Amazon SQS Reviews

Name: Amazon SQS
Brand: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Rating: 4 (20 reviews)

4.3 out of 5

20 reviews
90% willing to recommend

What is 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. 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 8.6 out of 10. Based on the analysis of the 20 most recent Amazon SQS reviews, the overall sentiment is positive, with a sentiment score of 7.4. (The highest in the category). Amazon SQS is most commonly compared to MuleSoft Anypoint Platform: Amazon SQS vs MuleSoft Anypoint Platform. 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 19% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Aravind Nithiyanandham

Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Optum

We use Amazon SQS for notifying, queuing servers, queuing messages, and notifying the people for alerting systems. We have been using Amazon SQS in one of the projects for queuing messages. For alerting, we have production support where SQS is mostly used I have been using Amazon SQS for four to…

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Ariel Tarayants

The most common use case for Amazon SQS is decoupling an application. Instead of having one monolithic service with a timeout of about a minute, and if there are too many requests at the same time that might fail, the application can be decoupled by deconstructing the monolith into its own…

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Anurag Bandyopadhyay

Product Development Engineer at Razorpay

I think the tool is very reliable. With the dead-letter queues, we can ensure even if a third-party service or an e-commerce website over which we have no control goes down for some time, we can make sure that our workflows remain unaffected and, eventually, we have reached the state where we expect to be. We probably use Amazon SQS in almost all of our microservices, and there are plenty of them, more than a hundred. It is pretty easy to use and do testing on Amazon SQS. It is pretty easy to integrate any new use case or service, and it is easy to sort of manage. AWS makes it very easy to manage and change the resource requirements for a particular Amazon SQS queue. The tool is pretty easy to use.

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Amazon SQS mindshare

As of November 2024, the mindshare of Amazon SQS in the Message Queue (MQ) Software category stands at 12.3%, down from 19.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Nov 5, 2024

Valuable Features

"It works consistently and is economical under a standard non-FIFO model."
"The most valuable features include the ability to handle a huge number of messages and the presence of a dead letter queue."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon SQS is its scalability."

Room for Improvement

"There is room for improvement in the pricing, especially for the FIFO model."
"The search should be more user-friendly, allowing me to search for a longer period of time and return results faster."
"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."

Pricing

"Compared to the other options and based on what I have heard, Amazon SQS is relatively more expensive, but it is not insanely expensive."
"Compared to EC2 and other services, Amazon SQS' pricing is cheaper."
"I rate the tool's pricing a nine out of ten."

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Top industries

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Healthcare Company

Educational Organization

Retailer

Insurance Company

Media Company

University

Government

Real Estate/Law Firm

Energy/Utilities Company

Construction Company

Pharma/Biotech Company

Legal Firm

Recreational Facilities/Services Company

Wholesaler/Distributor

Transportation Company

Non Profit

Logistics Company

Outsourcing Company

Marketing Services Firm

Hospitality Company

Performing Arts

Engineering Company

Aerospace/Defense Firm

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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.