title: What is the maximum number of instances lambda can launch?
body: <p>from the <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-application-fundamentals.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">docs</a></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Lambda automatically scales up the number of instances of your function to handle high numbers of events.</p>
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  <p>What I understood is, if there are 10 incoming requests for a particular  lambda function, then 10 instances of that runtime(lets say nodejs) will be launched.</p>
  
  <p>Now, my questions: </p>
  
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  <li><p>What is the maximum number of instances that lambda allows ? (looked into <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/limits.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">docs</a> but didn't found this)</p></li>
  <li><p>Since there would be some maximum cap what is the fallback if that number is reached ?</p></li>
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