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In yesterday’s press release, an essential update was shared regarding the Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS). This service has officially transitioned into production.

With the production release, users can now create an unlimited number of queues per account, each containing an endless number of items. Each individual item can be up to 256KB in size. A comprehensive access control mechanism is in place for each queue, allowing you to manage who has permission to read or write to your queues independently.

The SQS API is designed to be efficient and user-friendly, offering straightforward options to create queues, send messages, receive messages, delete messages, list your queues, and remove entire queues. If multiple readers are accessing a queue, the timed visibility model ensures that each item is processed and prevents loss if a reader fails between receiving and deleting a message.

Pricing follows a pay-as-you-go structure, eliminating any startup fees or minimum monthly charges. Users will incur a cost of 10 cents for every thousand messages sent (equivalent to $0.0001 per message) and 20 cents per gigabyte of data transferred. Additional information about pricing can be found on the SQS Service Detail page.

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