This sheds some pretty good light: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;compute&#x2F;container-reuse-in-lambda&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;blogs&#x2F;compute&#x2F;container-reuse-in-lamb...</a><p>You will wind up with multiple containers in use at once if you have enough traffic so a call to the general pool that is running your Lambda function will most likely only keep one of the containers from recycling.