Top best practices you should follow when building with AWS Lambda

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Set CloudWatch log retention policies

Lambda creates a log group that matches the name of your function in this format: /aws/lambda/[lambda name]. All log streams in this group persist forever by default. You pay for every byte written to the log group. These costs pile up forever (at $0.53/GB) unless you set a retention…