Amazon SQS

Fully managed message queue. One consumer takes each message off the queue and processes it.

Don’t confuse it with

SNS pushes one message to many subscribers; SQS holds messages until a single consumer pulls them.

Tested in AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02), under Cloud Technology and Services — 34% of the exam.

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