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I'm surprised that SNS wasn't mentioned here, being an AWS queueing product.


Simple Queuing Service was mentioned (SQS) Simple Notification Service (SNS) was not. Did you mean SNS or SQS ?


Given that I was surprised that SNS wasn't mentioned, I think I mean SNS, given they are both queuing services.


SNS is a push notification service, that focuses on various consumers outside the cloud. It can be used with web hooks (http endpoints) to publish the same message to various web servers. In that case it would guarantees at least once semantics (which means the message is delivered, but sometimes twice), but it does not guarantee FIFO.


SQS also doesn't guarantee FIFO.

SNS guarantees delivery with back-off to HTTP/S endpoints (handling HTTP status codes properly) with very low latency in an asynchronous manner.




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