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Amazon Simple Queue Service in Amazon Web Services China - Getting Started with Amazon Web Services China
Region availabilityHow Amazon SQS differsDocumentation
Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Amazon Simple Queue Service in Amazon Web Services China

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) offers a reliable, highly-scalable hosted queue for storing messages as they travel between applications or microservices. It moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components. Amazon SQS provides familiar middleware constructs such as dead-letter queues and poison-pill management. It also provides a generic web services API and can be accessed by any programming language that the Amazon SDK supports. Amazon SQS supports both standard and FIFO queues.

Region availability

Amazon Simple Queue Service is available in the following regions in China:

  • China (Beijing) Region

  • China (Ningxia) Region

How Amazon SQS differs

The following differences apply to Amazon Simple Queue Service:

  • Server-side encryption (SSE) for Amazon SQS is now available in the China (Beijing) and China (Ningxia) Regions.

  • The SQS dead-letter queue redrive feature is not available for this region.

Documentation