Written by Mark Sailes, Senior Serverless Solutions Architect, AWS. At AWS re:Invent 2022, AWS announced SnapStart for AWS Lambda functions running on Java Corretto 11. This feature enables customers to achieve up to 10x faster function startup performanc... (more…)

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