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PROS

Amazon SQS is easy to scale and cost-effective, providing valuable features like FIFO capability and redundancy.
Amazon SQS supports event-driven invocation and real-time action triggering, enhancing reliability in business processes.
The integration with Amazon services makes Amazon SQS user-friendly and accessible through normal functions or serverless functions.
The dead-letter queue in Amazon SQS helps maintain message integrity, ensuring no messages are lost.
Amazon SQS offers fast message handling, indexing through OpenSearch, and supports patterns similar to Kafka and RabbitMQ, simplifying implementation.

CONS

Amazon SQS is difficult to use and suffers from inadequate documentation with outdated images.
It lacks integration capabilities with existing systems compared to IBM MQ.
The pay-as-you-use licensing model can lead to high costs.
Messages are limited to a size of 256 kilobytes, restricting large-scale data handling.
The message retention period is limited to four or seven days, which could be improved.
 

Amazon SQS Pros review quotes

HD
Professor at Remo Engenharia
Feb 1, 2021
The solution is easy to scale and cost-effective.
SV
Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 23, 2022
I am able to find out what's going on very easily.
RahulSingh7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 1, 2022
The most valuable feature of Amazon SQS is the interface.
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NK
Director at Tibco
Nov 9, 2022
There is no setup just some easy configuration required.
Iaan Roux - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 6, 2022
The libraries that connect and manage the queues are rich in features.
reviewer2067609 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Architect (Architecture and Solutions Unit) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 11, 2023
I appreciate that Amazon SQS is fully integrated with Amazon and can be accessed through normal functions or serverless functions, making it very user-friendly. Additionally, the features are comparable to those of other solutions.
reviewer2150220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Apr 6, 2023
SQS is very stable, and it has lots of features.
VK
SAP Integration Architect
May 5, 2023
We use the tool in interface integrations.
AC
Data & Analytics Architect at BM&FBOVESPA SA Bolsa de Valores Mercadorias e Futu
Jun 1, 2023
With SQS, we can trigger events in various cloud environments. It offers numerous benefits for us.
Rahul Siddu - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE at Readyly
Jun 27, 2023
One of the useful features is the ability to schedule a call after a certain number of messages accumulate in the container. For example, if there are ten messages in the container, you can perform a specific action.
 

Amazon SQS Cons review quotes

HD
Professor at Remo Engenharia
Feb 1, 2021
I do not think that this solution is easy to use and the documentation of this solution has a lot of problems and can be improved in the next release. Most of the time, the images in the document are from older versions.
SV
Director at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Jun 23, 2022
It would be easier to have a dashboard that allows us to see everything and manage everything since we have so many queues.
RahulSingh7 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Developer at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Nov 1, 2022
The initial setup of Amazon SQS is in the middle range of difficulty. You need to learn Amazon AWS and know how to navigate, create resources, and structures, and provide rules.
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NK
Director at Tibco
Nov 9, 2022
The solution is not available on-premises so that rules out any customers looking for the messaging solution on-premises.
Iaan Roux - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Dec 6, 2022
Be cautious around pay-as-you-use licensing as costs can become expensive.
reviewer2067609 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Architect (Architecture and Solutions Unit) at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Jan 11, 2023
As a company that uses IBM solutions, it's difficult to compare Amazon SQS to other solutions. We have been using IBM solutions for a long time and they are very mature in integration and queuing. In my role as an integration manager, I can say that Amazon SQS is designed primarily for use within the Amazon ecosystem and does not have the same level of functionality as IBM MQ or other similar products. It has limited connectivity options and does not easily integrate with legacy systems.
reviewer2150220 - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Developer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
Apr 6, 2023
There are some issues with SQS's transaction queue regarding knowing if something has been received.
VK
SAP Integration Architect
May 5, 2023
The tool needs improvement in user-friendliness and discoverability.
AC
Data & Analytics Architect at BM&FBOVESPA SA Bolsa de Valores Mercadorias e Futu
Jun 1, 2023
Sometimes, we have to switch to another component similar to SQS because the patching tool for SQS is relatively slow for us.
Rahul Siddu - PeerSpot reviewer
SDE at Readyly
Jun 27, 2023
I cannot send a message to multiple people simultaneously. It can only be sent to one recipient.