Module 08: Resources

Official Documentation

Amazon SQS

• What is Amazon SQS?
• Amazon SQS Standard Queues
• Amazon SQS FIFO Queues
• Amazon SQS Visibility Timeout
• Amazon SQS Short and Long Polling
• Setting Up Long Polling in Amazon SQS
• Using Dead-Letter Queues in Amazon SQS
• Setting Up Dead-Letter Queue Retention in Amazon SQS
• Configuring Amazon SQS Queues (Overview)
• Overview of Managing Access in Amazon SQS
• Available CloudWatch Metrics for Amazon SQS
• Monitoring Amazon SQS Queues Using CloudWatch

Amazon SNS

• What is Amazon SNS?
• Creating an Amazon SNS Topic
• Creating a Subscription to an Amazon SNS Topic
• Amazon SNS Message Filtering
• Amazon SNS Subscription Filter Policies
• Subscribing an Amazon SQS Queue to an Amazon SNS Topic
• Amazon SNS Dead-Letter Queues

Amazon EventBridge

• What is Amazon EventBridge?
• Event Bus Concepts in Amazon EventBridge
• Event Buses in Amazon EventBridge
• Creating Amazon EventBridge Event Patterns
• Event Bus Targets in Amazon EventBridge
• EventBridge Schema Registry
• EventBridge Schema Discovery
• Using Dead-Letter Queues to Process Undelivered Events in EventBridge

AWS Step Functions

• What is Step Functions?
• Learn About State Machines in Step Functions
• Discover Service Integration Patterns in Step Functions
• Integrating Services with Step Functions

Choosing Between Services

• Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, or Amazon EventBridge?
• Choosing an AWS Application Integration Service

AWS Tutorials

• Send Fanout Event Notifications (SNS + SQS)

AWS Whitepapers

• Implementing Microservices on AWS: Covers communication mechanisms between microservices, including synchronous and asynchronous messaging patterns using SQS, SNS, and EventBridge. Students will revisit this whitepaper in Module 18 (Architecture Patterns).

AWS FAQs

• Amazon SQS FAQ
• Amazon SNS FAQ

AWS Architecture References

• Integrating Microservices by Using AWS Serverless Services (Messaging): AWS Prescriptive Guidance on using SQS, SNS, and EventBridge for asynchronous communication in microservices architectures. Students will explore these patterns further in Module 09 (Serverless: Lambda) and Module 18 (Architecture Patterns).

AWS Bootcamp: From Novice to Architect Author: Samuel Ogunti License: CC BY-NC 4.0