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Amazon SQS

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.

Amazon SQS publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Messages API, Permissions API, Queues API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Cloud, Distributed Systems, Messaging, Microservices, and Queue.

The Amazon SQS catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 3 Spectral governance rulesets.

Amazon SQS’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, developer console, support, code examples, and 10 more developer resources.

55.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 45/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
4 APIs 6 Features 5 Use Cases
CloudDistributed SystemsMessagingMicroservicesQueue

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Composite quality — 55.6/100 · developing
Contract Quality 18.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 13.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13
Governance 5.7 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 45/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Amazon SQS Messages API

Operations for sending, receiving, and deleting messages in SQS queues

Amazon SQS Permissions API

Operations for managing queue access permissions

Amazon SQS Queues API

Operations for creating, managing, and deleting SQS queues

Amazon SQS Tags API

The Tags API from Amazon SQS — 1 operation(s) for tags.

Postman Collections 4

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Amazon Sqs Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 6

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Standard Queues

Maximum throughput, best-effort ordering, and at-least-once delivery for high-volume messaging workloads.

FIFO Queues

Exactly-once processing and strict ordering guarantees for applications requiring message sequence preservation.

Dead-Letter Queues

Automatic routing of failed messages to dead-letter queues for debugging and reprocessing.

Message Move Tasks

Bulk movement of messages between queues for reprocessing dead-letter queue contents.

Server-Side Encryption

Automatic encryption of messages at rest using AWS KMS keys for data protection.

Long Polling

Reduced API costs and latency by allowing consumers to wait for messages to arrive before responding.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Event Source Mapping

AsyncAPI specification for Amazon SQS event-driven messaging patterns. Amazon SQS provides reliable, highly-scalable hosted queues for storing messages as they travel between ap...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Amazon Sqs Context

0 classes · 0 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Amazon SQS API Rules

10 rules · 1 errors 8 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Amazon SQS API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Amazon SQS API Rules

17 rules · 8 errors 9 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 19

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

BatchResultErrorEntry

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CancelMessageMoveTaskResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChangeMessageVisibilityBatchResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CreateQueueResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DeleteMessageBatchResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ErrorResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GenericResponse

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetQueueAttributesResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GetQueueUrlResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListDeadLetterSourceQueuesResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListMessageMoveTasksResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListQueueTagsResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListQueuesResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Message

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ReceiveMessageResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ResponseMetadata

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SendMessageBatchResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

SendMessageResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StartMessageMoveTaskResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 19

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Amazon Sqs Create Queue Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Sqs Error Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Sqs Generic Response Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Sqs List Queues Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Sqs Message Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Sqs Response Metadata Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Amazon Sqs Send Message Response Structure

1 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 19

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Amazon Sqs Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Amazon Sqs Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Amazon Sqs Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Amazon Sqs Trust Center

PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Amazon Sqs Agentic Access

23 operations · 16 acting

23 operations · 16 acting

AGENTIC

Use Cases 5

What developers build with this provider.

Microservices Decoupling

Decouple microservices by using SQS queues as asynchronous communication buffers between services.

Serverless Event Processing

Trigger AWS Lambda functions from SQS messages for event-driven serverless architectures.

Order Processing Pipelines

Use FIFO queues to ensure ordered processing of e-commerce orders and financial transactions.

Work Queue Distribution

Distribute compute-intensive tasks across multiple workers using standard queues for parallel processing.

Batch Job Orchestration

Queue batch processing jobs and manage their execution across distributed compute resources.

Integrations 5

Pre-built integrations with other platforms and tools.

AWS Lambda

Automatically invoke Lambda functions when messages arrive in SQS queues for serverless processing.

Amazon SNS

Fan out SNS notifications to multiple SQS queues for parallel processing of published messages.

Amazon EventBridge

Route events from EventBridge to SQS queues for reliable event-driven architectures.

AWS CloudFormation

Provision and manage SQS queues as infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation templates.

Terraform

Create and manage SQS resources using HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure-as-code provider.

