AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Creating a FIFO queue using the AWS CLI

Working with the AWS Management Console is easy enough, but the AWS CLI makes things even simpler! In this section, we will look at a few simple AWS CLI commands that you can use to create and work on your first FIFO queue:

1. To get started, we require a server or instance with the latest version of the AWS CLI installed and configured. If you don't already have this working, you might want to have a quick look at the detailed steps provided at https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/installing.html.
2. With the AWS CLI installed and prepped, you can now use the following command to create your first FIFO queue. First, create a simple JSON file that will store the necessary list of attributes that ...