I can confirm this same issue in loading API requests and we are also nervous about this as we have our launch in 6 days.
I’ve launched many sites on Netlify and have not seen this problem. In fact for sites that were launched on Netlify over a year ago this problem is non existent.
I can also confirm making the same requests from postman or from localhost do not encounter this issue.
The current site I’m referencing is actually an exact clone of a site already in production with the same configuration on Netlify that has a larger set of servers on elastic beanstalk so it should run much quicker but this is not the case.
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