Dealing with Network Timeouts
In this lesson, you will learn how to deal with network timeouts.
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In the previous example, you were uploading relatively small files to S3, so that operation completes quickly. By default, Lambda allows a function just three seconds to finish. A process that is any longer will cause a timeout. If you plan to process larger blocks of data or perform many network requests within the same function, three seconds won’t be enough.
You can increase the allowed time by setting the Timeout property in the function SAM template. This value is measured in seconds and the maximum you can set it to is 900 (15 minutes). To change the value of the Timeout property for ...