diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/queue.py b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/queue.py
index dc21c1b86..68778e780 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/queue.py
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/queue.py
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ from .storage import StorageType, get_primary_account, get_storage_account_name_
 QueueNameType = Union[str, UUID]
 
 DEFAULT_TTL = -1
+DEFAULT_DURATION = datetime.timedelta(days=30)
 
 
 @cached(ttl=60)
@@ -48,8 +49,10 @@ def get_queue_sas(
     add: bool = False,
     update: bool = False,
     process: bool = False,
-    duration: datetime.timedelta = datetime.timedelta(days=30),
+    duration: Optional[datetime.timedelta] = None,
 ) -> str:
+    if duration is None:
+        duration = DEFAULT_DURATION
     account_id = get_primary_account(storage_type)
     logging.debug("getting queue sas %s (account_id: %s)", queue, account_id)
     name, key = get_storage_account_name_key(account_id)
diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/subnet.py b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/subnet.py
index 89e1e9645..fdaf01192 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/subnet.py
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/subnet.py
@@ -66,6 +66,6 @@ def create_virtual_network(
             resource_group, name, params
         )
     except (CloudError, ResourceNotFoundError) as err:
-        return Error(code=ErrorCode.UNABLE_TO_CREATE_NETWORK, errors=[str(err.message)])
+        return Error(code=ErrorCode.UNABLE_TO_CREATE_NETWORK, errors=[str(err)])
 
     return None
diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/notifications/teams.py b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/notifications/teams.py
index f8ed06840..bba8886ee 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/notifications/teams.py
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/notifications/teams.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from ..tasks.main import Task
 
 
 def markdown_escape(data: str) -> str:
-    values = "\\*_{}[]()#+-.!"
+    values = r"\\*_{}[]()#+-.!"  # noqa: P103
     for value in values:
         data = data.replace(value, "\\" + value)
     data = data.replace("`", "``")