Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Pros and Cons

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★ Salvador C.

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Financial Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/17/2018

"Amazon for me is one of the best services in terms of quality/price."

4/5

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

Their service, customer support, and return guarantees for defective products as well as their speed in product delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Sometimes small delays or problems in Amazon's service and its courier services harm the customer by not receiving a product on the stipulated date. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS):

I would without a doubt recommend Amazon Services for their security, exquisite professionalism, and customer service that offer a completely satisfying experience for the customer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Amazon has always had exquisite customer service, resolving various issues regarding product defects or delays in their predetermined shipments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/26/2018

"SQS review"

5/5

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

We use SQS for multiple use cases and the recent change to allow SQS to trigger Lambda has opened new potential use cases for the service. This has been beneficial for orchestrating serverless workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

At this time I have no signifcant complaint about the service. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

hikmet salih o.

Sr Backend Engineer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/29/2018

"how else do you distribute work so efficiently :)"

5/5

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

super simple to use. very fast. has options to use for in-order or random-order processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Not much really. It works for my use cases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/28/2018

"AWS SQS queue"

4/5

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

The simplictiy of being able to use the message queue. The addtition of the FIFO option as opposed to the standard queue has been a huge benefit for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We have run into a few issues where for whatever reason messages do not come back out to us for a small period of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Keith G.

Chief Architect

Broadcast Media

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/20/2018

"SQS can be useful, but also has drawbacks"

4/5

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

SQS is pretty universal - most AWS services capable of doing some kind of push notification can do it to SQS. Tooling for SQS is also pretty good and writing SQS clients is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

SQS does not have a built-in job runner or an only-once delivery guarantee in the normal configuration.

You can use Lambda to run jobs from SQS, but you still have to either ensure your jobs are idempotent or add in some kind of check via another service (DynamoDB, Redis, whatever) to ensure you don't do the same work twice.

You can also use a FIFO queue, but AWS services don't necessarily support the queue working in this mode, and the throughput might not be what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Carefully review the limitations of both queue modes to avoid creating a scalability issue or inadvertently duplicating work. Understand that SQS can not replace other systems like Sidekiq or RabbitMQ, but that it instead can work with them. You may also want to consider how you will handle a region-level failure of the service - do you ignore it and let the queue and/or sending systems back up with unhandled jobs, or do you have some way to fail it over across a region? There is no cross-region replication feature like S3, so at scale, you need to figure that out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are using S3 bucket notifications to add SQS messages which get polled by a ECS container and inserted into a sorted set in Redis. This prevents us from having an issue with duplicate messages (files). A Sidekiq worker picks up the files every minute or less in Redis and processes them. This allows us to process files written out to S3 in near real time and deliver a better product than we would be able to otherwise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

ben s.

Mail Carrier

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/18/2018

"a great product to use for any business "

5/5

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

Great at keeping data secure, reliable message delivery, cost effective and easy to use. First in first out delivery is great at getting orders out in a timely fashion Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

sometimes it times out and is slow, but mostly good. Messages could be delivered not in order so may have to look through them, to make sure its the right one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS):

Use this product, it is very secure, cost effective and get the job done. I highly recommend using this product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

getting messages delivered in a timely fashion, dont have to worry about security of messages, very secure product Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Simple is the keyword"

5/5

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

One of, if not the easiest queue service I've ever used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Vendor lock in, again, hard to complain, and I'm on the AWS train. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS):

If you are in the AWS ecosystem, SQS is a fantastic service to be using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Change notification. When a users information is updated, we have a pipeline to notify other intelligence systems so we always have the most up to date information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Legal Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/18/2018

"Excellent tool for monitoring and controlling projects, especially deadlines."

5/5

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

The entire step-by-step process of the tasks is duly recorded. It provides a view of all the projects being developed. It allows the exchange of information between users, including the inclusion of attachments (documents). It allows tracking the stage each task is at and the deadline for completion. In short, we have total control over the projects. It also has various reports and allows the creation of others to meet the needs of each user. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

So far, the software is serving us very well. Great system for managing the deadlines of legal proceedings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/27/2018

"SQS review"

5/5

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

The best thing about SQS is that it allowed us to get away from oracle service bus. This has saved us 6 figures in oracle licensing. We utilize SQS in every project that we do. It works great for creating appications that are not dependent on eachotehr. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some capabilities are not allowed in all regions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/28/2018

"Async Retries"

5/5

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

The ability to do asynchronous retries is amazing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The product actually fits out needs. The dislike is that we can't acheive such functionality with other related products, which makes building workflows with SQS somewhat cumbersome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.