Call Amazon SQS with Step Functions - AWS Step Functions

Call Amazon SQS with Step Functions

Step Functions can control certain AWS services directly from Amazon States Language (ASL). To learn more, see Working with other services and Pass parameters to a service API.

How the Optimized Amazon SQS integration is different than the Amazon SQS AWS SDK integration

There are no optimizations for the Request Response or Wait for a Callback with the Task Token integration patterns.

Supported Amazon SQS APIs:

Note

There is a quota for the maximum input or result data size for a task in Step Functions. This restricts you to 256 KB of data as a UTF-8 encoded string when you send to, or receive data from, another service. See Quotas related to state machine executions.

Parameters in Step Functions are expressed in PascalCase

Even if the native service API is in camelCase, for example the API action startSyncExecution, you specify parameters in PascalCase, such as: StateMachineArn.

The following includes a Task state that sends an Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) message.

{
 "StartAt": "Send to SQS",
 "States": {
   "Send to SQS": {
     "Type": "Task",
     "Resource": "arn:aws:states:::sqs:sendMessage",
     "Parameters": {
       "QueueUrl": "https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/myQueue",
       "MessageBody.$": "$.input.message",
       "MessageAttributes": {
         "my_attribute_no_1": {
           "DataType": "String",
           "StringValue": "attribute1"
         },
         "my_attribute_no_2": {
           "DataType": "String",
           "StringValue": "attribute2"
         }
       }
     },
     "End": true
    }
  }
}

The following includes a Task state that publishes to an Amazon SQS queue, and then waits for the task token to be returned. See Wait for a Callback with the Task Token.

{  
   "StartAt":"Send message to SQS",
   "States":{  
      "Send message to SQS":{  
         "Type":"Task",
         "Resource":"arn:aws:states:::sqs:sendMessage.waitForTaskToken",
         "Parameters":{  
            "QueueUrl":"https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/123456789012/myQueue",
            "MessageBody":{  
               "Input.$":"$",
               "TaskToken.$":"$$.Task.Token"
            }
         },
         "End":true
      }
   }
}

To learn more about receiving messages in Amazon SQS, see Receive and Delete Your Message in the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.

For information about how to configure IAM permissions when using Step Functions with other AWS services, see IAM Policies for integrated services.