Welcome

Welcome to the Amazon SQS API Reference.

Amazon SQS is a reliable, highly-scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between applications or microservices. Amazon SQS moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components.

For information on the permissions you need to use this API, see Identity and access management in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

You can use AWS SDKs to access Amazon SQS using your favorite programming language. The SDKs perform tasks such as the following automatically:

Cryptographically sign your service requests
Retry requests
Handle error responses

Additional information

Amazon SQS Product Page
Amazon SQS Developer Guide
Amazon SQS in the AWS Command Line Interface
Amazon Web Services General Reference
- Regions and Endpoints

This document was last published on November 1, 2024.

Warning Javascript is disabled or is unavailable in your browser.

To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please refer to your browser's Help pages for instructions.

Document Conventions

Actions