tasks/aws__aws-cli-10342/instruction.md

Issue

Title: [v2] Update standard retry mode via opt-in env var

Description

Notes:

• Ports to vendored botocore. The main and only difference from upstream botocore is that AWS CLI v2 uses standard retry mode by default, but upstream botocore uses legacy.

Description of changes:

• Introduced new AWS_NEW_RETRIES_2026 environment variable. When set to true, standard retry mode behavior is changed.
• The standard retry mode behavior changes (gated behind the new env var) is described below:
  • Service-specific max attempts — Service-defined (e.g., DynamoDB with 4 attempts) max attempt values instead of the universal default of 3, but only if the user hasn't explicitly configured max attempts.
  • Throttling-aware backoff — The ExponentialBackoff is initialized with a throttling_detector and service_name, enabling it to use different backoff scales depending on whether the error is a throttling error and which service is being called (e.g., 25ms base for DynamoDB non-throttling errors vs. 50ms for other services vs. 1s for throttling errors).
  • Throttling-aware retry quota — The RetryQuotaChecker receives a throttling_detector, allowing it to deduct a smaller quota cost (5) for throttling errors vs. the standard cost (14) for other retryable errors.
  • Service name passed to RetryHandler — For known long-polling operations (e.g., SQS ReceiveMessage, SFN GetActivityTask), when retry quota is exhausted the handler sleeps the backoff delay before returning without retrying.
• Added new test cases for the new standard retry mode behavior updates.

Description of tests:

• Successfully ran pre-production build workflow (see Build Internal GitHub Action).

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Task

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