
Discover the foundations of Amazon SQS within AWS, and practice creating queues, sending and deleting messages, and managing visibility timeouts using the command line and the SDK.
Create a free AWS account, explore the free tier including Cloud9 hours and SQS usage, and learn to terminate environments and set billing alarms to avoid charges.
Learn to create an IAM user with both programmatic and console access, assign admin permissions, download the access keys, and follow security best practices by avoiding root account use.
Navigate the SQS console to view queue attributes, such as queue name, ARN, region, visibility timeout, retention, encryption, and tags. See how permissions, monitoring, and Lambda triggers integrate with SQS.
Meet the instructor, who demystifies aws with practical insights from a full stack background and hands-on work with lambda, sqs, and other services.
Learn how Amazon Web Services provides a secure cloud services platform with content delivery, compute power, database storage, and on-demand resources, with pay-as-you-go pricing, elastic scale, and global regions.
Explore Amazon's fully managed messaging queue service that decouples microservices, enabling send, store, and receive messages at any volume, with standard and fivefold options and fan-out.
Set up a Cloud9 environment to code in the cloud using a t-2 micro instance for Windows or Linux users, with a bash terminal and ssh access. Verify with S3.
Explore an overview of AWS SQS, its features, benefits, and use cases, along with key terms, cost, security, limitations, restrictions, and best practices.
Mastering aws sqs overview covers secure access and durable, highly available storage across multiple servers, scalable throughput, and queue types like standard and fifo with at-least-once and exactly-once delivery.
Discover essential SQS key terms—FIFO queues, dead-letter queues, server-side encryption, visibility timeout, long and short polling, message retention, tags, metadata, and regions and availability zones.
Mastering AWS SQS security uses resource-based permissions to grant user-specific access to selected queues, while TLS encryption with AWS KMS protects message bodies and monitors usage with CloudWatch and CloudTrail.
Mastering AWS SQS shows you pay only for use, with no minimum fee, costs from requests and data transfer, noting batch versus individual requests and 1 million free per month.
Mastering AWS: featuring SQS reviews limitations and restrictions, including retention 1–14 days (default 4), a 1024–262144 byte message size, and optional S3 use with potential costs.
Mastering AWS: featuring SQS teaches best practices to process messages promptly, configure long polling, handle errors with retries or dead-letter queues, and leverage batch processing for cost efficiency.
Recap the features and benefits of SQS, including long polling, visibility timeout, and dead-letter queue, and preview the hands-on SQS section, plus security, costs, and batch processing.
Explore the AWS SQS console to create standard queues, send and delete messages, and switch regions. Learn to integrate with SNS topics and compare queue types.
Create a standard SQS queue in the Canada region, send and view messages, and delete messages and queues, while noting default settings, tags, and delayed delivery via console, CLI, or SDK.
Explore configuring Amazon SQS queues, compare standard and FIFO queues, and practice sending and receiving messages with visibility timeouts, delivery delays, and message attributes.
Learn how to use AWS SNS with SQS to publish messages to a topic and fan out to standard queues, subscribe queues, publish and view messages, and clean up resources.
Consolidate with standard queues and a 5:04 queue, observe instant delivery and a 12-minute delay, then switch regions and subscribe queues to an SNS topic.
Harness the command line with Cloud9 and Bash to automate AWS SQS tasks, including creating, listing, deleting queues, and adding tags.
Learn to use the aws sqs cli in Cloud9 to create and list queues, send and receive messages, rename queues with a prefix, and explore region settings.
Learn to use the aws sqs cli to create queues with visibility timeout and delay seconds, set attributes, send delayed messages, and manage tags.
Master the aws sqs cli to receive messages, capture receipt handles, and delete messages and queues using queue URLs and receipt data.
Create and manage AWS SQS queues with AWS CLI: list queues, filter by prefix, send and receive messages, delete with receipt handles, modify attributes, manage tags, and verify the console.
discover how the software development kit provides prepackaged tools to build on Amazon services, focusing on the JavaScript SDK, npm setup, and hello world verification in Cloud9.
Learn to set up the AWS SDK for node.js, configure region, create and list SQS queues, handle errors, and verify results via the management console.
Learn to manage AWS SQS queues with node.js by creating and listing queues, adding and removing tags, and sending basic messages, with verification through the SDK.
learn to send and receive SQS messages in node.js using the SQS sdk, handle receipt handles, apply a 60-second delay, poll for messages, and delete messages and queues.
Conclude the AWS SDK section by configuring it, declaring a region, selecting services, and managing queues and messages with SQS, including 60-second delays and cleanup.
Concludes with a practical recap of AWS SQS fundamentals—queues, visibility timeout, delays, standard and FIFO queues, message attributes, dead-letter queues, SNS integration, and SDK usage.
Did you know that Amazon Web Services first service is the Simple Queue Service (SQS)? Did you know that SQS can be scaled to meet the needs of a company of any size, including Amazon and travel sites?
This course, Mastering AWS Featuring SQS, will provide everything you need to apply SQS to your everyday life. This course begins at the very beginning, creating an aws account and creating a User. Next, we define both SQS and AWS. We then take a deep dive into SQS. This course discusses sqs pricing, sqs vs sns, sqs api, and much more. We then apply the fundamentals we’ve learned to programming with SQS.
We will program in the AWS management console, in the aws command line (aws cli), and using the aws node.js sdk. Each programming section provides three detailed sqs tutorials.
Using the AWS management console, we will create basic queues, queues with attributes, and queues with different configurations. Once these queues are created, we will send messages and observe the results. In addition, we will use SNS and SQS together to send messages to multiple queues.
After we’ve created and modified queues in the management console, we will step out game up by manipulating sqs on the command line. Using Cloud9 we will create an EC2 environment and create, modify and delete queues in the aws cli.
Next we create sqs queues using the aws node.js SDK. In conjunction with Cloud9, we will use an EC2 instance to create tags for our queues, list queues, create queues, and delete queues.
As a bonus, we will use the following AWS services to assist our learning of SQS: AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS Simple Queue Service (SNS), AWS Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2), and AWS cloud9.
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
You should consider this course if you are: