Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Reviews & Product Details

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables the decoupling and scaling of microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. It allows developers to send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, ensuring reliable communication without the need to manage underlying infrastructure. Key Features and Functionality: - Queue Types: SQS offers two types of queues: - Standard Queues: Provide high throughput, at-least-once delivery, and best-effort ordering, making them suitable for applications where occasional duplicate messages and out-of-order delivery are acceptable. - FIFO Queues: Ensure exactly-once processing and preserve the exact order of messages, ideal for applications where the order of operations is critical. - Scalability: Automatically scales to handle any volume of messages, processing thousands to millions of messages per second without manual intervention. - Reliability: Messages are redundantly stored across multiple servers and Availability Zones, ensuring high availability and durability. - Security: Supports server-side encryption (SSE) using AWS Key Management Service (KMS) to protect the contents of messages. - Integration: Seamlessly integrates with other AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, ECS, SNS, and EventBridge, facilitating the development of complex, event-driven architectures. - Cost-Effectiveness: Operates on a pay-per-use model, eliminating the need for upfront costs and capacity planning, thus reducing operational overhead. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Amazon SQS simplifies the process of building scalable and reliable distributed systems by decoupling application components. It eliminates the complexity of managing message-oriented middleware, allowing development teams to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure maintenance. By providing a secure, durable, and highly available message queuing service, SQS ensures that messages are reliably delivered between components, even in the face of varying workloads and system failures. This leads to increased application reliability, improved scalability, and faster development cycles.

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Ashish M.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/17/2025

"Best asynchronous data processing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

It is quite easy to setup in AWS console. Also, there are so many tutorials available to integrate it. Since its aws , we get good support in community forum and customer service. Its highly scalable, so we need not to worry on number of messages we receive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

Nothing as such, sometimes it gets tricky to find the SQS on which we are working as aws console is little difficult to navigate Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aasheesh P.

Senior Software Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/11/2025

"Cheapest storage available on AWS"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

The pricing is the best part about AWS Cloud Storage.

We have a lot of options to store the data as per the requirement and the frequency of use of the data.

We can store the data and get cheaper prices in Ultra Warm storage for the data that is infrequently accessed, and hence we don't have to pay higher prices.

It is very easy to store the data and can be done via the AWS console or via the CLI. The implementation is also very easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

There are no native tools present to upload the data in bulk. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

The AWS SQS and SNS helps our organization in implementation of the Event driven architecture. The price for SQS and SNS is very cheap and it helps us in sending events from one microservice to another.

The step functions help us in creating automation for various workflows in our organization

The eventbridge allows us to send events from one event bus to another event bus across various AWS accounts to achieve our event-driven architecture capabillity.

The AppSync allows us to get the data from various storage from a single API. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Chetan D.

Full Stack Developer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/30/2025

"Reliable message handling"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

I love how Amazon SQS just gets my messages, literally, It’s super reliable, easy to set up, and handles all the chaos between services so I don’t have to. Feels like having a super organized system who guarantee to work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

I like SQS overall, but the message count on the console sometimes lies when you refresh, it’ll show the wrong number. Minor thing, but still annoying. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before using SQS, I had to set up Redis on the same instance just to support the message queue that Celery needed. Now with SQS, everything’s handled reliably in the background, no more managing servers or worrying about lost messages. It just works smoothly and keeps things running without the headache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Lior M.

CTO and co-founder

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

9/30/2025

"Love the simplicity"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

Simple. Integrates great with Lambda. Compliant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

Sometimes hard to monitor. reply / dead lettet etc can be simpler Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Bipul Bishal S.

Graduate Assistant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

10/2/2024

"Best experience with any messaging queue!!!!"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

It is really easy to integrate, simple to use, and pay as you use. It also provides a free number of requests, so I have also used it in my projects. It has easy integration with other AWS services. It provides ease of Implementation based on the wide variety of network methods it provides. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

It doesn't have packages to integrate with j2ee applications, like integrating a messaging queue in the standalone.xml file of a JBoss server as a messaging bean. We have packages for Active Mq or Rabbit Mq but not sqs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used it in my company for event driven architecture of our microservices. Some microservices communicated using the sqs like the notification service, logging service. We also used it to manage our transactions as messages from sqs would trigger a lambda that would perform the ledger operations and wallet operations. It is highly reliable although it is important to configure it correctly which might require some hit and trial in start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Happy M.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

12/22/2024

"Scalable and large queue execution"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

It is very easy to integrate and implement with the backend. It manages different complex workflows for queinf multiple requests flawlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

In a rare case it fails to execute some api calls under heavy workload. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

3/25/2025

"Scalable, Reliable, Cost Effective Storage"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

The cost-effectiveness of AWS Cloud is the best feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

At times the data-transfer speed between on-prem/local can be a bit slow while uploading to EBS/EFS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nidhi G.

Software Engineer

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/27/2024

"Robust and large queue service"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

It is eay to use, integrate and implement in code and also queueing for large data work flawlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

It takes sometimes time to deliver webhooks from queue and it has message size limitation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Artur P.

Deputy Director of IT department

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/6/2024

"How AWS Education helps you work with AWS s3 bucket"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

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I am very grateful to AWS Educate for the educational course AWS Educate: Getting started with storage. I recommend everyone to try it, I’m sure everyone will find many interesting courses to become a professional in working with AWS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)?

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