• Lambdas are like a function floating around in space
• AWS could run your code from scratch every execution
• Technically your function gets deployed on a server (that you can't control)
• A function may get re-used if AWS wants to reuse it
• No strong guarantee of when this happens though
• There is a noticeable performance hit when AWS does not reuse your code
• This is a "cold start"

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