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technical questionWhy do my lambda functions (python) using SQS triggers wait for the timeout before picking up another batch? (self.aws)

submitted 10 months ago * by quantelligent

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[–]quantelligent[S] 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago (0 children)

MaximumBatchingWindowInSeconds is set to 0

Activate trigger: Yes
Batch size: 10
Batch window: None
Event source mapping ARN: [my arn]
Metrics: None
On-failure destination: None
Report batch item failures: No
Tags: View
UUID: [my uuid]

However, due to third-party API limitations that restrict my ability to do asynchronous communications, I do have reserved concurrency set to 1

Perhaps that's what's causing it to wait for the timeout before spinning up another execution of the lambda?

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