This topic helps us understand the limits with respect to the following:
- Limits related to queues
- Limits related to messages
- Limits related to policies
The following table describes these limits:
|
Limit |
Applies to |
Description |
|
Inflight messages per queue |
Queues |
Standard queue: maximum of 120,000 inflight messages. FIFO queue: maximum of 20,000 inflight messages. SQS returns an OverLimit error if this limit is exceeded. |
|
Queue name |
Queues |
Queue names can have a maximum of 80 characters. FIFO queue names must end with .fifo. Queue names can have alphanumeric characters, hyphens, and underscores. |
|
Message attributes |
Message |
A message can have a maximum of 10 metadata attributes. |
|
Message batch |
Message |
A message batch can have a maximum of 10 messages per batch. |
|
Message content |
Message |
Message content can include only XML, JSON... |
