# Amazon SQS

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/amazon-sqs/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 44.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 44.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 72.4 |
| Governance | 13.6 |
| Contract Governance | 13.6 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 40.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | documented |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Amazon Sqs Agentic Access** — 23 operations · 16 acting

## Security (4)

- **Amazon Sqs Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Amazon Sqs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Amazon Sqs Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published
- **Amazon Sqs Trust Center** — PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140

## Plans (1)

- **Amazon Sqs Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **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.

## Tags

Cloud, Distributed Systems, Messaging, Microservices, Queue

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/amazon-sqs/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.