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>(Fargate) which has famously slow startup times

Haven't tested it in a couple years but start time used to correlate with image size (which makes sense). I think the Fargate VMs don't have very many IOPs so you're usually waiting on extracting tarballs for your container to start

With that in mind, it can sometimes be more efficient to ignore Docker later best practices and just try to smash everything down into the smallest single layer possible