Ideally, you also want to implement "jitter" in the retries. AWS has a good article about it: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backoff-and-

Ideally, you also want to implement "jitter" in the retries. AWS has a good article about it: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backoff-and-jitter/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/exponential-backof... The summary (from the article) is that: sleep_time = random_between(0, min(2 ** retries, max_sleep_time)) so that retries are "spread across" the delay window.