Support using the Agent as a layer on AWS Lambda

[willarmiros]

When adding the AWS X-Ray Java Agent to a Lambda function via a layer it causes cold starts to be much (30+ seconds) slower. This increase is so dramatic that it is a blocker for having official Lambda support. This is a result of the initialization work the agent must do to auto-instrument your Lambda code, and appears to be a problem with all auto-instrumentation java agents on the Lambda platform. An investigation is needed with the Lambda team to resolve this.

[srprash]

The sample app link is broken. :)

[willarmiros]

Thanks, it was pointing to the old (beta) sample app.

[adrian-baker]

Agent causes slow cold start times on AWS Lambda

I think the old title is still accurate, enabling the agent on my lambda took the cold start time from about 10 seconds to 100.