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Amazon SQS mindshare

As of March 2025, the mindshare of Amazon SQS in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 8.8%, down from 11.8% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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TypeTitleDate
CategoryMessage Queue (MQ) SoftwareMar 29, 2025Download
ProductReviews, tips, and advice from real usersMar 29, 2025Download
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Computer Software Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Educational Organization
5%
Healthcare Company
5%
Insurance Company
4%
Media Company
4%
Retailer
3%
University
3%
Real Estate/Law Firm
3%
Government
3%
Construction Company
2%
Pharma/Biotech Company
2%
Energy/Utilities Company
2%
Non Profit
2%
Hospitality Company
2%
Recreational Facilities/Services Company
2%
Wholesaler/Distributor
2%
Transportation Company
1%
Legal Firm
1%
Engineering Company
1%
Performing Arts
1%
Marketing Services Firm
1%
Aerospace/Defense Firm
1%
Logistics Company
1%

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Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS at Bytedance
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Nov 7, 2024
Efficient asynchronous interactions with and easy setup and room for enhancing data burst management

Pros

"One of the most valuable features of Amazon SQS is its event-driven invocation."

Cons

"There is room for improvement in handling large-scale data."
Ariel Tarayants - PeerSpot user
Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | CICD | Cyber Security Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Oct 9, 2024
Powerful queue system facilitates seamless asynchronous operations

Pros

"The most valuable feature of Amazon SQS is its scalability. "

Cons

"A feature I would like to see in Amazon SQS is the ability to view the content of messages without removing them from the queue. "
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Hari Prakash Pokala - PeerSpot user
Senior Java Engineer at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Nov 19, 2024
Valuable AWS services enhance data analysis yet could benefit from flexible data streams

Pros

"The most valuable features of the solution are AWS Lambda services, ECS, and QuickSight reports, which are beneficial for data analysis."

Cons

"There is room for improvement by making use of Kafka services to create more flexible data streams."
Stepan Raichl - PeerSpot user
AWS Competency Lead at trask
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Nov 5, 2024
Scalable message handling and economic operation enhance workflow integration

Pros

" It works consistently and is economical under a standard non-FIFO model."

Cons

"There is room for improvement in the pricing, especially for the FIFO model."
Anurag Bandyopadhyay - PeerSpot user
Product Development Engineer at Razorpay
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Aug 23, 2024
Reliable and easy-to-use for beginners

Pros

"I think the tool is very reliable."

Cons

"For Amazon SQS, in particular, I think AWS Management Console has shortcomings. AWS Management Console should be a better pluggable option to help users with some integrations."
Amad Arshad - PeerSpot user
AWS Academy Accredited Instructor - ACF & CCA at APU
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Jan 5, 2025
Serverless infrastructure supports message reliability
Aravind Nithiyanandham - PeerSpot user
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Optum
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Aug 4, 2024
Used for notifying, queuing servers, and queuing messages

Pros

"We use Amazon SQS for notifying, queuing servers, queuing messages, and notifying the people for alerting systems."
Rushabh Trivedi - PeerSpot user
AWS Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Verified user of Amazon SQS
Nov 26, 2024
Effortless large-scale data handling with message retention benefits

Pros

"The scale it manages is quite impressive. "

Cons

"A primary area of improvement for Amazon SQS is the message size limitation, which is currently restricted to 256 kilobytes per message. "