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Defining AWS/boto3 clients and resources outside of functions with unit tests

I am writing some unit tests using pytest for some functions that are called using AWS Lambda. I am using boto3 to interact with AWS, and I’m mocking using moto. Where I am using a resource or client from boto3, I’ve defined them outside of functions as I understand that allows for them to be reused across warm starts.