49. Amazon Simple Queue Service

Overview

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
• Amazon SQS moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components.
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a secure, durable, and available hosted queue that lets you integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components.

Queue types

•  Amazon SQS supports both standard and FIFO queues

Standard queue	FIFO queue
Unlimited Throughput – Standard queues support a nearly unlimited number of API calls per second, per API action (SendMessage, ReceiveMessage, or DeleteMessage). At-Least-Once Delivery – A message is delivered at least once, but occasionally more than one copy of a message is delivered. Best-Effort Ordering – Occasionally, messages are delivered in an order different from which they were sent.	High Throughput – If you use batching, FIFO queues support up to 3,000 messages per second, per API method (SendMessageBatch, ReceiveMessage, or DeleteMessageBatch). The 3000 messages per second represent 300 API calls, each with a batch of 10 messages. To request a quota increase, submit a support request. Without batching, FIFO queues support up to 300 API calls per second, per API method (SendMessage, ReceiveMessage, or DeleteMessage). Exactly-Once Processing – A message is delivered once and remains available until a consumer processes and deletes it. Duplicates aren't introduced into the queue. First-In-First-Out Delivery – The order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved.
Send data between applications when the throughput is important, for example: Decouple live user requests from intensive background work: let users upload media while resizing or encoding it. Allocate tasks to multiple worker nodes: process a high number of credit card validation requests. Batch messages for future processing: schedule multiple entries to be added to a database.	Send data between applications when the order of events is important, for example: Make sure that user-entered commands are run in the right order. Display the correct product price by sending price modifications in the right order. Prevent a student from enrolling in a course before registering for an account.

Queue Configuration

• Visibility timeout – The length of time that a message received from a queue (by one consumer) won't be visible to the other message consumers.
  • The range is from 0 seconds to 12 hours.
  • The default value is 30 seconds.
• Message retention period – The amount of time that Amazon SQS retains messages that remain in the queue. 
  • The range is from 1 minute to 14 days.
  • The default value is 4 days.
• Delivery delay – The amount of time that Amazon SQS will delay before delivering a message that is added to the queue. 
  • The range is from 0 seconds to 15 minutes.
  • The default value is 0 seconds.
• Maximum message size – The maximum message size for this queue.
  • The range is from 1 KB to 256 KB.
  • The default value is 256 KB.
• Receive message wait time – The maximum amount of time that Amazon SQS waits for messages to become available after the queue gets a receive request.
  • The range is from 0 to 20 seconds.
  • The default value is 0 seconds, which sets short polling.
  • Any non-zero value sets long polling.
• Enable content-based