Amazon SQS

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. It eliminates the complexity associated with managing and operating message-oriented middleware, providing a…

Key facts

First appeared: 2004
Category: cloud_infrastructure
Problem solved: SQS was created to solve the challenge of building scalable, reliable, and decoupled distributed systems without the operational burden of managing and scaling message queues manually. Prior to SQS, developers often had to provision, patch, and maintain their own message brokers (e.g., RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ) on servers, which became a significant bottleneck and point of failure for rapidly growing applications.
Platforms: AWS Cloud

Related technologies

Azure Service Bus
Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Apache Kafka (often used for different scale/streaming needs, but overlaps in message passing)
AWS Lambda
Amazon EC2
Amazon S3
Amazon SNS
AWS Step Functions
Amazon DynamoDB
Any application capable of making API calls

Notable users

Amazon.com
Netflix
Capital One
Dow Jones
Many enterprises and startups utilizing AWS for distributed applications