From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers
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Simple Queue Service (SQS) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Learning Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Developers
Simple Queue Service (SQS)
- [Instructor] Another great AWS service is SQS, Simple Queue Service. I love when simple's in the name. It really helps me get less intimidated. Simple Queue Service is a great way to send, store and receive messages between apps and various services in AWS. It really helps you decouple your services because they don't have to directly interact. Messages can be passed back and forth for functionality or any kind of notifications. And it automatically uses SSE and KMS for security and encryption. That happens behind the scenes so you don't really have to do anything for that, it's automatic. Now there's two types of queues in SQS. There's the standard queue, which uses maximum throughput, best-effort ordering and at-least-once delivery. So you have to be careful. If something's passed twice, you have to make sure you haven't already processed it or to make sure it's okay if it does get processed again. And then there's…
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