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Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a secure, durable, and available hosted queue that lets you integrate and decouple distributed software systems and components. Amazon SQS offers common constructs such as dead-letter queues and cost allocation tags. It provides a generic web services API that you can access using any programming language that the AWS SDK supports.


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**References:**
- [Amazon SQS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/welcome.html)
- [Amazon Builders' Library - Avoiding insurmountable queue backlogs](https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/avoiding-insurmountable-queue-backlogs/)
- [AWS re:Invent 2019: Scalable serverless event-driven applications using Amazon SQS & Lambda (API304)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rikdPIFc_Q)