External dependencies — this is probably asked all the time. Is there an example of how to build a lambda layer that contains my node module built for my architecture? My steps so far: I added SSH2 as a dependency. I couldn’t deploy it. We flagged it as external. Everything deployed. Now I’m realizing that the lambda doesn’t actually have the module. 😞

try putting it under

bundle.nodeModules

instead

🤞 magically gonna do the trick?

Basically

bundle.nodeModules

will add the package to

external

but also

npm install

it into the bundle before uploading

@thdxr thanks for the always being quick to offer the solution! It worked