Every Lambda error,
explained properly.

57 AWS Lambda and CloudWatch errors. For each one: what it actually means, how to confirm it from your own logs, the causes ranked by likelihood, and concrete fixes — ending with the raw CloudWatch excerpt shown stitched back into the invocation it belongs to.

57 errors

Timeouts

2 Open hub →

The function ran past its configured timeout and the runtime killed it mid-flight.

Memory

4 Open hub →

The function hit its memory ceiling — an OOM kill, a heap exhaustion, or a silent ceiling touch.

Initialization

4 Open hub →

The handler never ran. The runtime failed while loading your code or resolving your handler.

Packaging & dependencies

6 Open hub →

A module, class, or binary your code needs is not in the deployment package.

Runtime errors

9 Open hub →

Your code threw, rejected, or exited. The invocation failed after the handler started.

Permissions

5 Open hub →

An IAM policy, a resource policy, or a KMS grant denied the call.

Networking

10 Open hub →

A VPC, NAT, ENI, DNS, or downstream-connectivity failure.

Throttling & limits

4 Open hub →

A concurrency, rate, or provisioned-throughput limit rejected the request.

Deployment & configuration

9 Open hub →

The function never got as far as running. These surface while you are creating, updating, or configuring it — in CloudFormation output, a CLI response, or the console.

Platform events

4 Open hub →

Lambda Telemetry API and Advanced Logging Controls records — what each one means in your logs.

LogStitch finds this automatically, across every invocation in your account.

Paste a log excerpt into the free web stitcher and see it grouped, classified, and measured in your browser — nothing is uploaded. Or run the Mac app against your own AWS profiles and get the same view over every function you own.