Amazon Simple Queue Service

<p>Welcome to the <i>Amazon SQS API Reference</i>.</p> <p>Amazon SQS is a reliable, highly-scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between applications or microservices. Amazon SQS moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components.</p> <p>For information on the permissions you need to use this API, see <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-authentication-and-access-control.html">Identity and access management</a> in the <i>Amazon SQS Developer Guide.</i> </p> <p>You can use <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/tools/#sdk">Amazon Web Services SDKs</a> to access Amazon SQS using your favorite programming language. The SDKs perform tasks such as the following automatically:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Cryptographically sign your service requests</p> </li> <li> <p>Retry requests</p> </li> <li> <p>Handle error responses</p> </li> </ul> <p> <b>Additional information</b> </p> <ul> <li> <p> <a href="http://aws.amazon.com/sqs/">Amazon SQS Product Page</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <i>Amazon SQS Developer Guide</i> </p> <ul> <li> <p> <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-making-api-requests.html">Making API Requests</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-message-metadata.html#sqs-message-attributes">Amazon SQS Message Attributes</a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-dead-letter-queues.html">Amazon SQS Dead-Letter Queues</a> </p> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <p> <a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/sqs/index.html">Amazon SQS in the <i>Command Line Interface</i> </a> </p> </li> <li> <p> <i>Amazon Web Services General Reference</i> </p> <ul> <li> <p> <a href="https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#sqs_region">Regions and Endpoints</a> </p> </li> </ul> </li> </ul>