This sheds some pretty good light: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lambda/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb.

This sheds some pretty good light: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lambda/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/container-reuse-in-lamb... You will wind up with multiple containers in use at once if you have enough traffic so a call to the general pool that is running your Lambda function will most likely only keep one of the containers from recycling.