My .zip file size is 45mb but it's showing the error of large file size on AWS layer

Question

I am using the serverless framework for the deployment. It's throwing the following error while we are deploying it on the AWS. But my zip file size is 45mb and unzipped size is 130mb on local.

Serverless Error ----------------------------------------

An error occurred: SharedLambdaLayer - Unzipped size must be smaller than 262144000 bytes (Service: AWSLambdaInternal; Status Code: 400; Error Code: InvalidParameterValueException; Request ID: 27f9378e-b9ea-42c5-ad73-a3b7cf9d584c).

This is my environment Operating System: win32 Node Version: 12.19.0 Framework Version: 2.35.0 Plugin Version: 4.5.3 SDK Version: 4.2.2 Components Version: 3.8.2

Following is my .yml file content

service: rxd-layers
frameworkVersion: '2'
useDotenv: true
unresolvedVariablesNotificationMode: error
configValidationMode: error
plugins:
serverless-plugin-git-variables
serverless-dotenv-plugin

custom:
stageVariables:
gitBranch: ${opt:stage, git:branch}

package:
include:
- /nodejs/node_modules/shared # no need to add this yourself, this plugin does it for you
exclude:
- /nodejs/node_modules/**
- /nodejs/shared/**

provider:
stage: ${opt:stage, git:branch}
name: aws
runtime: nodejs12.x
region: ${env:AWS_REGION_CRED, 'us-east-1'}
versionFunctions: true
lambdaHashingVersion: 20201221


layers:
shared:
path: shared
description: This layer is for node packages of all services


resources:
Outputs:
SharedLayerExport:
Value:
Ref: SharedLambdaLayer
Export:
Name: SharedLambdaLayer

Answer 1

This is was due to geo-tz library. It was creating the unzip size almost more than 255MB for just geo-tz on my linux environment on AWS, this was the main problem. So I just uninstall this package. and after that My layer deployed correctly.