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Encyclopedia > Amazon Simple Queue Service

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a messaging service provided by Amazon.com. It supports programmatic sending of messages by computer programs as a way to communicate over the web. In some sense it could be compared with an instant messaging service for software. Amazon. ... A screenshot of PowWow, one of the first instant messengers with a graphical user interface // Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ...


Amazon SQS can be described as commoditization of the messaging service. Well-known examples of messaging service technologies include Java Message Service and Microsoft Message Queuing. Whereas with Java Message Service, let's say, the users would have to maintain their own server, Amazon SQS does it for them and sells the service at per-use rate. It has been suggested that Openjms be merged into this article or section. ... Microsoft Message Queuing or MSMQ is a technology developed by Microsoft and deployed in its Windows Server operating systems since Windows NT 4 and Windows 95. ... It has been suggested that Openjms be merged into this article or section. ...


Expected message latency, as of 2007, was 2-10 seconds.


Price, as of 2007, was $0.1 per 1000 messages sent plus bandwidth surcharge if bandwidth usage is significant.


As of 2007, Amazon SQS did NOT guarantee reception of messages by the recepient in the order they were sent by the sender.


See also

It has been suggested that Openjms be merged into this article or section. ... Microsoft Message Queuing or MSMQ is a technology developed by Microsoft and deployed in its Windows Server operating systems since Windows NT 4 and Windows 95. ...

External links

  • Amazon Simple Queue Service homepage


 
 

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