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SQS Standard Queue

AWS SQS - Standard QueueΒΆ

  • Oldest offering (over 10 years old)
  • [[Fully managed]]
  • Scales from 1 message per second to 10,000s per second
  • Default retention of messages: 4 days, maximum of 14 days
  • No limit to how many messages can be in the queue
  • Low latency (< 10 ms on publish and receive)
  • Horizontal scalability in terms of number of consumers
  • Can have duplicate messages (at least once delivery, occasionally)
  • Can have out of order messages (best effort ordering)
  • Limitation of 256KB per message sent