I am trying to write to an SQS message in AWS Lambda using its Python API, but anything I try times out (I've run it for a minute but no success). I have SQS full access configured for the role. I can see the function logs get to the right place, yet the last line says
Starting new HTTPS connection (1): eu-west-1.queue.amazonaws.com
before it times out. I'm testing it using the test client within the AWS console.
The handler code is:
import boto3
import logging
import os
logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
QUEUE_NAME = os.getenv("QUEUE_NAME")
SQS = boto3.client("sqs")
def getQueueURL():
"""Retrieve the URL for the configured queue name"""
q = SQS.get_queue_url(QueueName=QUEUE_NAME).get('QueueUrl')
logger.debug("Queue URL is %s", QUEUE_URL)
return q
def record(event, context):
"""The lambda handler"""
logger.debug("Recording with event %s", event)
data = event.get('data')
try:
logger.debug("Recording %s", data)
u = getQueueURL()
logging.debug("Got queue URL %s", u)
resp = SQS.send_message(QueueUrl=u, MessageBody=data)
logger.debug("Send result: %s", resp)
except Exception as e:
raise Exception("Could not record link! %s" % e)
It seems to always time out on retrieving the queue URL. Why is this and how do I actually prevent that from happening so I can write to the queue?
