concurrency can be controlled as Lambda can scale up to 1000GB

Throttle behaviour Synchronous invocation - returns ThrottleError Asynchronous invocation - DLQ (needs to be configured), retry up to 6 hours at exponentialy from 1 second to 5 seconds By default, Lambda retries a failed asynchronous invocation up to two times

Concurrently Issue

  • If one function in the account goes over the limit, the other functions possibly get throttled
  • It is recommended reserve =limit concurrency

Provisioned Concurrency

  • Cold Start - The cold has to be loaded, many dependencies, code outside the lambda handler, the process can take some time to serve the first connection
  • So allocate concurrency before any invocations
  • Charged even when idle.

Reserved concurrency

  • Sets max limit for concurrent lambda execution
  • Helps lambda eating all concurrency of your account