Do you want to use AWS SQS? Do you want to know about the AWS SQS Pricing? If yes, then this blog will answer all your queries.
AWS SQS is a widely-used message queuing service by Amazon. AWS SQS helps you to communicate over the internet. It is a serverless application as it is completely managed by AWS. All these features are available at a reasonable price.
In this blog, you will learn about AWS SQS and its features. You will also go through the AWS SQS Pricing in detail.
Introduction to AWS SQS
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) is a distributed and completely managed message queuing service by Amazon. It offers programmatic message sending using web service applications to communicate over the internet.
It allows you to decouple and scale your microservices, serverless applications, and distributed systems. SQS eliminates the complexity, and overhead related to managing and operating the message-oriented middleware and lets developers focus on differentiating work.
With SQS, it will be easy for you to send, store, and receive messages at any volume between different software components. Amazon also handles servers for you. SQS has two types of message queues as follows:
- Standard Queue: Amazon SQS offers a standard queue as the default queue type. Amazon SQS Standard Queue supports unlimited API calls per second, per API action, and at least once delivery. However, because of its distributed architecture, more than one copy of a message gets delivered. Standard queues give unlimited throughput and best-effort ordering.
- FIFO Queues: Amazon SQS FIFO (First In First Out) queues offer a guarantee to process the messages exactly once, in the order they were sent. It enhances the messaging between various applications when the order of events and operations is crucial, and the existence of duplicates is intolerable. It offers high throughput. Amazon SQS Buffered Asynchronous Clients don’t support this type of message queue.
Benefits of AWS SQS
In this section, you will look at some of the reasons that make Amazon SQS a popular choice.
- Eliminating Administrative Overhead: AWS allows managing of all ongoing operations and the underlying infrastructure, required for highly scalable and highly available message queuing service. There is no upfront cost as you don’t have to acquire, install and configure SQS. SQS queues are automatically created and scaled to provide efficient service.
- Data Security: Server Side Encryption (SSE) allows encrypting the message body so that you can exchange sensitive data between various applications.
- With the integration of SSE and AWS Key Management System (KMS), you can centrally manage the keys that protect your SQS messages. KMS will log every use of your encryption key in AWS CloudTrail to help you meet your compliance and regulatory needs.
- Reliability: You can easily send any volume of data, at any throughput without any loss of data. SQS decouples applications so that they run and fail independently. It increases the fault tolerance of your system.
- Scalability: Amazon SQS allows dynamic scaling of AWS Cloud, based on the demand. SQS can scale elastically with the application.
- Availability: As multiple copies of each message are stored redundantly across multiple zones, it makes them available 24×7 from anywhere.
AWS SQS Pricing
Amazon SQS is one of the most widely used messaging services in the world, and one of the reasons for its popularity is its pricing. Some of the pricing features of Amazon SQS that makes it one of its kind are listed below:
- They offer a pay-per-use policy.
- You don’t need to pay any minimal fee.
- Your monthly bill is calculated using the AWS Pricing Calculator, an efficient tool for price calculation. With AWS Pricing Calculator, you can easily see the price of your service configuration, or see and analyze their cost by grouping different parts of the architecture.
- It supports Free Tier.
AWS SQS Free Tier
AWS SQS offers a free tier which includes 1 million free requests per month. You can also operate with some applications in the free tier.
Your usage of AWS SQS Free tier is calculated every month across all the regions, except GovCloud and added to your bill automatically. However, AWS SQS doesn’t roll over the unused free requests to the next month.
AWS SQS Pricing for Request
The first one million monthly requests are free for all regions. The pricing per million requests, based on the region after Free tier is as follows:
| Region | Standard Queue | FIFO Queue |
| US East (N. Virginia) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| US East (Ohio) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| US West (Northern California) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| US West (Oregon) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Africa (Cape Town) | $0.476 per million request or $0.000000476 per request | $0.595 per million request or $0.000000595 per request |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Asia Pacific (Mumbai) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Asia Pacific (Singapore) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Asia Pacific (Tokyo) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Canada (Central) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Europe (Frankfurt) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Europe (Ireland) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Europe (London) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Europe (Milan) | $0.42 per million request or $0.00000042 per request | $0.525 per million request or $0.000000525 per request |
| Europe (Paris) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Europe (Stockholm) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| Middle East (Bahrain) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| South America (Sao Paulo) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| AWS GovCloud (US-East) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
| AWS GovCloud (US-West) | $0.40 per million request or $0.0000004 per request | $0.50 per million request or $0.0000005 per request |
AWS SQS Pricing Metrics
Various metrics used by AWS SQS for the pricing are listed in the section. It will give you a clear picture of all the metrics involved in AWS SQS pricing.
