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I am trying to create an AWS Lambda function using the command

aws lambda create-function \
  --function-name foo\
  --runtime nodejs\
  --role lambda_basic_execution \
  --handler asdf --zip-file "fileb:://boom.zip"

I have a file called boom.zip available in the directory. But I cannot deploy using the above command.

The failure message I get is

--zip-file must be a file with the fileb:// prefix.

Does anyone have a working example to create a lambda function using the AWS CLI?

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  • In your snippet, you have "fileb:://" which is incorrect based on the error message. Commented Dec 18, 2015 at 21:20
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    I haven't got this working either. The example I'm working from has a longer --role arn:aws:iam::$account_id:role/service-role/lambda_basic_execution per aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/… Commented Jan 2, 2018 at 4:40

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You have an extra colon ':' in the file spec.

$ aws lambda create-function --function-name foo --runtime nodejs --role lambda_basic_execution --handler asdf --zip-file "fileb:://boom.zip"

--zip-file must be a file with the fileb:// prefix.
Example usage:  --zip-file fileb://path/to/file.zip

$ aws lambda create-function --function-name foo --runtime nodejs --role lambda_basic_execution --handler asdf --zip-file "fileb://boom.zip"

Error parsing parameter '--zip-file': Unable to load paramfile fileb://boom.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'boom.zip'
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Do we need to rename the .zip file name with the fileb::// prefix? Or is this just to be prepended while mentioning in the --zip-file option?
@AniruddhaRaje don't rename, it is not a valid file name. Just prepend it when using --zip-file option.
Thanks! Got this working, --zip-file took the Absolute path to the .zip file
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On mac I had to use absolute path, but added to the prefix there are actually 3 slashes.

Prefix: 

fileb://

Path

/Users/myuser/Apps/folder/zips/file.zip

Complete

fileb:///Users/myuser/Apps/folder/zips/file.zip
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aws should clarify that this fileb:// is not an example of an s3 bucket. if you're on mac, use Complete from this post ^ :pointup: ... to get the full path use pwd.
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I've had the same issue on Ubuntu 18.04 and what did the trick was enclosing both the name of the function and the fileb:/// with double " quotes.

aws lambda update-function-code --function-name "FUNCTION" --zip-file "fileb:///an/absolute/path/to/your/lambda/FUNCTION.zip"
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For me, the issue occurred (in windows) because I didn't create the zip file correctly. I used the winrar tool to create the .rar file, changed the extension to .zip, and tried to upload the zip in the same way @helloV said (without double ::), but I got the same error message. If you are in windows make sure to follow this guide (for golang), or use any other suitable tool to create a correct zip file and try the command out again.

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On Mac OS Monterey, I did following and it worked. Tanks Devorein and baduker

  1. Ensured zip file downloaded properly by checking ls -lart
  2. And put the path in quotes "" (may not be necessary)
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