Why minimize your deployment package size to its runtime necessities - AWS Lambda

Question

I'm very new to AWS and somewhere I read its a good practice to minimize your deployment package size to its runtime necessities. I would like to know the reason behind it. Thank you.

Answer 1

Hey @tanishq, doing this will reduce the amount of time that it takes for your deployment package to be downloaded and unpacked ahead of invocation. For functions authored in Java or .NET Core, avoid uploading the entire AWS SDK library as part of your deployment package. Instead, selectively depend on the modules which pick up components of the SDK you need