AWS::SQS::Queue

The AWS::SQS::Queue resource creates an Amazon SQS standard or FIFO queue.

Keep the following caveats in mind:

• If you don't specify the FifoQueue property, Amazon SQS creates a standard queue.

  Note

  You can't change the queue type after you create it and you can't convert an existing standard queue into a FIFO queue. You must either create a new FIFO queue for your application or delete your existing standard queue and recreate it as a FIFO queue. For more information, see Moving from a standard queue to a FIFO queue in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

• If you don't provide a value for a property, the queue is created with the default value for the property.

• If you delete a queue, you must wait at least 60 seconds before creating a queue with the same name.

• To successfully create a new queue, you must provide a queue name that adheres to the limits related to queues and is unique within the scope of your queues.

For more information about creating FIFO (first-in-first-out) queues, see Creating an Amazon SQS queue (AWS CloudFormation) in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Syntax

To declare this entity in your AWS CloudFormation template, use the following syntax:

JSON

{
  "Type" : "AWS::SQS::Queue",
  "Properties" : {
      "ContentBasedDeduplication" : Boolean,
      "DeduplicationScope" : String,
      "DelaySeconds" : Integer,
      "FifoQueue" : Boolean,
      "FifoThroughputLimit" : String,
      "KmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds" : Integer,
      "KmsMasterKeyId" : String,
      "MaximumMessageSize" : Integer,
      "MessageRetentionPeriod" : Integer,
      "QueueName" : String,
      "ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds" : Integer,
      "RedriveAllowPolicy" : Json,
      "RedrivePolicy" : Json,
      "SqsManagedSseEnabled" : Boolean,
      "Tags" : [ Tag, ... ],
      "VisibilityTimeout" : Integer
    }
}

YAML

Type: AWS::SQS::Queue
Properties:
  ContentBasedDeduplication: Boolean
  DeduplicationScope: String
  DelaySeconds: Integer
  FifoQueue: Boolean
  FifoThroughputLimit: String
  KmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds: Integer
  KmsMasterKeyId: String
  MaximumMessageSize: Integer
  MessageRetentionPeriod: Integer
  QueueName: String
  ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds: Integer
  RedriveAllowPolicy: Json
  RedrivePolicy: Json
  SqsManagedSseEnabled: Boolean
  Tags: 
    - Tag
  VisibilityTimeout: Integer

Properties

ContentBasedDeduplication

For first-in-first-out (FIFO) queues, specifies whether to enable content-based deduplication. During the deduplication interval, Amazon SQS treats messages that are sent with identical content as duplicates and delivers only one copy of the message. For more information, see the ContentBasedDeduplication attribute for the CreateQueue action in the Amazon SQS API Reference.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

DeduplicationScope

For high throughput for FIFO queues, specifies whether message deduplication occurs at the message group or queue level. Valid values are messageGroup and queue.

To enable high throughput for a FIFO queue, set this attribute to messageGroup and set the FifoThroughputLimit attribute to perMessageGroupId. If you set these attributes to anything other than these values, normal throughput is in effect and deduplication occurs as specified. For more information, see High throughput for FIFO queues and Quotas related to messages in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

DelaySeconds

The time in seconds for which the delivery of all messages in the queue is delayed. You can specify an integer value of 0 to 900 (15 minutes). The default value is 0.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

FifoQueue

If set to true, creates a FIFO queue. If you don't specify this property, Amazon SQS creates a standard queue. For more information, see Amazon SQS FIFO queues in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: Replacement

FifoThroughputLimit

For high throughput for FIFO queues, specifies whether the FIFO queue throughput quota applies to the entire queue or per message group. Valid values are perQueue and perMessageGroupId.

To enable high throughput for a FIFO queue, set this attribute to perMessageGroupId and set the DeduplicationScope attribute to messageGroup. If you set these attributes to anything other than these values, normal throughput is in effect and deduplication occurs as specified. For more information, see High throughput for FIFO queues and Quotas related to messages in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

KmsDataKeyReusePeriodSeconds

The length of time in seconds for which Amazon SQS can reuse a data key to encrypt or decrypt messages before calling AWS KMS again. The value must be an integer between 60 (1 minute) and 86,400 (24 hours). The default is 300 (5 minutes).

