12/2/24 - 12/3/24 Production Deploy - DB insert retry and go live email fixes

[ccostino]

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Description

This production deploy contains two small but important fixes:

• An adjustment to the DB insertion and retry logic for capturing message information
• A fix for sending out emails that a service has been turned live

Security Considerations

• Both of these fixes will help improve application stability and reduce the amount of errors thrown.

[terrazoon]

I note that the email retry time period changed from 300 seconds to 30 seconds, which was originally a change for debugging. However, I don't think it matters since the purpose of 300 seconds was to check for delivery receipts in AWS, and we don't do that for emails.