a lambda instance, see for example this community post.