diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 90f7941..a237f68 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ vendor
 terraform.tfvars
 terraform.tfstate*
 .terraform*
+.idea/*
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bd8ca87..c84e6d2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+# 2.1.0
+ - added option to configure polling frequency and number of messages to fetch in one batch to be able to manage AWS SQS cost
+
 # 2.0.0
  - added support for Logstash 6.x.
 
diff --git a/lib/logstash/inputs/s3sqs.rb b/lib/logstash/inputs/s3sqs.rb
index 56d438b..3a4e9cb 100644
--- a/lib/logstash/inputs/s3sqs.rb
+++ b/lib/logstash/inputs/s3sqs.rb
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ class LogStash::Inputs::S3SQS < LogStash::Inputs::Threadable
   MAX_TIME_BEFORE_GIVING_UP = 60
   EVENT_SOURCE = 'aws:s3'
   EVENT_TYPE = 'ObjectCreated'
+  DEFAULT_POLLING_FREQUENCY = 1
+  MAX_MESSAGES_TO_FETCH = 1
+  SENT_TIMESTAMP = "SentTimestamp"
+  SQS_ATTRIBUTES = [SENT_TIMESTAMP]
 
   config_name "s3sqs"
 
@@ -91,6 +95,10 @@ class LogStash::Inputs::S3SQS < LogStash::Inputs::Threadable
   # Name of the SQS Queue to pull messages from. Note that this is just the name of the queue, not the URL or ARN.
   config :queue, :validate => :string, :required => true
 
+  config :max_messages, :validate => :number, :default => MAX_MESSAGES_TO_FETCH
+
+  config :polling_frequency, :validate => :number, :default => DEFAULT_POLLING_FREQUENCY
+
   attr_reader :poller
   attr_reader :s3
 
@@ -111,24 +119,21 @@ def setup_queue
 
   def polling_options
     {
-      # we will query 1 message at a time, so we can ensure correct error handling if we can't download a single file correctly
-      # (we will throw :skip_delete if download size isn't correct to process the event again later
-      # -> set a reasonable "Default Visibility Timeout" for your queue, so that there's enough time to process the log files)
-      :max_number_of_messages => 1,
-      # we will use the queue's setting, a good value is 10 seconds
-      # (to ensure fast logstash shutdown on the one hand and few api calls on the other hand)
-      :wait_time_seconds => nil,
+        :max_number_of_messages => @max_messages,
+        :attribute_names => SQS_ATTRIBUTES,
+        :wait_time_seconds => @polling_frequency,
+        :skip_delete => true
     }
   end
 
   def handle_message(message, queue)
-    hash = JSON.parse message.body
+    event = JSON.parse message.body
     # there may be test events sent from the s3 bucket which won't contain a Records array,
     # we will skip those events and remove them from queue
-    if hash['Records'] then
+    if event['Records'] then
       # typically there will be only 1 record per event, but since it is an array we will
       # treat it as if there could be more records
-      hash['Records'].each do |record|
+      event['Records'].each do |record|
         # in case there are any events with Records that aren't s3 object-created events and can't therefore be
         # processed by this plugin, we will skip them and remove them from queue
         if record['eventSource'] == EVENT_SOURCE and record['eventName'].start_with?(EVENT_TYPE) then
@@ -140,7 +145,7 @@ def handle_message(message, queue)
             )
           rescue => e
             @logger.warn("issuing :skip_delete on failed download", :bucket => record['s3']['bucket']['name'], :object => record['s3']['object']['key'], :error => e)
-            throw :skip_delete
+            return false
           end
           # verify downloaded content size
           if response.content_length == record['s3']['object']['size'] then
@@ -168,32 +173,32 @@ def handle_message(message, queue)
               end
             rescue => e
               @logger.warn("issuing :skip_delete on failed plain text processing", :bucket => record['s3']['bucket']['name'], :object => record['s3']['object']['key'], :error => e)
-              throw :skip_delete
+              return false
             end
           # otherwise try again later
           else
             @logger.warn("issuing :skip_delete on wrong download content size", :bucket => record['s3']['bucket']['name'], :object => record['s3']['object']['key'],
               :download_size => response.content_length, :expected => record['s3']['object']['size'])
-            throw :skip_delete
+            return false
           end
         end
       end
     end
+    true
   end
 
   def run(queue)
-    # ensure we can stop logstash correctly
-    poller.before_request do |stats|
-      if stop? then
-        @logger.warn("issuing :stop_polling on stop?", :queue => @queue)
-        # this can take up to "Receive Message Wait Time" (of the sqs queue) seconds to be recognized
-        throw :stop_polling
-      end
-    end
-    # poll a message and process it
     run_with_backoff do
-      poller.poll(polling_options) do |message|
-        handle_message(message, queue)
+      poller.poll(polling_options) do |messages, stats|
+        break if stop?
+        messages.each do |message|
+          if handle_message(message, queue)
+            poller.delete_message(message)
+          end
+        end
+        @logger.debug("SQS Stats:", :request_count => stats.request_count,
+                     :received_message_count => stats.received_message_count,
+                     :last_message_received_at => stats.last_message_received_at) if @logger.debug?
       end
     end
   end
diff --git a/logstash-input-s3sqs.gemspec b/logstash-input-s3sqs.gemspec
index 7784265..39e8a91 100644
--- a/logstash-input-s3sqs.gemspec
+++ b/logstash-input-s3sqs.gemspec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.name            = 'logstash-input-s3sqs'
-  s.version         = '2.0.0'
+  s.version         = '2.1.0'
   s.licenses        = ['Apache-2.0']
   s.summary         = "Get logs from AWS s3 buckets as issued by an object-created event via sqs."
   s.description     = "This gem is a logstash plugin required to be installed on top of the Logstash core pipeline using $LS_HOME/bin/plugin install gemname. This gem is not a stand-alone program"