Amazon SQS Reviews

Name: Amazon SQS
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (13 reviews)

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13 reviews
87% willing to recommend

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Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work. Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. Get started with SQS in minutes using the AWS console, Command Line Interface or SDK of your choice, and three simple commands.

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Amazon SQS is the #4 ranked solution in top Message Queue Software. PeerSpot users give Amazon SQS an average rating of 8.2 out of 10. Amazon SQS is most commonly compared to Apache Kafka: Amazon SQS vs Apache Kafka. Amazon SQS is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 67% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a financial services firm, accounting for 18% of all views.

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RahulSingh7

Senior Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 1, 2022

We previously were using ActiveMQ and we had to manage it manually on our on-premise server. We have seen that a lot of times the messaging queuing service stopped responding or we had to restart the server or the services themselves on the server. This is the reason we are switching to Amazon SQS. Amazon SQS is well integrated with Amazon AWS which is helpful if it is needed to be scaled. ActiveMQ is open-source and free to use but it is not resilient or dependable. It stops working at times and you have to manage the server yourself. Amazon SQS is serverless, you don't have to manage the server, you only have to manage the permissions.

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Tomáš Hronek

Data Engineer at Merck

Feb 2, 2024

The tool I use to transform and move data can read the entries from Amazon SQS. For example, to start some workflow orchestration, it checks Amazon SQS, reads new messages from it, and then runs some transformation. My responsibility was setting up the new SQS, setting up the right policies, adding…

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Rahul Siddu

SDE at Readyly

Jun 27, 2023

Amazon SQS is basically a queue service. Each message is treated as an event and added to a container. When a message needs to be processed, a trigger can be set One of the useful features is the ability to schedule a call after a certain number of messages accumulate in the container. For…

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Amazon SQS market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Amazon SQS in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 10.2%, marking an increase of 17.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Valuable Features

"We use SNS as the publisher, and our procurement service subscribes to those events using SQS.In the past, we relied on time-based or batch-based processes to send data between services on-premises. With SQS, we can trigger actions based on real-time changes in business processes, improving reliability."
"It is stable and scalable."
"It's very quick and easy to build or set up Amazon SQS."

Room for Improvement

"The current visibility timeout of five minutes is okay. However, I'd like to explore the possibility of extending it for specific use cases."
"Support could be improved."
"Sending or receiving messages takes some time, and it could be quicker."

Pricing

"It's quite expensive."
"Amazon SQS is moderately priced."
"The pricing model is pay-as-you-use. It depends on your usage and configuration."

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Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

15%

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Learn more about Amazon SQS

SQS offers two types of message queues. Standard queues offer maximum throughput, best-effort ordering, and at-least-once delivery. SQS FIFO queues are designed to guarantee that messages are processed exactly once, in the exact order that they are sent.