EC2 describe_images timeout

Facing a lambda timeout issue using EC2 client describe_images(**kwargs). There are ~10000 AMI’s owned by account. Is there a workaround since there is no equivalent MaxResults as available in the describe_snapshots method?

[JordonPhillips]

You can increase the read timeout by providing it in the config. The default value is 60 seconds. Ex:

import boto3
from botocore.config import Config

ec2 = boto3.client('ec2', config=Config(read_timeout=120))

It would also probably be useful to request that EC2 add pagination to this operation. You can do this on their service forum.

Let me know if that works.

[sm-azure]

@JordonPhillips Had raised the issue with AWS. They mentioned that it was a fringe case.

@jonathanwcrane Have they updated the API to include pagination? I had used the timeout coupled with loops and sqs queues to deregister and then delete. The queue was used since the de-registration process is not instantaneous.