AI Agents Crash at Minute 15. Durable Execution Fixes It

AWS Lambda kills any process that runs longer than 900 seconds. If your research agent hits minute 15 mid-synthesis, the runtime hard-kills the container, the in-memory context evaporates, and the $4.50 of compute you just spent on 40,000 tokens of scraped and summarized content becomes a 500 error to the …