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Document throttling limits for AWS Organizations #39

Closed iainelder closed 1 year ago

iainelder commented 2 years ago

The DescribeAccount API is throttled such that if there are multiple threads calling the API in a single account then some throttling errors may be observed (see https://github.com/connelldave/botocove/issues/12 for an example use case).

TooManyRequestsException: An error occurred (TooManyRequestsException) when calling the DescribeAccount operation (reached max retries: 4): AWS Organizations can't complete your request because another request is already in progress. Try again later.

I can't find any documentation about the throttling limit for any Organizations APIs.

The information is available for the Security Hub service on the welcome page of the API reference.

The following throttling limits apply to using Security Hub API operations.

  • BatchEnableStandards - RateLimit of 1 request per second, BurstLimit of 1 request per second.
  • GetFindings - RateLimit of 3 requests per second. BurstLimit of 6 requests per second. [...]
joshbean commented 1 year ago

Closing this issue or pull request in advance of archiving this repo. For more information about the decision to archive this repo (and others in the 'awsdocs' org), see the announcement on the AWS News Blog.