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SQS

Amazon SQS is a managed message queue that decouples producers and consumers with standard and FIFO delivery modes.

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Major features

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Typical architecture

Producers enqueue messages, consumers process them independently, and failed work moves to a dead-letter queue for inspection.

Common use cases

  • Background job queues
  • Service decoupling and buffering
  • Ordered workflows with FIFO

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