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A powerful queue management service that will help you stay serverless
February 05, 2020

A powerful queue management service that will help you stay serverless

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

We use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to manage even queues for several of our internal applications. We have an application that receives and processes jobs for ad placement on different advertising platforms. These jobs are relatively critical, and reliable processing is a must. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) provides a serverless queue to handle these requests for us as well as a target that can be tracked to keep a job status as well as capture any errors executing the job.
  • It provides an always-available serverless queue for workflows or mission-critical processes.
  • Is extremely low cost and overall costs to our environments have been negligible.
  • Scheduling options could be a bit more robust since deferred deliveries can be held for a maximum of 15 minutes currently.
  • Maximum message size limitations are not a huge hassle, but it would be nice to have the option to include larger messages with detailed log messages. This can be worked around but requires using another service such as DynamoDB to persist large messages and reference them from Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS).
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) has given us the ability to manage many different processes without breaking our serverless application models.
  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) has allowed us to add a robust degree of reliable job processing without any measurable added cost.
While we haven't had very many issues with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) that required us to contact AWS support, the response has always been timely and helpful.

Do you think Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)'s feature set?

Yes

Did Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) again?

Yes

While we use AmazonSimple Queue Service (SQS) in our serverless applications, it would be a great option to handle queue management for any internet-connect application. It provides the most benefit in situations where your application or service must maintain mission-critical queue of messages or jobs. If you're already using other AWS services you will find the greatest benefit.