Note

A shorter time period provides better security, but results in more calls to AWS KMS, which might incur charges after Free Tier. For more information, see Encryption at rest in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

KmsMasterKeyId

The ID of an AWS Key Management Service (KMS) for Amazon SQS, or a custom KMS. To use the AWS managed KMS for Amazon SQS, specify a (default) alias ARN, alias name (for example alias/aws/sqs), key ARN, or key ID. For more information, see the following:

• Encryption at rest in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide

• CreateQueue in the Amazon SQS API Reference

• Request Parameters in the AWS Key Management Service API Reference

• The Key Management Service (KMS) section of the Security best practices for AWS Key Management Service in the AWS Key Management Service Developer Guide

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: No interruption

MaximumMessageSize

The limit of how many bytes that a message can contain before Amazon SQS rejects it. You can specify an integer value from 1,024 bytes (1 KiB) to 262,144 bytes (256 KiB). The default value is 262,144 (256 KiB).

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

MessageRetentionPeriod

The number of seconds that Amazon SQS retains a message. You can specify an integer value from 60 seconds (1 minute) to 1,209,600 seconds (14 days). The default value is 345,600 seconds (4 days).

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

QueueName

A name for the queue. To create a FIFO queue, the name of your FIFO queue must end with the .fifo suffix. For more information, see Amazon SQS FIFO queues in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

If you don't specify a name, AWS CloudFormation generates a unique physical ID and uses that ID for the queue name. For more information, see Name type in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Important

If you specify a name, you can't perform updates that require replacement of this resource. You can perform updates that require no or some interruption. If you must replace the resource, specify a new name.

Required: No

Type: String

Update requires: Replacement

ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds

Specifies the duration, in seconds, that the ReceiveMessage action call waits until a message is in the queue in order to include it in the response, rather than returning an empty response if a message isn't yet available. You can specify an integer from 1 to 20. Short polling is used as the default or when you specify 0 for this property. For more information, see Consuming messages using long polling in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

RedriveAllowPolicy

The string that includes the parameters for the permissions for the dead-letter queue redrive permission and which source queues can specify dead-letter queues as a JSON object. The parameters are as follows:

• redrivePermission: The permission type that defines which source queues can specify the current queue as the dead-letter queue. Valid values are:

  • allowAll: (Default) Any source queues in this AWS account in the same Region can specify this queue as the dead-letter queue.

  • denyAll: No source queues can specify this queue as the dead-letter queue.

  • byQueue: Only queues specified by the sourceQueueArns parameter can specify this queue as the dead-letter queue.

• sourceQueueArns: The Amazon Resource Names (ARN)s of the source queues that can specify this queue as the dead-letter queue and redrive messages. You can specify this parameter only when the redrivePermission parameter is set to byQueue. You can specify up to 10 source queue ARNs. To allow more than 10 source queues to specify dead-letter queues, set the redrivePermission parameter to allowAll.

Required: No

Type: Json

Update requires: No interruption

RedrivePolicy

The string that includes the parameters for the dead-letter queue functionality of the source queue as a JSON object. The parameters are as follows:

• deadLetterTargetArn: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the dead-letter queue to which Amazon SQS moves messages after the value of maxReceiveCount is exceeded.

• maxReceiveCount: The number of times a message is received by a consumer of the source queue before being moved to the dead-letter queue. When the ReceiveCount for a message exceeds the maxReceiveCount for a queue, Amazon SQS moves the message to the dead-letter-queue.

Note

The dead-letter queue of a FIFO queue must also be a FIFO queue. Similarly, the dead-letter queue of a standard queue must also be a standard queue.

JSON

{ "deadLetterTargetArn" : String, "maxReceiveCount" : Integer }

YAML

deadLetterTargetArn : String

maxReceiveCount : Integer

Required: No

Type: Json

Update requires: No interruption

SqsManagedSseEnabled

Enables server-side queue encryption using SQS owned encryption keys. Only one server-side encryption option is supported per queue (for example, SSE-KMS or SSE-SQS). When SqsManagedSseEnabled is not defined, SSE-SQS encryption is enabled by default.

