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If you’ve dealt with Lambda functions you may have run across the RequestEntityTooLargeException AWS Lambda exception that occurs when a function is invoked with too large of a payload. This article looks at how to get around this error.

I found lots of information about dead letter queues, but no examples that demoed a redrive function to retry those failed messages. This post is meant to serve as a nice example for folks like me who want to do this on AWS and haven’t found many examples.