docs: add supplemental doc on AWS Lambda usage (#5807)

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+# Using the AWS SDK for JavaScript (v3) on AWS Lambda Node.js runtimes
+
+## AWS Lambda provided AWS SDK
+
+Several AWS Lambda runtimes, including those for Node.js, include the AWS SDK at various versions. 
+
+The SDK is provided as a convenience for development. For greater control of the SDK version and its runtime characteristics such as 
+JavaScript bundling, upload your selection of the AWS SDK as part of your function code.
+
+To check the version of the SDK that is installed, you can log the package.json metadata of a package that you are using.
+
+```js
+// Example: discovering the installed AWS SDK version.
+const pkgJson = require("@aws-sdk/client-s3/package.json");
+
+exports.handler = function (event) {
+  console.log(pkgJson);
+  return JSON.stringify(pkgJson);
+}
+```
+
+## Best practices for initializing AWS SDK Clients in AWS Lambda
+
+Suppose that you have an `async` function called, for example `prepare`, that you need to initialize only once. 
+You do not want to execute it for every function invocation. 
+
+```js
+// Example: one-time initialization in the handler code path.
+
+import { DynamoDB } from "@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb";
+
+async function prepare() {
+  // do one-time setup, fetch credentials, secrets, initialize SDK clients, etc.
+}
+
+export async function handler(event) {
+  // ...
+}
+```
+
+You may be tempted to call this function outside the handler like so:
+
+```js
+// Example: call prepare outside of handler.
+
+const ready = prepare();
+
+export async function handler(event) {
+  await ready;
+  // ...
+}
+```
+
+There is a potential complication with this style. This is a peculiarity of AWS Lambda's cold/warm states and provisioned concurrency. 
+If you make network requests in the `prepare()` function, they may be frozen pre-flight as part of early provisioning. In a certain
+edge case, time-sensitive signed requests may become invalid due to the delay between provisioning and execution.
+
+Therefore, we recommend that you perform one-time setup inside the handler. This does **not** mean that you need
+to execute the preparation code redundantly. Here is how:
+
+```js
+// Example: call prepare inside handler, but only once.
+
+let ready = false;
+
+export async function handler(event) {
+  if (!ready) {
+    await prepare(); ready = true;
+  }
+  // ...
+}
+```
+
+A more practical example:
+
+```ts
+import { fromTemporaryCredentials } from "@aws-sdk/credential-providers";
+import { DynamoDB } from "@aws-sdk/client-dynamodb";
+
+async function prepare() {
+  const credentials = fromTemporaryCredentials({})();
+  const dynamodb = new DynamoDB({ credentials });
+  return dynamodb;
+}
+
+let client: DynamoDB | null = null;
+
+export async function handler(event) {
+  if (!client) client = await prepare();
+
+  return client.getItem({
+    TableName: "my-table",
+    Key: { id: { S: "1" } },
+  });
+}
+```