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Amazon has sponsored the author of Dapper to work on Dapper AOT for this exact reason since it’s an important target for AWS Lambdas.

Is there a blog post on the Amazon sponsorship? Couldn't find anything on a quick search.

Marc Gravell himself works in Microsoft, doesn't he ?

yup, unless that's changed recently. he and Nick Craver have been making some great impacts there.