Scenario: You are building a serverless data pipeline and want to ensure that if a Lambda function fails more than 3 times, the event is automatically sent to an SQS queue for manual investigation. Solution ?

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Correct Answer: Lambda Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) or On-Failure Destination

Lambda natively supports Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) and Destinations to handle failed asynchronous invocations....

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Scenario: You are building a serverless data pipeline and want to ensure that if a Lambda function fails more than 3 times, the event is automatically sent to an SQS queue for manual investigation. Solution ?

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Correct Answer

Lambda Dead Letter Queue (DLQ) or On-Failure Destination

Why This Answer Is Correct

Lambda natively supports Dead Letter Queues (DLQ) and Destinations to handle failed asynchronous invocations.

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