Amazon SQS Integration with Spring Boot 3
A beginner’s guide to integrating Amazon SQS with Spring Boot.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that lets you integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components. It allows applications to queue messages that are generated by one component and consumed by another component. SQS acts as a temporary storage for messages and can be used in situations where the messages are produced at a higher rate but processed at a lower rate by the consumer.
Amazon SQS offers two types of queues: Standard and FIFO queues.
Standard queues: A message is delivered at least once, but occasionally more than one copy of a message is delivered.
FIFO (i.e. First-In-First-Out) queues: A message is delivered once but remains available until a consumer processes and deletes it. Duplicate messages are not introduced into the queue. The order in which messages are sent and received is strictly preserved.
In this post, we will create a SQS standard queue and integrate with a Spring Boot application.
Creating an Amazon SQS queue
I will be using a CloudFormation template to create a SQS queue. You can find a sample template in my GitHub repository.
