Infrastructure
Cold Start
A cold start is the extra delay the first time a piece of pay-per-use cloud software runs after sitting idle, because the system has to wake it up before it can do the work. Once it is awake, the requests that follow are quick. It is the normal tradeoff for only paying while something is actually running.
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