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  You developed a robust web automation script. It executes flawlessly on your local machine, navigating pages and extracting DOM elements with ease. However, immediately after deploying it to a serverless environment like AWS Lambda, executions begin failing with   TimeoutError: Navigation timeout of 30000 ms exceeded . This discrepancy between local and serverless execution is one of the most persistent bottlenecks in cloud web scraping. The 30-second Puppeteer timeout error is rarely a network latency issue. Instead, it is almost always a symptom of a silent browser crash or process lockup caused by the underlying host environment. Running a full Chromium instance inside an ephemeral, resource-constrained container requires specific architectural configurations. This guide breaks down the root causes of the Chrome headless timeout and provides a production-ready implementation for stable enterprise data extraction. The Root Cause of Serverless Puppeteer Timeouts To understa...