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Illustration representing an AWS Lambda cold start — the latency penalty of building a fresh execution environment before running function code

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September 14, 202616 min read

AWS Lambda Cold Starts: Mitigation and Trade-offs

How AWS Lambda cold starts work, what they cost since the 2025 INIT billing change, and how to cut them with SnapStart, provisioned concurrency and design.

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