TL;DR - Don’t attempt to run Ansible scripts within AWS Lambda; it won’t work.
I recently needed to run some event-driven Ansible tasks. The workflow even lent itself to an event that could easily trigger an AWS lambda function. I spent a day or two whittling away at a Docker image for the lambda to do exactly what I wanted. I even tested it locally using a lambda emulator. I worked to setup all the directories used by Ansible to only write to the /tmp dir (which is all you can do in Lambda).
And then in production, it didn’t work. After a little more time debugging I found the underlying issue. Ansible relies on access to /dev/shm for shared-memory coordination. Lambda doesn’t allow it. That’s it; end of story. You can check the references below for the nail-in-the-coffin on why this just ain’t gonna happen.