Amazon SQS

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What is this integration?

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What Monk manages

• Queue: create, update, delete

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What the Agent can do and how to use it

• Queue Management: Create, configure, and delete message queues
• Message Operations: Send, receive, and delete messages with visibility timeouts
• Queue Types: Standard queues (at-least-once delivery) and FIFO queues (exactly-once, ordered)
• Dead Letter Queues: Configure DLQs for failed message handling
• Batching: Send and receive messages in batches for efficiency
• Attributes: Set message attributes, timers, and priority levels
• Polling: Configure long/short polling for message retrieval
• Redrive Policies: Set up automatic redrive from DLQ back to source queue

1. Ensure AWS provider is added: monk cluster provider add -p aws
2. monk update <namespace>/<name>

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Auth

• Uses AWS provider credentials configured via monk cluster provider add -p aws

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Getting Started

1. Ensure AWS provider is added:

monk cluster provider add -p aws

2. Define a queue (save as sqs.yaml):

namespace: aws-sqs-examples

standard-queue:
  defines: aws-sqs/sqs-queue
  region: us-east-1
  queue_name: standard-example-queue

3. Create/update:

monk update aws-sqs-examples/standard-queue
monk describe aws-sqs-examples/standard-queue