No, that is not true. While AWS Lambda has cold-start issues, they can be mitigated. While AWS continues to improve Lambda performance (it's still early tech)

No, that is not true. While AWS Lambda has cold-start issues, they can be mitigated. While AWS continues to improve Lambda performance (it's still early tech), I've started an "Optimization" section in the wiki, detailing how everyone can get better performance out of JAWS. Further, JAWS is optimized for AWS Lambda performance.