How do i force a fresh environment on a lambda function

Question

my code starts getting problems after it is ran for around 20 times and until I refresh the environment manually by adding in the code again it will have issues . Is there a way to automate refreshing the environment to make sure everything is fresh on each run.

I have found an answer to question that looks close to this however lambda function failing does not seem to create a fresh environment .

Riku_Kobayashi · Answer

Hello.

I don't think AWS officially announced the Lambda initialization timing.  
My impression is that if you wait about 5 minutes and then re-run Lambda, it will run in an initialized environment.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-runtime-environment.html

I think it depends on the error and processing details, but I think it's a good idea to do something similar to initialization by freeing up memory or deleting the "/tmp" folder when Lambda processing ends.

For example, in Python, you can free up memory by releasing variables using "del".  
https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastructures.html#the-del-statement

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