Policy: AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 05. How do you design interactions in a distributed system to mitigate or withstand failures? > Control and limit retry calls

Use exponential backoff to retry after progressively longer intervals. Introduce jitter to randomize those retry intervals, and limit the maximum number of retries.

See Control and limit retry calls for more information.

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This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > Well-Architected Tool > AWS Well-Architected Framework > Reliability > REL 05. How do you design interactions in a distributed system to mitigate or withstand failures?

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Skip`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Skip` `True` `False`

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Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/turbot#/control/categories/other

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel05LimitRetries

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel05LimitRetries") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel05LimitRetries'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel05LimitRetries'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel05LimitRetries"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-wellarchitected-framework#/policy/types/rel05LimitRetries"