# AWS MQTT connection dies after some point

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**Category:** AWS\
**Created:** [December 24, 2019, 6:04pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/aws-mqtt-connection-dies-after-some-point/8977 "2019-12-24T18:04:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2020, 10:07pm UTC](https://forums.freertos.org/t/aws-mqtt-connection-dies-after-some-point/8977/31 "2020-01-24T22:07:45Z")

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**[gordon-AWS](https://forums.aws.amazon.com/profile.jspa?userID=442042)** wrote on January 24, 2020:

Glad you figured it out!

Unrelated: are you calling AwsIotShadow\_Cleanup somewhere before the call to AwsIotShadow\_Init? You must call AwsIotShadow\_Cleanup to avoid leaking memory if AwsIotShadow\_Init was called before.

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