Release: Amazon Simple Queue Service on 2008-02-06
New Features
The following table summarizes the changes in the 2008-01-01 version of Amazon SQS. For complete details of the changes, see the Migration Guide.
| Feature | Brief Description | |
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| New price | AWS introduced a new price for Amazon SQS as of February 6, 2008. For complete details about the new price and what has changed with the 2008-01-01 release of Amazon SQS, see the Migration Guide. | |
| New Limits | ||
| Message retention time | Amazon SQS now automatically deletes messages that have been in the queue for 4 days. | |
| Message size | The maximum allowable message size is now 8 KB. | |
| Number of messages received | The name of the NumberOfMessages parameter (used with ReceiveMessage) has changed. Also the maximum value for this parameter has changed from 256 to 10. |
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| Queues with no activity | We reserve the right to delete a queue that has had no activity for an extended period of time. | |
| Visibility timeout | The maximum visibility timeout for a queue or message is now 2 hours. | |
| Deprecated Actions | ||
ChangeMessageVisibility |
The ChangeMessageVisibility action is no longer available. |
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SetVisibilityTimeout and GetVisibilityTimeout |
These two actions were deprecated with the 2007-05-01 release and are now no longer available. | |
PeekMessage |
The PeekMessage action is no longer available. |
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| Access Control | The access control functionality (grants, permissions, etc.) is no longer available. | |
| Other Changes | ||
| New receipt handle | When you receive a message, you now receive a receipt handle, which you use to delete the message. | |
| New MD5 digests | When you send or receive a message, Amazon SQS now returns an MD5 digest of the message body to you. | |
ForceDeletion with DeleteQueue |
When you request to delete a queue, it is now deleted regardless of whether it is empty. The ForceDeletion parameter is no longer available. |
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| REST API | The REST API is currently not available. | |
| Change to format of queue URL | The format of the queue URL has changed. | |
Change to CreateQueue |
Amazon SQS now returns an error if you try to create a queue with the name of an existing queue while also providing a visibility timeout value different from that of the existing queue. | |
| Change to response structure | The structure of responses has changed. | |
| Change to attributes structure | The structure of the data you provide for SetQueueAttributes and the structure of the data you receive for GetQueueAttributes has changed. |
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| Change to request authentication | The signature version 0 for Query requests is no longer supported. SOAP requests that don't use WS-Security must now use HTTPS, and the authentication information must be in the SOAP header. | |
| Change to base service name in the WSDL | The base service name in the Amazon SQS WSDL has changed. | |
