AWS unveils a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications, and initially aimed at Java developers.

At the recent re:Invent, AWS announced an update to its FaaS offering Lambda with SnapStart feature that reduces the cold start for Java Functions.

AWS Lambda SnapStart cuts Java startup times by initializing Java functions ahead of time and caching a snapshot of the initialized execution environment.

Amazon Web Services announced that cloud developers can now use Java for writing Lambda functions, which provide event-driven functionality while taking care of needed compute resources.

The Lambda runtime can currently add RequestId to Log4J logs but the current aws-lambda-java-log4j library uses Log4J 1.2, which is an old, unsupported version.

Since Java is the most popular language used by developers to build applications and enterprise solutions, it facilitates building AWS Lambda functions using the tools you are already familiar with: ...

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