Why does AWS Pinpoint (@aws-sdk/client-pinpoint) Not Correctly Return OTP Verification Attempts?

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Using AWS Pinpoint, our team aims to track and display the amount of attempts remaining for users who enter an incorrect OTP Passcode via AWS Pinpoint. Upon making a request to const command = new VerifyOTPMessageCommand(input); one would expect that the $metadata returned in the response would update upon subsequent attempts wherin the referenceId remains the same, however the response always returns:

{
  httpStatusCode: 200,
  requestId: <request_id>,
  extendedRequestId: undefined,
  cfId: <cf_id>,
  attempts: 1,
  totalRetryDelay: 0
}

It should be noted that the account is currently in Sandbox mode.

[Especially]

Resolving as the data returned here is simply $metadata which is returned with any AWS SDK response for debugging purposes only. There is currently no way that AWS tracks user OTP attempts and returns it to the client, ideally this is a nice to have feature but the workaround is to easily track attempts within your own application.

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