Introduction to Amazon Simple Queue Service and its use cases

In this recipe, we will learn about Amazon Simple Queue Service. We will also learn about the use cases of Amazon Simple Queue Service.

Recipe Objective - Introduction to Amazon Simple Queue Service and its use cases?

The Amazon Simple Queue Service or Amazon SQS is widely used and is defined as the distributed message queuing service which was introduced by Amazon as a beta in the late 2004, and available in mid-2006. Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS) supports the programmatic sending of messages via web service applications as a way to communicate over the Internet. Amazon SQS is intended to provide the highly scalable hosted message queue which resolves the issues arising from the common producer-consumer problem or connectivity between the producer and consumer. Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS) is also described as the commoditization of the messaging service so, examples of messaging service technologies include the IBM WebSphere MQ and Microsoft Message Queuing. Also, Users do not need to maintain their own server, So Amazon does it for users and sells the SQS service at the per-use rate. Also, Amazon SQS is also defined as a fully managed message queuing service which enables users to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and the serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with the managing and operating message-oriented middleware and further empowers developers to focus on the differentiating work. Using SQS, users can send, store, and receive messages between the software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. Amazon SQS also offers two types of message queues. The Standard queues offer the maximum throughput, best-effort ordering, and at least-once delivery. Also, Amazon SQS FIFO queues are designed to further guarantee that messages are processed exactly once, in the exact order that they are sent.

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Benefits of Amazon Simple Queue Service

  • The Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS) helps in transmitting any volume of data, at any level of throughput without losing the messages or requiring other services to be available. Also, Amazon SQS lets users to decouple application components so that they run and fail independently, increasing the overall fault tolerance of the system. Also, Multiple copies of every message are stored redundantly across multiple Availability Zones so that they are available and it reliably delivers messages. Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS) leverages AWS which dynamically scale based on the demand. Amazon SQS scales elastically with the user's application so users don’t have to worry about the capacity planning and pre-provisioning and there is no limit to the number of messages per queue, and standard queues provide nearly unlimited throughput. So, Costs are based on usage, which provides significant cost saving versus the “always-on” model of the self-managed messaging middleware and thus it scales elastically and is cost-effective. Amazon SQS provides no upfront cost, no need to acquire, install, and further configure messaging software, and no time-consuming build-out and maintenance of the supporting infrastructure. Amazon SQS queues are dynamically created and scale automatically so users can build and grow the applications quickly and efficiently and thus it eliminates administrative overhead. Amazon SQS exchanges sensitive data between the applications using server-side encryption (SSE) to encrypt each message body. Also, Amazon SQS SSE integration with Amazon Web Services Key Management Service (KMS) allows users to centrally manage the keys which protect SQS messages along with the keys which protect users' other AWS resources. AWS KMS logs every use of their encryption keys to AWS CloudTrail to help meet their regulatory and compliance needs and thus it keeps sensitive data secure.

System Requirements

  • Any Operating System(Mac, Windows, Linux)

This recipe explains Amazon Simple Queue Service and the uses of Amazon Queue Email Service.

Use cases of Amazon Queue Email Service

    • It ensures high availability and cost-efficiency

Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS) is used by Capital One to migrate several core banking applications to the cloud to further ensure high availability and cost efficiency while simplifying the administrative complexity and overhead. Also, Capital One is modernizing and building their retail message queuing by migrating from the self-managed message-oriented middleware systems to Amazon Simple Queue System.

    • It enables users to combine various AWS services

Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS) provides a fully managed message queuing service which further enables users to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and the serverless applications. Amazon SQS also eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with the managing and operating message-oriented middleware. So, BMW group built its new car-as-a-sensor (CARASSO) service in only six months by leveraging Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), and AWS Elastic Beanstalk.

    • It decouples incoming jobs from pipeline processes

Using Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS), users can use Amazon SQS to decouple the incoming jobs from pipeline processes and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) to further trigger the processing pipeline when new content is updated included in the architecture ad the architecture is developed by the NASA Image and Video Library which provides easy access to more than 140,000 still images, audio recordings, and the videos—documenting NASA’s more than half a century of achievements in finding the vast unknown.

    • It provides the communication to the process and the status of jobs

Using Amazon Simple Queue Service(SQS), users can use Amazon SQS to know the communication to the process and the status of jobs. So, Oyster.com uses AWS to store and process the images for their website. Also, the team uses Amazon EC2 and Amazon SQS in an integrated workflow to generate the sizes they need for each photo. Amazon SQS communicates the photos which need to be processed and the status of the jobs.

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