Slow invocation of the client causes a timeout in AWS Lambda

[danrossi]

Describe the bug

I see a previous package import improvement for lazy loading. However my lambda function is failing due to a 3sec timeout invoking the stripe client not when importing the package.

client = stripe.StripeClient(stripe_api_key)

Just setting up the client requires to increase the Lambda function timeout to 6 seconds from 3 seconds. I am not sure how far back it broke as I just updated the library package layer and migrated to the client setup.

A response from a test.

Response:
{
  "errorMessage": "2026-04-27T12:13:45.810Z 154892f8-280d-4473-849b-d29648da8586 Task timed out after 3.02 seconds"
}

I need to increase the timeout to 10 seconds. Its been a default of 3 seconds for years.

To Reproduce

1. invoke the client. client = stripe.StripeClient(stripe_api_key)

Expected behavior

Not timeout the lambda function.

Code snippets

import stripe
def lambda_handler(event, context):
 client = stripe.StripeClient(stripe_api_key)

OS

Linux

Language version

Python 3.14

Library version

latest

API version

latest

Additional context

No response