# Amazon Simple Queue Service Documentation

Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that makes it easy to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications. Amazon SQS moves data between distributed application components and helps you decouple these components.

- [Developer Guide](/en_us/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/welcome.html): Provides a conceptual overview of Amazon SQS and includes detailed development instructions for using the various features.

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