# TrafficShapingRetrievalWindow
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The configuration that tells AWS Elemental MediaTailor how many seconds to spread out requests to the ad decision server (ADS). Instead of sending ADS requests for all sessions at the same time, MediaTailor spreads the requests across the amount of time specified in the retrieval window.

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 ** RetrievalWindowDurationSeconds **   <a name="mediatailor-Type-TrafficShapingRetrievalWindow-RetrievalWindowDurationSeconds"></a>
The amount of time, in seconds, that MediaTailor spreads prefetch requests to the ADS.   
Type: Integer  
Required: No

## See Also
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For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:
+  [AWS SDK for C\+\+](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForCpp/mediatailor-2018-04-23/TrafficShapingRetrievalWindow) 
+  [AWS SDK for Java V2](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForJavaV2/mediatailor-2018-04-23/TrafficShapingRetrievalWindow) 
+  [AWS SDK for Ruby V3](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/goto/SdkForRubyV3/mediatailor-2018-04-23/TrafficShapingRetrievalWindow) 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Elemental MediaTailor. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query mediatailor` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).