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Amazon SQS

Overview

What is Amazon SQS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Provides the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), a managed message queue service which supports the safe decoupling and distribution of different components in a cloud infrastructure and cloud applications.

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7 out of 10
January 31, 2022
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Pricing

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All Data Transfer In

$0.00

Cloud
per GB

Standard Queue

$0.00000004

Cloud
per request

FIFO Queue

$0.00000005

Cloud
per request

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Amazon SQS?

Amazon SQS Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
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Reviews and Ratings

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January 31, 2022

All Q's answered for SQS

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 201-500 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Our Application was integrated with third-party app, to fetch updated data from third-party app without keeping users to wait, we used SQS to bring data out of sync from users call. As user's request is sent to SQS queue and data is updated in our system.
Pros and Cons
  • Dead letter queue for failed messages
  • Queue management
  • Message delivery to listener
  • More frequest polling will be expensive
  • No detailed monitoring of queues, just current data and regular monitoring is present
  • No way to fetch messages back from the queue
Likelihood to Recommend
SQS will be helpful for usage in terms of creating a Async flow to your system with though high usage but not high importance data sent to SQS.Whereas in cases where we need to manage messages and auditing of them sent to SQS , also to monitor performance of system integrated with SQS , in such cases SQS would not be a preferred option.Best thing about SQS is that it is quite easy to implement and manage which makes it quick and hassle free.
Return on Investment
  • Queue management by removing individual ActiveMQ Queue results in less management of individual servers
  • In a multi server system , sync between all servers is achieved with reduced Development efforts for handling sync
  • Direct impact on time taken to serve messages results in fast and optimised performance
Alternatives Considered
Simple and quick implementation makes it a first go to service when not familiar with queue management. Handling of Dead messages in queue is helpful, as over time these messages stack up causing lots of unnecessary processing at listener end. Retry mechanism for failed messages in systrem is a fine functionality as failed messages need to be handled for a fail safe system Delay implemeted to send message for polling makes it better to build a system which processes heavy data at listener end so to manage messages better before polling
Other Software Used
June 03, 2019

Amazon SQS : Best queue service with great configuration

Verified User
Employee in Research & Development
Computer Software Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
SQS service is under use at the company level, to handle the different application-level requirements. We mostly use it to decouple different level of modules so that we can provide an efficient solution to the end user.
Pros and Cons
  • Provides very good support for asynchronous processes.
  • Hosted in the cloud, which supports HIPPA complaints.
  • Options for a FIFO and Standard queue, so anyone can choose on the base of their requirements.
  • Has an add-on functionality of configurable parameters, like Delivery Delay, Default Visibility Timeout, Message Retention Period, Receive Message Wait Time, etc.
  • Almost all of the functionality has been covered by SQS, but they could improve the throughput time.
  • Also, they could provide built-in Cloud Watch, so that we can easily configure it without any external efforts.
Likelihood to Recommend
We needed an application where we could communicate between asynchronous modules, and we needed a reliable solution where we could upload data under the HIPPA compliance, and Amazon SQS is the best fit.
Return on Investment
  • Under the AWS Echo system, it provides great operating power to the application.
  • The cost is much less for messages, and it also supports a multi-user option.
  • Not for us, but for a larger organization, low throughput might become an issue for a standard queue type.
Alternatives Considered
The reason for the choice is due to maintenance needs and HIPPA compliance, as well as the great options under the AWS ecosystem, with very useful configurable parameters.
Other Software Used
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon API Gateway, Neo4j, Amazon Relational Database Service
January 23, 2019

SQS is my Queue service of choice!

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad Company, 11-50 employees
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We used Amazon SQS primiarly as a service queue to perform asynchronous methods for Mandrill emails for customers. It was used by the Engineering team on behalf of the Marketing team.
Pros and Cons
  • Background messaging queue service
  • Easy to setup and get up and running
  • Great user interface to notify you of a message getting stuck
  • Email messages to inform you of why a message got stuck
  • SMS notification for stuck messages
  • Better error handling
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are trying to handle a large messaging queue to your customer base, specifically with email marketing notifications in mass quantities, this is a great tool. If you’re doing more personality, one-off messaging then this is not the ideal service.
Return on Investment
  • Positive impact - time allocation towards different features
  • Negative impact - too many resources dedicated towards debugging
  • Positive impact - less manual labor during testing
Alternatives Considered
Amazon SQS stacks up with the best of them as most of their products do. The only issue comparatively that I’ve had with this service, in particular, is the silently failing messages and then allocation of time to dedicate to debugging when the issue of why a message got stuck in a queue was unclear.
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