This: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/04/aws-lambda-supports-python-3-6/ You can now use Python 3.6 Lambdas. This changes things dramatically. We can now write faster, simpler, less quirky code using the latest-and-greatest Python.
If you want to configure a server in the cloud, consider this: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Python. Use Ubuntu as the base image. Faster. Cleaner. Less Quirky.