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Amazon Simple Queue Service

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) allows components of distributed applications to exchange messages asynchronously. SQS is a web service that stores messages in a queue until they are retrieved and processed by a receiving component. It provides a flexible and scalable messaging solution by acting as a buffer between the producing and consuming components of an application.

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Amazon Simple Queue Service

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) allows components of distributed applications to exchange messages asynchronously. SQS is a web service that stores messages in a queue until they are retrieved and processed by a receiving component. It provides a flexible and scalable messaging solution by acting as a buffer between the producing and consuming components of an application.

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Amazon Simple Queue Service.

• SQS stands for Simple Queue Service.


• SQS was the first service available in AWS.
• Amazon SQS is a web service that gives you access to a message queue that can be used to
store messages while waiting for a computer to process them.
• Amazon SQS is a distributed queue system that enables web service applications to quickly
and reliably queue messages that one component in the application generates to be consumed
by another component where a queue is a temporary repository for messages that are awaiting
processing.
• With the help of SQS, you can send, store and receive messages between software
components at any volume without losing messages.
• Using Amazon sqs, you can separate the components of an application so that they can run
independently, easing message management between components.
• Any component of a distributed application can store the messages in the queue.
• Messages can contain up to 256 KB of text in any format such as json, xml, etc.
• Any component of an application can later retrieve the messages programmatically using the
Amazon SQS API.
• The queue acts as a buffer between the component producing and saving data, and the
component receives the data for processing. This means that the queue resolves issues that
arise if the producer is producing work faster than the consumer can process it, or if the
producer or consumer is only intermittently connected to the network.
• If you got two EC2 instances which are pulling the SQS Queue. You can configure the auto
scaling group if a number of messages go over a certain limit. Suppose the number of
messages exceeds 10, then you can add additional EC2 instance to process the job faster. In
this way, SQS provides elasticity.

Let's look at a website that generates a Meme. Suppose the user wants to upload a photo and
wants to convert into Meme. User uploads a photo on a website and website might store a photo
in s3. As soon as it finished uploads, it triggers a Lambda function. Lambda analyzes the data
about this particular image to SQS, and this data can be "what the top of the meme should say",
"what the bottom of the meme should say", the location of the S3 bucket, etc. The data sits inside
the SQS as a message. An EC2 instance looks at the message and performs its job. An EC2
instance creates a Meme and stores it in S3 bucket. Once the EC2 instance completed its job, it
moves back to the SQS.
The best thing is that if you lose your EC2 instance, then also you would not lose the job as the
job sits inside the S3 bucket.

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