Case Study of AWS SQS

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

The benefits of the AWS SQS are as follows:

Eliminates the administrative overhead

AWS SQS manages all ongoing operations and underlying infrastructure needed to provide a highly available and scalable message queuing service.

Reliably deliver messages

SQS lets you decouple application components so that they run and fail independently, increasing the overall fault tolerance of the system and to avoid the single point of failure.

Keep sensitive data secure

Amazon SQS SSE integration with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) allows you to centrally manage the keys that protect SQS messages along with keys that protect your other AWS resources.

Scale elastically and cost-effectively

SQS scales elastically with your application so you don’t have to worry about capacity planning and pre-provisioning of the nodes.

With all these benefits of AWS SQS, some of companies uses it for their use case:

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has been working around the world—and off of it—for almost 60 years.

They are responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and space research. NASA was established in 1958.

NASA began providing online access to photos, video, and audio in the early 2000’s, when media capture began to shift from analog and film to digital.

The NASA Image and Video Library provides easy access to more than 140,000 still images, audio recordings, and videos.

NASA has been using a number of AWS services and resources and AWS SQS is one of them.

Capital One

Capital One is modernizing their retail message queuing by migrating from self-managed message-oriented middleware systems to Amazon SQS

Capital One is using SQS to migrate several core banking applications to the cloud to ensure high availability and cost efficiency while simplifying administrative complexity and overhead.

There are many more companies which are getting benefitted by the AWS SQS services and many other services also.