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What about retries, status code handling, timeouts, and backoff? (It's not a lot of code to add that stuff in but I still call it a "client".)

AWS doesn’t do that for you either.

You linked the Python SDK, just FYI. Here’s the JavaScript version: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSJavaScriptSDK/v3/latest/clien...