# Vapor: Adding Imagick As Separate Lambda Layer

DevFeed: [Vapor: Adding Imagick As Separate Lambda Layer](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/vapor-adding-imagick-as-separate-lambda-layer-3932.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://laravel.com/blog/vapor-adding-imagick-as-a-separate-lambda-layer>)

Author: Mohamed Said

Published: 2020-05-26T05:27:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Laravel Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/laravel-blog.md>)

Topics: [Vapor](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/swift-vapor.md>), [AWS Lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-lambda.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>)

Tags: [applications](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/applications.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [aws-lambda](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws-lambda.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/configuration.md>), [customers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/customers.md>), [php](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/php.md>)

## AI overview

Laravel Vapor now supports Imagick through a separate external AWS Lambda layer. The change reduces the default Vapor runtime layer size and gives projects that do not use Imagick more room within AWS Lambda application size limits.

## Source excerpt

Starting today, you can add Imagick support to your projects by importing an external Lambda layer. This change decreases the size of the default Vapor runtime layer and allows customers that don't us...