Lambda attached to API Gateway is called multiple times even when scheduled once.

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I have created a lambda which changes desired count of ECS services to 0 in non-working hours and updates back to 1 in working hours. There is an API gateway attached to the lambda with endpoint api/v1/resize/{count}. count is 0 or 1 as mentioned above.

To call the API periodically I created two EventBridge rules with different cron schedules based on work timings. Once the lambda is trigger at specific time set by the cron I see multiple invocations happening, every 10 minutes.

I have increased the timeout to 15 minutes. Even after setting retry count to 0 under asynchronous invocations it is triggering every 10 minutes. How can I ensure that it is called only once at the scheduled time.

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I am suspecting you are not returning a success code from the API, which is causing a retry.

Why are you using API Gateway at all? Why not invoke the Lambda function directly from EventBridge Scheduler?

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Uri
answered 15 days ago
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reviewed 7 days ago
  • @Uri, I was returning a success response. I am not sure if there's some specific format in which success code needs to be returned. I didn't give much thought to call the Lambda directly because I thought calling the API which in turn will invoke the function should be the same. I managed to work around it by finally calling the Lambda directly.

  • If you are calling the Lambda from API Gateway using Lambda Proxy integration, you should return from the Lambda function something like:

    {
        "statusCode": 200
    } 
    

    In either case, calling Lambda directly is the better approach. No need to introduce another component in the middle.

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Hello.

Is it possible that you are configuring EventBridge with rate instead of cron?
If cron is configured correctly, it should be possible to run it at a specific time.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-cron-expressions.html

Also, EventBridge is sometimes executed multiple times, so this may be related.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-troubleshooting.html#eb-rule-triggered-more-than-once

In rare cases, the same rule can run more than once for a single event or scheduled time, or the same target can be invoked more than once for a given triggered rule.

Also, are there any errors when running Lambda?

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answered 16 days ago
  • It runs at the specified time. But once it runs it keeps on running every 10 minutes. There are no errors as such.

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