AWS client not reused in a Lambda function Low

Recreating AWS clients from scratch in each Lambda function invocation is expensive and can lead to availability risks. Clients should be cached across invocations.

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Noncompliant example

1def lambda_handler_noncompliant(event, context):
2    import boto3
3    # Noncompliant: recreates AWS clients in each lambda invocation.
4    client = boto3.client('s3')
5    response = client.list_buckets()

Compliant example

1import boto3
2client = boto3.client('s3')
3
4
5def lambda_handler_compliant(event, context):
6    # Compliant: uses the cached client.
7    response = client.list_buckets()