How to stop a Lambda function from retrying itself forever?

Question

Hey guys, I've been working with SQS-Lambda connection and faced the problem that when something is going wrong with the Lambda function it starts to retry the Lambda code hundreds of times till I changed the corcurrency limit to 0. What is the best way to set a Lambda function to run just once, and if an error occurs doesn't retry to execute itself?

Many thanks!

Accepted Answer

Hello.

How about setting up an SQS dead letter queue so that once an error occurs, it sends to the dead letter queue?  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eventbridge/latest/userguide/eb-rule-dlq.html

I thought that setting the number of times to move to the dead letter queue (maxReceiveCount) to a low number such as 1 would prevent infinite retries.  
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-dead-letter-queues.html#sqs-dead-letter-queues-how-they-work

How to stop a Lambda function from retrying itself forever?

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