SQS provides a scalable and reliable messaging platform. It enables you to build operational efficiency in your application without any operational overhead. Here are some of the benefits of using SQS:
- Redundant infrastructure: Amazon SQS provides redundant infrastructure. With its redundant infrastructure, it ensures that a message is delivered at least once in a standard queue and it ensures that a message is delivered exactly once in a First In First Out (FIFO) queue. It provides a concurrent access mechanism and a highly-available environment for queue producer and consumer applications.
- Multiple producers and consumers: Multiple components of a distributed application can concurrently send and receive messages at the same time. When a client picks up a message from the queue, SQS locks up that message until the client confirms that it has completed processing the message. If the queue does not receive a response from the client for a specific duration of time, the...