How to detect if Python script is running within AWS-ish environments

is_running_in_aws_context.py

def is_running_in_aws_context():
    aws_environment_identifiers = [
        'AWS_LAMBDA_FUNCTION_NAME',
        'AWS_SAM_LOCAL',
        'LAMBDA_TASK_ROOT'
    ]

    # check each one and return true or false
    for env_var_id in aws_environment_identifiers:
        env_var_value = os.getenv(env_var_id, 0)
        # check to see if 'env_var_value' is set to some text value
        env_var_exists_and_is_set = bool(
            env_var_value and env_var_value.strip())

        if (env_var_exists_and_is_set):
            return True

    return False