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: amazon-sqs
name: Amazon SQS
description: Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and
  scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://a0.awsstatic.com/libra-css/images/logos/aws_logo_smile_1200x630.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-sqs/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2024-01-01'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
tags:
- AWS
- Cloud
- Distributed Systems
- Messaging
- Microservices
- Queue
apis:
- aid: amazon-sqs:amazon-sqs-messages-api
  name: Amazon SQS Messages API
  description: Operations for sending, receiving, and deleting messages in SQS queues
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  baseURL: https://sqs.{region}.amazonaws.com/
  tags:
  - Messages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-sqs-messages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/
  - type: BestPractices
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/best-practices.html
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-tutorials.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/features/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-security.html
  - type: Compliance
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/services-in-scope/
  - type: CLI
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/sqs/
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/service_code_examples.html
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-quotas.html
  - type: Regions
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sqs-service.html
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-release-notes.html
- aid: amazon-sqs:amazon-sqs-permissions-api
  name: Amazon SQS Permissions API
  description: Operations for managing queue access permissions
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  baseURL: https://sqs.{region}.amazonaws.com/
  tags:
  - Permissions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-sqs-permissions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/
  - type: BestPractices
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/best-practices.html
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-tutorials.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/features/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-security.html
  - type: Compliance
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/services-in-scope/
  - type: CLI
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/sqs/
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/service_code_examples.html
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-quotas.html
  - type: Regions
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sqs-service.html
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-release-notes.html
- aid: amazon-sqs:amazon-sqs-queues-api
  name: Amazon SQS Queues API
  description: Operations for creating, managing, and deleting SQS queues
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  baseURL: https://sqs.{region}.amazonaws.com/
  tags:
  - Queues
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-sqs-queues-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/
  - type: BestPractices
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/best-practices.html
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-tutorials.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/features/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-security.html
  - type: Compliance
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/services-in-scope/
  - type: CLI
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/sqs/
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/service_code_examples.html
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-quotas.html
  - type: Regions
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sqs-service.html
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-release-notes.html
- aid: amazon-sqs:amazon-sqs-tags-api
  name: Amazon SQS Tags API
  description: The Tags API from Amazon SQS — 1 operation(s) for tags.
  humanURL: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  baseURL: https://sqs.{region}.amazonaws.com/
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/amazon-sqs-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/APIReference/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/getting-started/
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/pricing/
  - type: FAQ
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/faqs/
  - type: BestPractices
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/best-practices.html
  - type: SDKs
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/tools/
  - type: Tutorials
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-tutorials.html
  - type: Features
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/sqs/features/
  - type: Security
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sqs/latest/dg/sqs-security.html
  - type: Compliance
    url: https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/services-in-scope/
  - type: CLI
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/sqs/
  - type: CodeExamples
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/service_code_examples.html
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-quotas.html
  - type: Regions
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/sqs-service.html
  - type: ReleaseNotes
    url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-release-notes.html
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/amazon-sqs/overview
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/amazon-sqs-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/amazon-sqs-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/amazon-sqs-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/amazon-sqs-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/amazon-sqs-authentication.yml
- type: Blog
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/
- type: Console
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/sqs/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.aws.amazon.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/service-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://aws.amazon.com/privacy/
- type: Support
  url: https://console.aws.amazon.com/support/home
- type: KnowledgeCenter
  url: https://repost.aws/knowledge-center
- type: CodeExamples
  url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/code-library/latest/ug/sqs_code_examples.html
- type: GitHubRepository
  url: https://github.com/awsdocs/aws-doc-sdk-examples
- type: Features
  data:
  - name: Standard Queues
    description: Maximum throughput, best-effort ordering, and at-least-once delivery for high-volume messaging workloads.
  - name: FIFO Queues
    description: Exactly-once processing and strict ordering guarantees for applications requiring message sequence preservation.
  - name: Dead-Letter Queues
    description: Automatic routing of failed messages to dead-letter queues for debugging and reprocessing.
  - name: Message Move Tasks
    description: Bulk movement of messages between queues for reprocessing dead-letter queue contents.
  - name: Server-Side Encryption
    description: Automatic encryption of messages at rest using AWS KMS keys for data protection.
  - name: Long Polling
    description: Reduced API costs and latency by allowing consumers to wait for messages to arrive before responding.
- type: UseCases
  data:
  - name: Microservices Decoupling
    description: Decouple microservices by using SQS queues as asynchronous communication buffers between services.
  - name: Serverless Event Processing
    description: Trigger AWS Lambda functions from SQS messages for event-driven serverless architectures.
  - name: Order Processing Pipelines
    description: Use FIFO queues to ensure ordered processing of e-commerce orders and financial transactions.
  - name: Work Queue Distribution
    description: Distribute compute-intensive tasks across multiple workers using standard queues for parallel processing.
  - name: Batch Job Orchestration
    description: Queue batch processing jobs and manage their execution across distributed compute resources.
- type: Integrations
  data:
  - name: AWS Lambda
    description: Automatically invoke Lambda functions when messages arrive in SQS queues for serverless processing.
  - name: Amazon SNS
    description: Fan out SNS notifications to multiple SQS queues for parallel processing of published messages.
  - name: Amazon EventBridge
    description: Route events from EventBridge to SQS queues for reliable event-driven architectures.
  - name: AWS CloudFormation
    description: Provision and manage SQS queues as infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation templates.
  - name: Terraform
    description: Create and manage SQS resources using HashiCorp Terraform infrastructure-as-code provider.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: https://apievangelist.com/