Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is part of Amazon Web Services, providing a fully-managed message queuing service for reliably communicating among distributed software components and microservices. Use this tag for questions that describe Amazon's Simple Queuing services.
Introduction
Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is part of Amazon Web Services, providing a fully-managed message queuing service for reliably communicating among distributed software components and microservices. Use this tag for questions that describe Amazon's Simple Queuing services.
SQS supports two different types of queues:
Standard Queues - Amazon SQS offers standard as the default queue type. A standard queue lets you have a nearly unlimited number of transactions per second. Standard queues guarantee that a message is delivered at least once. However, occasionally (because of the highly-distributed architecture that allows high throughput), more than one copy of a message might be delivered out of order. Standard queues provide best-effort ordering which ensures that messages are delivered in the same order as they are sent.
FIFI Queues - The FIFO queue complements the standard queue. The most important features of this queue type are FIFO (first-in-first-out) delivery and exactly-once processing: The order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved, and a message is delivered once and remains available until a consumer processes and deletes it; duplicates are not introduced into the queue. FIFO queues also support message groups that allow multiple ordered message groups within a single queue. FIFO queues are limited to 300 transactions per second (TPS), but have all the capabilities of standard queues.
