Lambda aborts an init phase over 10 seconds and re-runs it inside the first invocation
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Code outside the handler runs in the INIT phase. For on-demand (non-provisioned) functions Lambda allows the init phase 10 seconds; if it has not finished, Lambda stops it and runs initialization again as part of the first invocation, where the time counts against the configured function timeout instead.
The symptom is a first invocation whose Duration is far larger than its Init Duration in the REPORT line, or a function that intermittently times out only on cold starts while the steady state is fast. Look at Init Duration in CloudWatch Logs, and at the initDuration field in Lambda Insights.
The fix is to move slow module-level work out of init: lazily construct SDK clients, defer secret fetching to the first use, and avoid importing the whole AWS SDK when one client will do. Provisioned concurrency also solves it, because initialization runs ahead of time and is not subject to the 10 second limit.
Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtime-environment.html
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