title: How to reduce the size of packaged python zip files for AWS Lambda
body: <p>Afternoon,</p>
  
  <p>I recently came across AWS Lambda and Azure Functions. AWS imposes a limit on the size of zipped as well as unzipped files, which for python scripts need to include all of the dependent modules. I have been using lambda-uploader to package my script and it's module dependencies, but the pandas package is too big.</p>
  
  <p>I have seen examples of people completing machine learning and using pandas on AWS Lambda (a little outdated though) but I can't see how they're doing it. Any suggestions?</p>