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With Amazon SQS, you may ship and obtain messages between software program elements at any scale. It was one of many first AWS companies I used and as a Options Architect, I helped many shoppers reap the benefits of asynchronous communications utilizing message queues. In reality, Amazon SQS has been usually accessible since July 2006 and, beneath the hood, has at all times used the identical wire protocol based mostly on XML that we name AWS Question protocol.
Immediately, I’m completely satisfied to announce that Amazon SQS now helps a JSON-based wire protocol for all APIs. The AWS JSON protocol avoids lots of the shortcomings of AWS Question protocol.
AWS JSON is extra environment friendly than the earlier XML-based protocol and might cut back each latency and client-side CPU utilization when sending and receiving SQS messages. For instance, for a request that sends a easy “howdy world” message, the response physique dimension utilizing the previous AWS Question protocol is about 400 bytes. The content material size of the identical SendMessage response utilizing the brand new AWS JSON protocol is lower than 1/3 of the earlier dimension.
Utilizing the New JSON-Based mostly Protocol with Amazon SQS
That is the nicest a part of this launch! To profit from the AWS JSON protocol, you simply have to replace the AWS SDK to the newest model. Whereas constructing this new functionality, the SQS group was cautious in order that no code adjustments are wanted to make use of the brand new JSON-based wire protocol.
For instance, we ran a benchmark utilizing the AWS SDK for Java to check the previous and new wire protocols. We anticipate related outcomes from the opposite AWS SDKs. Based mostly on AWS efficiency checks for a 5KB message payload, JSON protocol for Amazon SQS reduces end-to-end message processing latency by as much as 23 % and reduces software shopper facet CPU and reminiscence utilization. These numbers rely upon the precise implementation and might differ from what you’ll see in your personal functions.
Availability and Pricing
Amazon SQS help for the brand new JSON protocol is obtainable in the present day in all AWS Areas the place SQS is obtainable. All usually accessible AWS SDKs now help AWS JSON for SQS APIs. To get the advantages of this optimization, you simply have to replace the AWS SDK to the newest model accessible.
There isn’t a change in pricing when utilizing the AWS JSON protocol. For extra info, see Amazon SQS pricing.
Should you’re interested by extra particulars on how AWS protocols work, you may take a look at Smithy, the language we use at AWS for outlining companies and SDKs.
After virtually 17 years of being usually accessible, we’re enhancing and innovating round our oldest service. Just some months again, we launched server-side encryption with Amazon SQS-managed encryption keys (SSE-SQS) by default for newly created queues, elevated the default quota for top throughput mode for FIFO queues, and introduced help for attribute-based entry management (ABAC) utilizing queue tags. Extra just lately, Amazon SQS added new APIs to handle dead-letter queue (DLQ) redrive programmatically. At AWS, it’s at all times day 1!
— Danilo
