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S3 autoscales, so any time the load increases you can see 5xx and 429 errors, but it flexes up in a few hours. That’s not exactly an incident, sort of Works as Designed.

The first time you write a multithreaded utility to do something in account with S3 you will see this, and have to write the temporary back off code.



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