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Sunil Gulabani, Practical Amazon EC2, SQS, Kinesis, and S3, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2841-8_3

3. Hands-on Simple Queue Service (SQS)

Sunil Gulabani1 

(1)Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

Queuing service is communication among distributed applications. Generally, you have queuing service where you need asynchronous processes to be carried out. The purpose of queuing service is to transport data from origin applications and allow destination applications to read messages and process further.

In this chapter, I will cover the following topics:

  • Messaging Queuing Service

  • Introduction of AWS SQS

  • Features of SQS

  • Using AWS Management Console

  • Using AWS CLI

  • Using AWS SDK—Java

  • Monitoring Using CloudWatch

What Is Messaging Queuing Service?

Messaging queuing service ...

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