Lambda invocations increased 61% from PDF processing workload

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Current impact

$1,900

vs baseline

Forecasted impact / mo

$2,900

if trend continues

Change vs baseline

+61.0%

Lambda Invocations

Confidence

69%

likely cause attribution

Event Context

VendorAWS
StartedApr 24, 2026
Detected18d ago
OwnerPlatform Engineering
ServiceLambda
Regionus-east-1
WorkloadPDF Processing

Usage Timeline — Lambda Invocations

Actual vs 7-day rolling baseline

Usage Metric Breakdown

Current vs baseline — all contributing metrics

Invocations

72k

Baseline: 45k

+61%

Avg Duration

3k

Baseline: 2k

+19%

GB-seconds

198k

Baseline: 104k

+92%

Error Rate

1.2

Baseline: 0.8

+50%

Root Cause Analysis

1 confirmed · 1 needs confirmation

MeasuredFirst observedInferredAnnotated
Measured · AWS CloudWatch
72%

pdf-processor Lambda invocations: 820/day → 1,320/day (+61%)

Inferred · Inferred from invocation pattern
65%

Invocation timestamps shifted from irregular to uniform 15-min intervals from Apr 22.

Interpreted as: Consistent with a scheduled batch job being added or reconfigured. Verify via AWS CloudTrail EventBridge rule changes.

Was an EventBridge schedule or batch job config changed on Apr 22? Check CloudTrail.

Likely cause

Batch job frequency or volume changed in PDF processing pipeline

69% confidence · 1 signal awaiting confirmation

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Suggested Next Steps

Owner: Platform Engineering

1

Review pdf-processor Lambda event source and batch schedule config

2

Check if document volume changed or batch size was adjusted

3

Confirm with Platform Engineering if this is an intended change

4

Consider Lambda reserved concurrency limit to control burst cost

Related dimensions

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