AWS service
Amazon SQS: status and incident history today
AWS Health Dashboard shows no major incidents right now; 2 minor or regional notices are open.
Last checked against AWS Health Dashboard.
Status now
AWS: Region Availability in me-central-1 (UAE), if you run there
Affects Amazon Simple Queue Service in me-central-1 (UAE). Latest update: We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (UAE) (me-central-1) Region. After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in the mec1-az2 Availability Zone. We continue to…
AWS: Region Availability in me-south-1 (Bahrain), if you run there
Affects Amazon Simple Queue Service in me-south-1 (Bahrain). Latest update: We are providing an update on the disruption affecting the Middle East (Bahrain) (me-south-1) Region. The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand. After a thorough assessment,…
Alternatives
Apache Kafka
Distributed event streaming platform for high-throughput data pipelines
Strengths
- High throughput (millions of messages/sec)
- Durable message storage with replay
Trade-offs
- Complex to set up and operate
- Higher latency than RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ
Robust message broker with flexible routing and delivery guarantees
Strengths
- Low latency message delivery
- Flexible routing (exchanges, bindings)
Trade-offs
- Lower throughput than Kafka
- Messages deleted after consumption
Google Pub/Sub
GCP-managed real-time messaging service
Strengths
- Global availability and low latency
- Automatic scaling
Trade-offs
- GCP vendor lock-in
- Limited message filtering
Azure Service Bus
Enterprise messaging service with queues and pub/sub topics
Strengths
- Enterprise-grade features (dead-letter queues, sessions)
- Both queue and pub/sub patterns
Trade-offs
- Azure vendor lock-in
- Limited to Azure ecosystem
Example stacks with Amazon SQS
Docs and release notes
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