5xx Error Spikes Correlate with Request Rate Limit Exceeded
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Sudden increases in 5xx errors (especially 503 SlowDown) indicate the application has exceeded S3's per-prefix request rate limits of 3,500 PUT/POST/DELETE or 5,500 GET/HEAD requests per second.
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