• distributed queue for storing messages as they travel between computers. • Reliable, highly scalable • Platform-agnostic • allowing any computer on the Internet to add or read messages without any installed software or special firewall configurations SQS properties • Visibility timeout • Message retention period • Message size : max 256 KB • Delay delivery • Long Polling • Dead Letter queue Amazon SQS Pricing • $0.10 per 1,000 messages sent ($0.0001 per message sent) • $0.20 per GB of data transferred Simple Notification Service SNS • Topic • Subscriber • Publisher How SNS works • manages the delivery or sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. • there are two types of clients—publishers and subscribers • Publishers communicate subscribers by producing and sending a message to a topic, • which is a logical access point and communication channel. • Subscribers can be web servers, email addresses, Amazon SQS queues, AWS Lambda functions