Managing queues

Now, let's take a look at the administrative operations available from the SQS. In this section, we will be doing some management through the management console, but since the power of SQS is best shown with a programmatic approach, we will be demonstrating some examples with the AWS CLI.

Creating and listing queues

Let's first create a queue by executing the following steps:

1. In the management console, we can simply navigate to the SQS dashboard and, when presented with the initial screen, choose Get Started Now:

2. This will immediately be followed by the Create New Queue dialog, where we can enter a queue name and then click Quick-Create Queue or click Configure Queue:

3. By clicking Configure...