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REST API with SQS Integration

Explore how to integrate REST APIs with Amazon SQS using AWS API Gateway. Learn to configure API methods for sending and receiving messages via query string parameters while understanding the implementation details with CloudFormation.

API to send message

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a popular messaging service from AWS. Integration using a queue service is ideal for fire-and-forget APIs where resilient eventual consistency is more important than instant response.

SQS integrates well with the API Gateway. So, we can send messages on the SQS directly from the API gateway. We can have another process elsewhere that reads and consumes these messages. The ...