AWS Lambda - How to stop retries when there is a failure

Question

I know that when a Lambda function fails (for example when there is a time out), it tries to run the function 3 more times again. Is there any way to avoid this behavior? I\

Answer 1

As mentioned before, this feature has been added lately. To achieve this behaviour using cloudformation you will need both an AWS::Lambda::Version and AWS::Lambda::EventInvokeConfig:

  MyLambda:
    Type: AWS::Serverless::Function
    Properties:
      FunctionName: my-lambda-dev
      ...

  MyLambdaVersion:
    Type: AWS::Lambda::Version
    Properties:
      FunctionName: !Ref MyLambda

  MyLambdaAsyncConfig:
    Type: AWS::Lambda::EventInvokeConfig
    Properties:
      FunctionName: !Ref MyLambda
      MaximumRetryAttempts: 0
      Qualifier: !GetAtt MyLambdaVersion.Version