Access AWS S3 from Lambda within VPC

Question

Overall, I'm pretty confused by using AWS Lambda within a VPC. The problem is Lambda is timing out while trying to access an S3 bucket. The solution seems to be a VPC Endpoint.

I've added the Lambda function to a VPC so it can access an RDS hosted database (not shown in the code below, but functional). However, now I can't access S3 and any attempt to do so times out.

I tried creating a VPC S3 Endpoint, but nothing has changed.

VPC Configuration

I'm using a simple VPC created by default whenever I first made an EC2 instance. It has four subnets, all created by default.

VPC Route Table

_Destination - Target - Status - Propagated_  172.31.0.0/16 - local - Active - No  pl-63a5400a (com.amazonaws.us-east-1.s3) - vpce-b44c8bdd - Active - No  0.0.0.0/0 - igw-325e6a56 - Active - No 

Simple S3 Download Lambda:

import boto3 import pymysql from StringIO import StringIO  def lambda_handler(event, context):     s3Obj = StringIO()      return boto3.resource('s3').Bucket('marineharvester').download_fileobj('Holding - Midsummer/sample', s3Obj) 

Answer 1

There is another solution related to VPC endpoints.

On AWS Console, choose VPC service and then Endpoints. Create a new endpoint, associate it to s3 service

VPC S3 endpoint selection

and then select the VPC and Route Table.

Then select access level (full or custom) and it will work.