This lab introduces learners to Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS's fully managed message queuing service. Participants gain hands-on experience in creating and configuring SQS queues, sending and receiving messages, implementing error handling with dead-letter queues, and optimizing message retrieval through long polling. The lab simulates a real-world e-commerce order processing system, demonstrating how SQS enables reliable asynchronous communication between distributed application components.
Objectives
- Create a standard Amazon SQS queue using the AWS Management Console.
- Send a message to an Amazon SQS queue using the AWS Management Console.
- Retrieve and delete a message from an Amazon SQS queue.
- Configure a dead-letter queue for handling failed messages.
- Enable and configure long polling on an SQS queue.
Prerequisites
- Familiarity with cloud-based message queuing services
- Basic knowledge of JSON message formatting
- Experience with AWS Management Console navigation
Outline
Task 1: Create and configure Amazon SQS Queue
Task 2: Send messages to SQS queue
Task 3: Retrieve and delete messages
Task 4: Configure a dead-letter queue for handling failed messages
Task 5: Enable and configure long polling on an SQS queue
