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Spring Boot with AWS Lambda (Serverless Java)

Running Spring Boot on Lambda instead of a server — the cold-start problem specific to the JVM, and the tools (Spring Cloud Function, SnapStart, GraalVM native images) that address it.

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🎓 Learning objectives

  • Explain why JVM cold starts are a bigger concern on Lambda than for most other runtimes
  • Describe what Spring Cloud Function does to adapt a Spring application to Lambda's invocation model
  • Explain how Lambda SnapStart reduces cold-start latency for Java specifically
  • Understand the GraalVM native image alternative and its tradeoffs versus SnapStart

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