Execution context
As I mentioned earlier, whenever AWS Lambda (Faas) executes your functions on your behalf, it will automatically take care of creating, managing, and destroying the resources that are needed to run your Lambda functions. When you create a Lambda function, you specify the amount of memory and timeout that you want for your Lambda function. When a Lambda function is triggered or invoked, AWS Lambda creates an Execution Context based on the configuration settings that you set on your AWS Lambda function. An Execution Context is a temporary runtime environment that AWS Lambda creates, which initializes any external dependencies that are required by your Lambda function, such as connection to a database or HTTP connections to ...
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