Documentation history
The following table describes the important changes to the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide since Jan 2019. For notifications about updates to this documentation, subscribe to the RSS feed.
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| Change | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
Amazon SQS now supports dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) endpoints, allowing queues to be accessed via both IP protocols. | April 17, 2025 | |
CloudTrail integration added for all Amazon SQS APIs. | January 10, 2025 | |
Amazon SQS added a new Amazon-managed policy called | November 15, 2024 | |
Amazon SQS no longer requires the | July 24, 2024 | |
Support for | July 3, 2024 | |
| The AmazonSQSReadOnlyAccess managed policy supports | May 2, 2024 |
Make API requests using Amazon JSON protocol. | July 27, 2023 | |
New section describing Amazon managed policies for Amazon SQS and updates to these policies | Amazon SQS added a new action that allows you to list the most recent message movement
tasks (up to 10) under a specific source queue. This action is associated with the
| June 7, 2023 |
Configure dead-letter queue redrives using Amazon SQS APIs. | June 7, 2023 | |
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) using queue tags for flexible and scalable access permissions. | November 10, 2022 | |
Increased default quotas for FIFO high throughput mode in commercial Regions, plus FIFO high throughput document optimization. | October 20, 2022 | |
Server-side encryption (SSE) using SQS-owned encryption (SSE-SQS) by default. | September 26, 2022 | |
Confused deputy protection allows you to specify new headers in their requests, which are checked against conditions in the KMS policy when using Amazon SQS managed SSE. | December 29, 2021 | |
Amazon SQS managed SSE (SSE-SQS) is managed server-side encryption that uses Amazon SQS-owned encryption keys to protect sensitive data sent over message queues. | November 23, 2021 | |
Amazon SQS supports dead-letter queue redrive for standard queues. | November 10, 2021 | |
High throughput for Amazon SQS FIFO queues provides a higher number of transactions per second (TPS) for messages in FIFO queues. For information on throughput quotas, see Quotas related to messages. | May 27, 2021 | |
High throughput for messages in FIFO queues is available in preview release | High throughput for Amazon SQS FIFO queues is in preview release and is subject to change. This feature provides a higher number of transactions per second (TPS) for messages in FIFO queues. For information on throughput quotas, see Quotas related to messages. | December 17, 2020 |
To simplify development and production workflows, the Amazon SQS console has a new user experience. | July 8, 2020 | |
Amazon SQS supports pagination for listQueues and listDeadLetterSourceQueues | You can specify the maximum number of results to return from a listQueues or listDeadLetterSourceQueues request. | June 22, 2020 |
The one-minute CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS is available in all Regions, except the Amazon GovCloud (US) Regions. | January 9, 2020 | |
The one-minute CloudWatch metric for Amazon SQS is currently available only in the following Regions: US East (Ohio), Europe (Ireland), Europe (Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). | November 25, 2019 | |
Amazon Lambda triggers for Amazon SQS FIFO queues are available | You can configure messages arriving in a FIFO queue as a Lambda function trigger. | November 25, 2019 |
Server-side encryption (SSE) for Amazon SQS is available in the China Regions | SSE for Amazon SQS is available in the China Regions. | November 13, 2019 |
FIFO queues are available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region | FIFO queues are available in the Middle East (Bahrain) Region. | October 10, 2019 |
You can send messages to your Amazon SQS queues from Amazon VPC in the Amazon GovCloud (US-East) and Amazon GovCloud (US-West) Regions. | September 5, 2019 | |
Amazon SQS allows troubleshooting of queues using Amazon X-Ray using message system attributes | You can troubleshoot messages passing through Amazon SQS queues using X-Ray. This release
adds the | August 28, 2019 |
You can use a single Amazon SQS API call, Amazon SDK function, or Amazon Command Line Interface (Amazon CLI) command
to simultaneously create a queue and specify its tags. In addition, Amazon SQS supports the
| August 22, 2019 | |
Temporary queues help you save development time and deployment costs when using common message patterns such as
request-response. You can use the Temporary
Queue Client | July 25, 2019 | |
SSE for Amazon SQS is available in the Amazon GovCloud (US-East) Region | Server-side encryption (SSE) for Amazon SQS is available in the Amazon GovCloud (US-East) Region. | June 20, 2019 |
FIFO queues are available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), China (Beijing), Amazon GovCloud (US-East), and Amazon GovCloud (US-West) Regions. | May 15, 2019 | |
You can create Amazon VPC endpoint policies for Amazon SQS. | April 4, 2019 | |
FIFO queues are available in the Europe (Stockholm) and China (Ningxia) Regions | FIFO queues are available in the Europe (Stockholm) and China (Ningxia) Regions. | March 14, 2019 |
FIFO queues are available in all Regions where Amazon SQS is available | FIFO queues are available in the US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Canada (Central), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), Europe (London), Europe (Paris), and South America (São Paulo) Regions. | February 7, 2019 |