That lambda layer comes with an incredibly heavy performance penalty.

It doesn't block, but it does consume compute/memory resources and takes forever to startup[0][1]. To be fair, Rotel is promising in this regard[2].

[0]: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-lambda/issue...

[1]: https://github.com/aws-observability/aws-otel-lambda/issues/...

[2]: https://github.com/rotel-dev/rotel