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PROS

Amazon SQS is easy to scale and cost-effective, providing valuable features like FIFO capability and redundancy.
Amazon SQS supports event-driven invocation and real-time action triggering, enhancing reliability in business processes.
The integration with Amazon services makes Amazon SQS user-friendly and accessible through normal functions or serverless functions.
The dead-letter queue in Amazon SQS helps maintain message integrity, ensuring no messages are lost.
Amazon SQS offers fast message handling, indexing through OpenSearch, and supports patterns similar to Kafka and RabbitMQ, simplifying implementation.

CONS

Amazon SQS is difficult to use and suffers from inadequate documentation with outdated images.
It lacks integration capabilities with existing systems compared to IBM MQ.
The pay-as-you-use licensing model can lead to high costs.
Messages are limited to a size of 256 kilobytes, restricting large-scale data handling.
The message retention period is limited to four or seven days, which could be improved.
 

Amazon SQS Pros review quotes

reviewer2281650 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Apr 7, 2025
Overall, I would rate Amazon SQS as ten out of ten.
PB
Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS at Bytedance
Nov 6, 2024
One of the most valuable features of Amazon SQS is its event-driven invocation.
Hari Prakash Pokala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Engineer at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Nov 18, 2024
The most valuable features of the solution are AWS Lambda services, ECS, and QuickSight reports, which are beneficial for data analysis.
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Amad Arshad - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Academy Accredited Instructor - ACF & CCA at APU
Jan 3, 2025
The most valuable feature for me is the variety of queues offered, such as the standard and FIFO queues, providing reliable communication.
Stepan Raichl - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Competency Lead at trask
Nov 5, 2024
It works consistently and is economical under a standard non-FIFO model.
Ariel Tarayants - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | CICD | Cyber Security Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Oct 7, 2024
The most valuable feature of Amazon SQS is its scalability.
Anurag Bandyopadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Development Engineer at Razorpay
Aug 14, 2024
I think the tool is very reliable.
Collins Jumah - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Authorized Instructor at Next Step Foundation
Dec 10, 2024
The most valuable feature is the ability to decouple components.
Rushabh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 25, 2024
The scale it manages is quite impressive.
Ronnakit Vijidboonchuvong - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at OPN
Mar 26, 2024
I like how we can subscribe to multiple topics in Amazon SQS. It's also much simpler and quicker to set up than other solutions. It also supports patterns like Kafka and RapidMQ's fan-out pattern but with easier implementation.
 

Amazon SQS Cons review quotes

reviewer2281650 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Specialist at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Apr 7, 2025
The retention period for messages could be improved. Currently, messages are retained for four or seven days.
PB
Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS at Bytedance
Nov 6, 2024
There is room for improvement in handling large-scale data.
Hari Prakash Pokala - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Java Engineer at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Nov 18, 2024
There is room for improvement by making use of Kafka services to create more flexible data streams.
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Amad Arshad - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Academy Accredited Instructor - ACF & CCA at APU
Jan 3, 2025
However, combining the features of both products could be an easier option for me.
Stepan Raichl - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Competency Lead at trask
Nov 5, 2024
There is room for improvement in the pricing, especially for the FIFO model.
Ariel Tarayants - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior DevOps Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | CICD | Cyber Security Specialist at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Oct 7, 2024
A feature I would like to see in Amazon SQS is the ability to view the content of messages without removing them from the queue.
Anurag Bandyopadhyay - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Development Engineer at Razorpay
Aug 14, 2024
For Amazon SQS, in particular, I think AWS Management Console has shortcomings. AWS Management Console should be a better pluggable option to help users with some integrations.
Collins Jumah - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Authorized Instructor at Next Step Foundation
Dec 10, 2024
The cost became an issue, leading us to consider other solutions.
Rushabh Trivedi - PeerSpot reviewer
AWS Architect at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Nov 25, 2024
A primary area of improvement for Amazon SQS is the message size limitation, which is currently restricted to 256 kilobytes per message.
Ronnakit Vijidboonchuvong - PeerSpot reviewer
Staff Engineer at OPN
Mar 26, 2024
Amazon SQS is costly. I think there could be improvements in how it facilitates comparisons between different AWS products. A calculator would be helpful. The calculator for Kafka is based on factors like throughput or storage used in the last month. In contrast, the calculator for Amazon SQS is based on the number of transactions processed. These different approaches make it challenging to compare them directly. I suggest AWS provide a straightforward calculator where I can input one aspect, and it calculates costs for multiple solutions.