What is SQS?

Amazon SQS is a web service that gives you access to a message queue that can be used to store messages while waiting for a computer to process them.

Amazon SQS is a distributed queue system that enables web service applications to quickly and reliably queue messages that one component in the application generates to be consumed by another component. A queue is temporary repository for messages that are awaiting processing.

Using Amazon SQS, you can decouple the components of an application so they run indepedently, easing message management between components. Any component of a distributed application can store messages in a fail-safe queue.

Messages can contain up to 256KB of test in any format. Any component can later retrieve the messages programmatically using the Amazon SQS API.

The queue acts as a buffer between the components producing and saving data, and the component receiving the data for processing. This means the queue resolves issues that arise if the producer is producing work faster than the consumer can process it, or if the producer or consumer are only intermittently connected to the network.

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Queue Types

There are two types of Queues

Standard Queues

FIFO Queues

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