Required: No

Type: Boolean

Update requires: No interruption

Tags

The tags that you attach to this queue. For more information, see Resource tag in the AWS CloudFormation User Guide.

Required: No

Type: Array of Tag

Update requires: No interruption

VisibilityTimeout

The length of time during which a message will be unavailable after a message is delivered from the queue. This blocks other components from receiving the same message and gives the initial component time to process and delete the message from the queue.

Values must be from 0 to 43,200 seconds (12 hours). If you don't specify a value, AWS CloudFormation uses the default value of 30 seconds.

For more information about Amazon SQS queue visibility timeouts, see Visibility timeout in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

Required: No

Type: Integer

Update requires: No interruption

Return values

Ref

When you pass the logical ID of this resource to the intrinsic Ref function, Ref returns the queue URL. For example:

{ "Ref": "https://sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/123456789012/ab1-MyQueue-A2BCDEF3GHI4" }

For more information about using the Ref function, see Ref.

Fn::GetAtt

The Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function returns a value for a specified attribute of this type. The following are the available attributes and sample return values.

For more information about using the Fn::GetAtt intrinsic function, see Fn::GetAtt.

Arn

Returns the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the queue. For example: arn:aws:sqs:us-east-2:123456789012:mystack-myqueue-15PG5C2FC1CW8.

QueueName

Returns the queue name. For example: mystack-myqueue-1VF9BKQH5BJVI.

QueueUrl

Returns the URLs of the queues from the policy.

Examples

Amazon SQS Queue with CloudWatch Alarms

JSON

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
 
  "Description" : "This example template shows how to create an Amazon SQS queue with CloudWatch alarms on queue depth. This template creates an Amazon SQS queue and one or more CloudWatch alarms. You will be billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack using this template.",
 
  "Parameters" : {
    "AlarmEmail": {
      "Default": "[e-mail]",
      "Description": "Email address to notify of operational issues",
      "Type": "String"
    }
  },
 
  "Resources" : {
    "MyQueue" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::SQS::Queue",
      "Properties" : {
         "QueueName" : "SampleQueue"
      }
    },
    "AlarmTopic": {
      "Type": "AWS::SNS::Topic",
      "Properties": {
        "Subscription": [{
          "Endpoint": { "Ref": "AlarmEmail" },
          "Protocol": "email"
        }]
      }
    },
    "QueueDepthAlarm": {
      "Type": "AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm",
      "Properties": {
        "AlarmDescription": "Alarm if queue depth increases to more than 10 messages",
        "Namespace": "AWS/SQS",
        "MetricName": "ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible",
        "Dimensions": [{
          "Name": "QueueName",
          "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["MyQueue", "QueueName"] }
        }],
        "Statistic": "Sum",
        "Period": "300",
        "EvaluationPeriods": "1",
        "Threshold": "10",
        "ComparisonOperator": "GreaterThanThreshold",
        "AlarmActions": [{
          "Ref": "AlarmTopic"
        }],
        "InsufficientDataActions": [{
          "Ref": "AlarmTopic"
        }]
      }
    }
  },
  "Outputs" : {
    "QueueURL" : {
      "Description" : "URL of new Amazon SQS Queue",
      "Value" : { "Ref" : "MyQueue" }
    },
    "QueueARN" : {
      "Description" : "ARN of new Amazon SQS Queue",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["MyQueue", "Arn"]}
    },
    "QueueName" : {
      "Description" : "Name new Amazon SQS Queue",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["MyQueue", "QueueName"]}
    }
  }
}

