▪ Amazon SQS stands for Simple Queue Service is fully managed message queues for microservices,

distributed systems, and serverless applications.

▪ Enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

▪ Eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message-oriented

middleware.

▪ Send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume.

▪ Two types of message queues.

▪ Standard queues offer maximum throughput, best-effort ordering, and at-least-once delivery.

▪ FIFO queues are designed to guarantee that messages are processed exactly once, in the exact order that they are sent.

▪ Integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components.

▪ Provides a generic web services API that you can access using any programming language that the AWS

SDK supports. 

https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/