I turned on X-Ray for an appsync project I am working on and wanted to understand what is fully happening. I assume the very top bar is basically just how long the entire request took at least server-side. My actual request handler did not start until ~45ms I assume because aws needed to do queries about my api and its configuration. Then this is where I get a really confused: It says Query.getInfluencer took 26ms but it is inside this query I do the GetItem call to dynamo so why is the dynamo request outside of this period? And I assume between the period of my requestMapping VTL being evaluated and it actually calling dynamo is just AWS internally doing something and thats why theres a 26ms period before it calls Dynamo? (My requestMapping returns a Dynamo GetItem call, so not sure really whats happening between that time)

That is confusing