Introduction to the Simple Queue Service

With this course, you will be helping and enabling your development teams to architect applications that are highly scalable and resilient using best practices when working within a decoupled environment. This will lead to increased availability of operational service to their applications helping to minimize incidents that would affect the end user.

In this course, you will learn to design greater applications using managed services in a decoupled environment along with being able to differentiate and explain the differences between SQS, SES, and SNS.

Though designed as a beginner's course, a basic awareness of AWS Lambda and IAM policies would give a headstart in better understanding the core principles of this course. In this course, you will find three comprehensive lectures along with further resources that can be found in the description box underneath the respective lectures.

Learning Objectives

• Explain the difference between SQS, SNS, and SES
• Understand when you would use each SQS, SNS, and SES within a solution
• Identify and explain the key components of within SQS, SNS, and SES

Intended Audience

• Developers working in a decoupled environment.
• Cloud Solution architects.
• Those who are looking to take the AWS Certified Developer - Associate certification.

Prerequisites

• An awareness of IAM policies and how they are constructed.
• For more information on IAM policies, please see the following course.
• Basic knowledge of AWS Lambda.

Related Training Content

• Getting Started with AWS Simple Notification Service  (Lab)
• Manage Message Queueing with AWS SQS (Lab)
• SQS Versus SNS (Course)