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Category: Firecracker

Representation of a container image with eight layers, one of which is updated requiring two additional child layers to be updated also.

Optimizing Lambda functions packaged as container images

AWS Lambda launched support for packaging and deploying functions as container images at re:Invent 2020. In this post you learn how to build container images that reduce image size as well as build, deployment, and update time. Lambda container images have unique characteristics to consider for optimization. This means that the techniques you use to […]