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by maccard 946 days ago
> Sounds implausible but I’ve seen that more than once!

The textbook example of this going wrong is a lambda that is invoked on uploading to S3 that writes the result to S3. There's even an AWS article on it - [0]

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/avoiding-recursive-invo...

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We actually got an email from AWS recently at work that said “hey! Your lambda writes to a queue that invokes the same lambda, that seems wack”. We need it that way, but it’s enough of a problem that they built a way to detect it automatically.