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Category: Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
New – Enhanced Dead-letter Queue Management Experience for Amazon SQS Standard Queues
Hundreds of thousands of customers use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to build message-based applications to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless apps. When a message cannot be successfully processed by the queue consumer, you can configure SQS to store it in a dead-letter queue (DLQ). As a software developer or architect, you’d […]
Read MoreAmazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) – 15 Years and Still Queueing!
Time sure does fly! I wrote about the production launch of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) back in 2006, with no inkling that I would still be blogging fifteen years later, or that this service would still be growing rapidly while remaining fundamental to the architecture of so many different types of web-scale applications. The […]
Read MoreAWS Lambda Adds Amazon Simple Queue Service to Supported Event Sources
We can now use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) to trigger AWS Lambda functions! This is a stellar update with some key functionality that I’ve personally been looking forward to for more than 4 years. I know our customers are excited to take it for a spin so feel free to skip to the walk […]
Read MoreIntroducing Cost Allocation Tags for Amazon SQS
You have long had the ability to tag your AWS resources and to see cost breakouts on a per-tag basis. Cost allocation was launched in 2012 (see AWS Cost Allocation for Customer Bills) and we have steadily added support for additional services, most recently DynamoDB (Introducing Cost Allocation Tags for Amazon DynamoDB), Lambda (AWS Lambda […]
Read MoreRoundup of AWS HIPAA Eligible Service Announcements
At AWS we have had a number of HIPAA eligible service announcements. Patrick Combes, the Healthcare and Life Sciences Global Technical Leader at AWS, and Aaron Friedman, a Healthcare and Life Sciences Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, have written this post to tell you all about it. -Ana We are pleased to announce that the […]
Read MoreNew – Server-Side Encryption for Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
As one of the most venerable members of the AWS family of services, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is an essential part of many applications. Presentations such as Amazon SQS for Better Architecture and Massive Message Processing with Amazon SQS and Amazon DynamoDB explain how SQS can be used to build applications that are resilient […]
Read MoreNew for Amazon Simple Queue Service – FIFO Queues with Exactly-Once Processing & Deduplication
As the very first member of the AWS family of services, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) has certainly withstood the test of time! Back in 2004, we described it as a “reliable, highly scalable hosted queue for buffering messages between distributed application components.” Over the years, we have added many features including a dead letter […]
Read MoreNew SQS Client Library for Java Messaging Service (JMS)
The Java Message Service (JMS) allows a pair of cooperating Java applications to create, send, receive, and read messages. The loosely coupled nature of JMS allows one part of the application to operate asynchronously with respect to the other. Until now, you needed to stand up, maintain, and scale a multi-instance (for high availability) JMS […]
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