How to avoid: "Request throttled because message visibility configuration was updated too recently."

Thanks for your reply. I am getting the error when calling queue.change_message_visibility_batch(). The queue object is created like this:

    incoming = client.create_queue(
        QueueName="TEST-INCOMING.fifo",
        Attributes={"FifoQueue": "true", "ContentBasedDeduplication": "false", "VisibilityTimeout": "30"},
    )

Putting back messages is a slight but important edge case for us when a customer is tearing down their account while an SQS consumer is also processing messages for that account.

Does that answer your questions?

I'm running into the same situation. Using Change Message Visibility Batch API (via .NET SDK). It is also a FIFO queue. We pull off a batch of 10, determine if any of those messages can be consolidated, and handle them, then "put the rest back" (by changing the message visibility on the messages back to zero). We are getting this error intermittently.

The full error I get is:

Request throttled because message visibility configuration was updated too recently. Wait a short while and then retry the operation.

What is the "short while" we should wait?

What's the default message visibility timeout for the queue? 15 minutes What are you setting the message visibility to? Zero How often are you doing that? Varies, sometimes may be as quick as a few seconds.