Upgrade guide

End of support v1

On March 31st, 2023, Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) v1 reached end of support and will no longer receive updates or releases. If you are still using v1, we strongly recommend you to read our upgrade guide and update to the latest version.

Given our commitment to all of our customers using Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python), we will keep Pypi v1 releases and documentation 1.x versions to prevent any disruption.

Migrate to v2 from v1

We've made minimal breaking changes to make your transition to v2 as smooth as possible.

Quick summary

Area	Change	Code change required	IAM Permissions change required
Batch	Removed legacy SQS batch processor in favour of BatchProcessor.	Yes	-
Environment variables	Removed legacy POWERTOOLS_EVENT_HANDLER_DEBUG in favour of POWERTOOLS_DEV.	-	-
Event Handler	Updated headers response format due to multi-value headers and cookie support.	Tests only	-
Event Source Data Classes	Replaced DynamoDBStreamEvent AttributeValue with native Python types.	Yes	-
Feature Flags / Parameters	Updated AppConfig API calls due to GetConfiguration API deprecation.	-	Yes
Idempotency	Updated partition key to include fully qualified function/method names.	-	-

First Steps

All dependencies are optional now. Tracer, Validation, and Parser now require additional dependencies.

Before you start, we suggest making a copy of your current working project or create a new branch with git.

1. Upgrade Python to at least v3.8
2. Ensure you have the latest version via Lambda Layer or PyPi.
3. Review the following sections to confirm whether they affect your code

Legacy SQS Batch Processor

We removed the deprecated PartialSQSProcessor class and sqs_batch_processor decorator.

You can migrate to BatchProcessor with the following changes:

1. If you use sqs_batch_decorator, change to batch_processor decorator
2. If you use PartialSQSProcessor, change to BatchProcessor
3. Enable ReportBatchItemFailures in your Lambda Event Source
4. Change your Lambda Handler to return the new response format

[Before] Decorator[After] Decorator[Before] Context manager[After] Context manager

from aws_lambda_powertools.utilities.batch import sqs_batch_processor

def record_handler(record):
    return do_something_with(record["body"])

@sqs_batch_processor(record_handler=record_handler)
def lambda_handler(event, context):
    return {"statusCode": 200}

import json

from aws_lambda_powertools.utilities.batch import BatchProcessor, EventType, batch_processor

processor = BatchProcessor(event_type=EventType.SQS)


def record_handler(record):
    return do_something_with(record["body"])

@batch_processor(record_handler=record_handler, processor=processor)
def lambda_handler(event, context):
    return processor.response()

from aws_lambda_powertools.utilities.batch import PartialSQSProcessor
from botocore.config import Config

config = Config(region_name="us-east-1")

def record_handler(record):
    return_value = do_something_with(record["body"])
    return return_value


def lambda_handler(event, context):
    records = event["Records"]

    processor = PartialSQSProcessor(config=config)

    with processor(records, record_handler):
        result = processor.process()

    return result

from aws_lambda_powertools.utilities.batch import BatchProcessor, EventType, batch_processor


def record_handler(record):
    return_value = do_something_with(record["body"])
    return return_value

def lambda_handler(event, context):
    records = event["Records"]

    processor = BatchProcessor(event_type=EventType.SQS)

    with processor(records, record_handler):
        result = processor.process()

    return processor.response()

Event Handler headers response format

No code changes required

This only applies if you're using APIGatewayRestResolver and asserting custom header values in your tests.

Previously, custom headers were available under headers key in the Event Handler response.

{
    "headers": {
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }
}

In V2, we add all headers under multiValueHeaders key. This enables seamless support for multi-value headers and cookies in fine grained responses.

{
    "multiValueHeaders": {
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
    }
}

DynamoDBStreamEvent in Event Source Data Classes

This also applies if you're using DynamoDB BatchProcessor.

You will now receive native Python types when accessing DynamoDB records via keys, new_image, and old_image attributes in DynamoDBStreamEvent.

Previously, you'd receive a AttributeValue instance and need to deserialize each item to the type you'd want for convenience, or to the type DynamoDB stored via get_value method.

With this change, you can access data deserialized as stored in DynamoDB, and no longer need to recursively deserialize nested objects (Maps) if you had them.

Note

For a lossless conversion of DynamoDB Number type, we follow AWS Python SDK (boto3) approach and convert to Decimal.

from aws_lambda_powertools.utilities.data_classes.dynamo_db_stream_event import (
    DynamoDBStreamEvent,
    DynamoDBRecordEventName
)

def send_to_sqs(data: Dict):
    body = json.dumps(data)
    ...

@event_source(data_class=DynamoDBStreamEvent)
def lambda_handler(event: DynamoDBStreamEvent, context):
    for record in event.records:

        # BEFORE
        new_image: Dict[str, AttributeValue] = record.dynamodb.new_image
        event_type: AttributeValue = new_image["eventType"].get_value
        if event_type == "PENDING":
            # deserialize attribute value into Python native type
            # NOTE: nested objects would need additional logic
            data = {k: v.get_value for k, v in image.items()}
            send_to_sqs(data)

        # AFTER
        new_image: Dict[str, Any] = record.dynamodb.new_image
        if new_image.get("eventType") == "PENDING":
            send_to_sqs(new_image)  # Here new_image is just a Python Dict type

Feature Flags and AppConfig Parameter utility

No code changes required

We replaced GetConfiguration API (now deprecated) with GetLatestConfiguration and StartConfigurationSession.

As such, you must update your IAM Role permissions to allow the following IAM actions:

• appconfig:GetLatestConfiguration
• appconfig:StartConfigurationSession

Idempotency partition key format

No code changes required

We replaced the DynamoDB partition key format to include fully qualified function/method names. This means that recent non-expired idempotent transactions will be ignored.

Previously, we used the function/method name to generate the partition key value.

e.g. HelloWorldFunction.lambda_handler#99914b932bd37a50b983c5e7c90ae93b

In V2, we now distinguish between distinct classes or modules that may have the same function/method name.

For example, an ABC or Protocol class may have multiple implementations of process_payment method and may have different results.

e.g. HelloWorldFunction.app.lambda_handler#99914b932bd37a50b983c5e7c90ae93b