💡 Instead of manually deleting items, why not just have a lifecycle rule to delete items after a day/week/month?

This would speed up the lambda (does not need to wait for the delete) and I believe deletes via lifecycle rules are not charged.

The downside is that if the queue gets delayed there's a finite time we have to unblock it.

@hannahhoward I think you implemented this originally(?) - interested in your opinion here.