AWS Lambda Task timed out after 6.00 seconds

Question

I am using serverless framework. My Lambda function connects to DynamoDB table for updating item in table. Read & Write capacity units of table are 5 & auto_scaling is d

Answer 1

The default timeout for AWS Lambda functions when using the Serverless framework is 6 seconds. Simply change that to a higher value as noted in the documentation:

functions:
  hello:
    ...
    timeout: 10 # optional, in seconds, default is 6