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Retries

Automatically repeating a failed network request or operation under the assumption that the failure is temporary.

Definition

Automatically repeating a failed network request or operation under the assumption that the failure is temporary.

Use case

Re-sending a failed webhook notification up to 3 times when receiving temporary 503 HTTP status codes.

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Documentation

Retries and retry logic

AWS · Docs · link checked 2026-10-16

When to retry a failed call and when retrying makes things worse.

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