[psa] Migrate your automated volume backup lambda runtime to python3.8

Dear Comrades!

Cloud Infra team decided to stop supporting the python 2.7 runtime for lambda function automated volume backup script. This is because python 2.x itself already reached the End of Life on Jan 2020. Therefore we've upgraded the volume backup script to support python 3.8, thus we encourage you to start migrating or to create the new (if you don't have it) automated volume backup lambda function using runtime python3.8.

Another important information is that, AWS will keep supporting python 2.7 runtime for lambda function at least until June 1st, 2021 [1] . Which means there is a chance deprecation might happened after this date.

How to migrate your lambda function.

Please follow this guideline to deploy or redeploy your lambda function with python3.8 runtime. This guide specifies the new location of volume backup script and example to configure lambda with python3.8 runtime.

Should you have any question regarding this announcement please contact us at our slack channel #site-infra-channel

References

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/continued-support-for-python-2-7-on-aws-lambda/