Amazon SQS Supports 1-Minute CloudWatch Metrics in All Commercial Regions

The one-minute CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS is available in all commercial Regions. For more information, see Available CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon SQS in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Amazon SQS FIFO (First-In-First-Out) Queues Can Be Used as Lambda Trigger

You can configure messages arriving in a FIFO queue to trigger a Lambda function. For more information, see Configuring Messages Arriving in an Amazon SQS Queue to Trigger a Lambda Function in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Amazon SNS Supports 1-Minute CloudWatch Metrics

The one-minute CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS is currently available only in the following Regions:

• US East (Ohio)
• EU (Ireland)
• EU (Stockholm)
• Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

For more information, see Available CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon SQS in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Amazon SQS FIFO Queues are Available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region

FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queues are available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. For more information about how FIFO queues work and how to get started using them, see Amazon SQS FIFO (First-In-First-Out) Queues in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Endpoints for Amazon SQS are Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions

You can send messages to your Amazon SQS queues from Amazon Virtual Private Cloud in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions. For more information, see Amazon Virtual Private Cloud Endpoints for Amazon SQS in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Amazon SQS Allows Troubleshooting of Queues Using AWS X-Ray Using Message System Attributes

• You can troubleshoot messages passing through Amazon SQS queues using AWS X-Ray. For more information, see Troubleshooting Amazon Simple Queue Service Queues Using AWS X-Ray in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

• You can use message system attributes to send AWS X-Ray trace headers through Amazon SQS. For more information, see Amazon SQS Message System Attributes in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide. This release adds the MessageSystemAttribute request parameter to the SendMessage and SendMessageBatch API actions, the AWSTraceHeader attribute to the ReceiveMessage API action, and the MessageSystemAttributeValue data type.

Amazon SQS Allows Tagging Queues Upon Creation

• You can now use a single Amazon SQS API call, AWS SDK function, or AWS CLI command to simultaneously create a queue and specify its tags. For more information, see Amazon SQS Cost Allocation Tags in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide and the Tag request parameter of the CreateQueue API action in the Amazon SQS API Reference.
• Amazon SQS supports the aws:TagKeys and aws:RequestTag AWS keys. For more information, see Actions and Resource Reference in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

The Temporary Queue Client for Amazon SQS is Now Available

Temporary queues help you save development time and deployment costs when using common message patterns such as request-response. You can use the Temporary Queue Client (available on GitHub) to create high-throughput, cost-effective, application-managed temporary queues. For more information, see Temporary Queues in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Server-Side Encryption (SSE) for Amazon SQS is Available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region

Server-side encryption (SSE) for Amazon SQS is available in the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region. For more information about server-side encryption and how to get started using it, see Protecting Data Using Server-Side Encryption (SSE) and AWS KMS.

Amazon SQS FIFO (First-In-First-Out) Queues are Available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Beijing), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions

FIFO (First-In-First-Out) queues are available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Beijing), AWS GovCloud (US-East), and AWS GovCloud (US-West) Regions.

For more information, see see Amazon SQS FIFO (First-In-First-Out) Queues in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.