Description of changes:

New-AWSPowerShellLambdaPackage now strips files that have no purpose at Lambda runtime from AWS-authored PowerShell modules during packaging:

• Files stripped: *.xml (PowerShell help XML, .NET XMLDoc, PowerShellGet metadata) and *.pdb (debug symbols).
• Scope: Only AWSPowerShell.NetCore and AWS.Tools.* modules under the package's Modules/ directory. Third-party PowerShell modules are not touched.

Measured Impact

Cold-start INIT measured against a matched-runtime baseline (dotnet10, Microsoft.PowerShell.SDK 7.5.4, 512 MB, us-east-1, 100 cold starts each).

AWS.Tools.EC2 example (largest module tested):

EC2 also showed a notable tail-latency improvement: P99 dropped from 4697.8 ms → 2954.4 ms on x86_64 (−1.7s).

Across services, the improvement scales with bytes stripped per module, averaging ~5% INIT reduction on chunky modules. All users of New-AWSPowerShellLambdaPackage benefit automatically with no script or invocation changes.

Test Plan

• All Pester tests pass (Invoke-Pester PowerShell/Tests/)
• Manual end-to-end packaging of STS, S3, EC2 handlers on x86_64 and arm64
• Functions deployed to AWS Lambda and invoked successfully without Module load failed or Cannot find errors in CloudWatch logs
• Cold-start benchmarks (100 invocations × 6 functions) compared against matched-runtime unstripped baseline

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