--- title: AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past... description: AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. Now, the company... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-makes-lambda-cold-start-latency-a-thing-of-the-past-with-snapstart-tsn4ktsty twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart | daily.dev og:description: AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. Now, the company... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/aws-makes-lambda-cold-start-latency-a-thing-of-the-past-with-snapstart-tsn4ktsty og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Tsn4KTsty.png og:image:alt: AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart **[TechCrunch](https://daily.dev/sources/tc)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. Now, the company promises a 90% improvement in cold start times by using Firecracker’s Snapshotting feature. This new feature is now available to all Lambda users. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@mystpi** · 0 upvotes > Nice! --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#serverless](https://daily.dev/tags/serverless), [#aws-lambda](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-lambda) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/aws-makes-lambda-cold-start-latency-a-thing-of-the-past-with-snapstart-tsn4ktsty) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"AWS makes Lambda cold start latency a thing of the past with SnapStart","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/aws-makes-lambda-cold-start-latency-a-thing-of-the-past-with-snapstart-tsn4ktsty","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/aws-makes-lambda-cold-start-latency-a-thing-of-the-past-with-snapstart-tsn4ktsty"},"datePublished":"2022-11-29T05:09:28.315Z","dateModified":"2022-11-29T05:09:28.218Z","description":"AWS announced a small but important update to Lambda, its serverless platform, that tackles one of the most common issues with the service. 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