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The hypothetical 200ms is for cold starts. That means when the docker container that runs behind the lambda first starts up.

When a lambda is invocated, that docker container isn’t immediately destroyed. It’s kept around for reuse.

So there isn’t a realistic scenario where you would get a million cold starts in a month.



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