Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Pros and Cons

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

The performance and stability of Amazon SQS is superior to our other solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We experienced the possibility of duplicate messages and the additional cost to set up IAM accounts for developers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We used SQS to decouple our Web Site/api from our internal CRM systems, allowing us to scale up and down to support more customers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We had to work hard to get the fifo queue settings configured properly for our desired scenarios Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Super Easy to setup. Just type in the queue name, configure permissions and you are done. You can also subscribe to SNS for getting messages. Mostly what we do while integrating with other teams. You can also set retry logic, configure DL queue in case application fails to process it after "N"th time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

You can peek only one message at a time while doing a poll. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Seamless to use and simple mechanisms to publish...Guaranteed delivery of message atleast once Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The lack of persistence as opposed to IBM MQ(which is still novice on message size)

We need a one time delivery not atleast once guaranteed delivery Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SQS is easy to use and very reliable. We have made our services scalable with the help of SQS. The metrics provided about the queue usage and message stats is super helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There is nothing that I dislike about SQS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Fairly inexpensive and exceptionally capable for publishing events. Scales as required and aws constantly keep adding capabilities to it. Like throttling controls and lamda triggers that were recently introduced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Nothing but a little more feature rich user interface might be helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Great service! At first I was very skeptical about it but after doing research and using them I loved it! Not for everyone so make sure you do your research before committing to this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The product can get a little pricey. In order to make it worth the money you must use it several times per week and you will find it is worth it. Otherwise you will feel like you are wasting money and time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The best part of the service is it helps to decouple applications that can survive async processing. Great product works perfectly as marketed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

There is nothing to dislike about the product, works great with Lambda too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Amazon Simple Queue Service is ideal for a scenario where we need to aggregate data from multiple parallel running processes.

Using a Listener we Implemented a workflow in which multiple instances of a analytical process runs in parallel and provide a output that need to store in Database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The main disadvantage of SQS is that we can only read a maximum batch of 10 messages in one call and this make the process time consuming when we deal with thousand and thousands of messages pre minute. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SQS has been very straightforward for our team to use and implement. So far, so good. Performance has been really good, as expected. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Everything has gone well for us so far. No complaints, really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.