#567: AWS Lambda SnapStart
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Lambda Snap Start: How to Speed Up Startup Speeds
Lambda Snap Start changes that around when you enable Snap Start, which is a function level config item. Part of the function version creation will be taking your code to a separate Lambda execution environment and just starting up the function, but not executing the handler method. So it does all of the work to prepare the execution environment. Get it ready. And then at that point, it's going to take a full snapshot, given the name of the micro VM. It's going to chunk up that image and then put it into a data store. Then later on, when you come to invoke your Lambda function, it will read and restore a new execution environment from that snapshot image.
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