Can't locate URI/Escape.pm in #INC on AWS lambda - perl

Question

I have an AWS Lamba function in python that generates a url using a shell script.
The input parameters to the shell script is provided by the python code.
The shell script uses perl to URL encode the required URL.
This script runs fine when I run in locally;however on AWS lamba looks like the perl MURI is not installed. Would appreciate if there is alternative way to do this or any other suggestions to go about it.I am doing URL encode by the following commands. The error I see in lambda logs is:
Can't locate URI/Escape.pm in #INC (#INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
Code in the script is
cred=$(perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$PARM1/$DATE/$PUBLIC_REGION/$SERVICE_NAME/request")
FULLDT=$(perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$FULLDT")
SESSION_TOKEN=$(perl -MURI::Escape -e 'print uri_escape($ARGV[0]);' "$SESSION_TOKEN")

Answer 1

however on AWS lamba looks like the perl MURI is not installed
You're almost right. the -M is a command-line option telling Perl to load a module. The complete module name is "URI::Escape".
And, yes, that module isn't part of a standard Perl installation, so you'll need to install it separately as part of whatever process you use to set up the environment that your lambda runs in. The simplest approach is probably to run:
cpan URI::Escape
But I'm not sure how that would translate to the lambda environment.