# Rate limits transcribed from the provider's own documentation — see provenance. Quoted, not derived.
generated: '2026-09-20'
method: searched
source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-limits.html
sources:
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/gettingstarted-limits.html
provenance:
  tool: planning/api-economics/harvest_ratelimits.py
  run: 20260920T133210
  grounding: every limit_text was found verbatim in the fetched page text
published: true
note: Lambda quotas page; many size/config quotas omitted as non-rate. No rate-limit headers or HTTP status
  documented; page mentions retrying throttled requests with exponential backoff.
limit_count: 25
limits:
- name: Concurrent executions
  limit_text: Concurrent executions 1,000
  limit: 1000
  scope: account
- name: Function concurrency scaling limit
  limit_text: For each function, 1,000 execution environments every 10 seconds
  limit: 1000
  scope: endpoint
- name: Synchronous invocations per execution environment
  limit_text: Each instance of your execution environment can serve up to 10 requests per second.
  limit: 10
  window: second
  scope: endpoint
  endpoint: Invocation requests per function per Region (synchronous)
- name: Provisioned concurrency invocation rate
  limit_text: 10 x allocated provisioned concurrency
  scope: endpoint
  endpoint: Invocation requests per function version or alias
- name: GetFunction API requests
  limit_text: 100 requests per second. Cannot be increased.
  limit: 100
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: GetFunction
- name: GetPolicy API requests
  limit_text: 15 requests per second. Cannot be increased.
  limit: 15
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: GetPolicy
- name: Control plane API requests
  limit_text: 15 requests per second across all APIs (not 15 requests per second per API). Cannot be increased.
  limit: 15
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: Remainder of the control plane API requests
- name: Durable execution initiation rate
  limit_text: 300 requests per second.
  limit: 300
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: Function invocation rate to initiate durable executions
- name: CheckpointDurableExecution
  limit_text: 10,000 requests per second. 20,000 requests per second in US East (N. Virginia), US West
    (Oregon), and Europe (Ireland).
  limit: 10000
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: CheckpointDurableExecution
- name: GetDurableExecution
  limit_text: GetDurableExecution API requests 30 requests per second.
  limit: 30
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: GetDurableExecution
- name: GetDurableExecutionHistory
  limit_text: GetDurableExecutionHistory API requests 15 requests per second.
  limit: 15
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: GetDurableExecutionHistory
- name: GetDurableExecutionState
  limit_text: GetDurableExecutionState API requests 10,000 requests per second.
  limit: 10000
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: GetDurableExecutionState
- name: ListDurableExecutionsByFunction
  limit_text: ListDurableExecutionsByFunction API requests 15 requests per second.
  limit: 15
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: ListDurableExecutionsByFunction
- name: SendDurableExecutionCallbackFailure
  limit_text: SendDurableExecutionCallbackFailure API requests 3,000 requests per second.
  limit: 3000
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: SendDurableExecutionCallbackFailure
- name: SendDurableExecutionCallbackHeartbeat
  limit_text: SendDurableExecutionCallbackHeartbeat API requests 3,000 requests per second.
  limit: 3000
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: SendDurableExecutionCallbackHeartbeat
- name: SendDurableExecutionCallbackSuccess
  limit_text: SendDurableExecutionCallbackSuccess API requests 3,000 requests per second.
  limit: 3000
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: SendDurableExecutionCallbackSuccess
- name: StopDurableExecution
  limit_text: StopDurableExecution API requests 300 requests per second.
  limit: 300
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: StopDurableExecution
- name: Requests per second per MicroVM
  limit_text: Requests per second per MicroVM 40 (4 vCPU / 8 GB), 160 (16 vCPU / 32 GB)
  window: second
  scope: endpoint
  endpoint: MicroVM
- name: RunMicrovm
  limit_text: RunMicrovm 5 5 Yes
  limit: 5
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: RunMicrovm
  kind: burst
- name: ResumeMicrovm
  limit_text: ResumeMicrovm 5 5 Yes
  limit: 5
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: ResumeMicrovm
  kind: burst
- name: SuspendMicrovm
  limit_text: SuspendMicrovm 2 2 Yes
  limit: 2
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: SuspendMicrovm
  kind: burst
- name: TerminateMicrovm
  limit_text: TerminateMicrovm 10 10 Yes
  limit: 10
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: TerminateMicrovm
  kind: burst
- name: GetMicrovm
  limit_text: GetMicrovm 100 100 Yes
  limit: 100
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: GetMicrovm
  kind: burst
- name: CreateMicrovmAuthToken
  limit_text: CreateMicrovmAuthToken 50 50 Yes
  limit: 50
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: CreateMicrovmAuthToken
  kind: burst
- name: CreateMicrovmShellAuthToken
  limit_text: CreateMicrovmShellAuthToken 5 5 Yes
  limit: 5
  window: second
  scope: account
  endpoint: CreateMicrovmShellAuthToken
  kind: burst