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# CloudFront 403 errors during evaluator invocation

export const plans_0 = "Enterprise"

export const deployments_0 = "Self-hosted (self-hosted data plane)"

export const data_plane_version_0 = undefined

export const use_case_0 = "Use case - Evaluators with scorers processing large token counts that exceed 60-second response times"

<Note>
  **Applies to:**

  * Plan - {plans_0}
  * Deployment - {deployments_0}
  * {data_plane_version_0}
  * {use_case_0}
</Note>

## Summary

**Issue:** Evaluator invocations fail with `403 Forbidden` errors from CloudFront when processing large inputs. Evaluations hang indefinitely on rows with high token counts before failing.

**Cause:** CloudFront's `origin_read_timeout` is set to 60 seconds, causing requests to fail when scorers take longer to process large payloads.

**Resolution:** Reduce input size to scorers or configure CloudFront timeout settings in your Terraform deployment.

## Resolution Steps

### Immediate workaround: Reduce scorer input size

#### Step 1: Limit tokens sent to scorers

Reduce the amount of data sent to individual scorers, especially for informational scorers that are not critical to evaluation results.

#### Step 2: Split evaluations into smaller batches

Break large evaluations into multiple smaller runs to avoid timeout thresholds.