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SQS Visibility Timeout Mismatch Causes Duplicate Lambda Processing

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from DEV Community ·

When an SQS queue's visibility timeout is shorter than its Lambda's processing time, messages are redelivered while still being processed, causing duplicate outputs like double emails. The bug is hard to catch because it only appears under production latency and the two timeouts are configured separately. Infrawise detects this mismatch by comparing queue visibility timeout against Lambda function timeout.

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This is a classic infrastructure gotcha that highlights how default settings and separate configuration surfaces create silent, costly bugs.
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