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Description: "This example template shows how to create an Amazon SQS queue with CloudWatch alarms on queue depth. This template creates an Amazon SQS queue and one or more CloudWatch alarms. You will be billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack using this template."
Parameters: 
  AlarmEmail: 
    Default: "[e-mail]"
    Description: "Email address to notify of operational issues"
    Type: "String"
Resources: 
  MyQueue: 
    Type: AWS::SQS::Queue
    Properties: 
      QueueName: "SampleQueue"
  AlarmTopic: 
    Type: AWS::SNS::Topic
    Properties: 
      Subscription: 
        - 
          Endpoint: 
            Ref: "AlarmEmail"
          Protocol: "email"
  QueueDepthAlarm: 
    Type: AWS::CloudWatch::Alarm
    Properties: 
      AlarmDescription: "Alarm if queue depth increases to more than 10 messages"
      Namespace: "AWS/SQS"
      MetricName: "ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible"
      Dimensions: 
        - 
          Name: "QueueName"
          Value: 
            Fn::GetAtt: 
              - "MyQueue"
              - "QueueName"
      Statistic: "Sum"
      Period: "300"
      EvaluationPeriods: "1"
      Threshold: "10"
      ComparisonOperator: "GreaterThanThreshold"
      AlarmActions: 
        - 
          Ref: "AlarmTopic"
      InsufficientDataActions: 
        - 
          Ref: "AlarmTopic"
Outputs: 
  QueueURL: 
    Description: "URL of new Amazon SQS Queue"
    Value: 
      Ref: "MyQueue"
  QueueARN: 
    Description: "ARN of new AmazonSQS Queue"
    Value: 
      Fn::GetAtt: 
        - "MyQueue"
        - "Arn"
  QueueName: 
    Description: "Name of new Amazon SQS Queue"
    Value: 
      Fn::GetAtt: 
        - "MyQueue"
        - "QueueName"

Amazon SQS Queue with a Dead-Letter Queue

The following example template creates a source queue and a dead-letter queue.

Note

Because the source queue specifies the dead-letter queue in its redrive policy, the source queue is dependent on the creation of the dead-letter queue.

JSON

{
  "AWSTemplateFormatVersion" : "2010-09-09",
   
  "Resources" : {
    "MySourceQueue" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::SQS::Queue",
      "Properties" : {
        "RedrivePolicy": {
          "deadLetterTargetArn" : {"Fn::GetAtt" : [ "MyDeadLetterQueue" , "Arn" ]},
          "maxReceiveCount" : 5
        }
      }
    },    
    "MyDeadLetterQueue" : {
      "Type" : "AWS::SQS::Queue"
    }
  },

  "Outputs" : {
    "SourceQueueURL" : {
      "Description" : "URL of the source queue",
      "Value" : { "Ref" : "MySourceQueue" }
    },
    "SourceQueueARN" : {
      "Description" : "ARN of source queue",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["MySourceQueue", "Arn"]}
    },
    "DeadLetterQueueURL" : {
      "Description" : "URL of dead-letter queue",
      "Value" : { "Ref" : "MyDeadLetterQueue" }
    },
    "DeadLetterQueueARN" : {
      "Description" : "ARN of dead-letter queue",
      "Value" : { "Fn::GetAtt" : ["MyDeadLetterQueue", "Arn"]}
    }    
  }
}

YAML

AWSTemplateFormatVersion: "2010-09-09"
Resources: 
  MySourceQueue: 
    Type: AWS::SQS::Queue
    Properties: 
      RedrivePolicy: 
        deadLetterTargetArn: 
          Fn::GetAtt: 
            - "MyDeadLetterQueue"
            - "Arn"
        maxReceiveCount: 5
  MyDeadLetterQueue: 
    Type: AWS::SQS::Queue
Outputs: 
  SourceQueueURL: 
    Description: "URL of source queue"
    Value: 
      Ref: "MySourceQueue"
  SourceQueueARN: 
    Description: "ARN of source queue"
    Value: 
      Fn::GetAtt: 
        - "MySourceQueue"
        - "Arn"
  DeadLetterQueueURL: 
    Description: "URL of dead-letter queue"
    Value: 
      Ref: "MyDeadLetterQueue"
  DeadLetterQueueARN: 
    Description: "ARN of dead-letter queue"
    Value: 
      Fn::GetAtt: 
        - "MyDeadLetterQueue"
        - "Arn"

See also

• What is Amazon Simple Queue Service? in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide

• CreateQueue in the Amazon SQS API Reference