AWS Administration : The AWS Definitive Guide to core AWS service offerings and implementing AWS in your own environment

Creating your first queue

Getting started with your own SQS queue is a fairly straightforward process. In this section, we will be looking at how you can create your very own standard queue using the AWS Management Console:

1. To begin with, log in to your AWS Management Console and filter out the SQS service using the Filter option provided. Alternatively, you can also access the SQS dashboard by selecting https://console.aws.amazon.com/sqs/home.
2. Since this is our first time configuring the SQS queue, select the Get started now option to continue.
3. Here, in the Create New Queue page, start off by providing a suitable name for your queue by filling in the Queue Name field.

If you are building a FIFO queue, you will need to suffix .fifo after ...