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A general question about the limitations of the lambda-packages

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
15/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, python
Domain
backend, cloud

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by reviewing the project's package-building documentation and AWS Lambda compatibility assumptions. Done would require a maintainer-confirmed explanation of whether AMI changes can break precompiled packages, plus documentation if that behavior needs recording.

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Description

As far as I understand, the underlying lambda AMI can change over time. For instance, I expect that there will be libraries and kernel updates, but also distribution updates automatically done by AWS. As opposed with beanstalk, in which one can lock an application to a given Amazon Linux version, that doesn't seem to be the case in Lambda.

Doesn't this mean that precompiled packages can all of the sudden break? Is there a reason for this not to happen that I am not aware of? What is your view on this topic?

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