Mark Sailes

Building secure, reliable, and performant applications while balancing cost and operations can be challenging. Getting this right by aligning to the AWS Well-Architected Framework can greatly increase your chance of success.

In this session, learn about the newly released AWS Lambda SnapStart service. With new innovations, AWS SnapStart makes your Java-based function cold starts up to 10x faster, typically with no changes to your function code.

With the advancement of serverless, using Java as a runtime for AWS Lambda functions became an immediate approach for enterprises that wanted to use Java and accelerate on the AWS Cloud. These enterprises also experienced Java cold starts in Lambda functions firsthand.

The traditional approach to develop and run Java applications included setting up applications servers, required complex build and dependency management, and often relied on large enterprise frameworks. In contrast, serverless functions are ideally short-lived, single-purposed, and not reliant on extensive infrastructure configuration.