Top things you should avoid when building with AWS Lambda

George Mao
3 min readMar 7, 2023
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Don’t set Provisioned Concurrency == Reserved Concurrency

Reserved Concurrency (RC) is a configuration that places a max cap on concurrency available to the entire function family (all versions/alias). Provisioned Concurrency (PC) is set on a specific function version. If PC == RC, guess what happens?

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George Mao

Distinguished Engineer @ Capital One leading all things Serverless | Ex -AWS WW Serverless Tech Lead.