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# Amazon SQS

> Fully managed message queuing service.

## What is this integration?

Amazon SQS offers a reliable, scalable message queue for decoupling microservices.

## What Monk manages

* Queue: create, update, delete

## 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

Steps:

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

## Auth

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

## Getting Started

1. Ensure AWS provider is added:

```bash theme={null}
monk cluster provider add -p aws
```

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

```yaml theme={null}
namespace: aws-sqs-examples

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

3. Create/update:

```bash theme={null}
monk update aws-sqs-examples/standard-queue
monk describe aws-sqs-examples/standard-queue
```