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# The New Bun Killer Is By...AWS? Introducing the Low Latency RunTime (LLRT)

**[Theo - t3․gg](https://daily.dev/sources/t3dotgg)** · 6 min read · 25 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

AWS has introduced the Low Latency RunTime (LLRT), an experimental JavaScript runtime aimed at improving the performance of serverless applications. LLRT can be up to 10 times faster for startup and two times faster overall compared to other JavaScript runtimes such as Node.

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**@superroach** · 1 upvotes

> sounds extremely promising!

**@kyoukhana** · 0 upvotes

> Lets see what the adoption rate is.

**@staticlobster** · 0 upvotes

> Poor Bun barely out of Beta and RIP'd already 😢

**@ra\_jeeves** · 0 upvotes

> Interesting take, even if it is beneficial for mundane writing to/reading from DB tasks from Lambda.

**@ghost** · 0 upvotes

> it is crazy how much AWS can do for programming and server side.
> But Amazon Games does not do the best decisions :D

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