AWS Lambda now charges for INIT Phase (aws.amazon.com)

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Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will start billing for compute used during INIT phases. No more doing lots of work in your init phase for free

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Yeah I often see devs come up with complex architectures to just work around Lambda's limitations. Things to keep them warm (but then fail because they don't account for concurrent requests still hitting cold starts), multiple levels of Lambda functions to work around 15 minute time outs, and more. Just use the right tool for the job and look at Fargate or Batch.

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