Can we scale Lambda functions for SNS trigger

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If the messages being published to the SNS topic if Lambda reaches its limit of maximum concurrent executions and is not able to scale further what will happen then? If SNS topic is receiving more messages per second then what Lambda can scale up to. These are the issues. Plus SNS, it is a pub/sub mechanism with no no backlog in it. So, what will happen to the extra surplus messages per second?

Is there a way to monitor if my Lambda can process at the rate at which SNS is receiving messages?
Apr 20, 2018 in Cloud Computing by code_ninja
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This doc should answer your first concern: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/retries-on-errors.html

 It talks specifically about retry behaviour.

This is a specific you should make note of:

Asynchronous invocation – Asynchronous events are queued before being used to invoke the Lambda function. If AWS Lambda is unable to fully process the event, it will automatically retry the invocation twice, with delays between retries. If you have specified a Dead Letter Queue for your function, then the failed event is sent to the specified Amazon SQS queue or Amazon SNS topic. If you don’t specify a Dead Letter Queue (DLQ), which is not required and is the default setting, then the event will be discarded. For more information, see Dead Letter Queues.

Now getting to your second question:

Use AWS Cloudwatch:

Following are the metrics interesting for you:

  • AWS/Lambda - Invocations
  • AWS/SNS - NumberOfMessagesPublished

 I hope this helps

answered Apr 20, 2018 by hemant
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