Request Syntax Request Parameters Response Elements Errors Examples See Also

DeleteQueue

Deletes the queue specified by the QueueUrl, regardless of the queue's contents.

Important

Be careful with the DeleteQueue action: When you delete a queue, any messages in the queue are no longer available.

When you delete a queue, the deletion process takes up to 60 seconds. Requests you send involving that queue during the 60 seconds might succeed. For example, a SendMessage request might succeed, but after 60 seconds the queue and the message you sent no longer exist.

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

Note

Cross-account permissions don't apply to this action. For more information, see Grant cross-account permissions to a role and a username in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

The delete operation uses the HTTP GET verb.

Request Syntax


{
   "QueueUrl": "string"
}

Request Parameters

For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.

The request accepts the following data in JSON format.

QueueUrl

The URL of the Amazon SQS queue to delete.

Queue URLs and names are case-sensitive.

Type: String

Required: Yes

Response Elements

If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response with an empty HTTP body.

Errors

For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.

InvalidAddress

The specified ID is invalid.

HTTP Status Code: 400

InvalidSecurity

The request was not made over HTTPS or did not use SigV4 for signing.

HTTP Status Code: 400

QueueDoesNotExist

Ensure that the QueueUrl is correct and that the queue has not been deleted.

HTTP Status Code: 400

RequestThrottled

The request was denied due to request throttling.

Exceeds the permitted request rate for the queue or for the recipient of the request.
Ensure that the request rate is within the Amazon SQS limits for sending messages. For more information, see Amazon SQS quotas in the Amazon SQS Developer Guide.

HTTP Status Code: 400

UnsupportedOperation

Error code 400. Unsupported operation.

HTTP Status Code: 400

Examples

The following example query request deletes the specified queue. The structure of AUTHPARAMS depends on the signature of the API request. For more information, see Examples of Signed Signature Version 4 Requests in the AWS General Reference.

Example

Using AWS JSON protocol (Default)

Sample Request


POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
X-Amz-Target: AmazonSQS.DeleteQueue
X-Amz-Date: <Date>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0
Authorization: <AuthParams>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive 
{
    "QueueUrl":"https://sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/177715257436/MyQueue"
}

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-amzn-RequestId: <requestId>
Content-Length: 0
Date: <Date>
Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.0

Example

Using AWS query protocol

Sample Request


POST /177715257436/MyQueue/ HTTP/1.1
Host: sqs.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
X-Amz-Date: <Date>
Authorization: <AuthParams>
Content-Length: <PayloadSizeBytes>
Connection: Keep-Alive
Action=DeleteQueue

Sample Response


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<DeleteQueueResponse xmlns="http://queue.amazonaws.com/doc/2012-11-05/">
    <ResponseMetadata>
        <RequestId>22b441f1-c3c3-54e4-9f57-1d817c509a21</RequestId>
    </ResponseMetadata>
</DeleteQueueResponse>