Introducing Amazon Simple Queue Service
Amazon SQS is a managed, highly scalable, and durable service that provides developers with a mechanism to store messages that can be later consumed by one or more applications. In this section, we will be exploring a few of the concepts and terminologies offered by SQS along with an understanding of which SQS, queue to use for what scenarios, so let's get started!
To start off with, SQS is provided in two different modes:
- Standard queue: Standard queues are the default selection when it comes to working with SQS. Here, the queues created offer a nearly-unlimited transaction per second (TPS) rate coupled with an at-least-once delivery model. What this model means is that a message can be delivered at least once, but occasionally there is a good probability that more than one copy of that same message can be delivered as well. This is due to the fact that SQS is designed and built on a highly distributed system that is known to create copies of the same...
