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I'm going to walk you through the steps for setting up a AWS Lambda to talk to the internet and a VPC. Let's dive in.

So it might be really unintuitive at first but lambda functions have three states.

No VPC, where it can talk openly to the web, but can't talk to any of your AWS services.
VPC, the default setting where the lambda function can talk to your AWS services but can't talk to the web.
VPC with NAT, The best of both worlds, AWS services and web.

	Install s3fs on Mac OS X

	1 - Install Homebrew - http://brew.sh/
	ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

	2 - Use Homebrew to install s3fs + dependencies
	brew install s3fs

	3 - Do some custom stuff. I only used the first step from here -> https://gist.github.com/fukayatsu/3910097
	sudo /bin/cp -rfX /usr/local/Cellar/fuse4x-kext/0.9.2/Library/Extensions/fuse4x.kext /Library/Extensions

	"""Send metrics over stdout for datadog lambda monitoring.

	Monitoring details:
	https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/monitoring-lambda-functions-datadog/

	"""
	import time
	from copy import copy