# Amazon Simple Queue Service Construct Library Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. SQS eliminates the complexity and overhead associated with managing and operating message oriented middleware, and empowers developers to focus on differentiating work. Using SQS, you can send, store, and receive messages between software components at any volume, without losing messages or requiring other services to be available. ## Installation Import to your project: ```ts nofixture import * as sqs from 'aws-cdk-lib/aws-sqs'; ``` ## Basic usage Here's how to add a basic queue to your application: ```ts new sqs.Queue(this, 'Queue'); ``` ## Encryption By default queues are encrypted using SSE-SQS. If you want to change the encryption mode, set the `encryption` property. The following encryption modes are supported: * KMS key that SQS manages for you * KMS key that you can managed yourself * Server-side encryption managed by SQS (SSE-SQS) * Unencrypted To learn more about SSE-SQS on Amazon SQS, please visit the [Amazon SQS documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/sqs-server-side-encryption.html). ```ts // Use managed key new sqs.Queue(this, 'Queue', { encryption: sqs.QueueEncryption.KMS_MANAGED, }); // Use custom key const myKey = new kms.Key(this, 'Key'); new sqs.Queue(this, 'Queue', { encryption: sqs.QueueEncryption.KMS, encryptionMasterKey: myKey, }); // Use SQS managed server side encryption (SSE-SQS) new sqs.Queue(this, 'Queue', { encryption: sqs.QueueEncryption.SQS_MANAGED, }); // Unencrypted queue new sqs.Queue(this, 'Queue', { encryption: sqs.QueueEncryption.UNENCRYPTED, }); ``` ## Encryption in transit If you want to enforce encryption of data in transit, set the `enforceSSL` property to `true`. A resource policy statement that allows only encrypted connections over HTTPS (TLS) will be added to the queue. ```ts new sqs.Queue(this, 'Queue', { enforceSSL: true, }); ``` ## First-In-First-Out (FIFO) queues FIFO queues give guarantees on the order in which messages are dequeued, and have additional features in order to help guarantee exactly-once processing. For more information, see the SQS manual. Note that FIFO queues are not available in all AWS regions. A queue can be made a FIFO queue by either setting `fifo: true`, giving it a name which ends in `".fifo"`, or by enabling a FIFO specific feature such as: content-based deduplication, deduplication scope or fifo throughput limit.