AWS Management Services
- Fully managed
- Scales from 1 message per second to 10,000s per second
- Default retention of messages: 4 days, maximum of 14 days
- No limit to how many messages can be in the queue
- Low latency (<10 ms on publish and receive)
- Horizontal scaling in terms of number of consumers
- Can have duplicate messages (at least once delivery, occasionally)
- Can have out of order messages (best effort ordering)
- Limitation of 256KB per message sent