SQS Limits Flashcards
SQS Visibility Timeout
0-12 hours. Default 30 seconds
SQS Message Retention Period
1 minute to 14 days. Default 4 days
SQS Delivery Delay
0 seconds to 15 minutes
SQS Standard Queue Receive Message wait time
0 to 20 seconds. Enables long-polling
SQS max. message size
256Kb, with Extended Client Library up to 256kB with S3
SQS FIFO Througput Limit
300 API calls, 10 messages each => 3000 TPS
SQS FIFO Queue suffix
.fifo
SQS Metadata Name length
256 characters
SQS Metadata Type length
256 characters
SQS Metadata Value max. size
Same as Body, 256kB
SQS FIFO max. in-flight messages
20.000
SQS FIFO min. de-dup interval
5 minutes
SQS max. in-flight messages (standard queue)
120.000, long-polling will not return error, short polling will
SQS Max. number of meta-data tags
10
SQS max. batch size
10