Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
Reviews
Star rating
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Pros and cons
Pros
- Ease of Use
- Cloud Storage
- Cloud Services
- Easy Access
- Customer Support
- Easy Setup
Cons
- Expensive
- Connectivity Issues
- Complexity Issues
- Slow Internet Speed
- Dependency Issues
- Learning Curve
Traffic & LLM citations
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Key stats
Adoption by company size
| Segment | Share of reviews |
|---|---|
| Small Business | 37.0% |
| Mid-Market | 31.5% |
| Enterprise | 31.5% |
Quarterly history
| Quarter | Reviews | Star rating |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 3 | 4.2 |
| 2025 Q1 | 1 | 5.0 |
| 2025 Q2 | 1 | 4.5 |
| 2025 Q3 | 2 | 4.8 |
| 2025 Q4 | 1 | 4.0 |
| 2026 Q2 | 3 | 4.8 |
Satisfaction ratings
What reviewers say
Efficient, Scalable Messaging for ETL and Event-Driven Pipelines
“Amazon Simple Queue Service helps me build scalable, loosely coupled data pipelines by enabling services to communicate asynchronously. It delivers messages efficiently even during traffic spikes, which is the thing I like most. It also simplifies workload distribution between pr”
Reliable and Scalable Message Queue, Needs Improved Debugging
“I use Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) for its reliability and the way it prevents tight coupling between services, which is fantastic for handling traffic spikes or downstream failures. I find its simplicity and reliability really valuable. I like that it's easy to integrate in”
Reliable message handling
“I love how Amazon SQS just gets my messages, literally, It’s super reliable, easy to set up, and handles all the chaos between services so I don’t have to. Feels like having a super organized system who guarantee to work.”