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AWS Lambda SnapStart

A Lambda feature that caches a snapshot of an initialised function environment and restores it on invocation to cut cold-start latency. It is offered on selected managed runtimes and billed for snapshot caching and restoration.

Known aliases

SnapStart

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Current clusters

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Native AOT beat SnapStart's .NET cold start by 44.5% over five samples each

AWS does not offer SnapStart on the Native AOT managed runtime, so this test compared two runtimes as well as two features, and that missing combination is also why the numbers map onto a real deployment choice.

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Reality

Evidence55
Adoption: Insufficient
Hype gap+10
Incentives20
Confidence55