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Integrating Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS

One of the key features of Amazon SQS is that it can easily be integrated with other AWS services, such as Amazon SNS. Why would I need something like that? To begin with, let us quickly recap the things we have learned so far about both SNS and SQS:

Amazon SNS	Amazon SQS
Leverages the push mechanism	Leverages the polling mechanism
Amazon SNS messages can push messages to mobile devices or other subscribers directly	Amazon SQS needs a worker to poll the messages
Persistence of messages is not supported	Amazon SQS supports message persistence which can come in really handy if you can't reach your consumers due to a network failure

From the table, it is easy to see that both ...

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