My opinion about SQS !
August 03, 2021

My opinion about SQS !

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)

SQS is one of AWS services we are using for many different projects.
It helps us to dissociate the components of our architectures and to create the best asynchronous processes possible
  • Very nice SDK
  • Useful console
  • Easy to use
  • Sometime the information (in-flight messages for instance) displayed in the console are not up-date
  • You need to be aware of how your queues are used to avoid cost issues
  • It is at the core of many projects we are building so no doubt it is essential
  • A few times, before we mastered SQS, we has cost issues because we did not know how to configure the polling properly ...
I wanted to select "RabbitMQ" instead of IBM Cloud Messages for RabbitMQ....
At first, we have some instances running RabbitMQ but SQS is a fully managed queuing service it was way more convenient to use it and get rid of RabbitMQ !

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

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), AWS Lambda
SQS can be used when you need to create an architecture with asynchronous operations and when you are building many microservices that need to exchange messages.
It is different from SNS which allows you to broadcast messages to various targets