- API Actions: All the Amazon SQS actions acts as requests.
- FIFO Requests: All the API actions for sending, receiving, changing and deleting the visibility of your messages from FIFO queues are charged on the FIFO rates whereas all other API requests are charged at standard rates.
- Content of Request: Ten messages with up to a maximum payload of 256 KB are allowed in a single request.
- Payload Size: Your every 64KB chunk of the payload is billed as one request.
- Interaction with Amazon on S3: You can incur S3 charges for any S3 storage while using Amazon SQS Extended Client Library to send message payload via S3.
- Interaction with AWS KMS: When you are using AWS KMS to manage your keys for SQS SSE, you can incur charges for calls from SQS to KMS.
AWS SQS Pricing for Data Transfer
In AWS SQS, data transfer refers to transfer into Amazon SQS, and data transfer out refers to transferred out of Amazon SQS.
As a part of AWS Free Tier, all new customers can receive free 15 GB of data transferred out of Amazon SQS every month, aggregated across all the services of AWS, such as Amazon EC2, Amazon EBS, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Storage Gateway, etc. in one year.
In this section, you will identify the pricing based on data transferred in and out of Amazon SQS in different regions.
| Region | Data Transfer In | Data Transfer out up to 1 GB | Data Transfer out for Next 9.999 TB / Month | Data Transfer out for Next 40 TB / Month | Data Transfer out for Next 100 TB / Month | Data Transfer out for Greater than 150 TB / Month |
| US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Northern California, Oregon, Los Angeles) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.09 per GB | $0.085 per GB | $0.07 per GB | $0.05 per GB |
| US East (Verizon) – Atlanta, New York, Boston, Washington DC | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.108 per GB | $0.102 per GB | $0.084 per GB | $0.06 per GB |
| US West (Verizon) – San Francisco Bay Area | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.108 per GB | $0.102 per GB | $0.084 per GB | $0.06 per GB |
| Africa (Cape Town) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.154 per GB | $0.147 per GB | $0.126 per GB | $0.112 per GB |
| Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local, Tokyo) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.114 per GB | $0.089 per GB | $0.086 per GB | $0.084 per GB |
| Asia Pacific Mumbai) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.1093 per GB | $0.085 per GB | $0.082 per GB | $0.08 per GB |
| Asia Pacific (Seoul) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.126 per GB | $0.122 per GB | $0.117 per GB | $0.108 per GB |
| Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Singapore) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.12 per GB | $0.085 per GB | $0.082 per GB | $0.08 per GB |
| Asia Pacific (Sydney) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.114 per GB | $0.098 per GB | $0.094 per GB | $0.092 per GB |
| Canada (Central) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.09 per GB | $0.085 per GB | $0.07 per GB | $0.05 per GB |
| Europe (Frankfurt,Ireland, Milan, London, Paris, Stockholm) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.09 per GB | $0.085 per GB | $0.07 per GB | $0.05 per GB |
| Middle East (Bahrain) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.117 per GB | $0.1105 per GB | $0.091 per GB | $0.065 per GB |
| South America (Sao Paulo) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.15 per GB | $0.138 per GB | $0.126 per GB | $0.114 per GB |
| AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West) | $0.00 per GB | $0.00 per GB | $0.155 per GB | $0.115 per GB | $0.09 per GB | $0.065 per GB |
Conclusion
In this blog, you have learned about AWS SQS and its features. You also went through the complete AWS SQS Pricing based on Requests, Regions, and Data Transfer. This blog aimed to provide you with a guide to AWS SQS Pricing. Now, you can estimate your bill according to your requirements and region effectively.
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