aws cli describe-parameters ( SSM )

Question

I am trying to loop through and echo all my parameters to a file.

I am using describe-parameters and it is giving an error of

An error occurred (ThrottlingException) when calling the DescribeParameters operation (reached max retries: 2): Rate exceeded

I have ( in bash )

#bash!
for params in $(aws ssm describe-parameters)
do
    echo -n $params
done > Output/DiffTryssmParameters_$dt.json

it gives the error above. I have looked and looked and there are no solutions thus far other than increasing the limit within the account. ( Root access, not workable ).

I have tried various parameters like --max-item and even tried making that a variable i and using i++ and sleep 0.1 or 1 this all did not work.

Please does anyone have any advice or a different aws cli command to output all parameters.

This way I can also automate correcting non-secure strings to secure strings.

Thanks so much for forthcoming help :)

Answer 1

You are being throttled. Your only option is to send requests less frequently.

Options to accomplish this include:

1. introduce a pause/sleep between requests (for example exponential backoff)
2. investigate awscli configurable retry options