API Gateway timeout gotcha with AWS Lambda

At a company I've been working with, we have a set of some 33 odd or so Lambda functions that are triggered via Amazon's API Gateway. We recently discovered (the hard way!) about a unclearly documented limitation of using API gateway to trigger lambda functions. Per the Amazon documentation on the API Gateway Limits Integration timeout 50 milliseconds - 29 seconds for all integration types, including Lambda, Lambda proxy, HTTP, HTTP proxy, and AWS integrations. This can be somewhat conflicting if your new to lambda like I was, as the UI in Lambda has an option to configure the timeout…

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