Trowing error in async/await route times out when using async handler

So I’m not sure I am doing everything correctly here. But how come throwing an Error in this case causes the lambda to timeout?

How can I prevent the lambda from timing out?

import express from 'express';
import awsServerlessExpress from 'aws-serverless-express';

const app = express();
app.get('/throwerror', async (req, res) => {
    throw new Error('This is an error');
});

const server = awsServerlessExpress.createServer(app);
export const handler = async (event: any, context: any) => awsServerlessExpress.proxy(server, event, context, 'PROMISE').promise;

[andidev]

Removing async is not an option since I have asyncronious calls to the database. Using https://github.com/Abazhenov/express-async-handler workes though.

The reson why I created this bug was because I thought it was a bit extreme for the lambda to time out on a async error. But I guess it is not up to aws-serverless-express to take care of that.

[brettstack]

Thanks for the comment. This sounds like a bug. I’ll fix and release as soon as I can