testcontainers-aws is a set of AWS containers modules that can be used to create AWS containers.

The following environment variables are used by the AWS Lambda container:

Env Variable

Default

Notes

AWS_DEFAULT_REGION

us-west-1

Fetched from os environment

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

testcontainers-aws

Fetched from os environment

AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

testcontainers-aws

Fetched from os environment

Each one of the environment variables is expected to be set in the host machine where the test is running.

Make sure you are using an image based on public.ecr.aws/lambda/python

Please checkout https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/python-image.html for more information on how to run AWS Lambda functions locally.