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AWS Builders' Library: Timeouts, retries, and backoff with jitter
Documents retry load risks, capped exponential backoff, jitter, retry limits, and the need to avoid retry amplification during overload.
Pattern Decisions This Source Supports
| Pattern | Supported decision | Required contract | Claim note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Regenerate / retry | Choose regenerate / retry when the task is rerunning an AI response attempt, creating a new answer version, continuing a failed generation, or recovering from failed AI source or tool work. | Retry same prompt repeats the submitted prompt and visible context unless the UI explicitly shows which context changed. | Supports capped retry, backoff, jitter, and retry-amplification risk for repeated attempts. |
| Retry | Choose retry when a specific failed operation can plausibly succeed if attempted again under the same scope. | Retry repeats the same failed operation against the same request scope unless users explicitly edit that scope first. | AWS documents retry backoff, jitter, retry limits, and how retries can increase load during failures. |
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