AWS – AWS Lambda functions now scale up to 12X faster in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
AWS Lambda functions can now scale up to 12x faster than before in response to unpredictable traffic in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. With this improvement each function can scale up to a rate of 1,000 concurrent executions every 10 seconds, up to your account concurrency limit.
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