diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index d9005f2..81bc762 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -150,3 +150,4 @@ cython_debug/
 #  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
 #  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
 #.idea/
+scratch
diff --git a/CICD/deploy.sh b/CICD/deploy.sh
index 15a888b..588d697 100755
--- a/CICD/deploy.sh
+++ b/CICD/deploy.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 set -e
 set -o pipefail
+export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=ap-southeast-2
+export LAMBDA_FUNCTION="${LAMBDA_FUNCTION:test-lammulti}"
 test $LAMBDA_FUNCTION
 cd lambda_code
 pip install ../../ --target ./
@@ -10,7 +12,7 @@ echo deploying code
 aws lambda update-function-code --function-name $LAMBDA_FUNCTION --zip-file fileb://$(pwd)/../code.zip
 echo "waiting for lambda to finalize"
 aws lambda wait function-updated --function-name $LAMBDA_FUNCTION
-echo "invoking"
+echo "invoking $LAMBDA_FUNCTION"
 RESULT=$(aws lambda invoke --function-name $LAMBDA_FUNCTION --invocation-type RequestResponse RequestResponse --log-type Tail)
 echo $RESULT | jq .
 test null = $(echo $RESULT | jq .FunctionError)
diff --git a/CICD/lambda_code/RequestResponse b/CICD/lambda_code/RequestResponse
deleted file mode 100644
index f32a580..0000000
--- a/CICD/lambda_code/RequestResponse
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-true
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CICD/template.yaml b/CICD/template.yaml
index 4b0b223..d1f0da0 100644
--- a/CICD/template.yaml
+++ b/CICD/template.yaml
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Resources:
       PackageType: Zip
       ReservedConcurrentExecutions: 1
       Role: !GetAtt LambdaRole.Arn
-      Runtime: python3.9
+      Runtime: python3.11
       Timeout: 60
       VpcConfig:
         SecurityGroupIds:
diff --git a/lambda_multiprocessing/requirements_test.txt b/lambda_multiprocessing/requirements_test.txt
index 99aaf38..6029133 100644
--- a/lambda_multiprocessing/requirements_test.txt
+++ b/lambda_multiprocessing/requirements_test.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 moto[s3]>=5
 boto3
 tox>=2.7.0
+wheel