From a73e9706ad982ea102793f92668d8cd872ad8cfd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "mintlify[bot]" <109931778+mintlify[bot]@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2026 07:08:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] docs: split semicolon-joined sentence in Boto3 retries warning --- docs/user-guide/providers/aws/boto3-configuration.mdx | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/user-guide/providers/aws/boto3-configuration.mdx b/docs/user-guide/providers/aws/boto3-configuration.mdx index 070f6f6557..5fdc67c16a 100644 --- a/docs/user-guide/providers/aws/boto3-configuration.mdx +++ b/docs/user-guide/providers/aws/boto3-configuration.mdx @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ export PROWLER_AWS_BOTO3_RETRIES_MAX_ATTEMPTS=0 The CLI flag takes precedence over the environment variable. The value must be a non-negative integer; when neither is set, Prowler uses 3 retries. -The environment variable is process-wide: it applies to every AWS provider built in the process where it is set, not only to a connection check. A scan started in that same process picks it up too. Boto3's Standard retry mode, which Prowler uses, also retries service-side throttling responses (see the errors listed below), so `0` disables retries for those as well. On a large account a scan can hit throttling under normal load, and with retries disabled that throttling becomes a hard failure instead of a retried call. Set the variable only on the processes that run connection checks; leave scan workers on the default, or raise their retry count instead of lowering it. +The environment variable is process-wide: it applies to every AWS provider built in the process where it is set, not only to a connection check. A scan started in that same process picks it up too. Boto3's Standard retry mode, which Prowler uses, also retries service-side throttling responses (see the errors listed below), so `0` disables retries for those as well. On a large account a scan can hit throttling under normal load, and with retries disabled that throttling becomes a hard failure instead of a retried call. Set the variable only on the processes that run connection checks. Leave scan workers on the default, or raise their retry count instead of lowering it. ## Retry Behavior Overview