Release: Amazon Simple Queue Service on 2006-07-11

Release Notes>Release: Amazon Simple Queue Service on 2006 07 11
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS™) is now generally available. Amazon SQS offers a reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. By using Amazon SQS, developers can simply move data between distributed application components performing different tasks, without losing messages or requiring each component to be always available. Amazon SQS works by exposing Amazon's web-scale messaging infrastructure as a web service. Any computer on the internet can add or read messages without any installed software or special firewall configurations. Components of applications using Amazon SQS can run independently, and do not need to be on the same network, developed with the same technologies, or running at the same time.

Details

Submitted By: Craig@AWS
Created On: July 12, 2006 1:14 AM GMT
Last Updated: July 12, 2006 2:37 AM GMT

Release Date: 2006-07-11
Latest WSDL/API Version: 2006-04-01

New Features

This is the initial production release of Amazon SQS. Please see the Amazon SQS homepage at http://aws.amazon.com/sqs for details. Here are the major differences between the Beta release and the current one.

Feature

Description

New API

The API has been revised for all actions on queues and messages and includes support for SOAP, REST, and HTTP Query.

New Domain

The domain for the service has been changed to http://queue.amazonaws.com

Increased Message Size

Maximum message size support increased from 4KB to 256KB

Authentication

Requests to the service must include a valid Access Key Id and a signature computed using the Secret Amazon Web Services Key.

X.509 Support

Support for authentication using X.509 has been added for SOAP requests.

Known Issues

None.

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