Working with messages

Sending, receiving, and deleting messages from the message queue can partially be done via the management console, but the most power can be achieved programmatically by using the AWS CLI or the SDKs. We will take a look at some examples in the management console and some in the AWS CLI.

Sending a message in a queue

Please perform the following steps:

1. To send a message to the queue, we can simply choose Queue Actions in the management console and then select Send a Message. The same result can be achieved with the aws sqs send-message command, but for simplicity we will demonstrate only the management console in this example:

2. In the Send a Message to markocloud dialog, where markocloud is the queue...