# How can I specify number of retries for async lambdas?

**URL:** <https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-can-i-specify-number-of-retries-for-async-lambdas/10647>\
**Category:** Serverless Framework\
**Tags:** aws, lambda\
**Created:** [February 26, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-can-i-specify-number-of-retries-for-async-lambdas/10647 "2020-02-26T18:23:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![MikeBengtson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MikeBengtson](https://forum.serverless.com/u/MikeBengtson)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2020, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-can-i-specify-number-of-retries-for-async-lambdas/10647/1 "2020-02-26T18:23:01Z")

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Just what it says - AWS now allows you to specify the number of retries for async lambdas but I don’t see anything in the lambda config spec that allows for this. Thanks.

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**Author:** ![MikeBengtson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@MikeBengtson](https://forum.serverless.com/u/MikeBengtson)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2020, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.serverless.com/t/how-can-i-specify-number-of-retries-for-async-lambdas/10647/2 "2020-03-09T15:32:06Z")

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Any ideas? Do I need to create a plug-in just for this one value or is there maybe a branch of aws plugin that has the latest features?