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Lambda Execution Environment and Available Libraries

The underlying AWS Lambda execution environment includes the following software and libraries.

  • Operating system – Amazon Linux
  • AMI – amzn-ami-hvm-2017.03.1.20170812-x86_64-gp2
  • Linux kernel – 4.14.72-68.55.amzn1.x86_64
  • AWS SDK for JavaScript – 2.290.0
  • SDK for Python (Boto 3) – 3-1.7.74 botocore-1.10.74

Not all runtime languages are available on the Amazon Linux AMI or its yum repositories. If you use Amazon Linux for development, you might need to download and install them manually from their respective public sites.

Environment Variables Available to Lambda Functions

The following is a list of environment variables that are part of the AWS Lambda execution environment and made available to Lambda functions. The table below indicates which ones are reserved by AWS Lambda and can't be changed, as well as which ones you can set when creating your Lambda function. For more information on using environment variables with your Lambda function, see AWS Lambda Environment Variables.

Lambda Environment Variables

Key Reserved Value
_HANDLER Yes The handler location configured on the function.
AWS_REGION Yes The AWS region where the Lambda function is executed.
AWS_EXECUTION_ENV Yes The runtime identifier, prefixed by AWS_Lambda_. For example, AWS_Lambda_java8.
AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME Yes The name of the function.
AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_MEMORY_SIZE Yes The amount of memory available to the function in MB.
AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_VERSION Yes The version of the function being executed.
AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_GROUP_NAME AWS_LAMBDA_LOG_STREAM_NAME Yes The name of the Amazon CloudWatch Logs group and stream for the function.
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_SESSION_TOKEN Yes Access keys obtained from the function's execution role.
LANG No en_US.UTF-8. This is the locale of the runtime.
TZ Yes The environment's timezone (UTC). The execution environment uses NTP to synchronize the system clock.
LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT Yes The path to your Lambda function code.
LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR Yes The path to runtime libraries.
PATH No /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/:/bin:/opt/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH No /lib64:/usr/lib64:$LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR:$LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR/lib:$LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT:$LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT/lib:/opt/lib
NODE_PATH No (Node.js) /opt/nodejs/node8/node_modules/:/opt/nodejs/node_modules:$LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR/node_modules
PYTHONPATH No (Python) $LAMBDA_RUNTIME_DIR.
AWS_LAMBDA_RUNTIME_API Yes (custom runtime) The host and port of the runtime API.