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Use ILambdaContext.RemainingTime to create a valid CancellationToken for AspNetCoreServer Requests

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
aws, csharp
Domain
api, backend, cloud

Research direction

Start by tracing how Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer.Hosting 1.5.0 creates the AspNetCoreServer request CancellationToken and accesses ILambdaContext. Define cancellation behavior around ILambdaContext.RemainingTime, including the near-zero threshold, then verify that long-running request work observes cancellation before Lambda timeout and that reused Lambdas do not continue background retries.

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Description

feature-request module/aspnetcore-support p2 queued
Describe the feature

Currently when a Lambda execution times out, a AspNetCore request continues to execute even if it is checking a CancellationToken parameter for cancellation.

This feature would create a new CancellationTokenSource using ILambdaContext.RemainingTime and request cancellation when remaining time reaches or nears zero. This would allow consumer code to cancel long running operations in a way that is more controlled. This would create similar functionality to how timeouts are handled in Kestrel and IIS

Use Case

Due to upstream concurrency limitations, we sometimes have a lambda AspNetCore request timeout. Since the CancellationToken passed into the request is never cancelled, we continue to try to execute retry requests in the background if a lambda is reused.

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AWS .NET SDK and/or Package version used

Amazon.Lambda.AspNetCoreServer.Hosting 1.5.0

Targeted .NET Platform

net6.0

Operating System and version

AmazonLinux (Lambda)

Dominant language
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