Feature request: Change the default TTL (cache) to 5 minutes in the Parameters utility

[leandrodamascena]

Use case

When using the Parameters utility, customers can leverage caching to minimize API calls. The default cache TTL is 5 seconds, after which Powertools expires the cache and if the parameter value is required inside the Lambda handler, a new API call may be triggered.

We suggest increasing this value to 300 seconds (5 minutes) to avoid spikes in a highly intensive workload.

Solution/User Experience

Increase the default TTL value to 300 seconds (5 minutes).

Alternative solutions

No response

Acknowledgment

• This feature request meets Powertools for AWS Lambda (Python) Tenets
• Should this be considered in other Powertools for AWS Lambda languages? i.e. Java, TypeScript, and .NET

[heitorlessa]

Small note that the reason we're choosing 5 minutes is to sync with customers feedback who used SSM extension

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