AWS unveils a new performance optimization feature called Lambda SnapStart, designed to improve startup times for latency-sensitive applications, and initially aimed at Java developers.

AWS Lambda SnapStart cuts Java startup times by initializing Java functions ahead of time and caching a snapshot of the initialized execution environment.

Although it's nearly 25 years old, the Java programming language has gained renewed interest lately from major cloud platform providers -- namely, AWS and Microsoft. For instance, this week AWS joined ...